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7000 Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia 南澳大利亚河地地区休格洛夫山7000年的土著采矿

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Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2026-07-15 Epub Date: 2026-05-25 DOI: 10.1002/arco.70028

Craig Westell, Ian Moffat, Richard Fullagar, Amy Roberts, Justine Kemp, Mike Morley, Marc Fairhead, Simon Hoad, River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation

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Interpreting a Legacy Fossil Assemblage Excavated From Waribruk (New Guinea II Cave), GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Country, Snowy River National Park, Southeastern Australia 解释从澳大利亚东南部雪河国家公园GunaiKurnai土著国家的Waribruk（新几内亚II洞穴）出土的遗留化石组合

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Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2026-07-15 Epub Date: 2026-05-13 DOI: 10.1002/arco.70027

Matthew C. McDowell, Bruno David, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Russell Mullett, Fiona Petchey, Helen Green, Joanna Fresløv, GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation

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Altered by Gold: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis of 19th to 20th Century Chinese and British Migrants in Ravenswood, a Northern Queensland Gold Mining Town 黄金改变：昆士兰北部金矿镇Ravenswood 19至20世纪中国和英国移民的动物考古比较分析

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Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2026-07-15 Epub Date: 2026-07-02 DOI: 10.1002/arco.70029

Marc Cheeseman

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The Pre-European Utilisation of Lithic Resources in Aotearoa New Zealand 前欧洲时代新西兰奥特罗阿地区对石质资源的利用

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Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1002/arco.70013

Phillip R. Moore

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Development, Intensification and Sustainability of the Hālawa Valley Agroecosystem, Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands, AD 1200–1850 Hālawa山谷农业生态系统的发展、强化和可持续性，莫洛卡岛，夏威夷群岛，公元1200-1850年

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Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2026-01-18 DOI: 10.1002/arco.70017

Patrick V. Kirch, Jillian A. Swift, Kylie Tuitavuki, Greg Solatorio, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln

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Gleaning the Rocky Shore? 2500 Years of Coastal Resource Use at Red Bluff 1, GunaiKurnai Country, SE Australia 收集岩石海岸？澳大利亚东南部GunaiKurnai国家Red Bluff 1的2500年海岸资源利用

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Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1002/arco.70018

Patrick Faulkner, Bruno David, David M. Kennedy, Fiona Petchey, Joanna Fresløv, Ashleigh J. Rogers, Jillian Garvey, Rachel Kirby, Runjie Yuan, Russell Mullett, John Stanisic, Kyne Krusic-Golub, V. Ruth Pullin, Matthew C. McDowell, Robert J. Skelly, Anthony Romano, Vanessa N. L. Wong, GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation

{"title":"Gleaning the Rocky Shore? 2500 Years of Coastal Resource Use at Red Bluff 1, GunaiKurnai Country, SE Australia","authors":"Patrick Faulkner, Bruno David, David M. Kennedy, Fiona Petchey, Joanna Fresløv, Ashleigh J. Rogers, Jillian Garvey, Rachel Kirby, Runjie Yuan, Russell Mullett, John Stanisic, Kyne Krusic-Golub, V. Ruth Pullin, Matthew C. McDowell, Robert J. Skelly, Anthony Romano, Vanessa N. L. Wong, GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation","doi":"10.1002/arco.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.70018","url":null,"abstract":"Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short-duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high-diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a location that features the first intertidal rocky platform habitat between Wilsons Promontory in the west and Cape Conran in the east (a distance of 230 km). We found that the climbing sand dune at Red Bluff began to accumulate c. 2500 cal BP, and that over the past c. 1000 years in particular, the Old Ancestors kept the dune environment relatively open through cultural burning, repeatedly camping on the dune to obtain a range of resources from the adjacent rocky shore and sandy beach, estuary and river mouth. These resources include a broad range of shellfish taxa consistently dominated by high numbers of Mytilus planulatus and Lunella undulata and small to medium-sized fish, probably from rock platforms and sandy shallows, processed with locally sourced stone artefacts. Although exhibiting a degree of similarity in the harvesting of specific mollusc taxa through time, there is notable variability in taxonomic richness and diversity that emphasises differences in subsistence activities and an active engagement with structurally complex nearshore environments.","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"61 1","pages":"128-161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/arco.70018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147696242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Devil Is in the Detail: Tasmanian Devil and Tasmanian Tiger Paintings From Awunbarna and Injalak Hill, Northern Territory, Australia 魔鬼在细节：塔斯马尼亚魔鬼和塔斯马尼亚老虎画从Awunbarna和Injalak山，北领地，澳大利亚

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Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2026-03-30 DOI: 10.1002/arco.70024

Paul S. C. Taçon, Andrea Jalandoni, Sally K. May, Joey Nganjmirra, Charlie Mungulda

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Under the Shade of a Coolabah Tree: A Second Cache of Tulas From the Boulia District, Western Queensland 在一棵Coolabah树的树荫下：来自昆士兰州西部Boulia地区的第二处Tulas贮藏地

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Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2025-11-26 DOI: 10.1002/arco.70014

Yinika L. Perston, Lynley A. Wallis, Heather Burke, Lorna Bogdanek, Trevina Rogers, Justine Kemp

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Can Palm Logs Float? Evaluating the Physical Viability of Raft Transport for Rapa Nui Moai 棕榈木能浮起来吗？评估拉帕努伊摩埃岛木筏运输的物理可行性

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Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2026-02-08 DOI: 10.1002/arco.70020

Terry L. Hunt, Carl P. Lipo

{"title":"Can Palm Logs Float? Evaluating the Physical Viability of Raft Transport for Rapa Nui Moai","authors":"Terry L. Hunt, Carl P. Lipo","doi":"10.1002/arco.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Recent suggestions that palm log rafts may have transported moai statues on Rapa Nui require evaluation of whether fresh palm wood can provide sufficient buoyancy for multi-ton cargo. This analysis integrates experimental flotation tests, structural analyses of palm stem anatomy, and buoyancy calculations using modern palm analogs to reconstruct the extinct Rapa Nui palm. Fresh palm logs sink when placed in water because of their internal structure: stems consist of approximately 20% liquid by volume, contained within thousands of water-filled vascular tubes, surrounded by a thin, brittle cortex. This yields effective densities of 800–1,200 kg/m3 that approach or exceed seawater density. Even logs that barely float provide essentially zero freeboard for cargo, while concentrated statue loads cause structural failure through the cortex. These physical constraints, the absence of sunken moai, the rapid decomposition of palm wood, and Polynesian watercraft capacity limits that preclude moving average-sized statues, together demonstrate that water transport of moai was physically impossible. Overland transport was the sole viable mode of transport on Rapa Nui.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"61 1","pages":"165-176"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147696395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Graman Revisited Once Again: A Reanalysis of the Late Holocene Legacy Faunal Assemblage From GB4 Rockshelter, New South Wales 再次访问格拉曼：对新南威尔士州GB4 Rockshelter晚全新世遗留动物组合的重新分析

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Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2026-04-13 Epub Date: 2026-03-19 DOI: 10.1002/arco.70022

Loukas George Koungoulos, Jane Balme, Sue O'Connor

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