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  Human responses to the late Holocene freshwater transition on the northern coastal plains of the Alligator Rivers region in western Arnhem Land

  Brockwell, S., Pardoe, C., Litster, M., Wesley, D., Huntley, J., Disspain, M., Langley, M. C., Gaffey, P., Scadding, R. & Willan, R. C., 15 Jul 2020, In: Australian Archaeology. 86, 1, p. 80-94 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Late Holocene
  • Arnhem Land
  • river
  • Rivers
  • artifact

• Indigenous built structures and anthropogenic impacts on the stratigraphy of Northern Australian rockshelters: insights from Malarrak 1, north western Arnhem Land

  Wesley, D., Litster, M., Moffat, I. & O’Connor, S., 2 Jan 2018, In: Australian Archaeology. 84, 1, p. 3-18 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Anthropogenic Impact
  • Arnhem Land
  • Rock Shelter
  • Stratigraphy
  • Sediment
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Is it ritual? Or is it children? Distinguishing consequences of play from ritual actions in the prehistoric archaeological record

  Langley, M. C. & Litster, M., 1 Oct 2018, In: Current Anthropology. 59, 5, p. 616-643 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Archaeological Record
  • religious behavior
  • Hunter-gatherers
  • Archaeologists
  • Ritual Behavior
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Late Holocene coastal land-use, site formation and site survival: Insights from five middens at Cape Leveque and Lombadina, Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Australia

  Litster, M., Barham, A., Meyer, J., Maloney, T., Shipton, C., Fallon, S., Willan, R. & O'Connor, S., 2020, In: Australian Archaeology. 86, 2, p. 1-19 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Late Holocene
  • Land Use
  • land use
  • Coast
  • Chronology

• Metal-Age Maritime Culture at Jareng Bori Rockshelter, Pantar Island, Eastern Indonesia

  Hawkins, S., Shasliz Arumdhati, F., Litster, M., Lim, T. S., Basile, G., Leclerc, M., Reepmeyer, C., Maloney, T. R., Boulanger, C., Louys, J., -, M., Clark, G., Keling, G., Willan, R., Yowono, P. & O'Connor, S., 25 Nov 2020, In: Records of the Australian Museum. 72, 5, p. 237-262 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Maritime Culture
  • Pottery
  • Rock Shelter
  • Indonesia
  • Metals
  4 Downloads (Pure)

• New insights into Holocene economies and environments of Central East Timor: Analysis of the molluscan assemblage at the rockshelter site of Hatu Sour

  Brockwell, S., O'Connor, S., Litster, M. & Willan, R., 2016, In: Northern Territory Naturalist. 27, p. 2-12 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • East Timor
  • excavation
  • economy
  • Holocene
  • shellfish

• 'Small, individually nondescript and easily overlooked'¹: Contact beads from northwest Arnhem Land in an Indigenous-Macassan-European hybrid economy

  Wesley, D. & Litster, M., 1 Jan 2015, In: Australian Archaeology. 80, 1, p. 1-16 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Arnhem Land
  • Beads
  • Rock
  • contact
  • Economy
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• The archaeology of Maliwawa: 25,000 years of occupation in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land

  Wesley, D., Litster, M., O’Connor, S., Grono, E., Theys, J., Higgins, A., Jones, T., May, S. K. & Taçon, P., 4 May 2018, In: Australian Archaeology. 84, 2, p. 108-128 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Arnhem Land
  • archaeology
  • occupation
  • Last Glacial Maximum
  • Archaeology
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• ‘Necessary self-defence?’: Pastoral control and Ngarrindjeri resistance at Waltowa Wetland, South Australia

  Wiltshire, K. D., Litster, M. & Rigney, G., Dec 2018, In: Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia. 42, p. 81-114 34 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • wetland
  • self-defense
  • collective memory
  • colonization
  • resources
• Chapter

  Developing approaches for understanding Indigenous Australian glass bead use during the contact period

  Litster, M., Wesley, D. & Stolte, G. M., 1 Jan 2018, The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives. Langley, M., Litster, M., Wright, D. & May, S. K. (eds.). United Kingdom: Routledge, p. 299-318 20 p.

  Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter › peer-review

  • Glass Beads
  • Beads
  • contact
  • Material Culture
  • Necklace
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Excavations at the site of Vasino, Lautem District, Timor-Leste

  Brockwell, S., O'Connor, S., Fenner, J. N., McWilliam, A., Amano Jr, N., Piper, P., Bulbeck, D., Litster, M., Whitau, R., O'Connor-Veth, J., Maloney, T., Cameron, J., Willan, R. & Dickinson, W., 2020, Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations. O'Connor, S., McWilliam, A. & Brockwell, S. (eds.). Canberra: ANU E Press, p. 67-100

  Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

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  3 Downloads (Pure)

• Shell beads as markers of Oceanic dispersal: A rare Cypraeidae ornament type from the Mariana Islands

  Clark, G., Langley, M. C., Litster, M., Winter, O. & Amesbury, J. R., 1 Jan 2018, The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives. Langley, M., Litster, M., Wright, D. & May, S. K. (eds.). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, p. 142-161 20 p.

  Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter › peer-review

  • Shell Beads
  • Mariana Islands
  • Micronesia
  • Beads
  • Ornament
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• The fortified settlement of Macapainara, Lautem District, Timor‑Leste

  O'Connor, S., Bulbeck, D., Amano Jr, N., Piper, P., Brockwell, S., McWilliam, A., Fenner, J. N., O'Connor-Veth, J., Whitau, R., Maloney, T., Langley, M. C., Litster, M., Lankton, J., Gratuze, B., Dickinson, W., Barham, A. & Willan, R., 2020, Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations. O'Connor, S., McWilliam, A. & Brockwell, S. (eds.). Australia: ANU E Press, p. 13-48 37 p.

  Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • East-Timor
  • district
  • village
  • harbor
  • Homelands
  4 Downloads (Pure)
• Edited Book

  The archaeology of portable art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian perspectives

  Langley, M. C., Litster, M., Wright, D. & May, S. K., 1 Jan 2018, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. 342 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › peer-review

  • Portable Art
  • archaeology
  • Southeast
  • Asia
  • art
  2 Citations (Scopus)
• Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  Glass beads from Australian Indigenous sites

  Litster, M., 25 May 2019, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Smith, C. (ed.). Netherlands: Springer, p. 1-7 7 p.

  Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  Open Access

  • contact
  • Territories

• Maldivian Archaeology

  Litster, M., 2019, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Smith, C. (ed.). Netherlands: Springer, p. 1-9 9 p. (Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology).

  Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review

  • Indian Ocean
  • Archaeology
  • 1900s
  • Archaeological Research
  • Southwest
• Other chapter contribution

  In search of the archaeology of portable art from Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Australia

  Wright, D., Langley, M. C., Litster, M. & May, S. K., 1 Jan 2018, The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives. Langley, M., Litster, M., Wright, D. & May, S. K. (eds.). 1 ed. United Kingdom: Routledge, p. 1-7 7 p.

  Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Other chapter contribution

  • Portable Art
  • archaeology
  • Southeast Asia
  • South-East Asia
  • Asia

• The site of Leki Wakik, Manatuto District, Timor‑Leste

  Fenner, J., Litster, M., Maloney, T., Lim, T. S., Hawkins, S., Gaffey, P., Brockwell, S., McWilliam, A., Pannell, S., Willan, R. & O'Connor, S., 7 Sep 2020, Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations. O’Connor, S., McWilliam, A. & Brockwell, S. (eds.). Australia: ANU E Press, p. 101-134 35 p. (Terra Australis).

  Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Other chapter contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • occupation
  • district
  • East-Timor
  • artifact
  • time
  25 Downloads (Pure)
• Paper

  Unravelling the History of Glass Beads in Arnhem Land, Australia

  Wesley, D. & Litster, M., 2015, p. 191-233. 42 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference (non-published works) › Paper

  • History of Glass
  • Arnhem Land
  • Glass Beads
  • Foreigners
  • Early History
• Review article

  Looking for the proverbial needle? The archaeology of Australian colonial frontier massacres

  Litster, M. & Wallis, L. A., 1 Jan 2011, In: Archaeology in Oceania. 46, 3, p. 105-117 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • Colonial Frontier
  • massacre
  • Massacre
  • archaeology
  • Site Formation Processes
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Old Currency, Monsoon Trade and the Maldives

  Litster, M., 2016, In: TAASA Review. 25, 4, p. 19-20

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review