The Year in Review - ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology 2023
Author/editor: School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Year published: 2024
The sixth annual magazine and 50th Year Anniversary edition from the school showcases various articles from Archaeology, Anthropology and Biological Anthropology. It is our pleasure to present to you an exciting insight into the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National…
The Year in Review - ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology 2022
Author/editor: School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Year published: 2023
The fifth annual magazine from the school showcases various articles from Archaeology, Anthropology and Biological Anthropology. It is our pleasure to present to you a rare and exciting insight into the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University…
The Year in Review - ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology 2021
Author/editor: School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Year published: 2022
The fourth annual magazine from the school showcases various articles from Archaeology, Anthropology and Biological Anthropology. It is our pleasure to present to you a rare and exciting insight into the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University through 'The Year…
The Year in Review - ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology 2020
Author/editor: School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Year published: 2021
The School of Archaeology and Anthropology Annual Magazine features a review of the major events and achievements from 2020. The third annual magazine from the school showcases various articles from Archaeology, Anthropology and Biological Anthropology. It is our pleasure to present to you a rare…
Monster Anthropology. Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters
Author/editor: Yasmine Musharbash & Geir Henning Presterudstuen
Year published: 2020
Monsters are culturally meaningful across the world. Starting from this key premise, this book tackles monsters in the context of social change. Writing in a time of violent upheaval, when technological innovation brings forth new monsters while others perish as part of the widespread extinctions…
Archaeologies of Island Melanesia Current approaches to landscapes, exchange and practice
Author/editor: Mathieu Leclerc, James Flexner
Year published: 2019
‘The island world of Melanesia—ranging from New Guinea and the Bismarcks through the Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia—is characterised more than anything by its boundless diversity in geography, language and culture. The deep historical roots of this diversity are only beginning to be uncovered…
Debating Lapita Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence
Author/editor: Stuart Bedford & Matthew Spriggs
Year published: 2019
This volume comprises 23 chapters that focus on the archaeology of Lapita, a cultural horizon associated with the founding populations who first colonised much of the south west Pacific some 3000 years ago. The Lapita culture has been most clearly defined by its distinctive dentate-stamped…
Madeleine Colani's Megaliths of Upper Laos
Author/editor: Louise Shewan and Dougald O'Reilly
Year published: 2019
Madeleine Colani published her ground breaking two-volume tome Megaliths du Haut-Laos in 1935. The work remains the authoritative document on the mysterious stone jars found in northern Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Recently (2019), a translation of the work, originally…
The Green Revolution Narratives of Politics, Technology and Gender
Author/editor: Patrick Kilby
Year published: 2019
This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly referred to as a second Green Revolution in the 2000s. Building on the historical assessment, it draws insights for contemporary policy debates and…
The Spice Islands in Prehistory Archaeology in the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia
Author/editor: Peter Bellwood
Year published: 2019
This monograph reports the results of archaeological investigations undertaken in the Northern Moluccas Islands (the Indonesian Province of Maluku Utara) by Indonesian, New Zealand and Australian archaeologists between 1989 and 1996. Excavations were undertaken in caves and open sites on four…