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Atholl Anderson
Researcher at Australian National University
Publications - 223
Citations - 7232
Atholl Anderson is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Radiocarbon dating & Prehistory. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 215 publications receiving 6822 citations. Previous affiliations of Atholl Anderson include University of Cambridge & University of Otago.
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Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat.
TL;DR: Radiocarbon dates on distinctive rat-gnawed seeds and rat bones show that the Pacific rat was introduced to both main islands of New Zealand ≈1280 A.D., a millennium later than previously assumed, implying there was no long period of invisibility in either the archaeological or palaeoecological records.
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High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia
TL;DR: An empirically based and dramatically shortened chronology for the colonization of East Polynesia resolves longstanding paradoxes and offers a robust explanation for the remarkable uniformity of EastPolynesian culture, human biology, and language.
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Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile
Alice A. Storey,José Miguel Ramírez,Daniel Quiroz,David V. Burley,David J. Addison,Richard Walter,Atholl Anderson,Terry L. Hunt,J. Stephen Athens,Leon Huynen,Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith +10 more
TL;DR: A radiocarbon date and an ancient DNA sequence from a single chicken bone recovered from the archaeological site of El Arenal-1, on the Arauco Peninsula, Chile, provide firm evidence for the pre-Columbian introduction of chickens to the Americas, and strongly suggest that it was a Polynesian introduction.
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Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Greger Larson,Greger Larson,Thomas Cucchi,Masakatsu Fujita,Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith,Judith H. Robins,Atholl Anderson,Barry V. Rolett,Matthew Spriggs,Gaynor Dolman,Tae Hun Kim,Nguyen Thi Dieu Thuy,Ettore Randi,Moira Doherty,Rokus Awe Due,Robert Bollt,Tony Djubiantono,Bion Griffin,Bion Griffin,Michiko Intoh,Emile Keane,Patrick V. Kirch,Kuang-Ti Li,Michael J Morwood,Lolita M. Pedriña,Philip Piper,Ryan Rabett,Peter Shooter,Gert Van den Bergh,Eric West,Stephen Wickler,Jing Yuan,Alan Cooper,Keith Dobney +33 more
TL;DR: Archeological and genetic evidence shows these pigs were certainly introduced to islands east of the Wallace Line, including New Guinea, and that so-called “wild” pigs within this region are most likely feral descendants of domestic pigs introduced by early agriculturalists.
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Late colonization of East Polynesia
Matthew Spriggs,Atholl Anderson +1 more
TL;DR: In a recent ANTIQUITY article (65: 767-95) Anderson presented a detailed analysis of radiocarbon dates to show that the settlement of New Zealand occurred later than previously thought as discussed by the authors.