The Centre for Archaeological Science was established at UOW in 2010 to develop, integrate and apply modern scientific techniques to answer fundamental questions about human evolution and the analysis of material remains of past human life and activities.

Follow

Papers from 2010

New Excavations of Middle Stone Age Deposits at Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia: Stratigraphy, Archaeology, Chronology and Past Environments, Ralf Vogelsang, Jurgen Richter, Zenobia Jacobs, Barbara Eichhorn, Veerle Linseele, and Richard Roberts

Sedimentation rates on embanked floodplains determined through quartz optical dating, Jakob Wallinga, Noortje Hobo, Alastair C. Cunningham, Alice J. Versendaal, Hans Middelkoop, and Bart Makaske

Papers from 2009

Human impacts on Persoonia falcata. Perspectives on post-contact vegetation change in the Keep River region, Australia, from contemporary vegetation surveys, Jennifer M. Atchison

The fish bone remains, Geoffrey R. Clark and Katherine A. Szabo

PDF

Optically stimulated luminescence dating of young quartz using the fast component, Alastair C. Cunningham and Jakob Wallinga

PDF

Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: practice, potential and prospects, Tim Denham, Jennifer M. Atchison, Jeremy Austin, Sheahan Bestel, Doreen Bowdery, Alison Crowther, Nic Dolby, Andrew Fairbairn, Judith Field, Amanda Kennedy, Carol Lentfer, Carney Matheson, Sue Nugent, Jeff Parr, Matiu Prebble, Gail Robertson, Jim Specht, Robin Torrence, Huw Barton, Richard L. Fullagar, Simon Haberle, Mark Horrocks, Tara Lewis, and Peter Matthews

Starch residues on grinding stones in private collections: a study of morahs from the tropical rainforests of NE Queensland, Judith Field, Richard Cosgrove, Richard L. Fullagar, and Braddon Lance

Stones, stories and science, Richard L. Fullagar

Deadly weapons: backed microliths from Narrabeen, New South Wales, Richard L. Fullagar, Josephine McDonald, Judith Field, and Denise Donlon

PDF

Desperately seeking a cosmic catastrophe 12,900 B.P., Richard Gillespie

PDF

Murray-Darling basin freshwater shells: riverine reservoir effect, Richard Gillespie, David Fink, Fiona Petchey, and Geraldine Jacobsen

PDF

Faces of the Teouma Lapita People: art, accuracy and facial approximation, Susan Hayes, Frederique Valentin, Hallie Buckley, Matthew Spriggs, and Stuart Bedford

Cultural ecology: emerging human-plant geographies, Lesley M. Head and Jennifer M. Atchison

Last interglacial age for aeolian and marine deposits and the Nahoon fossil human footprints, Southeast Coast of South Africa, Zenobia Jacobs and David L. Roberts

Human history written in stone and blood, Zenobia Jacobs and Richard G. Roberts

PDF

Were environmental or demographic factors the driving force behind Middle Stone Age innovations in southern Africa?, Zenobia Jacobs and Richard G. Roberts

Fire as an engineering tool of early modern humans, Zenobia Jacobs, Chantal Tribolo, David L. Roberts, Andy Herries, Curtis W. Marean, Jocelyn Bernatchez, Michael C. Meyer, David Braun, and Kyle S. Brown

PDF

Kam die kultur aus Afrika?, Richard G. Roberts and Zenobia Jacobs

Catalysts for stone age innovations: what might have triggered two short-lived bursts of technological and behavioral innovation in southern Africa during the middle stone age?, Richard Roberts and Zenobia Jacobs

PDF

Aboriginal settlement during the LGM at Brockman, Pilbara Region, Western Australia, Michael Slack, Melanie Fillios, and Richard L. Fullagar

Molluscan remains from Fiji, Katherine A. Szabo

Worked shell from Leta Leta Cave, Palawan, Philippines, Katherine A. Szabo and Hazel Ramirez

The bone readers: atoms, genes and the politics of Australia's deep past, Claudio Tuniz, Richard Gillespie, and Cheryl Jones

The Bone Readers: Science and Politics in Human Origins Research, Claudio Tuniz, Richard Gillespie, and Cheryl Jones

The Liang Bua faunal remains: a 95 k.yr. sequence from Flores, East Indonesia, Gerrit D. Van Den Bergh, H J. M Meijer, Rokhus Due Awe, Michael J. Morwood, Katherine A. Szabo, L W. van den Hoek Ostenda, T. Sutikna, E W. Saptomo, P J. Piper, and K M. Dobney

Papers from 2008

Plant exploitation on Sahul: from colonisation to the emergence of regional specialisation during the Holocene, Tim Denham, Richard L. Fullagar, and Lesley M. Head

Updating Martin's global extinction model, Richard Gillespie

PDF

New 14C ages on cellulose from diprotodon gut contents: explorations in oxidation chemistry and combustion, Richard Gillespie, L Keith Fifield, Vladimir Levchenko, and Rob Wells

Luminescence chronologies for coastal and marine sediments, Zenobia Jacobs

Ages for the middle stone age of Southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts, Rex F. Galbraith, Hilary J. Deacon, Rainer Grun, Alex Mackay, Peter Mitchell, Ralf Vogelsang, and Lyn Wadley

PDF

A re-examination of a human femur found at the Blind River Site, East London, South Africa: Its age, morphology, and breakage pattern, Zenobia Jacobs, Qian Wang, David L. Roberts, and P V. Tobias

New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa, Zenobia Jacobs, Ann G. Wintle, Geoffrey A T Duller, Richard Roberts, and Lyn Wadley

Sailing between worlds: the symbolism of death in northwest Borneo, Philip Piper, G Barker, and Katherine A. Szabo

Dating in landscape, archaeology, Richard G. Roberts and Zenobia Jacobs

Testing Times: old and new chronologies for the Howieson's poort and still bay industries in environmental context, Richard Roberts and Zenobia Jacobs

Equivalent dose distributions from single grains of quartz at Sibudu, South Africa: context, causes and consequences for optical dating of archaeological deposits, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Geoffrey A T Duller, and Ann G. Wintle

The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: the second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Johnny Morales, M. Morley, R. Grun, L Farr, C Hunt, G Barker, R Rabett, T Reynolds, Victoria Leitch, Robyn Inglis, Roisin Hamilton, John Davison, Hwedi el-Rishi, Alex Pryor, David Simpson, Marijke van der Veen, Chris Stimpson, Steven Pawley, Mohammed Touati, Caroline Cartwright, Franca Cole, Iain Morley, Lucilla Burn, Ian Brooks, and Laura Basell

Shell as a Raw Material: Mechanical Properties and Working Techniques in the Tropical Indo-West Pacific, Katherine A. Szabo

Late-surviving megafauna in Tasmania Australia, implicate human involvement in their extinction, Christian Turney, T F. Flannery, Richard Roberts, Craig Reid, Keith Fifield, T Higham, Zenobia Jacobs, Noel Kemp, Eric Colhoun, and R.M. Kalin

Papers from 2007

Would the Australian megafauna have become extinct if humans had never colonised the continent? Comments on 'A review of the evidence for a human role in the extinction of Australian megafauna and an alternative explanation' by S.Wroe and J.Field, Barry W. Brook, David A. Burney, Timothy F. Flannery, Michael K. Gagan, Richard Gillespie, Christopher N. Johnson, Peter Kershaw, John W. Magee, Paul S. Martin, Gifford H. Miller, Benny Peiser, and Richard G. Roberts

The Archaeology of Linaminan, Central Palawan: A Preliminary Report on Excavations, Eusebio Dizon and Katherine A. Szabo

Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, Zenobia Jacobs, Ian Watts, Andy Herries, Curtis W. Marean, Hope Williams, Mira Bar-Matthews, Erich Fischer, Peter Nilssen, Paul Goldberg, Tom Minichillo, Antonieta Jerardino, Panagiotis Karkanas, Jocelyn Bernatchez, and Erin Thompson

Age and biostratigraphic significance of the Punung Rainforest Fauna, East Java, Indonesia, and implications for Pongo and Homo, Richard G. Roberts, - Jatmiko, Michael J. Morwood, Fachroel Aziz, J -X Zhao, A D. Rokus, Gerrit D. Van Den Bergh, J de Vos, P Hadi, P Storm, and Kira E. Westaway

Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archaeological deposits, Richard Roberts and Zenobia Jacobs

Invertebrate Remains from Linaminan, Katherine A. Szabo

Pottery Technology at Linaminan, Katherine A. Szabo and Timothy Vitales

PDF

Shell artefact production at 32,000-28,000 BP in Island Southeast Asia: Thinking across media?, Katherine Szabo, Adam Brumm, and Peter Bellwood

Papers from 2006

PDF

Signs of life: engraved stone artefacts from neolithic South India, A Brumm, Nicole Boivin, and Richard Fullagar

Extending the chronology of deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, back to 140 ka using optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz, Zenobia Jacobs, Geoffrey A T Duller, Christopher S. Henshilwood, and Ann G. Wintle

Evaluation of SAR procedures for De determination using single aliquots of quartz from two archaeological sites in South Africa, Zenobia Jacobs, Geoffrey A T Duller, and Ann G. Wintle

Interpretation of single grain De distributions and calculation of De, Zenobia Jacobs, Geoffrey A T Duller, and Ann G. Wintle

Dating, palaeoenvironments, and archaeology: a progress report on the Sunnyside 1 site, Clarens, South Africa, Zenobia Jacobs, Louis Scott, Zoe Henderson, and Lloyd Rossouw

Sibudu Cave: background to the excavations, stratigraphy and dating, Zenobia Jacobs and Lyn Wadley

Archaeology: Progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon dating, Christian S. Turney, Richard G. Roberts, and Zenobia Jacobs

Comparison of sedimentation and occupation histories inside and outside rock shelters, Keep-River Region, Northwestern Australia, Ingrid Ward, Richard L. Fullagar, T Boer-Mah, Lesley M. Head, Paul Tacon, and Ken Mulvaney

Papers from 2005

Archaeobotany of fruit seed processing in a monsoon savanna environment: evidence from the Keep River region, Northern Territory, Australia, Jennifer Atchison, Lesley M. Head, and Richard Fullagar

Papers from 2004

PDF

Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal: Background to the excavations of Middle Stone Age and Iron Age occupations, Lyn Wadley and Zenobia Jacobs

Papers from 2002

Country and Garden: Ethnobotany, archaeobotany and Aboriginal landscapes near the Keep River, northwestern Australia, Lesley M. Head, Jennifer M. Atchison, and Richard L. Fullagar

Papers from 2000

Stomatal parameters and atmospheric change since 7500 years before present: evidence from Eremophila deserti (Myoporaceae) leaves from the Flinders Ranges region, South Australia., Jennifer M. Atchison, Lesley M. Head, and L McCarthy

Archaeology and Native Title in Australia: National and Local Perspectives., Richard L. Fullagar and Lesley M. Head

On the reliability of age estimates for human remains at Lake Mungo, Richard Gillespie and Richard G. Roberts

Minimum ages for pecked rock markings from Jinmium, north western Australia., A Watchman, Paul Tacon, Richard L. Fullagar, and Lesley M. Head