Courses

ARCH101 Human Origins and Civilisations
ARCH203 Asian Archaeology
ARCH310 Special Topic: Trade and Exchange
ARCH403 Oceanic Archaeology

Selected Publications

In Press. Summerhayes, G.R. The Archaeology of Trade and Exchange, in J.D. Wright (ed), International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences 2nd edition. Oxford: Elsevier.

In press. Summerhayes, G.R. and Ford, A. Late Pleistocene Colonisation and Adaptation in New Guinea: Implications for Modeling Modern Human Behaviour, in Dennell, R. and Porr, M. (eds) East of Africa. South Asia, Australia and Human Origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

2013. Summerhayes, G. Mandui, H., in C. Smith (ed) Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology, pp. 955. New York: Springer.

2013. Carson, M., Hung, H-C, Summerhayes, G and Bellwood, P. The pottery trail from Southeast Asia to Remote Oceania. Island and Coastal Archaeology 8:17-36.

2012. Ambrose, W., Petchey, F., Swadling, P., Beran, H., Bonshek, L., Szabo, K., Bickler, S., and Summerhayes, G. Engraved prehistoric Conus shell artifacts from southeastern Papua New Guinea: their antiquity, motifs and distribution. Archaeology in Oceania 47: 113-132.

2012. Harlow, G., Summerhayes, G.R., Davies, H. and Matisoo-Smith, E. A jade gouge from Emirau Island, Papua-New Guinea (Early Lapita context: 3300 BP): A unique jadeitite. European Journal of Mineralogy 24:391-399

2011. Allen, J., Summerhayes, G.R., Mandui, H., and Leavesley. New data from Oposisi: implications for the Early Papuan pottery phase. Journal of Pacific Archaeology 2: 69-81.

2011. Shaw, B, Buckley, H., Summerhayes, G.R., Stirling, C. and Reid, M. Prehistoric migration at Nebira, south coast of Papua New Guinea: New insights into interaction using isotope and trace element concentration analyses. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30:344-358.

2011. Reepmeyer, C., Spriggs, M., Anggraeni, Lape, P., Neri, L., Ronquillo, W.P., Simanjuntak, T., Summerhayes, G., Tanudirjo, D., Tiauzoni, A. Obsidian Sources And Distribution Systems In Island Southeast Asia: New Results And Implications From Geochemical Research Using LA-ICPMS. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 2995-3005

2011. Spriggs , M., Reepmeyer, C, Anggraeni, Lape, P., Neri, L, Ronquillo, W.P., Simanjuntak, T., Summerhayes, G., Tanudirjo, D., Tiauzoni,A. Obsidian sources and distribution systems in Island Southeast Asia: a review of previous research. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 2873-2881

2010. Dennison, J., Summerhayes, G and Matisoo-Smith, E. (eds). St Matthias Group. Translation of Hans Nevermann 1933 St Mathias Gruppe. University of Otago Studies in Prehistoric Anthropology 22.

2010. Summerhayes, G.R.. Lapita Interaction – an update, in M. Gadu and Hsiu-man Lin (eds). 2009 International Symposium on Austronesian Studies, pp. 11-40 Taitong: National Museum of Prehistory.

2010. Summerhayes, The Emergence of Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago, in Sand, C. Bedford, and S. Chambonniere (eds). Lapita: Ancêtres Océaniens, pp.92-101. Paris: Musee du Quai Branly.

2010. G.R. Summerhayes, Obsidian, in in Sand, C. Bedford, and S. Chambonniere (eds). Lapita: Ancêtres Océaniens, pp.102-103. Paris: Musee du Quai Branly.

2010. Summerhayes, G.R., Leavesley, M., Fairbairn, A., Mandui, H., Field, J., Ford, A. and Fullagar, R.. Human adaptation and use of plants in highland New Guinea 49,000-44,000 years ago. Science 330: 78-81.

2010. Summerhayes, G.R., Matisoo-Smith, L., Mandui. H., Allen, J., Specht, J., Hogg, N. and S. McPherson. Tamuarawai (EQS): An Early Lapita Site on Emirau, New Ireland, PNG. The Journal of Pacific Archaeology 1: 62-75.

2010. Shaw. B., Buckley, H., Summerhayes G., Anson, D, Garling S., Valentin F., Mandui H., Stirling C and Reid, M. Migration and mobility at the Late Lapita site of Reber-Rakival (SAC), Watom Island using isotope and trace element analysis: A new insight into Lapita interaction in the Bismarck Archipelago. Journal of Archaeological Science. 37:605-613.

2009. Summerhayes, G.R., Leavesley, M. and Fairbairn, A. Impact of Human Colonisation on the landscape – a view from the Western Pacific. Pacific Science 63 (4):725-745.

2009. Matisoo-Smith, E., Hingston, M., Summerhayes, G.R., Robins, J., Ross, H. and Hendy, M. On the Rat Trail in Near Oceania: Applying the commensal model to the question of the Lapita colonisation, in Pacific Science 63(4):465-475.

2009. Summerhayes, G.R. Obsidian Network Patterns in Melanesia – Sources, Characterisation and Distribution. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 29: 110-124.

2009. Summerhayes, G.R. and Anderson, A.J. An Austronesian presence in southern Japan: Early occupation in the Yaeyama Islands. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 29: 76-91

2009. Shaw, B., GR Summerhayes, H R Buckley, and J Baker. The potential use of strontium isotopes as an indicator of migration in human and pig Lapita populations in the Pacific Islands. Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 1079-1091.

2009. Sheppard, P., Thomas T. and Summerhayes, G. (eds). Lapita Antecedants and Successors. Auckland: New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph

2009. A.F. Findlater, G.R. Summerhayes, W.R. Dickinson and I.A. Scales. Assessing the anomalous role of ceramics in late-Lapita interaction: a view from Kolombangara, western Solomon Islands, in Sheppard, P., Thomas T. and Summerhayes, G. (eds). Lapita Antecedants and Successors, pp.101-117. Auckland: New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph.