Professor Matthew Spriggs - Bibliography

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2009

Ambrose, W., C. Allen, S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, N. V. Oliveira, C. Reepmeyer (2009) Possible obsidian sources for artifacts from Timor: narrowing the options using chemical data. Journal of Archaeological Science. 36:607-615 (View full text as pdf 384kb)

Bedford, S. M. Spriggs, H. Buckley, F. Valentin and R. Regenvanu (2009) The Teouma Lapita Site, South Efate, Vanuatu: A Summary of Three Field Seasons (2004-2006). In: P. J. Sheppard, T. Thomas and G. R. Summerhayes (Eds.) Lapita: Ancestors and Descendants, New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph 28, New Zealand Archaeological Association, Auckland, pp. 215-234 (View full text as pdf 1,241kb)

Hayes, S., F. Valentin, H. Buckley, M. Spriggs and S. Bedford (2009) Faces of the Teouma Lapita People: Art, Accuracy and Facial Approximation. Leonardo, 42(3):284-285 (View full text as pdf 1,528kb)

Horrocks, M., S. Bedford and M. Spriggs (2009) A short note on banana (Musa) phytoliths in Lapita, immediately post-Lapita and modern period archaeological deposits from Vanuatu. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36:2048-2054 (View full text as pdf 649kb)

Kinaston, R. L., H. R. Buckley, S. E. Halcrow, M. J. T. Spriggs, S. Bedford, K. Neal and A. Gray (2009) Investigating foetal and perinatal mortality in prehistoric skeletal samples: a case study from a 3000-year-old Pacific Island cemetery site. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36:2780-2787 (View full text as pdf 519kb)

Mattingly, J. and M. Spriggs (2009) Speaking Cornish in Mount's Bay. In: Mattingly, J. Cornwall and the Coast: Mousehole and Newlyn, Phillimore and the Institution of Historical Research at the University of London, West Sussex, pp. 75-84 (View full text as pdf 1,838kb)

Spriggs, M. (2009) Archives Relocation Starts to Yield Treasures. Pambu, S.5(26):7-9 (View full text as pdf 293kb)

Spriggs, M. (2009) Oceanic Connections in Deep Time. Pacificurrents, 1(1):7-17 (View full text as pdf 530kb)

Valentin, F., M. Spriggs, S. Bedford and H. Buckley (2009) Une analyse diachronique des pratiques funéraires préhistoriques du centre du Vanuatu. Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 128:39-52 (View full text as pdf 792kb)

2008

Bedford S. and M. Spriggs (2008) Northern Vanuatu as a Pacific Crossroads: The Archaeology of Discovery, Interaction and the Emergence of the "Ethnographic Present". Asian Perspectives, 47(1):95-120 (View full text as pdf 395kb)

Buckley, H. R., N. G. Tayles, M. J. T. Spriggs and S. Bedford (2008) A Preliminary Report on Health and Disease in Early Lapta Skeletons, Vanuatu: Possible Biological Costs of Island Colonization. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology. 3:87-114 (View full text as pdf 966kb)

Spriggs, M. (2008) Are islands islands? Some thoughts on the history of chalk and cheese. In: G. Clark, F. Leach and S. O'Connor (Eds.) Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes. Terra Australis 29, ANU E-Press, Canberra, 211-226. (Download as PDF from ANU E-Press)

Spriggs, M. (2008) Ethnographic parallels and the denial of history. World Archaeology. 40(4):538-552 (View full text as pdf 177kb)

Books, Edited Volumes

(a)Prepared before joining ANU in 1987

M. Spriggs (ed.) 1977 Archaeology and Anthropology: Areas of Mutual Interest. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford. 176pp.

D. Green, C. Haselgrove and M. Spriggs (eds) 1978 Social Organisation and Settlement: Contributions from Geography, Anthropology and Archaeology. 2 Vols. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford. 519pp. (Spriggs editing contribution 33%)

M. Spriggs 1981 Bombs and Butter: The Revival of Ancient Irrigation Techniques for a Market Economy, A Pacific Example. Occasional Papers in Prehistory 2, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. 37pp. (View full text as pdf 2,115kb)

M. Spriggs* 1983 Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology. New Directions in Archaeology Series, Cambridge University Press. 160pp.

M. Spriggs* 1987 Vegetable Kingdoms: Taro Irrigation and Pacific Prehistory. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan (ANU PhD thesis 1981). 486pp., incl. appendices, maps.

A full, searchable copy of this thesis prepared by University Microfilms is available here: (View full text as pdf 17,066kb). Alternately, for smaller downloads the individual chapters and appendices can be downloaded below. NB: These are not searchable versions.

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(View Chapter 5 as pdf 1,519kb) pp. 95 - 124
(View Chapter 6 as pdf 938kb) pp. 125 - 142
(View Chapter 7 as pdf 1,741kb) pp. 143 - 176
(View Chapter 8 as pdf 450kb) pp. 177 - 185
(View Bibliography as pdf 887kb) pp. 186 - 203
(View Appendix 1 as pdf 737kb) pp. 1.1 - 14
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(View Tables as pdf 477kb) 18 pp.
(View Figures as pdf 1,091kb) 36 pp.
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(View Maps 2 - 5 as pdf 243kb) 7 pp.
(View Plates as pdf 22,161kb) 56 pp.

M. Spriggs and P.L. Tanaka 1988 Na Mea 'Imi I Ka Wa Kahiko: An Annotated Bibliography of Hawaiian Archaeology. Asian and Pacific Archaeology Series no. 11. SSRI, University of Hawaii at Manoa. 303+xvi pp. (Spriggs contribution 66%)

(View frontmatter as pdf 455kb) pp. i - xvi
(View General References as pdf 887kb) pp. 1 - 28
(View Hawai'i Island References as pdf 5,319kb) pp. 29 - 145
(View Kaho'olawe References as pdf 112kb) pp. 146 - 147
(View Kaua'i and Ni'ihau References as pdf 1,079kb) pp. 148 - 167
(View Lana'i References as pdf 35kb) p. 168
(View Leeward Islands (Nihoa, Necker) References as pdf 81kb) pp. 169 - 170
(View Maui References as pdf 1,190kb) pp. 171 - 193
(View Moloka'i References as pdf 669kb) pp. 194 - 207
(View O'ahu References as pdf 3,145kb) pp. 208 - 288
(View Author Indexes as pdf 683kb) pp. 289 - 303

M. Spriggs 1989 The Past, Present and Future of Traditional Taro Irrigation in the Pacific: an Example of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. South Pacific Regional Environment Programme Occasional Paper Series No.3. SPC, Nouméa. 19pp. (View full text as pdf 842kb)

(b)Prepared after joining ANU in 1987

M. Spriggs and D. Roe 1989 Planning for Preservation: a General Evaluation of the Cultural Resources of Erromango, Tafea District, Republic of Vanuatu. National Heritage Studies, Canberra. 130+iii pp. (Spriggs contribution 80%)

R.J. May and M. Spriggs (eds) 1990 The Bougainville Crisis. Crawford House Press, Bathurst. 137+ix pp. (Spriggs editing contribution 40%)

M. Spriggs (ed.)* 1990 Lapita Design, Form and Composition: Proceedings of the Lapita Design Workshop, Canberra, December 1988. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.19, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. 142+iv pp.

M. Spriggs and D. Denoon (eds) 1992 The Bougainville Crisis; 1991 Update. Political and Social Change Monograph No. 16, Department of Political and Social Change, RSPacS, Australian National University and Crawford House Press, Bathurst. 228+x pp. (Spriggs editing contribution 65%)

P.V. Kirch with M. Sahlins, M. Weisler and M. Spriggs 1992 The Archaeology of History, Volume 2 of P.V. Kirch and M. Sahlins, Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. (Spriggs overall contribution 22%)

M. Spriggs, D. Yen, W. Ambrose, R. Jones, A. Thorne and A. Andrews (eds)* 1993 A Community of Culture: The People and Prehistory of the Pacific. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 21, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. 289+vi pp. (Spriggs editing contribution 30%)

M. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser (eds)* 1993 Sahul in Review: Pleistocene Archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No 24, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. 312+vii pp. (Spriggs Editing Contribution 30%)

M. Spriggs* 1997 The Island Melanesians. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 326+xxv pp., 53 plates, 41 figures and maps, 3 tables.

(View Frontmatter as pdf 1,902kb) pp. i-xxvi
(View Chapter 1 as pdf 3,103kb) pp. 1-22
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(View Chapter 3 as pdf 3,541kb) pp. 43-66
(View Chapter 4 as pdf 4,822kb) pp. 67-107
(View Chapter 5 as pdf 5,993kb) pp. 108-151
(View Chapter 6 as pdf 4,199kb) pp. 152-186
(View Chapter 7 as pdf 4,942kb) pp. 187-222
(View Chapter 8 as pdf 5,620kb) pp. 123-254
(View Chapter 9 as pdf 4,283kb) pp. 255-285
(View Chapter 10 as pdf 855kb) pp. 286-291
(View Appendices as pdf 1,222kb) pp. 292-296
(View Bibliography as pdf 1,876kb) pp. 297-317
(View Index as pdf 587kb) pp. 319-326

R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds) 1997 Archaeology and Language, Vol. I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations. One World Archaeology Series, Routledge, London. (Spriggs editing contribution 45%). 388 + xxi pp., 80 figs.

R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds) 1998 Archaeology and Language, Vol. II: Correlating Archaeological and Linguistic Hypotheses. One World Archaeology Series, Routledge, London. (Spriggs editing contribution 45%)

R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds) 1999 Archaeology and Language, Vol. III: Artefacts, Languages and Texts. One World Archaeology Series, Routledge, London. (Spriggs editing contribution 45%)

R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds) 1999 Archaeology and Language, Vol. IV: Language Change and Cultural Transformation. One World Archaeology Series, Routledge, London. (Spriggs editing contribution 45%)

S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs & P. Veth (eds) The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia. Terra Australis 22. Canberra: Pandanus Books, ANU. 314 + x pp., 177 plates and figures, 106 tables. (Download as pdf from ANU E Press)

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Contributions to Refereed Journals

(a)Prepared before joining ANU

M. Spriggs and M.E. Sullivan 1981 "Water Under the Bridge: Comments on Farrington and Bellwood's Prehistoric Irrigation Hydrology of Pondfield Taro", Archaeology in Oceania16(3):179-181. (Spriggs contribution 50%) (View full text as pdf 480kb)

M. Spriggs 1982 "Taro Cropping Systems in the S.E. Asian-Pacific Region: Archaeological Evidence", Archaeology in Oceania 17(1):7-15. (View full text as pdf 1,119kb)

M. Spriggs 1982 "Archaeological Research on Aneityum, Southern Vanuatu, 1978-1979: A Summary", Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 3:77-87. (View full text as pdf 1,355kb)

G.S. Hope and M. Spriggs 1982 "A Preliminary Pollen Sequence from Aneityum Island, South Vanuatu", Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 2:88-94. (Spriggs contribution 33%) (View full text as pdf 683kb)

M. Spriggs 1984 "Early Coconut Remains from the South Pacific", Journal of the Polynesian Society 93(1):71-76. (View full text as pdf 334kb)

M. Spriggs* 1984 "The Lapita Cultural Complex: Origins, Distribution, Contemporaries and Successors", Journal of Pacific History 19(3 and 4):46-65. With: M. Spriggs 1996 "Additions, New Thoughts on "The Lapita Cultural Complex"", Typescript (View full text as pdf 1,536kb)

D. Vasey, D. Harris, G. Olson, M. Spriggs and B. Turner, II 1984 "The Role of Standing Water and Waterlogged Soils in Raised Field, Drained Field and Island Bed Agriculture",Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 5(1):63-72. (Spriggs contribution 15%) (View full text as pdf 812kb)

M. Spriggs* 1985 ""A School in Every District": The Cultural Geography of Conversion on Aneityum, Southern Vanuatu", Journal of Pacific History 20(1 and 2):51-64. (View full text as pdf 1,132kb)

M. Spriggs 1993 "University of Hawaii Field Schools in Archaeology 1950-1984", Hawaiian Archaeology 2:18-27. (View full text as pdf 828kb)

P.V. Kirch and M. Spriggs 1993 "A Radiocarbon Chronology for the Upper Anahulu Valley O'ahu", Hawaiian Archaeology 2:4-9. (Spriggs contribution 33%) (View full text as pdf 824kb)

(b)Prepared after joining ANU

M. Spriggs and D. Miller 1988 "A Previously Unreported Bronze Kettledrum from the Kai Islands, Eastern Indonesia", Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 8:79-89. (Spriggs contribution 80%) (View full text as pdf 3,478kb)

T.F. Flannery, P. Kirch, J. Specht and M. Spriggs 1988 "Holocene Mammal Faunas from Archaeological Sites in Island Melanesia", Archaeology in Oceania 23(3):89-94. (Spriggs contribution 15%) (View full text as pdf 633kb)

S. Wickler and M. Spriggs* 1988 "Pleistocene Human Occupation of the Solomon Islands, Melanesia", Antiquity 62(237):703-6. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 276kb)

M. Spriggs 1988 "Fragments of What? Thoughts on the "Pieces of Paradise" Exhibition at the Australian Museum", Australian Archaeology 26:66-75. (View full text as pdf 449kb)

M. Spriggs and C. Chippendale 1989 "The Human Settlement of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: Special Supplement (Introduction)", Antiquity 63(240):547. (Spriggs contribution 50%) (View full text as pdf 146kb)

M. Spriggs* 1989 "The Dating of the Island S.E. Asian Neolithic: an Attempt at Chronometric Hygiene and Linguistic Correlation", Antiquity 63:587-613. (View full text as pdf 1,697kb)

C. Gosden, J. Allen, W. Ambrose, D. Anson, J. GOlson, R. Green, P. Kirch, I. Lilley, J. Specht and M. Spriggs* 1989 "Lapita Sites of the Bismarck Archipelago", Antiquity 63:561-86. (Spriggs contribution 10%) (View full text as pdf 1,867kb)

M. Spriggs 1989 "Blind Freddy in Sydney?" Australian Archaeology 28:121. (View full text as pdf 73kb)

M. Spriggs and S. Wickler* 1989 "Archaeological Research on Erromango: Recent Data on Southern Melanesian Prehistory", Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 9:68-91. (Spriggs contribution 75%) (View full text as pdf 5,848kb)

M. Spriggs 1990 "Twenty-two Authors in Search of a Paradigm/Contextual Archaeology What's in it for me?" Australian Archaeology 30:99-104. (View full text as pdf 620kb)

M. Spriggs 1990 "Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Research in Maluku 1975 and 1977: an Unfinished Story", Cakalele: Journal of Maluku Studies. 1(1-2):51-65. (View full text as pdf 558kb)

M. Spriggs* 1991 ""Preceded by Forest": Changing interpretations of Landscape Change on Kaho'olawe", Asian Perspectives 30(1):71-116. (Revised version of 1988 paper) (View full text as pdf 2,302kb)

M. Spriggs* 1991 "Facing the Nation: Hawaiians and Archaeologists in an Era of Sovereignty", The Contemporary Pacific 3(2):379-92. (View full text as pdf 655kb)

M. Spriggs* 1992 "Alternative Prehistories for Bougainville: Regional, National or Micronational", The Contemporary Pacific 4(2):269-98. (View full text as pdf 2,692kb)

T. Loy, M. Spriggs and S. Wickler* 1992 "Direct Evidence for Human Use of Plants 28,000 years ago: Starch Residues on Stone Artifacts from the Northern Solomons", Antiquity66:898-912. (Spriggs contribution 33%) (View full text as pdf 2,893kb)

M. Spriggs and A. Anderson* 1993 "Late Colonization of East Polynesia", Antiquity 67:200-19. (Spriggs contribution 65%) (View full text as pdf 1,295kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 "Ancestral Oceanic Society and the Origins of the Hawaiians", Hawaiian Archaeology 3: 71-6. (View full text as pdf 723kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 "The Failure of the Bougainville Peace Talks", Pacific Research 7(4):3-7. (View full text as pdf 1,216kb)

M. Spriggs 1995 "Roadkill Archaeology on Lana'i: a Historic House Site at Kahemano (State Site 1529)", Hawaiian Archaeology 4: 45-46. (View full text as pdf 931kb)

J. Lynch and M. Spriggs 1995 "Anejom Numerals: the (Mis)adventures of a Counting System", Te Reo 38:37-52. (Spriggs contribution 25%) (View full text as pdf 931kb)

M. Spriggs 1997 "Who Taught Marx, Engels and Morgan about Australian Aborigines?" History and Anthropology 10(2-3):185-218. (View full text as pdf 1,456kb)

P. Veth, P. Hiscock, S. O'Connor AND M. Spriggs 1998 "Gallus on the Crossroads: Diffusionist Models for Asian Artefact ‘Traditions’ in Australia and the Last Hurrah for Cultural Evolutionism." The Artefact 21: 14-18. (Spriggs contribution 10%) (View full text as pdf 517kb)

P. Veth, M. Spriggs, A. Jatmiko and S. O'Connor 1998* "Bridging Sunda and Sahul: the Archaeological Significance of the Aru Islands, Maluku", Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia 15:157-177 (for 1997). (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 1,437kb)

P. Veth, M. Spriggs, S. O'Connor, M. Husni and W. Nayati 1997 (published 1999) "Leang Lemdubu: Preliminary Report on Excavation Conducted by the Joint Indonesian-Australian Project, Prehistory of the Aru Islands." Berkala Arkeologi XVII(2):1-7. (Spriggs contribution 30%)

M. Spriggs 1998 "The Reverend Joseph Sherwood: a Cornish Language Will-o’-the-wisp." Cornish Studies 6:46-61. (View full text as pdf 870kb)

M. Spriggs 1998 "Research Questions in Maluku Archaeology." Cakalele: Journal of Maluku Studies 9(2): 49-62. (View full text as pdf 707kb)

M. Spriggs, P. Veth and S. O'Connor 1998 "In the Footsteps of Wallace: the First Two Seasons of Archaeological Research in the Aru Islands, Maluku." Cakalele: Journal of Maluku Studies 9(2): 63-80. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 939kb)

S. Bedford, M. Spriggs, M. Wilson and R. Regenvanu 1998* "The Australian National University-National Museum of Vanuatu Archaeology Project, 1994-7: A Preliminary Report on the Establishment of Cultural Sequences and Rock Art Research." Asian Perspectives 37(2): 165-193. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 3,673kb)

M. Spriggs* 1999 "Pacific Archaeologies: Contested Ground in the Construction of Pacific History." Journal of Pacific History 34(1): 109-121. (View full text as pdf 931kb)

S. Bedford, M. Spriggs and R. Regenvanu 1999 "The Australian National University-National Museum of Vanuatu Archaeology Project", 1994-1997: Aims and Results.Oceania.70(1): 16-24. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 598kb)

M. Spriggs 1999 "Comment on H.M. Leach ‘Intensification in the Pacific’." Current Anthropology 40(3): 330-1. (View full text as pdf 143kb)

M. Spriggs 1999 "Archaeological Dates and Linguistic Sub-Groups in the Settlement of the Island Southeast Asian-Pacific Region." Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association18: 17-24. (View full text as pdf 732kb)

S. Bedford AND M. Spriggs* 2000 "Crossing the Pwanmwou: preliminary report on recent excavations adjacent to and south west of Mangaasi, Efate, Vanuatu." Archaeology in Oceania 35: 120-126. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 921kb)

M. Spriggs 2000* "Out of Asia? The Spread of Pleistocene and Neolithic Maritime Cultures in Island SE Asia and the Western Pacific", in S. O'Connor and P. Veth (eds) East of Wallace’s Line: Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia 16: 51-75. (View full text as pdf 2,193kb)

H.D Tuggle and M. Spriggs* 2000 "The Age of the Bellows Dune Site O18, O’ahu, Hawai’i, and the Antiquity of Hawaiian Colonization." Asian Perspectives 39(1-2):165-188. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 1,398kb)

P. Veth, S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, D. Witjaksono and A. Diniasti 2000 "The Mystery of the Ujir Site: Insights into the Early Historic Settlement of the Aru Islands, Maluku." Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology 24:125-132. (Spriggs contribution 25%) (View full text as pdf 1,020kb)

M. Spriggs 2001 "Professorial Inaugural Address. Future Eaters in Australia, Future Eaters in the Pacific? Early Human Environmental Impacts." Australian Archaeology 52:53-59. (View full text as pdf 512kb)

M. Wilson, M. Spriggs and E. Lawson 2001 "Dating the Rock Art of Vanuatu: AMS Radiocarbon Determinations from Abandoned Mud-Wasp Nests and Charcoal Pigment found in Superimposition." Rock Art Research 18(1):24-31. (Spriggs contribution 20%) (View full text as pdf 1,320kb)

S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs and P. Veth* 2002 "Excavations at Lene Hara Cave Establishes Occupation in East Timor at least 30,000 to 35,000 Years Ago." Antiquity 76:45-50. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 1,216kb)

J.I. Mead, D.W. Steadman, S.H. Bedford, C.J. Bell and M. Spriggs 2002 "New Extinct Mekosuchine Crocodile from Vanuatu, South Pacific." Copeia 2002(3):632-641. (Spriggs contribution 10%) (View full text as pdf 312kb)

M. Spriggs* 2003 "Chronology of the Neolithic Transition in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific: A View from 2003." Review of Archaeology 24(2):57-80. (View full text as pdf 2,504kb)

M. Spriggs* 2003 "Where Cornish was Spoken and When: a Provisional Synthesis." Cornish Studies 11: 230-272. (View full text as pdf 2,075kb)

M. Spriggs 2003 "Comment on R.G. Bednarik ‘Seafaring in the Pleistocene’." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 13(1):54-55. (View full text as pdf 292kb)

S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs and P. Veth 2003 "Direct Dating of Shell Beads from Lene Hara Cave, East Timor." Australian Archaeology 55 (for 2002):18-21. (Spriggs contribution 25%) (View full text as pdf 201kb)

M. Spriggs 2005 "William Scawen (100-1689) – A Neglected Cornish Patriot and Father of the Cornish Language Revival." Cornish Studies 13:98-125. (View full text as pdf 1,585kb)

P. Veth, M. Spriggs and S. O'Connor 2005 "Continuity in Tropical Cave Use: Examples from East Timor and the Aru Islands, Maluku." Asian Perspectives 44(1):180-192. (Spriggs contribution 33%) (View full text as pdf 2,103kb)

F. Valentin, R. Shing & M. Spriggs 2005 "Des Restes Humains dates du debut de la periode de Mangaasi (2400-1800 BP) Decouverts a Mangaliliu (Efate, Vanuatu)." Comptes Rendus Palevol 4: 420-427 (Spriggs contribution 33%). (View full text as pdf 473kb)

S. Bedford, M. Spriggs AND R. Regenvanu 2006 "The Teouma Lapita Site and the Early Human Settlement of the Pacific Islands." Antiquity 80:812-828 (Spriggs contribution 45%). (View full text as pdf 7,486kb)

M. Spriggs 2006 "Additional thoughts on the Medieval ‘Cornish Bible’." Cornish Studies 14:44-55. (View full text as pdf 700kb)

M. Spriggs 2006 "Who was the Duchess of Cornwall in Nicholas Boson’s (c.1660-70) ‘The Duchesse of Cornwall’s Progresse to see the Land’s End…’?" Cornish Studies 14:56-69. (View full text as pdf 824kb)

S. Bedford AND M. Spriggs 2007 "Birds on the rim: a Unique Lapita carinated vessel in its wider context." Archaeology in Oceania 42(1):12-21 (Spriggs contribution 50%). (View full text as pdf 825kb)

G. Larson, T. Cucchi, M. Fujita, E. Matisoo-Smith, J. Robins, A. Anderson, B. Rolett, M. Spriggs G. Dolman, T.-H. Kim, N.T.D. Thuy, E. Randi, M. Doherty, R.A. Due, R. Bolt, T. Djubiantono, B. Griffin, M. Intoh, E. Keane, P. Kirch, K.-T. Li, M. Morwood, L.M. Pedrina, P.J. Piper, R.J. Rabett, P. Shooter, G. van den Bergh, E. West, S. Wickler, J. Yuan, A. Cooper and K. Dobney 2007 "Phylogeny and Ancient DNA of Sus provides new insights into Neolithic Expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104 (12):4834-4839 (Spriggs contribution 5%). (View full text as pdf 1,329kb)

Bentley, R.A., H.R. Buckley, M. Spriggs, S. Bedford, C.J. Ottley, C.G. Macpherson AND D.G. Pearson 2007 "Lapita Migrants in the Padific’s Oldest Cemetery: Isotopic Analysis at Teouma, Vanuatu." American Antiquity 72(4):645-656 (Spriggs contribution 10%). (View full text as pdf 146kb)

Buckley, H., N. Tayles, M. Spriggs AND S.Bedford (in press) "A Preliminary report on health and Disease in Early Lapita Skeletons, Vanuatu: Possible Biological Costs of Island Colonization." Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology (to appear April 2008) (Spriggs contribution 20%).

S. Bedford AND M. Spriggs 2008 "Northern Vanuatu as a Pacific Crossroads: the Archaeology of Discovery, Interaction and the Emergence of the ‘Ethnographic Present’." Asian Perspectives 47(1):95-120 (Spriggs contribution 45%).

W. Ambrose, C. Allen, S. O'Connor and M. Spriggs (submitted 2007) "Possible Sources for Obsidian Artefacts from Timor: narrowing the options using new chemical data."

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Contributions to Books, Conference Proceedings

(a)Prepared before joining ANU

M. Spriggs 1977 "Introduction: Where the Hell are We? (or a Young Man's Quest)", in M.J.T. Spriggs (ed.) Archaeology and Anthropology: Areas of Mutual Interest, pp.3-17. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford. (View full text as pdf 988kb)

M. Spriggs and D. Miller 1979 "Ambon-Lease: A study of Contemporary Pottery Making and Trade in Eastern Indonesia and its Archaeological Relevance", in M. Millett (ed.),Pottery and the Archaeologist, pp.25-34. Occasional Paper No. 4 of the Institute of Archaeology, London. (Spriggs contribution 60%) (View full text as pdf 778kb)

M. Spriggs 1982 "Traditional Uses of Fresh Water in Papua New Guinea: Past Neglect and Future Possibilities", in L. Morauta, J. Pernetta and W. Heaney (eds), Traditional Conservation in Papua New Guinea: Implications for Today, pp.257-273. IASER Monograph 16. (View full text as pdf 1,135kb)

M. Spriggs 1982 "Irrigation in Melanesia: Formative Adaptation and Intensification", in R.J. May and H. Nelson (eds), Melanesia: Beyond Diversity, Vol. I, pp.309-324. Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. (View full text as pdf 868kb)

M. Spriggs 1982 "Taro (Colocasia esculenta) Irrigation Techniques in the Pacific: Labour Inputs, Yields and Cropping Cycles", in IFS Regional Meeting on Edible Aroids, Suva, Fiji, November 1981, pp.256-271. IFS Provisional Report No. 11, Stockholm. (View full text as pdf 644kb)

M. Spriggs* 1983 "Another Way of Telling: Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology", in M.J.T. Spriggs (ed.), Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology, pp.1-9. New Directions in Archaeology Series, Cambridge University Press. (View full text as pdf 925kb)

M. Spriggs* 1984 "Taro Irrigation Techniques in the Pacific", in S. Chandra (ed.), The Edible Aroids, pp.123-135. Oxford University Press. (View full text as pdf 644kb)

M. Spriggs 1985 "Notes on Kahana Historic Land Use and Settlement Pattern. Appendix A", in A.T. Walker and P.H. Rosendahl, Testing of Cultural Remains Associated with the Kahana Desilting Basin, Honolua Watershed, Land of Kahana, Lahaina District, County of Maui, Hawaii, pp.A-1 to A-3. P. Rosendahl Inc. (View full text as pdf 181kb)

M. Spriggs* 1985 "The Lapita Cultural Complex", in R. Kirk and E. Szathmary (eds), Out of Asia: Peopling of the Americas and the Pacific, pp.185-206. Journal of Pacific History, Canberra. (Reprint of Spriggs 1984 article) (View full text as pdf 1,536kb)

M. Spriggs* 1985 "Prehistoric Humanly-Induced Landscape Enhancement in the Pacific: Examples and Implications", in I. Farrington (ed.), Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics, pp.409-434. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford. BAR International Series 232. (View full text as pdf 1,523kb)

M. Spriggs* 1986 "Landscape, Land Use and Political Transformation in Southern Melanesia", in P.V. Kirch (ed.), Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation, pp.6-19. Cambridge University Press. (View full text as pdf 1,251kb)

M. Spriggs* 1988 "'Preceded by Forest': Changing Interpretations of Landscape Change on Kaho'olawe, Appendix 1" in P. Rosendahl, A.E. Haun, J. Halbig, M. Kaschko and M.S. Allen, Kaho'olawe Excavations 1982-3: Data Recovery Project, Vol. 2, pp.I.1-I.58. P. Rosendahl Inc. for US Navy. (View full text as pdf 2,302kb (1991 revised version))

M. Spriggs* 1988 "The Hawaiian Transformation of Ancestral Polynesian Society: Conceptualising Chiefly States", in B. Bender, J. Gledhill and M. Larsen (eds), State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralisation, pp.57-73. Unwin Hyman, London. (View full text as pdf 1,075kb)

M. Spriggs* 1989 "God's Police and Damned Whores: Images of Archaeology in Hawaii", in P. Gathercole and D. Lowenthal (eds), The Politics of the Past, pp.118-129. Unwin Hyman, London. (View full text as pdf 663kb)

M. Spriggs* 1990 "Why Irrigation Matters in Pacific Prehistory", in D. Yen and J.M.J. Mummery (eds), Pacific Production Systems, pp.174-189. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.18, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (View full text as pdf 1,533kb)

(b)Prepared after joining ANU

M. Spriggs 1988 "Cultural Resources of the Proposed Erromango Kauri Reserve and Adjacent Areas", in FAO Working Document 1, Programme VCP/VAN/ 6755, 27pp. FAO, Rome. (View full text as pdf 1,351kb)

M. Spriggs 1990 "Introduction: the Lapita Design Project", in M. Spriggs (ed.) Lapita Design, Form and Composition: Proceedings of the Lapita Design Workshop, Canberra, December 1988, pp.1-5. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.19, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (View full text as pdf 488kb)

M. Spriggs* 1990 "Dating Lapita: Another View." in M. Spriggs (ed.), Lapita Design, Form and Composition: Proceedings of the Lapita Design Workshop, Canberra, December 1988, pp.6-27. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.19, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (View full text as pdf 1,672kb)

M. Spriggs* 1990 "The Changing Face of Lapita: Transformation of a Design", in M. Spriggs (ed.) Lapita Design, Form and Composition: Proceedings of the Lapita Design Workshop, Canberra, December 1988, pp.83-122. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.19, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (View full text as pdf 2,166kb)

M. Spriggs 1990 "Bougainville December 1989 - January 1990: a Personal History", in R.J. May and M. Spriggs (eds) The Bougainville Crisis, pp.25-30. Crawford House Press, Bathurst. (View full text as pdf 386kb)

M. Spriggs and R.J. May 1990 "Postscript: August 1990", in R.J. May and M. Spriggs (eds) The Bougainville Crisis, pp.122-127. Crawford House Press, Bathurst. (Spriggs contribution 70%) (View full text as pdf 263kb)

M. Spriggs* 1991 "Nissan, the Island in the Middle", in F.J. Allen and C. Gosden (eds), Results of the Lapita Homeland Project, pp.222-43. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.20, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (View full text as pdf 1,912kb)

M. Spriggs 1991 "Lapita Origins, Distribution, Contemporaries and Successors Revisited", in P. Bellwood (ed.) Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990: Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Volume 2, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 11, pp.306-12. IPPA, Canberra and Asosiasi Prehistorisi Indonesia, Jakarta. (View full text as pdf 2,432kb)

M. Spriggs 1991 "Considering Meacham's Considerations on Southeast Asia", in P. Bellwood (ed.) Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990: Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Volume 2, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 11, pp.408-12. IPPA, Canberra and Asosiasi Prehistorisi Indonesia, Jakarta. (View full text as pdf 1,435kb)

M. Spriggs 1992 "Archaeological and Linguistic Prehistory in the North Solomons", in T. Dutton, M. Ross and D. Tryon (eds) The Language Game: Papers in Memory of Donald C. Laycock, pp.417-26. Pacific Linguistics Series C-110, Department of Linguistics, RSPacS, ANU. (View full text as pdf 833kb)

M. Spriggs and W. Mumford 1992 "Southern Vanuatu Rock Art", in J. Macdonald and I. Haskovec (eds), State of the Art: Regional Rock Art Studies in Australia and Melanesia, pp.128-43. Occasional AURA Publication No. 6, Australian Rock Art Association, Melbourne. (Spriggs contribution 70%) (View full text as pdf 1,492kb)

M. Spriggs and P.V. Kirch* 1992 "'Auwai, Kanawai and Waiwai: Irrigation in Kawailoa-Uka", in P.V. Kirch, with M. Sahlins, M. Weisler and M. Spriggs, The Archaeology of History,pp.118-64, Volume 2 of P.V. Kirch and M. Sahlins, Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. (Spriggs contribution 60%) (View full text as pdf 3,871kb)

M. Spriggs 1992 "Bougainville Update: August 1990 to May 1991", in M. Spriggs and D. Denoon (eds), The Bougainville Crisis: 1991 Update, pp.8-41. Political and Social Change Monograph No. 16, Department of Political and Social Change, RSPacS, ANU and Crawford House Press, Bathurst. (View full text as pdf 1,452kb)

M. Spriggs 1992 "Bougainville Update: May to October 1991", in M. Spriggs and D. Denoon (eds), The Bougainville Crisis: 1991 Update, pp.182-209. Political and Social Change Monograph No. 16, Department of Political and Social Change, RSPacS, ANU and Crawford House Press, Bathurst.(View full text as pdf 1,401kb)

M. Spriggs 1992 "The Need for a Multinational Supervisory Team on Bougainville and Buka", in M. Spriggs and D. Denoon (eds), The Bougainville Crisis: 1991 Update, pp.170-81. Political and Social Change Monograph No. 16, Department of Political and Social Change, RSPacS, ANU and Crawford House Press, Bathurst. (View full text as pdf 880kb)

M. Spriggs 1992 "What Happens to Lapita in Melanesia?" in J.C. Galipaud (ed.), Lapita et Peuplement: Actes du Colloque Lapita, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie, 1992, pp. 219-30. ORSTOM, Nouméa. (View full text as pdf 825kb)

M. Spriggs and R. Jones 1993 "Professor", in M. Spriggs, D. Yen, W. Ambrose, R. Jones, A. Thorne and A. Andrews (eds), A Community of Culture: The People and Prehistory of the Pacific, pp.27-31. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 21, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (Spriggs contribution 60%) (View full text as pdf 444kb)

M. Spriggs* 1993 "Island Melanesia: the Last 10,000 Years", in M. Spriggs, D. Yen, W. Ambrose, R. Jones, A. Thorne and A. Andrews (eds) Community of Culture: The People and Prehistory of the Pacific, pp. 187-205. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.21, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (View full text as pdf 1,748kb)

M. Spriggs 1993 "How Much of the Lapita Design System Represents the Human Face?", in P.J. Dark and R.G. Rose (eds), Artistic Heritage in a Changing Pacific, pp.7-14. Crawford House Press, Bathurst. (View full text as pdf 683kb)

M. Spriggs 1993 "Bougainvilleans of Papua New Guinea", in Cultural Survival (eds) State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger, pp.100-01. Beacon Press, New York. (View full text as pdf 558kb)

M. Spriggs 1993 "Quantifying Women's Oppression in Prehistory: the Aneityum (Vanuatu) Case", in H. Du Cros and L. Smith (eds) Women in Archaeology: A Feminist Critique, pp. 143-50. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 23, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (View full text as pdf 703kb)

M. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser 1993 "Sahul in Review: an Introduction", in M. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser (eds), Sahul in Review: Pleistocene Archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia, pp.1-7. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 24, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 733kb)

M. Spriggs 1993 "Pleistocene Agriculture in the Pacific: Why Not?" in M. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser (eds), Sahul in Review: Pleistocene Archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia pp. 137-43. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 24, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (View full text as pdf 708kb)

C. Fredericksen, M. Spriggs AND W. Ambrose* 1993 "Pamwak Rockshelter: a Pleistocene Rockshelter on Manus Island, PNG", in M. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser (eds),Sahul in Review: Pleistocene Archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia, pp. 144-52. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 24, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 863kb)

M. Spriggs 1993 "The Current Relevance of Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Systems", in N. Williams and G. Baines (eds), Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Wisdom for Sustainable Development, pp. 109-14. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU. (View full text as pdf 940kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 "Early Agriculture in the Pacific Islands", in Australian Academy of Science, Environmental Science: A Textbook for Senior Secondary Students, pp.135-8. Australian Academy of Science, Canberra. (View full text as pdf 455kb)

M. Spriggs* 1995 "The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania", in P. Bellwood, J. Fox and D. Tryon (eds) The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives,pp.112-133. Department of Anthropology, RSPAS, ANU. (View full text as pdf 1,247kb)

M. Spriggs* 1996 "What is Southeast Asian about Lapita?", in T. Akazawa and E. Szathmary (eds) Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals, pp.322-346. Oxford University Press. (View full text as pdf 1,247kb)

M. Spriggs* 1996 "Agriculture and What went Before in Island Melanesia", in D. Harris (ed.) The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia, pp. 524-537. UCL Press, London. (View full text as pdf 902kb)

M. Spriggs* 1996 "Chronology and Colonisation in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: New Data and an Evaluation", in J. Davidson, G. Irwin, F. Leach, A. Pawley and D. Brown (eds) Oceanic Culture History: Essays in Honour of Roger Green, pp. 33-50. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology, Dunedin. (View full text as pdf 1,572kb)

M. Spriggs 1996 "The L'Archéologie du Vanuatu dans le Contexte de l'Océanie", in J. Bonnemaison, K. Huffman, C. Kaufmann and D. Tryon (eds) Vanuatu, Océanie: Arts des Iles de Cendre et de Corail, pp. 76-81. Réunion des Musées Nationaux and ORSTOM, Paris. (View full text as pdf 489kb)

M. Spriggs 1996 "La Culture d'irrigation du Taro au Vanuatu", in J. Bonnemaison, K. Huffman, C. Kaufmann and D. Tryon (eds) Vanuatu, Océanie: Arts des Iles de Cendre et de Corail, pp. 94-97. Réunion des Musées Nationaux and ORSTOM, Paris.

M. Spriggs 1996 "Archéologie Insulaire", in S. Dunis (ed.) Le Pacifique ou l'Odyssée de l'Espace: Bilan Civilisationniste du Grand Océan, pp. 19-37. Klincksieck, Paris. (View full text as pdf 1,239kb)

M. Spriggs 1996 "The Archaeology of Vanuatu in Pacific Perspective", in J. Bonnemaison, C. Kaufmann, K. Huffman and D. Tryon (eds) Arts. of Vanuatu, pp. 90-93. Crawford House Press, Bathurst. (View full text as pdf 401kb)

M. Spriggs 1996 "An Agricultural Art: Taro Irrigation in Vanuatu", in J. Bonnemaison, C. Kaufmann, K. Huffman and D. Tryon (eds) Arts. of Vanuatu, pp. 74-78. Crawford House Press, Bathurst. (View full text as pdf 281kb)

M. Spriggs* 1997 "Landscape Catastrophe and Landscape Enhancement: Are Either or Both True in the Pacific?" in P. Kirch and T. Hunt (eds), Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change, PP. 80-104. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (View full text as pdf 1,471kb)

M. Spriggs 1997 "Recent Prehistory (the Holocene) and Bibliographic Essay", in D. Denoon, with S. Firth, J. Linnekin, M. Meleisea and K. Nero (eds) The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, pp. 52-69 and 77-79. Cambridge University Press. (View full text as pdf 1,161kb)

R. Blench and M. Spriggs 1998 "General Introduction", in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds) Archaeology and Language, Vol. 2, Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses, pp. 1-19. London: Routledge. (Also in Volumes III and IV (1999)). (Spriggs contribution 33%) (View full text as pdf 1,062kb)

M. Spriggs and R. Blench 1998 "Introduction to Volume II", in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds) Archaeology and Language, Vol. 2, Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses, pp. 20-30. London: Routledge. (Spriggs contribution 60%)(View full text as pdf 2,129kb)

M. Spriggs* 1998 "From Taiwan to the Tuamotus: Absolute Dating of Austronesian Language Spread and Major Subgroups", in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds) Archaeology and Language, Vol. 2, Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses, pp. 115-126. London: Routledge. (View full text as pdf 991kb)

P. Veth, M. Spriggs and S. O'Connor 1998 "After Wallace: Preliminary Results of the First Season's Excavation of Liang Lemdubu, Aru Islands, Maluku", in M.J. Klokke and T. de Bruijn (eds) Southeast Asian Archaeology 1996: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Leiden, 2-6 September 1996,pp.75-85. Hull: Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull. (Spriggs contribution 33%) (View full text as pdf 962kb)

M. Spriggs 1998 "The Archaeology of the Bird’s Head in its Pacific and Southeast Asian Context", in J. Miedema, C. Ode and R.A.C. Dam (eds) Perspectives on the Bird’s Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, pp. 931-939. (View full text as pdf 593kb)

R. Blench AND M. Spriggs 1999 "Introducing the Papers", in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds) Archaeology and Language, Vol. III: Artefacts, Languages and Texts, pp. 21-28. London: Routledge. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 606kb)

R. Blench AND M. Spriggs 1999 "Introducing the Papers", in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds) Archaeology and Language, Vol. IV: Language Change and Cultural Transformation, pp. 21-26. London: Routledge. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 445kb)

M. Spriggs 1999 "Remote Delivery of Archaeological Discovery Results to a Classroom Context", in Paul Wallin (ed.) Archaeology, Communication and Language. No Barriers Seminar Papers, Vol. I, 1998:5-7. Oslo: Kon-Tiki Museum. (View full text as pdf 1,645kb)

M. Spriggs 1999 "The Dating of Non Nok Tha and the "Gakushuin Factor"", in D. Bulbeck and N. Barnard (eds), Ancient Chinese and Southeast Asian Bronze Cultures, Volume II, pp. 941-948. SMC Publishing, Taipei. (View full text as pdf 577kb)

M. Spriggs 1999 "Les éclats du triangle polynésien: Archéologie des diables étrangers", in S. Dunis (ed.) D’Ile en Ile Pacifique, pp. 25-44. Klincksieck, Paris. (View full text as pdf 1,238kb)

M. Spriggs 1999 "The Stratigraphy of the Ponamla Site, Northwest Erromango, Vanuatu: Evidence for 2700 Year Old Stone Structures", in J.C. Galipaud and I. Lilley (eds)Proceedings of the Western Pacific 5000 to 2000 BP Archaeology Conference, pp. 323-331. Paris: IRD. (View full text as pdf 825kb)

M. Spriggs 2000 "The Pacific Archaeology Teaching Project: an Experiment in Remote Delivery of Archaeological Results to a Classroom Context", in P. Wallin and H. Martinsson-Wallin (eds) Essays in Honour of Arne Skjolsvold. Occasional Papers of the Kon-Tiki Museum, Volume 5, pp. 122-131. Oslo: Kon-Tiki Museum. (View full text as pdf 694kb)

M. Spriggs 2000 "The Solomon Islands as Bridge and Barrier in the Settlement of the Pacific", in A. Anderson and T. Murray (eds) Australian Archaeologist: Collected papers in honour of Jim Allen, pp. 348-364. Canberra: Coombs Academic Publishing, Australian National University. (View full text as pdf 1,488kb)

M. Spriggs 2000 "Can Hunter Gatherers Live in Tropical Rainforests? The Pleistocene Island Melanesian Evidence", in P.P. Schweitzer, M. Biesele and R.K. Hitchcock (eds) Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern Context: Conflict, Resistance and Self-Determination, pp.287-304. Providence, R.I. Berghahn Books. (View full text as pdf 1,012kb)

M. Spriggs 2000 "Lapita Culure", in B. Lal and K. Fortune (eds) The Pacific Islands: an Encyclopaedia, pp. 58-59. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. (View full text as pdf 295kb)

M. Spriggs 2001 "Who Cares What Time It is? The Importance of Chronology in Pacific Archaeology", in A. Anderson, I. Lilley and S. O'Connor (eds) Histories of Old Ages: Essays in Honour of Rhys Jones, pp. 237-249. Canberra: Pandanus Books, ANU. (View full text as pdf 1,069kb)

M. Spriggs 2001 "How AMS Dating Changed my Life", in M. Jones and P. Sheppard (eds) Australasian Connections and New Directions. Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Archaeometry Conference, pp. 365-374. Auckland: University of Auckland. Research in Anthropology and Linguistics 5. (View full text as pdf 808kb)

M. Spriggs and S. Bedford 2001 "Arapus: A Lapita Site at Mangaasi in Central Vanuatu?" in G.R. Clark, A.J. Anderson and T. Vunidilo (eds) The Archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania, pp. 93-104. Canberra: Pandanus Books, ANU. Terra Australis 17. (Spriggs contribution 66%) (View full text as pdf 1,107kb)

S. O'Connor, K.P. Aplin, M. Spriggs P. Veth and L.K. Ayliffe 2001 "From Savannah to Rainforest: Changing environments and human occupation at Liang Lemdubu, Aru Islands, Maluku, Indonesia", in P. Kershaw and B. David (eds) Bridging Wallace's Line: Environmental and Human History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian - Australian Region, pp. 279-306. Reiskirchen: Catena Verlag. Advances in Geoecology 34. (Spriggs contribution 15%) (View full text as pdf 2,849kb)

M. Spriggs 2002 "Taro Cropping Systems in the Southeast Asian-Pacific Region: an Archaeological Update", in S. Yoshida and P. Matthews (eds) Vegeculture in Eastern Asia and Oceania, pp.77-94. Japan Centre for Area Studies Symposium Series 16. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. (View full text as pdf 1,025kb)

M. Spriggs 2002 "They’ve Grown Accustomed to your Face", in S. Bedford, C. Sand and D. Burley (eds), Fifty Years in the Field. Essays in Honour and Celebration of Richard Shutler Jr’s Archaeological Career, pp. 51-58. Auckland: New Zealand Archaeological Association. NZAA Monograph 25. (View full text as pdf 676kb)

S. Bedford and M. Spriggs 2002 "Of Shell, Stone and Bone: A Review of Non-Ceramic Artefacts Recovered from the First Thousand Years of Vanuatu’s Archaeological Record", inS. Bedford, C. Sand and D. Burley (eds), Fifty Years in the Field. Essays in Honour and Celebration of Richard Shutler Jr’s Archaeological Career, pp. 135-152. Auckland: New Zealand Archaeological Association. NZAA Monograph 25. (Spriggs contribution 40%) (View full text as pdf 1,448kb)

R. Jones and M. Spriggs 2002 "Theatrum Oceani: Themes and Arguments concerning the Prehistory of Australia and the Pacific", in B. Cunliffe, W. Davies and C. Renfrew (eds)Archaeology: the Widening Debate, pp.245-294. London: OUP for the British Academy. (Spriggs contribution 40 %) (View full text as pdf 2,565kb)

M. Spriggs 2003 "Post-Lapita Evolutions in Island Melanesia", in C. Sand (ed.) Pacific Archaeology: assessments and prospects. Proceedings of the International Conference for the 50th anniversary of the first Lapita Excavation, Koné-Nouméa 2002, pp. 213-220. Noumea: Museum of New Caledonia. Les Cahiers de L’Archéologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie 15. (View full text as pdf 858kb)

M. Spriggs, S. O'Connor and P. Veth 2003 "Vestiges of Early Pre-Agricultural Economy in the Landscape of East Timor: Recent Research", in A. Kallen and A. Karlstrom (eds)Proceedings of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists Conference, Sigtuna, Sweden, pp. 49-58. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. (Spriggs contribution 66%) (View full text as pdf 558kb)

M. Spriggs 2004 "Is there Life after Lapita, and Do You Remember the 60s? The Post-Lapita Sequences of the Western Pacific", in V. Attenbrow and R. Fullager (eds) A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht, pp. 139-144. Sydney: Australian Museum. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 29. (View full text as pdf 632kb)

M. Spriggs 2004 "The Cornish Language, Archaeology and the Origins of English Theatre", in M. Jones (ed), Traces of Ancestry: studies in honour of Colin Renfrew, Volume 2, pp. 143-161. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monograph Series. (View full text as pdf 1,595kb)

M. Spriggs 2004 "Entries for: the Boson family, William Gwavas, William Jordan, John Keigwin, Dorothy Pentreath and William Scawen". Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

M. Spriggs 2005 "Bougainville’s Early History: An Archaeological Perspective", in A. Regan and H.M. Griffin (eds) Bougainville Before the Conflict, pp. 1-19. Canberra: Pandanus Books. (View full text as pdf 1,393kb)

P. Veth, S. O'Connor and M. Spriggs 2005 "Changing Research Perspectives from Australia’s Doorstep: the Joint Australian-Indonesian Aru Islands Initiative and the Archaeology of East Timor Project", in T. Murray (ed.) Archaeology from Australia, pp. 209-230. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing (Spriggs contribution 33%). (View full text as pdf 2,268kb)

M. Spriggs, S. O'Connor AND P. Veth 2005 "The Aru Islands in Perspective: a General Introduction", in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs and P. Veth (eds), The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, pp. 1-23. Terra Australis 22. Canberra: Pandanus Press (Spriggs contribution 80%). (Download as pdf from ANU E Press)

M. Spriggs, P. Veth, S. O'Connor, H. Mohammad, A. Jatmiko, W. Nayati, A. Diniasti Saleh and D. Witjaksono 2005 "Three seasons of archaeological survey in the Aru Islands, 1995-7", in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs and P. Veth (eds), The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, pp. 63-85. Terra Australis 22. Canberra: Pandanus Press (Spriggs contribution 75%).(Spriggs contribution 75%). (Download as pdf from ANU E Press)

P. Veth, S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, W. Nayati, A. Jatmiko and H. Mohammad 2005 "The Ujir Site, an Early Historic Maritme Settlement in Northwestern Aru", in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs and P. Veth (eds), The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, pp. 85-93. Terra Australis 22. Canberra: Pandanus Press (Spriggs contribution 33%). (Download as pdf from ANU E Press)

P. Veth, M. Spriggs, S. O'Connor and D A. Diniasti Saleh 2005 "Wangil Midden: a Late Prehistoric Site, with Remarks on Ethnographic Pottery Making", in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs and P. Veth (eds), The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, pp. 95-124. Terra Australis 22. Canberra: Pandanus Press (Spriggs contribution 25%). (Download as pdf from ANU E Press)

S. O'Connor, K. Aplin, K. Szabo, J. Pasveer, P. Veth and M. Spriggs 2005 "Liang Lemdubu, A Pleistocene cave site in the Aru Islands", in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs and P. Veth (eds), The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, pp. 171-204. Terra Australis 22. Canberra: Pandanus Press (Spriggs contribution 15%). (Download as pdf from ANU E Press)

S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs and P. Veth 2005 "On the Cultural History of the Aru Islands: Some Conclusions", in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs and P. Veth (eds), The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, pp. 307-314. Terra Australis 22. Canberra: Pandanus Press (Spriggs contribution 45%). (Download as pdf from ANU E Press)

M. Spriggs 2007 "Population in a Vegetable Kingdom: Aneityum Island (Vanuatu) at European Contact in 1830", in J.-L. Rallu and P.V. Kirch (eds) The Growth and Collapse of Island Societies, pp. 278-305. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (View full text as pdf 1,611kb)

M. Spriggs 2007 "The Neolithic and Austronesian Expansion within Island Southeast Asia and into the Pacific", in S Chiu and C. Sand (eds) From Southeast Asia to the Pacific. Archaeological Perspectives on the Austronesian Expansion and the Lapita Cultural Complex, pp. 104-140 (pp. 126-140 in Chinese). Taipei: Academia Sinica.(View frontmatter as pdf 575kb)(View article as pdf 1,452kb)

S. Bedford, M. Spriggs, R. Regenvanu, C. MACGREGOR, T. Kauatonga AND M. Sietz 2007 "The excavation, conservation and reconstruction of Lapita burial pots from the Teouma site, Efate, Central Vanuatu", in S. Bedford, C. Sand and S. Connaughton (eds) Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement, pp. 223-240. Canberra: ANU E Press (Spriggs contribution 25%). (View full text as pdf 2,162kb)

M. Spriggs (in press) "‘I was so much Older Then, I’m Younger than that Now’: Why the Dates keep Changing for the Spread of Austronesian Languages", in J. Bowden (ed.) Festschrift Volume. Pacific Linguistics Series (to be published in 2008).

M. Spriggs (in press) "Aneityum", in F. Angleviel and D. Tryon (eds) 101 Words to Understand Vanuatu. Noumea (in French).

J. Lynch AND M. Spriggs (in press) "Erromango", in F. Angleviel and D. Tryon (eds) 101 Words to Understand Vanuatu. Noumea (in French) (Spriggs contribution 50%).

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Contributions to Other Scientific Journals

(a)Prepared before joining ANU

M. Spriggs 1980 "Taro Irrigation in the Pacific: A call for more Research", South Pacific Bulletin, 30(1):15-18. (View full text as pdf 2,601kb) (English and French versions)

M. Spriggs 1980 "Un Thème de Recherche à Approfondir: L'Irrigation du Taro en Océanie", Bulletin du Pacifique Sud 30(1):15-18. (Translation of preceding publication)

M. Spriggs 1983 "Mungo's Echo? Pleistocene Terrace Formation in the Western Pacific", Quaternary Australia 1(1 and 2):42-44. (View full text as pdf 233kb)

M. Spriggs 1983 "Archaeology in Tafea: The Southern Vanuatu Culture History Project: Part 1", Naika: The Journal of the Vanuatu Natural Science Society 12 (December 1983):2-5. (View full text as pdf 462kb)

M. Spriggs 1984 "Archaeology in Tafea: The Southern Vanuatu Culture History Project: Part 2", Naika: The Journal of the Vanuatu Natural Science Society 13 (March 1984):3-8. (View full text as pdf 539kb)

M. Spriggs, J. Carney and S. Williams 1986 "Prehistoric Stone Tools of Aneityum", Naika: The Journal of the Vanuatu Natural Science Society 23 (September 1986):18-33. (Spriggs contribution 50%) (View full text as pdf 715kb)

(b)Prepared after joining ANU

M. Spriggs 1988 "A la Recherche du Singe Perdu: An Earlier Non-Human Primate in Australia", Australian Primatology 2(2/3):21-22. (View full text as pdf 219kb)

M. Spriggs 1989 "Tafea Archaeology: an Update", Naika: Journal of the Vanuatu Natural Science Society 30 (April 1989):14-17. (View full text as pdf 333kb)

M. Spriggs and W. Mumford 1989 "The Rock Art of Aneityum". Naika: Journal of the Vanuatu Natural Science Society 32 (December 1989):16-26. (Spriggs contribution 70%) (View full text as pdf 589kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 "On Being a Foreigner", Southeast Asian Archaeology International Newsletter 4 (April-May): 2-3. (View typescript as pdf 68kb) (View text from Southeast Asia website)

M. Spriggs 1997 "More Extraordinary Rowes and their Lost Cornish Language Manuscript". Cornwall Family History Society Journal 85 (September): 11-12. (View full text as pdf 240kb)

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Technical and Community Reports, Miscellaneous Unpublished Conference Papers, etc.

(a)Prepared before joining ANU

M. Spriggs 1978 "Taro Irrigation in Oceania". Thesis Proposal Defence Seminar, ANU, April 1978. Typescript, 37pp.; see also: Footnote: Taro Irrigation in Oceania. Typescript August 1978, 3pp. (View Full Text as pdf 1,891kb)(View Footnote as pdf 134kb)

M. Spriggs 1979 "‘Their Patrimonial Soil They Rudely Till’d’: Taro Irrigation in Oceania, Year One Report." Seminar Paper, March 1979, ANU. 36 + ii pp. (View full text as pdf 1,824kb)

M. Spriggs 1979 "Col de la Pirogue, New Caledonia: Preliminary Report on Taro Irrigation." Typescript, ANU, 14pp. (View full text as pdf 2,654kb)

M. Spriggs and G. Ward 1979 "The Early New Hebrideans. Report to the Minstry of Social Affairs, New Hebrides to aid in Preparation of Radio Programmes." Typescript, 5pp. (View full text as pdf 1,979kb)

M. Spriggs 1983 "My Commitment to Hawaiian Archaeology." Polemic circulated among University of Hawaii Anthropology Department staff and students, October 1983. Typescript, 6pp. (View full text as pdf 502kb)

M. Spriggs 1983 "A Field Trip to the “Farms of Kapua” Property, Kapua, Kona, Hawai’i Island, December 1983." Typescript, 17pp and map. (View full text as pdf 604kb)(View map as pdf 612kb)

M. Spriggs 1984 "Field Inspection Report on Previously Unrecorded Site at Mouth of Lawai Valley, Kauai." Report sent to Pacific Tropical Botanic Garden, November 1984. Typescript, 2pp. (View full text as pdf 82kb)

M. Spriggs, with Toni Han, Mikilani Ho, Rudy Mitchell, and Earl “Buddy” Neller 1985 "Archaeology as a Resource in Hawaiian Studies." Prepared for the Conference on Hawaiian Studies in Education by the Sub-Committee on Archaeology, edited by M. Spriggs, April 1985. Typescript, 41pp. (View full text as pdf 1,088kb)

M. Spriggs 1985 "Archaeological Field Work on Nissan Island, North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea: Preliminary Report, August 1985." Report to the North Solomons Province and PNG Government. Typescript, 11pp. (View full text as pdf 1,099kb)

M. Spriggs 1986 "Archaeology and the Spread of Oceanic Austronesian Languages: A Tentative Sequence." Unpublished Conference Paper given at the Language and Culture Conference, University of Hawaii at Manoa, April 1986. Typescript, 7pp. (View full text as pdf 338kb)

M. Spriggs 1986 "Archaeology and Prehistory of Nissan. Report prepared for the teachers in the Nissan and Pinipir Community Schools to help in teaching about the Prehistory of the Islands." Typescript 5pp. + 10 figures. (View full text as pdf 1,853kb)

M. Spriggs 1986 "Archaeological Research on Nissan 1986." Preliminary Report to Provincial and National Government Authorities. Typescript, 6pp. (View full text as pdf 375kb)

(b)Prepared after joining ANU

M. Spriggs 1987 "Adornment or Degradation? Prehistoric Human Impact on the Hawaiian Landscape." Paper prepared for proposed 90th Burthday Festschrift for Kenneth Emory, to be edited by P.B. Griffin and M. Spriggs. Project abandoned. Typescript, 20pp. (View full text as pdf 828kb)

M.N. Chun and M. Spriggs 1987 "Renaming the Hawaiian Cultural Sequence: Some Suggestions." Paper prepared for proposed 90th Burthday Festschrift for Kenneth Emory, to be edited by P.B. Griffin and M. Spriggs. Project abandoned. Typescript, 10pp. (View full text as pdf 283kb)

M. Spriggs 1988 "Cultural Resources of the Proposed Erromango Kauri Reserve and Adjacent Areas." April 1988 Consultancy Report to ANUTECH, ANU, Canberra. Typescript, 27pp. (View full text as pdf 1,351kb)

M. Spriggs 1988b "Review of H. Hammatt et. al. “Archaeological Inventory Survey of the 300-Acre Rural District, Palawai, Lana’i” and “Manele Master Plan” Map, August 8, 1988, and Suggestions for Preservation of Significant Cultural Sites." Report prepared for Hui Malama Pono O Lana’i, October 1988, 6pp. (View full text as pdf 318kb)

M. Spriggs, J. Specht and S. Wickler 1988 "Archaeological Research in the North Solomons Province, PNG: 1966-1988." Paper to be presented at the Waigani Seminar, Port Moresby, September 1988. Typescript, 31 pp. (View full text as pdf 1,546kb)

M. Spriggs 1989 "Trip Report: Makaluapuna Point, Honokahua, Lahaina District, Maui (TMK 4-2-01:31 por.)", August 28, 1989. Typescript, 3pp. (View full text as pdf 119kb)

W. Ambrose and M. Spriggs 1989 "Report to the Manus Provincial Government and PNG National Government on Archaeological Research in Manus Province, May-June 1989." Typescript, 6pp. (View full text as pdf 35kb)

M. Spriggs 1990 "Pleistocene Island Melanesia: Whatever Next?". Unpublished Conference Paper, 10pp. (View full text as pdf 395kb)

W. Ambrose, M. Spriggs and C. Fredericksen 1990 "Report to the Manus Provincial Government and PNG National Government on Archaeological Research in Manus Province, May-June 1990." Typescript, 6pp. (View full text as pdf 31kb)

M. Spriggs 1993 "Joseph Emidy, the Black Cornishman." Presentation given at the Cornish Association of the ACT, February 1993. Revised February 1994, 6pp (View full text as pdf 508kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 "Report to the Vanuatu Government on Archaeological Research on Erromango Island, July to September 1994." Typescript on file Vanuatu National Library, 17pp. (View full text as pdf 1,268kb)

S. Bedford and M. Spriggs 1995 "Ripot i Go Long Ol Man Erromango Long Saed Blong Stadi Blong Matthew Spriggs Mo Stuart Bedford long Arkeoloji Blong Erromango, Julae Kasem Septemba 1995." Typescript on file Vanuatu National Library. 7pp. (View Full Text as pdf 403kb)

S. Bedford and M. Spriggs 1995 "Report to the Vanuatu Government on archaeological research on the Islands of Aneityum, Erromango and Malakula, July to November 1995." Typescript on file Vanuatu National Library, 19pp. (View full text as pdf 1,120kb)

M. Spriggs 1996 "Report to the Vanuatu Government on archaeological research and training program at Mangaasi on the island of Efate, August to September 1996." Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library. (View Full Text as pdf 18kb)

R. Regenvanu and M. Spriggs 1996 "Ripot i go long ol man Mangaliliu mo Lelepa long saed blong stadi blong Kaljoral Senta long Arkiologi blong Mangaasi, Okis kasem Septemba 1996." Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library.

M. Spriggs 1998 "The Lapita Culture". Submitted October 1998 for a proposed volume edited by B. Rolett, R. Walter and M. Weisler entitled “A Sea of Islands: The Pacific in World Prehistory”. The project was abandoned. Typescript, 24pp. (View full text as pdf 1,369kb)

M. Spriggs 1999 "Archaeology of a Border Area". Submitted for a publication that was abandoned, December 1999. Typescript, 8pp. (View full text as pdf 652kb)

M. Spriggs and S. Bedford 1999 "Summary Report to the Vanuatu Government on Archaeological Research and Training Program at Mangaasi, West Efate 1997-1999." Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library, 13pp. (View full text as pdf 1,346kb)

M. Spriggs 2000 "Finding Austrialia: The failed Spanish Settlement of a Southern Continent in 1606." Unpublished Conference paper presented at “Changing Geographies” Conference, Barcelona, January 2000, 14pp. (View full text as pdf 1,040kb)

M. Spriggs 2002 "Report to the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation on the project “Investigation of the initial human colonisation of Vanuatu and its later transformations” for 2001." Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library, 6pp. (View full text as pdf 44kb)

M. Spriggs 2003 "Report to the Pacific Biological Foundation on the project “Investigation of the initial human colonisation of Vanuatu and its later transformations” for 2002." Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library, 10pp. (View full text as pdf 60kb)

M. Spriggs 2004 "Investigation of the initial human colonisation of Vanuatu and its later transformations." Report to the Pacific Biological Foundation for 2003 and Final Report. Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library, 12pp. (View full text as pdf 79kb)

M. Spriggs 2004 "Archaeological Investigation of the Lapita site of Teouma: The critical missing piece in the study of Central Vanuatu environmental and cultural history." Final Report to the Pacific Biological Foundation. Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library, 12pp. (View full text as pdf 64kb)

R. Shing, S. Bedford, M. Spriggs and R. Regenvanu 2005 "Ripot long saed blong stadi long arkioloji long Teouma 2004." Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library, 8pp. (View Full Text as pdf 1,212kb)

M. Spriggs 2006 "World Heritage Values for the Roy Mata-Mangaasi Complex, Northwest Efate, Vanuatu." Report as part of the nomination papers for the proposed World Heritage area, submitted to UNESCO. Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library, 26pp. (View full text as pdf 1,895kb)

M. Spriggs 2007 "Research report on NGS grant number 8038—06: Solving the Riddle of Pacific Settlement: The archaeology of an Early Lapita cemetery and village site at Teouma, Vanuatu." Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library, 12pp. (View Full Text as pdf 725kb)

R. Shing, S. Bedford, M. Spriggs and R. Regenvanu 2007 "Ripot long saed blong stadi long arkioloji long Teouma 2004, 2005, 2006." Typescript, on file Vanuatu National Library, 13pp. (View full text as pdf 12,809kb)

R. Shing, S. Bedford, M. Spriggs and R. Regenvanu 2007 "Wanem ia arkioloji. Port Vila: The Vanuatu Cultural Centre." (View Full Text as pdf 7,830kb)

R. Shing, S. Bedford, M. Spriggs and R. Regenvanu 2007 "Ripot long saed blong stadi long arkioloji long Not blong Vanuatu, 2005-2007." Typescript on file Vanuatu National Library, 14pp. (View full text as pdf 10,034kb)

R. Shing, S. Bedford, M. Spriggs and R. Regenvanu 2007 "Trening Woksop mo Risej blong Akioloji long not-is Efate, Mangaasi, Arapus mo Mangaliliu, 1996-2003." Typescript on file Vanuatu National Library, 18pp. (View full text as pdf 12,630kb)

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Newspaper Articles

(a)Prepared before joining ANU

M. Spriggs 1985 "Why Preserve Archaeological Sites?" Historic Hawaii News 11(8) (September 1985):4. (View full text as pdf 935kb)

M. Spriggs 1986 "How Long Have People Lived in the North Solomons?", Arawa Bulletin 652 (12 September). (View full text as pdf 263kb)

M.N. Chun and M. Spriggs 1987 "New Terms suggested for Hawaiian Prehistory", Ka Wai Ola O OHA 4(2) (February):4. (Spriggs contribution 50%) (View full text as pdf 499kb)

(b)Prepared after joining ANU

M. Spriggs 1988 "Thirty Thousand Years of North Solomons History", Arawa Bulletin 721 (29 January), 722 (5 February). (View full text as pdf 202kb)

M. Spriggs 1988 "Large-Scale Erosion on Kaho'olawe: When did it Start?", Kaho'olawe Aloha 'Aina, May 1988:7.(View full text as pdf 103kb)

M. Spriggs 1990 "In a Bougainville Village, Rumours of War", Times of Papua New Guinea, 15 February 1990, pp.17, 20. (View full text as pdf 383kb)

M. Spriggs 1990 "A Silence Veils Bougainville's Fight for Rights", Canberra Times, 24 December 1990, p.7. (View full text as pdf 147kb)

M. Spriggs 1991 "PNG Still is not Taking Human Rights Seriously". Canberra Times, 27 February 1991, p.9. (View full text as pdf 143kb)

M. Spriggs 1991 "The Long Haul to Compromise and Consensus in Bougainville", Canberra Times, 22 August 1991, p.9. (View full text as pdf 144kb)

M. Spriggs 1991 "Bougainville Talks May Offer Chance for Peace", Canberra Times, 23 August 1991, p.9. (View full text as pdf 123kb)

M. Spriggs 1992 The Last Native Cornish Speakers 1600-1800. Cornish Association of the Australian Capital Territory Newsletter 11, April 1992, p. 3. (View Full Text as pdf 37kb)

M. Spriggs 1992 "Radio Says Many Shot on Bougainville", Canberra Times, 9 June 1992, p.8. (View full text as pdf 136kb)

M. Spriggs 1992 "Bougainville's Crisis Explained", The Independent Monthly, August 1992, p.28-9. (View full text as pdf 3,870kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 "Peace Push to Help Heal Wounds of Island War", Canberra Times, 11 June 1994, p. 12. (View full text as pdf 70kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 "Being Cornish in Australia: What is the Association's Role?" Cornish Association of the Australian Capital Territory Newsletter 21, September 1994, pp. 4-5. (View Full Text as pdf 121kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 "The Best Chance for Peace", The Times of Papua New Guinea, 6 October 1994, p. 4. (View full text as pdf 162kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 "Bougainville Peace Battle", Canberra Times, 8 October 1994, p.16. (View full text as pdf 150kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 "Talking Peace Hard to Arrange", Canberra Times, 16 November 1994, p. 21. (View full text as pdf 338kb)

M. Spriggs 1994 Reprint of "Talking Peace Hard to Arrange", Pacific News Bulletin 9(12), pp. 2-4. December 1994.

M. Spriggs 1996 "Islanders Caught in a Web of Lies", Canberra Times, 9 July 1996, p. 9. (View full text as pdf 152kb)

M. Spriggs 1997 "An Albania on our Doorstep", Canberra Times, 25 March 1997, p. 9. (View full text as pdf 191kb)

M. Spriggs 1997 "Time to Take a Back Seat". Canberra Times, 19th September, page 11. (View full text as pdf 384kb)

M. Spriggs 1998 "Hope Beckons in Bougainville", Canberra Times, 2 February 1998, p.7. (View full text as pdf 260kb)

M. Spriggs 1998 "Roi Mata – Efate’s Mystery Chief", Island Spirit 5, December/January/February, pp. 38-41. (View full text as pdf 948kb)

M. Spriggs 2000 "Matthew Spriggs writes…"[on W. Hals’ Lhadymer ay Kernow] Cornish Association of the Australian Capital Territory Newsletter 43, November 2000, p.2. (View full text as pdf 170kb)

Forewards to Books

G. Summerhayes 2000 Lapita Interaction, pp. v-vi. Terra Australis 15. Canberra: ANH and CAR, ANU.(View full text as pdf 103kb)

S. Wickler 2001 The Prehistory of Buka: A Stepping Stone Island in the Northern Solomons, pp. v-vi. Terra Australis 16. Canberra: ANH and CAR, ANU. (View full text as pdf 140kb)

S. Bedford 2006 Pieces of the Vanuatu Puzzle: Archaeology of the North, South and Centre, pp. vii-viii. Terra Australis 23. Canberra: Pandanus Books, ANU. (View full text as pdf 59kb)

Book Reviews

M. Spriggs 1982 "Early Tahiti as the explorers saw it by E. Ferdon". Archaeology in Oceania 17(2):102-103. (View full text as pdf 154kb)

M. Spriggs 1984 "Discovering the three ages of mysterious Tikopia". Pacific Islands Monthly February 1984:42-45 [Review of P. Kirch and D. Yen, Tikopia: The Prehistory and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier]. (View full text as pdf 492kb)

M. Spriggs 1985 "Roots of the Earth: Crops in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by P. Sillitoe". American Anthropologist 1985:425-427. (View full text as pdf 135kb)

M. Spriggs 1986 "Aboriginal Pathways in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River by J.G. Steele". Asian Perspectives 27(2): 271-272. (View full text as pdf 115kb)

M. Spriggs 1986 "Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistory by P. Kirch". Submitted to Humanities News, Hawaii [no publication details traceable]. (View full text as pdf 321kb)

M. Spriggs 1986-7 S. "Sullivan and S. Bowdler (eds) Site Surveys and Significance Assessment in Australian Archaeology". Asian Perspectives 27(2):279-280. (View Full Text as pdf 150kb)

M. Spriggs 1991 "Prodigious birds: Moas and moa hunting in prehistoric New Zealand by A. Anderson, 1986". Antiquity 65(247):422-423. (View full text as pdf 173kb)

M. Spriggs 1992 "The traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea by P. May and M. Tuckson". Asian Perspectives 31(1):104-105. (View full text as pdf 72kb)

M. Spriggs 1995 "P. Gathercole, T.H. Irving and G. Melleuish (eds), Childe and Australia: Archaeology, politics and Ideas (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1995)".Political Theory Newsletter 7(1):107-109. (View full text as pdf 329kb)

M. Spriggs 1998 "The Lapita peoples by P.V. Kirch". Anthropos 93:264. (View full text as pdf 108kb)

M. Spriggs 2001 "Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature by O.J. Padel (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000)". Celtic Connections 16(1):11-14 (View full text as pdf 549kb)

Poetry

M. Spriggs 2003 "For George, your wispy beard" and " 'For Those in Peril on the Sea' poems", Conversations 3(2):2-6. Canberra: Pandanus Books. (View full text as pdf 80kb)

M. Spriggs 2004 “Dobo Nocturne”, "Dickon's Diary" and "Asterisk", Conversations 4(1):4-8. Canberra: Pandanus Books. (View full text as pdf 94kb)

M. Spriggs 2005 “Mourning for Iririki/The Memory of Chris Weaver” and “Tsunpets Puri-Puri/In Useless Anger”, Conversations 6(1):4-8. Canberra: Pandanus Books. (View full text as pdf 59kb)

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