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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

Publications

Summerhayes, G. (2023). Reflections on populating the Western Pacific. In C. Nimura, R. O'Sullivan & R. Bradley (Eds.), Sentient archaeologies: Global perspectives on places, objects, and practice: Essays in honour of Professor Chris Gosden. (pp. 9-17). Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books.
Chapter in Book - Research
Roberts, P., Hixon, S., Hamilton, R., Lucas, M., Ilgner, J., Marzo, S., … Luu, S., … Summerhayes, G. (2023). Assessing Pleistocene–Holocene climatic and environmental change in insular Near Oceania using stable isotope analysis of archaeological fauna. Journal of Quaternary Science. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/jqs.3555
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
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. (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
Summerhayes, G. (2000). Lapita interaction: Terra Australis 15. Canberra: ANH Publications & Australian National University, 244p.
Authored Book - Research
Dennison, J., & Summerhayes, G. R. (Eds.). (2019). The Sepik and its catchment area by Dr Walter Behrmann [Translated by John Dennison]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago, 129p.
Edited Book - Research
Dennison, J., & Summerhayes, G. R. (Eds.). (2017). New Guinea by Dr Maximilian Krieger [Translated by John Dennison]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago, 358p.
Edited Book - Research
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
Dennison, J., & Summerhayes, G. R. (Eds.). (2013). Admiralty Islands by Dr Hans Nevermann [Translated by John Dennison]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago, 384p.
Edited Book - Research
Summerhayes, G., & Buckley, H. (Eds.). (2013). Pacific Archaeology: Documenting the past 50,000 years. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago, 197p.
Edited Book - Research
Sheppard, P. J., Thomas, T., & Summerhayes, G. R. (Eds.). (2009). Lapita: Ancestors and descendants (New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph 28). Auckland, New Zealand: NZAA, 229p.
Edited Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. (2023). Reflections on populating the Western Pacific. In C. Nimura, R. O'Sullivan & R. Bradley (Eds.), Sentient archaeologies: Global perspectives on places, objects, and practice: Essays in honour of Professor Chris Gosden. (pp. 9-17). Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books.
Chapter in Book - Research
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
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. (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
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
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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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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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Bedford, S., Spriggs, M., Burley, D. V., Sand, C., Sheppard, P., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2019). Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. In S. Bedford & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. (pp. 5-33). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA52.2019.01
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Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., & Mennis, M. (2019). A Lapita presence on Arop/Long Island, Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea. In S. Bedford & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. (pp. 115-133). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA52.2019.06
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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., 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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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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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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Summerhayes, G. R. (2017). Island Southeast Asia and Oceania interactions. In J. Habu, P. V. Lape & J. W. Olsen (Eds.), Handbook of East and Southeast Asian archaeology. (pp. 659-673). New York, NY: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6521-2_38
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Summerhayes, G. R. (2015). Archaeology of trade and exchange. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. (2nd ed.) (pp. 481-484). Oxford, UK: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.13043-0
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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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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
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