Oceanic prehistory and ethnohistory, island colonisation, palaeoenvironments, zooarchaeology, chronometry, maritime adaptations.

Pacific archaeology, relating primarily to origins, cultural transformation and change, social interaction, environmental impact and human responses to natural disasters. Archaeologies of Empire, Colonialism and Contact.

Archaeology of northern Australia and Island South East Asia

Southeast Asian Archaeology, particularly in relation to cloth production and women in the prehistoric period. The analysis of prehistoric spindle whorls, bark cloth beaters, matting, textiles and dyes. Vietnamese Archaeology; Dong Son.

Neolithic colonization of Oceania, especially of western Micronesia and Lapita occupation of the Central Pacific. A current large project investigates the Tongan maritime empire and its expansion to east Fiji and Samoa with archaeology, traditional history and geophysical techniques. I have research interests in monumental architecture, zooarchaeology and historical archaeology with ongoing projects in each of these areas.

Isotope ratio analysis for archaeology and environmental reconstruction; Asia, Pacific, and North American prehistory; Faunal analysis; Human behavioral ecology; Quantitative methods in archaeology; GIS and computer applications; Human universals

Palaeoenvironmental records from across the Southern Hemisphere using microfossil, charcoal, geochemical and isotopic analyses

Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Pacific Islands; Historical Ecology; Palynology; Palaeoclimatology; Fire History.

Australian and Southeast Asian archaeology, Pleistocene colonisation of Island Southeast Asia and Australia by modern humans and the links between these regions, change and continuity across the boundary of the Neolithic transition in Island Southeast Asia, human impacts on the environment.

Geochemistry of archaeological materials (particularly obsidian and other igneous rocks). Economic and exchange theory, theoretical ecology and HBE, theory of value. Paleoenviromental impacts on colonisation and cultural change in the Western and Central Pacific. International cultural heritage management.

Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands; palynology; environmental change; fire histories; historical ecology; palaeoclimatology; detection of crop plants.

The analysis of 2-3000 year-old Oceanic ceramic ornamentation for deriving and relating the development of related technologies within a range of culturally valuable artefacts. The use of laboratory replication and macroscopic examination for revealing ceramic ornamentation techniques.

Archaeology & Natural History

Zoogeographic and coevolutionary trends in introduced, invasive and synanthropic vertebrates.

Archaeology & Natural History

Archaeology & Natural History

Archaeology & Natural History

Geological and environmental history of coastal ecosystems and adjacent wetlands.

Archaeology & Natural History

Aust Pacific Science Foundation - Nine Thousand Years of Gardening in PNG

Swamps, caves and lakes across Asia Pacific and the development of methods to measure environmental change. Climate change and high resolution records.

Late Quaternary Geoarchaeology of the Torres Strait Islands, NE Australia (Chair of panel: Prof. Atholl Anderson)

A new Late Quaternary palaeohydrological record for the Atherton Tableland, north Queensland, Australia (Chair of panel: Dr Simon Haberle)

Holocene environmental change and variability in the western Pacific, Torres Strait and the Arafura Sea A diatom analysis (Chair of panel: Dr Geoff Hope)

Late Holocene sea level change in the Indian Ocean and the implications for human maritime migration in the region (Chair of panel: Dr Simon Haberle)

A zooarchaeological approach to the Vanuatu archaeological record (Chair of panel: Dr Stuart Bedford)

Palaeonenvironmental change in the Lake St Clair area, Tasmania (Chair of panel: Dr Simon Haberle)

Bogong Moth Aestivation Sites: A Pioneering Archive for Understanding the Floral, Faunal and Indigenous History of the Northern Australian Alps (Chair of panel: Dr Geoff Hope)

The Monumental Earthwork Landscape of Palau, Western Micronesia (Chair of panel: Dr Geoff Clark)

The archaeology of the Maldives indicating evidence of early human colonisation (Chair of panel: Dr Geoff Clark)

Rethinking cultural heritage- culture and nature in the Australasian region: a multi-media project (Chair of panel: Professor Sue O'Connor)

Prehistoric socio-political structure on Pohnpei - perspectives from mortuary architecture (Chair of panel: Dr Geoffrey Clark)

The Rock Art of Kulen Mountain, Cambodia (Chair of panel: Prof Sue O'Connor)

Agricultural development in Tongan Prehistory: An archaeobotanical perspective (Chair of panel: Dr Geoffrey Clark)

Baijini, Macassans, Balanda, and Bininj: defining the Indigenous past of Arnhem Land through Culture Contact (Chair of panel: Professor Sue O'Connor)

Colonization of the Mariana Islands and its Implications for Indo-Pacific Prehistory (Chair of panel: Dr Geoff Clark)