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ARTICLES and CHAPTERS

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D., Idje Djami, E.N, Matcap, A.R., Russell, T., Masud, Z. in press. First footsteps across the Lydekker Line: archaeological survey in the northern Raja Ampat Islands. In Gaffney, D. and Tolla, M. (eds.) West New Guinea: Social, Biological, and Material Histories. Australian National University Press: Canberra.

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Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D.A., Djami, E.N.I., Mas' Ud, Z., Macap, A.R., Russell, T., et al. 2024. Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55 000–50 000 years ago. Antiquity, 98(400): 885-904.

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Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D.A., Arnold, L., Gaman, W., Russell, T., Novita, E., Macap, A.R. 2024. Five centuries of settlement dynamics and mobility in the Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua. Journal of Pacific History 59(4): 427–467.

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Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D. 2024. Late Holocene potting traditions in the far western Pacific: evidence from the Raja Ampat Islands, 3500–1000 BP. In Ford, A., Shaw, B., and Gaffney, D. (eds.) Forty Years in the South Seas: Archaeological Perspectives on the Human History of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific Region. Australian National University Press: Canberra.

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Xhauflair, H., Gaffney, D., Ford, A., Lourdeau, A., Ibañez, J.J., Clyde, S., Jago-on, S.C. 2023. Des civilisations du végétal préhistoriques sous les tropiques? L’Anthropologie 127(4): 103192.

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Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D. 2019. Sago oven pottery production in the Raja Ampat Islands, far western Melanesia. Journal of Pacific Archaeology 10(20): 63-72.

COMMUNITY REPORTS

Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D.A., Djami, E.N.I., Macap, A., Russell, T. 2023. An Archaeology of Waigeo, Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua. University of Otago Working Papers in Anthropology, 8. Archaeology Programme, University of Otago: Dunedin, NZ. ISBN: 978-0-9922626-7-9.

Gaffney, D., Capriati, A., Utting, B., Oertle, A., Tanudirjo, D., Tolla, M., Macap, A.R., Florin, S.A., Parsch, C., Flassy, M., Yori, E., Noerwidi, S. 2024. The deep human histories and possible futures of ecological management in tropical forests. Paper to be presented at the Association for Environmental Archaeology Conference, Oxford, December 12–14.

 

Gaffney, D., Oertle, A., Montenegro, A., Djami, E.N.I., Macap, A.R., Russell, T., Tanudirjo, D. 2024. Animal taming, translocation, and the punctuated Neolithisation of island rainforests. Paper presented at the World Neolithic Congress, Sanliurfa, November 6–12.

 

Utting, B., Capriati, A., Oertle, A., Gaffney, D. 2024. The Raja Ampat Project: Unlocking the human past at the gateway between Asia and the Pacific. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeologists Conference, New Orleans, April 17–21.

 

Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D. 2022. Northern route dispersals between Sunda and Sahul: evidence of pre-50,000 year old occupation in the Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua, Indonesia. Paper presented at the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Congress, Chiang Mai, November 6–12.

 

Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D. 2022. Specialised megabat hunting in the island rainforests of West Papua during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Paper presented at the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Congress, Chiang Mai, November 6–12.

 

Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D. 2022. Human adaptive flexibility in the insular rainforests of the far western Pacific Ocean. Paper presented at World Archaeological Congress 9, Prague, July 3–8. 

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Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D. 2022. Maritime neolithicisation at the interface of Asia and the Pacific: a view from Raja Ampat, West Papua. Paper presented at World Archaeological Congress 9, Prague, July 3–8.

 

Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D. 2021. Bone tool technologies in the Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua: Chronology, production, and use. Paper presented to the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Conference, online/Meknes, September 2–7.

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Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D. 2019. First footsteps across Lydekker's Line: Archaeological survey and excavation in the Raja Ampat Islands, northeast Indonesia. Paper presented at the Asia Pacific Conference on Human Evolution, Brisbane, 24-27 June.

RELATED BOOKS and ARTICLES

Gaffney, D., and Tolla, M. 2025. West New Guinea: Social, Biological, and Material Histories. Australian National University Press: Canberra.

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Gaffney, D. 2022. Peopling island rainforests: global trends from the Early Pleistocene to Late Holocene. World Archaeology, 54(2): 338–263.

 

Leppard, T., Cochrane, E., Gaffney, D., Hofman, C., Laffoon, J, Schmid, M., Broodbank, C. 2022. Global patterns in island colonization during the Holocene. Journal of World Prehistory 35: 163–232.

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Gaffney, D. 2021. Pleistocene water crossings and adaptive flexibility within the Homo genus. Journal of Archaeological Research 29: 255–326.

THESES

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