The ‘Waiat Archaeology Project’ in Torres Strait, northern Australia

15/01/2022
Read more by Duncan Wright, Cygnet Repu and Falen D. Passi. Published on Antiquity. 27 January 2021

A newly discovered cache of large biface lithics from northern Honshu, Japan

15/01/2022
Read more by Yoshitaka Kanomata and Andrey Tabarev. Published on Antiquity. 30 March 2020

The Ōshū Fujiwara—An interdisciplinary study on the history, culture and medical assessment of the oldest known mummified human remains in Japan (late Heian, 12th century AD)

29/12/2021
Read more by Sarah Rebecca Schmid, Michael Habicht, Patrick Eppenberger, Roger Seiler, Raji Steineck, Frank Rühli. Published on Plos One. 18 October 2021

A Comparison of Volumetric Reconstruction Methods of Archaeological Deposits Using Point-Cloud Data from Ahuahu, Aotearoa New Zealand

29/12/2021
Read more by Joshua Emmitt, Patricia Pillay, Matthew Barrett, Stacey Middleton, Timothy Mackrell, Bruce Floyd and Thegn N. Ladefoged. Published on Remote Sens. 07 October 2021

No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

09/12/2021
Read more by Julien Louys, Todd J. Braje, Chun-Hsiang Chang, Richard Cosgrove, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Masaki Fujita, Stuart Hawkins, Thomas Ingicco, Ai Kawamura, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Matthew C. McDowell, et al. Published on PNAS. 18 May 2021

Village-specific Kula partnerships revealed by obsidian sourcing on TubetubeIsland, Papua New Guinea

09/12/2021
Read more by Be Shaw, Geoff Irwin, Alana Pengilley and Sarah Kelloway. Published on Archaeology in Oceania. 19 December 2020

Introduction: New Discoveries and Theoretical Implications for the Last Foraging and First Farming in East Asia

25/11/2021
Read more by Pei-Lin Yu, Kazunobu Ikeya and Meng Zhang. Published on Quaternary. 18 November 2021

Isotopic Indications of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoenvironmental Changes at Boodie Cave Archaeological Site, Barrow Island, Western Australia

25/11/2021
Read more by Jane Skippington, Tiina Manne  and Peter Veth. Published on Molecules. 28 April 2021

Morphological analysis and radiocarbon dating of non-returning boomerangs from Cooper Creek/Kinipapa (Northeast South Australia)

11/11/2021
Read more by Amy Roberts, Sean Freeman, Daryl Wesley, Vladimir Levtchenko, Linda Barry, Luc Bordes, Katheryn Litherland, Jason Litherland, Josué Haynes &Aaron Paterson. Published on Australian Archaeology. 13 October 2021

The residential characteristics of indigenous families in the eupchies in the late Joseon era: cases from the Yeonsan and Hansan eupchies

11/11/2021
Read more by Hyojin Baek & Shigetomo Kikuchi. Published on Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering. 18 August 2021

Use-polished stone flakes from Liang Bua, Indonesia: Implications for plant processing and fibrecraft in the Late Pleistocene

27/10/2021
Read more by ElspethHayes, RichardFullagar, JohanKamminga, Linda C.Prinsloo, LucBordes, ThomasSutikna, Matthew W.Tocheri, E.Wahyu Saptomo, Jatmiko, Richard G.Roberts. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. December 2021

Archaeology and art in context: Excavations at the Gunu Site Complex, Northwest Kimberley, Western Australia

27/10/2021
Read more by Mark W. Moore, Kira Westaway, June Ross, Kim Newman, Yinika Perston, Jillian Huntley, Samantha Keats, Kandiwal Aboriginal Corporation ,Michael J. Morwood †. Published on Plos One. 05 February 2020

Population dynamics in the Japanese Archipelago since the Pleistocene revealed by the complete mitochondrial genome sequences

20/10/2021
Read more by Fuzuki Mizuno, Jun Gojobori, Masahiko Kumagai, Hisao Baba, Yasuhiro Taniguchi, Osamu Kondo, Masami Matsushita, Takayuki Matsushita, Fumihiko Matsuda, Koichiro Higasa, et al Published on  Scientific Reports. 13 June 2021

Social network analysis of obsidian artefacts and Māori interaction in northern Aotearoa New Zealand

20/10/2021
Read more by Thegn N. Ladefoged, Caleb Gemmel, Mark McCoy, Alex Jorgensen, Hayley Glover, Christophe Stevenson, Dion O’Neale. Published on Plos One. 14 March 2019

Human impacts and Anthropocene environmental change at Lake Kutubu, a Ramsar wetland in Papua New Guinea

30/09/2021
Read more by Kelsie E. Long, Larissa Schneider, Simon E. Connor, Niamh Shulmeister, Janet Finn, Georgia L. Roberts, Atun Zawadzki, T. Gabriel Enge, et al. Pulished on PNAS. 05 October 2021

Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness

30/09/2021
Read more by Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Rebecca Hamilton, Wolfram Dressler, and Lisa Palmer. Published on PNAS. 05 October 2021

Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks

24/09/2021
Read more by Alexander G. Ioannidis, Javier Blanco-Portillo, Andrés Moreno-Estrada. Published on Nature. 22 September 2021

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) monument (ahu) locations explained by freshwater sources

24/09/2021
Read more by Robert J. DiNapoli, Carl P. Lipo, Tanya Brosnan, Terry L. Hunt, Sean Hixon, Alex E. Morrison, Matthew Becker. Published on Plos One. 10 January 2019

Ancient genomics reveals tripartite origins of Japanese populations

21/09/2021
Read more by Niall P.Cooke, Valeria Mattiangeli, Lara M.Cassidy, Kenji Okazaki, Caroline A. Stokesshin, Onbesatoshi Hatakeyama et al Published on Science Advances. 17 September 2021

Temporal trends in the Colonisation of the Pacific: Palaeodemographic Insights

21/09/2021
Read more by Clare McFadden, Richard Walter, Hallie Buckley & Marc F. Oxenham. Published on Journal of World Prehistory. 10 February 2021

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