Pauline Basilia
Qualifications
2012 Master of Arts in Archaeology, University of the Philippines - Archaeological Studies Program
Thesis title
Beyond Dwarfing: Examining Insular Dwarfism of Stegodon sp. Fossil Remains from Southeast Asia
Supervisors
Associate Prof. Julien Louys, Dr. Paul Oliver (Griffith University), Dr Justyna Miszkiewicz (ANU), Dr. Alexandra van der Geer (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden)
Publications
- Basilia, P.A. (2014) “Examining Residue Morphology of the Microperforated Cut Shell Beads from Ille Site, El Nido, Palawan”. Proceedings of the Philippine Association of Microscopists, Inc. (MICROSPHIL) Annual Scientific Conference and General Assembly. ADMATEL, DOST, Taguig. Vol 7 (1): pp 40 – 43. ISSN: 1908-9910.
- Basilia, P.A. (2014) “BUTTONS OF SAN JUAN: Preliminary Analysis of Buttons Recovered from San Juan, Batangas 2009 Field Season”. HUKAY Vol 19, pp 84-105. ISSN: 0119-173X
- Basilia, P.A. (2013) “Use-wear analysis of Stone Beads from Kiechlberg” in Der Kiechlberg bei Thaur als Drehscheibezwischen den Kulturen nördlich und südlich des Alpenhauptkammes (The Kiechlberg in Thaur - a hub between the cultures north and south of the Alps). Ulrike Töchterle (ed.). Innsbruck: Praearchos.
Tessa Dux
Qualifications
BA Arts (University of QLD)
Graduate Diploma in Maritime Archaeology (Flinders University)
Graduate Diploma in Research Studies in Environmental Science
Thesis title
The application and limitations of non-invasive pXRF in the identification of archaeological osseous material
Supervisors
Dr. Jillian Huntley & Dr. Michelle Langley (Griffith University)
Eva Martellotta
Qualifications
MA in Quaternary, Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Ferrara, Italy.
BA in Archaeological Sciences, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy.
Thesis title
Bone Retouchers in Palaeolithic European and Prehistoric Australian Contexts
Supervisors
Dr Michelle Langley, Prof. Adam Brumm & Dr Jayne Wilkins (Griffith University)
Publications
- Martellotta E. F., Livraghi A., Peresani M. (2020). Bone retouchers from the Mousterian Quina site of De Nadale Cave (Berici Hills, north-eastern Italy). Comptes Rendus Palevol.
- Martellotta E. F., Castangia G., Lemorini C. (2020). “Teste di mazza”: the Nuragic club-heads (Sardinia, Italy). Technological and experimental analysis. Lithic Technology.
Kim Newman
Qualifications
Master of Science, University of New England
Bachelor of Archaeology (Hon), University of New England
Thesis title
The development and disappearance of the ‘Toalean’ hunter-gatherer culture in South Sulawesi: a reassessment of the Holocene archaeological record through missing deposits
Supervisors
Prof. Adam Brumm, Dr Michelle Langley (Griffith University)
Publications
- Brumm, A., K. J. Shagir, T. Ismail, B. Hakim, Budianto, Y. Perston, K. Newman, C. Macknight, (2019). Retracing Alfred Russel Wallace’s 1857 expedition to the Maros karsts of Sulawesi. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-18.
- Newman, K. and M.W. Moore 2013 Ballistically Anomalous Stone Projectile Points in Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science 40:2614-2620
Marcela Ortega-Rincón
Qualifications
Anthropologist BA (HON) with emphasis in Archaeology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Master (Research) in Sciences - Biology with emphasis in Management and Conservation of wildlife, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Master (Research) in Sciences - International Program in Landscape Ecology and Nature
Conservation, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany
Thesis title
Cultural and ecological resilience of indigenous communities and their territory
Traditional ecological knowledge associated with mammals, landscape and culture
Supervisors
Dr. Jillian Huntley & Dr. Michelle Langley (Griffith University)
Publications
- Ortega-Rincon, M. 2017. Mammals and coprophilous fungi in the Schwerin castle, Germany (Xth-XIth A.D. century). Master in Science, International Master Program in Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation. Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany.
- Ortega-Rincón, M. 2016. Sociocultural local stakeholders valuation of ecosystem services of Orotoy River Basin. In: “Strengthening of social and ecological capacities of adaptation to climate change in Orotoy River Basin, Colombia”. Institute of Biological Research Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia.
- Ortega-Rincón, M. 2016. Environmental History and Land colonization of the territory of Orotoy River Basin. In: “Strengthening of social and ecological capacities of adaptation to climate change in Orotoy River Basin, Colombia”. Institute of Biological Research Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia.
- Ortega-Rincón, M. 2014. D Diagnosis of fundamental Human Rights directly related to natural resources of indigenous peoples in inminent threat of physical and cultural extinction. Priority Affirmative Action Plan for the Protection of Fundamental Rights of Colombian indigenous people in imminent danger of physical and / or cultural extinction. Ministry of the Interior, Office of Ethnic Affairs.
- Ortega-Rincón, M. 2013. Ecological, socioeconomic and cultural drivers of Ecological Unsustainability of mammal hunting in the Colombian Amazon. Thesis Project Master in Science-Biology. Line Management and Conservation of Wildlife, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
- Ortega-Rincón, M. 2012. Mammal hunting in Colombian Amazon. En: Student Conference on Conservation Science, University of Cambridge, 20-22 March 2012. Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. Pp. 38.
- Ortega-Rincón, M. 2011. Non-human primates in the region of Nariño (Colombia): evidence from rock art, ethnoarchaeology and archaeozoology. Thesis Project in Anthropology-Archaeology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
- Espinal P., Gross T., Montoya M., Orduz N., Ortega-Rincón M., & Rosales N. 2011. Madera: servicio ecosistémico de importante valor en la región del Santuario de Fauna y Flora Otún Quimbaya. En: Amaya-Espinel J.D., J.J. Bedoya, J.C. De La Cruz & J. N. Urbina-Cardona (Eds.). 2011. Memorias Curso en Ecología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad Neotropical. Instituto de Estudios Ambientales para el Desarrollo. IDEADE y Fundación Maconde. Bogotá, Colombia. 107-114 pp. ISBN 978-958-716-497-6.
- Bermúdez F., Canedo V., Castro S., Espejo N., Gross T., Lozano F., Martínez D., Montoya M., Ortega-Rincón M. & Silva J. 2011. Propuesta de planeación predial en la Hacienda Carmelita-Vereda La Suiza implementando herramientas de manejo del paisaje para la conservación de la biodiversidad. En: Amaya-Espinel J.D., J.J. Bedoya, J.C. De La Cruz & J. N. Urbina-Cardona (Eds.). 2011. Memorias Curso en Ecología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad Neotropical. Instituto de Estudios Ambientales para el Desarrollo. IDEADE y Fundación Maconde. Bogotá, Colombia. 117-128 pp. ISBN 978-958-716-497-6.
- Gómez J.R., Martínez-Rivera D., Ordóñez-Ruiz M., Ortega-Rincón M., Parra-Romero A. & Silva-Guacaneme J. 2011. Análisis del papel del mono aullador (Alouatta seniculus) como especie focal del Santuario de Fauna y Flora Otún Quimbaya. En: Amaya-Espinel J.D., J.J. Bedoya, J.C. De La Cruz & J. N. Urbina-Cardona (Eds.). 2011. Memorias Curso en Ecología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad Neotropical. Instituto de Estudios Ambientales para el Desarrollo. IDEADE y Fundación Maconde. Bogotá, Colombia. 89-96 pp. ISBN 978-958-716-497-6.
- Ramírez-Chaves H., Ortega-Rincón M., Pérez W.A. & Marín D. 2011. Historia de las especies de mamíferos exóticos en Colombia. Boletín Científico Museo de Historia Natural. 15 (2): 139 - 156.
- Marin-Vasquez A., Ortega-Rincón M & H. Ramírez-Chaves. 2010. Records of leucism in three species of Colombian bats: Carollia brevicauda, Artibeus jamaicensis and Lophostoma silvicolum (Phyllostomidae). Chiroptera Neotropical 16(2): 706 - 709.
Yinika Perston
Qualifications
Thesis title
Pleistocene Hominin Technology and the Origin of Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Supervisors
Prof. Adam Brumm, Dr Michelle Langley (Griffith University), Associate Prof. Mark Moore (University of New England)
Publications
- Brumm, A., Langley, M. C., Hakim, B., Perston, Y. L., Suryatman, Oktaviana, A. A., Burhan, B., Moore, M. W. (2020). Scratching the surface: engraved cortex as portable art in Pleistocene Sulawesi. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 1-29
- Moore, M. W., Westaway, K., Ross, J., Newman, K., Perston, Y. L., Huntley, J., Keats, S., Kandiwal Aboriginal Corporation, Morwood, M. J. (2020). Archaeology and art in context: Excavations at the Gunu Site Complex, Northwest Kimberley, Western Australia. PLOS ONE, 15(2)
- Perston, Y. L., Sumantri, I., Hakim, B., Oktaviana, A. A., Brumm, A (2020). Excavation report for Leang Rakkoe: A new Toalean site with engraved art in the Bomboro Valley, Maros Regency, South Sulawesi/Laporan ekskavasi terhadap situs Rakkoe: situs Toala yang baru dengan seni pahat di Lembah Bomboro, Kabupaten Maros, Sulawesi Selatan. Walennae, 18(1), 51-64.
- Brumm, A., Shagir, K. J., Ismail, T., Hakim, B., Perston, Y., Newman, K., Macknight, C. (2019). Retracing Alfred Russel Wallace’s 1857 expedition to the Maros karsts of Sulawesi. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, XX, 1-18.
- Brumm, A, Hakim, B, Ramli, M, Aubert, M, van den Bergh, GD, Li, B, Burhan, B, Saiful, AM, Siagian, L, Sardi, R, Jusdi, A, Abdullah, Mubarak, AP, Moore, MW, Roberts, RG, Zhao, J, McGahan, D, Jones, BG, Perston, Y, Szabó, K, Mahmud, MI, Westaway, K, Jatmiko, Saptomo, EW, van der Kaars, S, Grün, R, Wood, R, Dodson, J, Morwood, MJ. (2018) A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. PLoS ONE 13(4).
- Perston, YL, Andrew, NR, McDonald, PG. (2018). Implications of climate change on the behaviour and activity patterns of the ubiquitous meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Smith, 1858). General and Applied Entomology 46: 1-9.
- Brumm A, Langley MC, Moore MW, Hakim B, Ramli M, Sumantrig I, Burhan B, Saiful AM, Siagian L, Suryatman, Sardi R, Jusdi A, Abdullah, Mubarak AP, Hasliana, Hasrianti, Oktaviana AA, Adhityatama S, van den Bergh GD, Aubert M, Zhao J, Huntley J, Li B, Roberts RG,o, Saptomo EW, Perston Y, Grün R. (2017) Early human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea, PNAS 114(16), pp. 4105-4110.
- Moore MW, Perston Y. (2016) Experimental Insights into the Cognitive Significance of Early Stone Tools. PLoS ONE 11(7)
Holly Smith
Qualifications
MSc (Hons) Geoscience, Durham University, UK
Thesis title
The taphonomy and site formation processes of vertebrate-bearing deposits in Sumatran caves
Supervisor
Associate Prof. Julien Louys & Prof. Tanya Smith (Griffith University)
Roxanne Tsang
Qualifications
2012 – 2016: Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
Thesis title
The Gulf between us: an ethno-archaeology investigation into the rock art of Papua New Guinea compared to Australia
Supervisors
Prof. Paul Taçon, Dr Sally May (Griffith University) & Dr Matthew Leavesley (University of Papua New Guinea)
Publications
- Skelly, R., David, B., Leavesley, M., Petchey, F., Guise, A., Tsang, R., Mialanes, J., and Richards, T. (2018). Changing ceramic traditions at Agila ancestral village, Hood Bay, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2018.1515146.
- Tsang, R., Leavesley, M., Kariwiga, J., Kontorea, P., Matapia, I., Kelly, M., Specht, J., Wood, M., Filer, C., Gabriel, J., Foale, S. & McIntyre-Tamwoy, S. (2017). Nakanai Cave/Karst Country, New Britain, Papua New Guinea: An Anthropological Perspective. In Moore, K & White, W. (Eds), 2017. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Speleology (Ed. 2), July 23-29, Sydney, NSW Australia Volume 1, Australian Speleological Federation Inc. Sydney, p. 208-211.
Doug Williams
Qualifications
BA Hons (ANU),
Graduate Diploma of Applied Science (UCan)
Thesis title
Study of Function and Location of Prehistoric Aboriginal Settlements of the Sturt Desert (Channel Country), Central Australia
Supervisor
Publications
- Adams, S., Williams, D., Flinders, C. and M. Westaway 2018 Mortuary Landscape Of the Flinders Islands, north QLD (submitted).
- Williams, D. M.Sullivan , P.Hughes and A.Grinbergs. In press. Out in the open: a complex of stratified artefact clusters in the Pilbara demonstrating a history of occupation to beyond the LGM. Archaeology in Oceania (Returned for revisions 19/04/2018).
- Marsh, M., P.Hiscock, D. Williams, P.Hughes, and M. Sullivan, in press. Watura Jurnti – a 42 to 45,000 year-long occupation sequence from the north-eastern Pilbara. Archaeology in Oceania (Accepted 05/04/2018).
- Westaway, MC., Williams, D., Wright, R.V.S, Wood, R., Olley, J., Swift, J., Martin, S., Kemp, J., Rolton., S., and Bates, W. 2016. The Death of Kakutcha: A Case of Perimortem weapon trauma in an Aboriginal man from north west New South Wales, Australia. Antiquity 90 353 (2016): 1318–1333.
- Miller, G., Magee, J., Smith, M., Baynes, A., Lehman, S.,Spooner, N., Fogel, M., Webb, S., Johnston, H., Williams, D., Peter Clark, P., Florian, C., Holst, R., and DeVogel, S. 2016. Direct evidence of human predation on extinct Australian megafauna between 53.9 and 47.5 ka. Nature Communications 7:10196 doi:10.1038/ncomms10496(2016)