Books
Ford, A., Shaw, B., & Gaffney, D. (eds). Forty Years in the South Seas: Archaeological Perspectives on the Human History of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific Region. Canberra: ANU Press. http://doi.org/10.22459/TA57.2024
Jakamarra Cooke Anderson, H., Jangala, J. P., Dixon Japanangka, S., Paw-Kurlpurlurnu Jampijinpa, W. S. P., O’Shannessy, C., & Turpin, M. (2024). Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri song cycle. Sydney University Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.30722/sup.9781743329481
O’Shannessy, C., Angelo, D., & Simpson, J. (2024). Australian Contact Languages. Special Issue of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 39(1). John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/jpcl.39.1
Book chapters
Bedford, S. (2024). An update on Late Lapita: Its manifestations and associated implications, pp. 127-149. In Anne Ford, Ben Shaw and Dylan Gaffney (eds), Forty Years in the South Seas: Archaeological Perspectives on the Human History of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific Region. Canberra: ANU Press.
Bedford, S., Spriggs, M., & Clark, G. (2024). Lapita in the Southwest Pacific: Origins, Distribution, Chronology, Economy, and Transformation. In S.M. Fitzpatrick & J. Erlandson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Island and Coastal Archaeology. Oxford Academic, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197607770.013
Field, J., Coster, A. C. F., Shaw, B., Hayes, E., Fullagar, R., Lovave, M., Haro, J. and Summerhayes, G. (2024). Ancient starch and usewear analyses of an excavated pestle fragment from the Upper Kaironk Valley, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. In Ford, A., Shaw, B. and Gaffney, D. (eds.), 40 years in the south seas: Archaeological perspectives on the human history of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific region. Canberra: ANU Press. http://doi.org/10.22459/TA57.2024
Flexner, J., Bedford, S., Valentin, F., Williams, R., Horrocks, M., Philip, I., Elena, D., & Kuautonga, T. (2024). Archaeology and the Emergence of Customary Resource Management in Southern Vanuatu, pp. 120-141. In S.M. Fitzpatrick, J. M. Erlandson and K. M. Gill (eds), Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies: An Archaeology of Human Resilience. University Press of Florida.
Louys, J. & Kealy, S. (2024). How did Homo erectus reach Java? Least-cost pathway models and a consideration of possible Sumatran routes. In: Quaternary Palaeontology and Archaeology of Sumatra. Canberra: ANU Press. pp. 199-217. https://doi.org/10.22459/TA56.2024.09
Shaw, B., Coxe, S., Haro, J., Kewibu, V., Miamba, K. and Sharp, L. (2024). Mid-Late Holocene diversification of cultural identities in the Massim Islands: Excavations at the Mumwa site, Panaeati Island. In Ford, A., Shaw, B. and Gaffney, D. (eds.), 40 years in the south seas: Archaeological perspectives on the human history of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific region. Canberra: ANU Press. http://doi.org/10.22459/TA57.2024
Journal articles
André, M., Brucato, N., Hudjasov, G. et al. Positive selection in the genomes of two Papua New Guinean populations at distinct altitude levels. Nature Communications. 15, 3352 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47735-1
Connor, S., Lewis, T., van Leeuwen, J., van der Knaap, W., Schaefer, H., Porch, N., Gomes, A., Piva, S., Gadd, P., Kunes, P., Haberle, S., Adeleye, M., Mariani, M., & Elias, R. (2024). Original plant diversity and ecosystems of a small, remote oceanic island (Corvo, Azores): Implications for biodiversity conversation. Biological Conversation. 291: 110512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110512
Hardy, K., Leclerc, M., Ballard, C., Knowles, B., & Troitzsch, U. (2024). Reconstructing Settlement Histories in the Papua New Guinea Highlands through Ceramic Analysis and Oral Traditions. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 16(12). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01919-w
Kaharudin, H. A. F., O’Connor, S., Kroh, A., & Kealy, S. (2024). Staple or delicacy: Sea urchin exploitation over the last 40,000 years at Makpan Cave, Alor Island. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2024.2324308
O’Shannessy, C., Angelo, D., & Simpson, J. (2024). Toward a typology of Australian contact languages. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 39(1), 1–33. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00137.osh
O’Shannessy, C. (2024). Source language influences in the Australian mixed language, Light Warlpiri. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 39(1), 125–148. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00131.osh
Passmore, S., Wood, A.L.C., Barbieri, C. et al. Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories. Nature Communications 15, 3964 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48113-7
Shipton, C., Morley, M., Kealy, S., Norman, K., Boulanger, C., Hawkins, S., Litster, M., Withnell, C. , & O’Connor, S. (2024). Abrupt onset of intensive human occupation 44,000 years ago on the threshold of Sahul. Nature Communications. 15, 4193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48395-x
Zhang, Y., Westaway, K.E., Haberle, S. et al. 2024. The demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06900-0
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