Contact
Room 2C25
Tel +64 3 479 8399
Email glenn.summerhayes@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests
Pacific archaeology, in particular Melanesia; the archaeology of trade and exchange; the development of social complexity; the archaeology of East Asia; archaeometry; cultural heritage management; archaeology and the school curriculum in Papua New Guinea.
Courses
- ANTH 106 Human Origins and Civilisations
- ANTH 203 Asian Archaeology
- ANTH 231 The Emergence of Agriculture: An Archaeological Journey
Publications
Kerby, G., Ford, A., Summerhayes, G. R., Leavesley, M. G., & Palin, J. M. (2023). Fit for purpose: Investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. World Archaeology, 1-21. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00438243.2023.2172070
Summerhayes, G. R. (2023). New Guinea's past: The last 50,000 years. In R. T. Jones & M. K. Matsuda (Eds.), The Cambridge history of the Pacific Ocean (Vol. 1): The Pacific Ocean to 1800. (pp. 406-433). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108539272.024
Summerhayes, G. R. (2022). Sue Bulmer and New Guinea archaeology. In H. Howes, T. Jones & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Uncovering Pacific pasts: Histories of archaeology in Oceania. (pp. 527-534). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/UPP.2021
Roberts, P., Douka, K., Tromp, M., Bedford, S., Hawkins, S., Bouffandeau, L., … Luu, S., … Summerhayes, G., & Spriggs, M. (2022). Fossils, fish and tropical forests: Prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers on Oceania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377, 20200495. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0495
Summerhayes, G. R. (2022). Kisim save long graun: Understanding the nature of landscape change in modelling Lapita in Papua New Guinea. In M. T. Carson (Ed.), Palaeolandscapes in archaeology: Lessons for the past and the future. (pp. 291-312). London, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003139553-10
Kerby, G., Ford, A., Summerhayes, G. R., Leavesley, M. G., & Palin, J. M. (2023). Fit for purpose: Investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. World Archaeology, 1-21. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00438243.2023.2172070
Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. R. (2023). New Guinea's past: The last 50,000 years. In R. T. Jones & M. K. Matsuda (Eds.), The Cambridge history of the Pacific Ocean (Vol. 1): The Pacific Ocean to 1800. (pp. 406-433). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108539272.024
Chapter in Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. R. (2022). Sue Bulmer and New Guinea archaeology. In H. Howes, T. Jones & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Uncovering Pacific pasts: Histories of archaeology in Oceania. (pp. 527-534). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/UPP.2021
Chapter in Book - Research
Roberts, P., Douka, K., Tromp, M., Bedford, S., Hawkins, S., Bouffandeau, L., … Luu, S., … Summerhayes, G., & Spriggs, M. (2022). Fossils, fish and tropical forests: Prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers on Oceania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377, 20200495. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0495
Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. R. (2022). Kisim save long graun: Understanding the nature of landscape change in modelling Lapita in Papua New Guinea. In M. T. Carson (Ed.), Palaeolandscapes in archaeology: Lessons for the past and the future. (pp. 291-312). London, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003139553-10
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Hogg, N. W. S., Chen, Y.-l. E., Summerhayes, G. R., Boswijk, G., Manning, S. W., Hogg, A. G., & Gosden, C. (2022). Building on the past: Refining our current understanding of Lapita stilt structures. Australian Archaeology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2022.2148184
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Field, J. H., Shaw, B., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2022). Pathways to the interior: Human settlement in the Simbai-Kaironk Valleys of the Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 88(1), 2-17. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2021.2007600
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Mialanes, J., Ford, A., Goodall, B., Codlin, M., McCoy, M., Summerhayes, G., … Richards, T., & McNiven, I. J. (2022). The stone artefacts of Tanamu 1. In B. David, K. Szabó, M. Leavesley, I. J. McNiven, J. Ash & T. Richards (Eds.), The archaeology of Tanamu 1: A pre-Lapita to post-Lapita site from Caution Bay, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea. (pp. 89-106). Oxford, UK: Archaeopress Publishing.
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Summerhayes, G. R. (2021). History of archaeology in Papua New Guinea: the early years up to 1960. In I. J. McNiven & B. David (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of indigenous Australia and New Guinea. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190095611.013.3
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Douglass, K., Gaffney, D., Feo, T. J., Bulathsinhala, P., Mack, A. L., Spitzer, M., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2021). Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene sites in the montane forests of New Guinea yield early record of cassowary hunting and egg harvesting. PNAS, 118(40), e2100117118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2100117118
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Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., Luu, S., Menzies, J., Douglass, K., Spitzer, M., & Bulmer, S. (2021). Small game hunting in montane rainforests: Specialised capture and broad specturm foraging in the Late Pleistocene to Holocene New Guinea Highlands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 253, 106742. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106742
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Hogg, N. W. S., Summerhayes, G. R., & Chen, Y.-l. (2021). Moving on or settling down? Studying the nature of mobility through Lapita pottery from the Anir Islands, Papua New Guinea. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online, 34, 71-86. doi: 10.3853/j.1835-4211.34.2021.1744
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Radclyffe, C. J. T., Summerhayes, G. R., Scott, J. M., & Walter, R. (2021). Pottery production and exchange in the last millennium in the western Solomon Islands: A ceramic sequence for Choiseul. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 12(1), 25-46. Retrieved from https://pacificarchaeology.org/
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Thomas, T., McStay, A., Sheppard, P., & Summerhayes, G. (2021). Interaction and isolation in New Georgia: Insights from the Nabo Point ceramic assemblage, Tetepare. Archaeology in Oceania, 56(1), 45-64. doi: 10.1002/arco.5221
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Wang, N., Brown, S., Ditchfield, P., Hebestreit, S., Kozilikin, M., Luu, S., … Summerhayes, G., … Douka, K. (2021). Testing the efficacy and comparability of ZooMS protocols on archaeological bone. Journal of Proteomics, 233, 104078. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2020.104078
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Summerhayes, G. R. (2020). Oceania. In E. Hermans (Ed.), A companion to the global early middle ages. (pp. 95-110). Leeds, UK: ARC Humanities Press.
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Shaw, B., Field, J. H., Summerhayes, G. R., Coxe, S., Coster, A. C. F., Ford, A., … Kealhofer, L. (2020). Emergence of a Neolithic in highland New Guinea by 5000 to 4000 years ago. Science Advances, 6(13), eaay4573. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay4573
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Field, J. H., Summerhayes, G. R., Luu, S., Coster, A. C. F., Ford, A., Mandui, H., … Kealhofer, L. (2020). Functional studies of flaked and ground stone artefacts reveal starchy tree nut and root exploitation in mid-Holocene highland New Guinea. Holocene, 30(9), 1360-1374. doi: 10.1177/0959683620919983
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Grainger, A., Summerhayes, G. R., & Gosden, C. (2021). Investigating the nature of mobility patterns and interaction: Ceramic production at the late Lapita site of Amalut, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 87(1), 93-104. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2020.1840489
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Chynoweth, M., Summerhayes, G. R., Ford, A., & Negishi, Y. (2020). Lapita on Wari Island: What's the problem? Asian Perspectives, 59(1), 100-116. doi: 10.1353/asi.2020.0009
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Gaffney, D., Greig, K., Stoddart, D., Tromp, M., Field, J. H., Luu, S., … Russell, T., … Summerhayes, G. R. (2020). Tropical foodways and exchange along the coastal margin of Northeastern New Guinea. Journal of Field Archaeology, 45(7), 498-511. doi: 10.1080/00934690.2020.1786285
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Summerhayes, G. (2019). The archaeology of Melanesia. In E. Hirsch & W. Rollason (Eds.), The Melanseian world. (pp. 43-62). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
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Summerhayes, G. R. (2019). Austronesian expansions and the role of mainland New Guinea: A new perspective. Asian Perspectives, 58(2), 250-260. doi: 10.1353/asi.2019.0015
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Summerhayes, G. R., Szabó, K., Fairbairn, A., Horrocks, M., McPherson, S., & Crowther, A. (2019). Early Lapita subsistence: The evidence from Kamgot, Anir Islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. In S. Bedford & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. (pp. 379-402). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA52.2019.18
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Summerhayes, G. R., Szabó, K., Leavesley, M., & Gaffney, D. (2019). Kamgot at the lagoon's edge: Site position and resource use of an Early Lapita site in Near Oceania. In S. Bedford & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. (pp. 89-103). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA52.2019.04
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Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., Szabo, K., & Koppel, B. (2019). The emergence of shell valuable exchange in the New Guinea highlands. American Anthropologist, 121(1), 30-47. doi: 10.1111/aman.13154
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Gaffney, D., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2019). Coastal mobility and lithic supply lines in northeast New Guinea. Archaeological & Anthropological Sciences, 11(6), 2849-2878. doi: 10.1007/s12520-018-0713-8
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Sutton, N., Summerhayes, G. R., & Ford, A. (2019). Oposisi revisited: A fabric analysis of an Early Papuan Pottery assemblage from Yule Island, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 14(3), 411-425. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2018.1531329
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Summerhayes, G. (2018). Les premiers habitants de la Nouvelle-Guinée. In J.-P. Demoule, D. Garcia & A. Schnapp (Eds.), Une histoire des civilisations: Comment l'archéologie bouleverse nos connaissances. (pp. 138-143). Paris, France: La Découverte.
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Summerhayes, G. R. (2018). Coconuts on the move: Archaeology of western Pacific. Journal of Pacific History, 53(4), 375-396. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2018.1520082
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Summerhayes, G. R. (2018). An Austronesia presence in the Sakishima Islands: An archaeological update. In N. Guo & T. Shogimen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Overseas Symposium in Otago: Japanese Studies Down Under: History, Politics, Literature and Art. (pp. 27-37). Kyoto, Japan: International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Retrieved from http://publications.nichibun.ac.jp/en/item/symp/2018-03-30/pub
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Summerhayes, G. R., Field, J. H., Shaw, B., & Gaffney, D. (2017). The archaeology of forest exploitation and change in the tropics during the Pleistocene: The case of Northern Sahul (Pleistocene New Guinea). Quaternary International, 448, 14-30. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.04.023
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Roberts, P., Gaffney, D., Lee-Thorp, J., & Summerhayes, G. (2017). Persistent tropical foraging in the highlands of terminal Pleistocene/Holocene New Guinea. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 44. doi: 10.1038/s41559-016-0044
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Summerhayes, G. R., Leavesley, M., Fairbairn, A., Mandui, H., Field, J., Ford, A., & Fullagar, R. (2010). Human adaptation and plant use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 years ago. Science, 330, 78-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1193130
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Gaffney, D., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2017). An archaeology of Madang Papua New Guinea. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/7294
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., Mennis, M., Beni, T., Cook, A., Field, J., … Buckley, H., & Mandui, H. (2018). Archaeological investigations into the origins of Bel trading groups around the Madang Coast, Northeast New Guinea. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 13(4), 501-530. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2017.1315349
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Vilgalys, G., & Summerhayes, G. (2016). Do hiccups echo? Late Holocene interaction and ceramic production in Southern Papua New Guinea. Asian Perspectives, 55(1), 61-88.
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Summerhayes, G. R., & Ford, A. (2014). Late Pleistocene colonisation and adaptation in New Guinea: Implications for modelling modern human behaviour. In R. Dennell & M. Porr (Eds.), Southern Asia, Australia and the search of human origins. (pp. 213-227). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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Ford, A., Leavesley, M., & Summerhayes, G. (Eds.). (2016). Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(1) [Special issue: Chief bilong PNG Akiologi: Papers in Honour of Herman Mandui]. [Guest Editors].
Other - Edited Journal
Sutton, N., Vilgalys, G., Summerhayes, G., & Ford, A. (2016). Revisiting the late prehistoric sequence of the Port Moresby region of Papua New Guinea: The continuing contribution of Susan Bulmer. Archaeology in Oceania, 51(S1), 41-49. doi: 10.1002/arco.5110
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Gaffney, D., Ford, A., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2016). Sue Bulmer's legacy in highland New Guinea: A re-examination of the Bulmer Collection and future directions. Archaeology in Oceania, 51(Suppl. 1), 23-32. doi: 10.1002/arco.5111
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Dennison, J., & Summerhayes, G. R. (Eds.). (2015). The Empress Augusta / Sepik River by Otto Reche [Translated by John Dennison]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago, 514p.
Edited Book - Research
Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., Ford, A., Scott, J. M., Denham, T., Field, J., & Dickinson, W. R. (2015). Earliest pottery on New Guinea mainland reveals Austronesian influences in highland environments 3000 years ago. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0134497. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134497
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Gaffney, D., Ford, A., & Summerhayes, G. (2015). Crossing the Pleistocene–Holocene transition in the New Guinea Highlands: Evidence from the lithic assemblage of Kiowa rockshelter. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 39, 223-246. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2015.04.006
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Heath, H., Summerhayes, G. R., & Hung, H.-C. (2017). Enter the ceramic matrix: Identifying the nature of early Austronesian settlement in the Cagayan Valley, Philippines. In P. J. Piper, H. Matsumura & D. Bulbeck (Eds.), New perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory: Terra Australis 45. (pp. 213-231). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press.
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Skelly, R., Ford, A., Summerhayes, G., Mialanes, J., & David, B. (2016). Chemical signatures & social interactions: Implications of west Fergusson Island obsidian at Hopo, east of the Vailala River (Gulf of Papua), Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(1), 126-138.
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Shaw, B., Leclerc, M., Dickinson, W., Spriggs, M., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2016). Identifying prehistoric trade networks in the Massim region, Papua New Guinea: Evidence from petrographic and chemical compositional pottery analyses from Rossel and Nimowa Islands in the Louisiade Archipelago. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6, 518-535. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.03.034
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Ford, A., Leavesley, M., & Summerhayes, G. (2016). Chief bilong PNG Akiologi: Papers in honour of Herman Mandui. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(1), 1-3. [Editorial].
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Specht, J., Gosden, C., Pavlides, C., Richards, Z., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2016). Exploring Lapita diversity on New Britain's South Coast, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(1), 20-29.
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Sutton, N., Summerhayes, G., & Ford, A. (2015). Regional Interaction Networks in Southern Papua New Guinea During the Late Holocene: Evidence from the Chemical Characterisation of Chert Artefacts. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 81, 343-359. doi: 10.1017/ppr.2015.14
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