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Matthew Spriggs
Researcher at Australian National University
Publications - 204
Citations - 6143
Matthew Spriggs is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Archipelago. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 199 publications receiving 5761 citations. Previous affiliations of Matthew Spriggs include University of Hawaii at Manoa & Northern Arizona University.
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Taro Cropping Systems in the Southeast Asian-Pacific Region: Archaeological Evidence
TL;DR: In this article, it is stated that grain crops such as rice are easier to detect in the archaeological record than are the remains of tuberous crops, but the search for the latter is by no means as hopeless a cause as has been assumed by various archaeologists.
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A previously unreported bronze kettledrum from the Kai Islands, Eastern Indonesia
Matthew Spriggs,Daniel Miller +1 more
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The chronology of occupation at Teouma, Vanuatu: Use of a modified chronometric hygiene protocol and Bayesian modeling to evaluate midden remains
TL;DR: Petchey et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated the radiocarbon data according to observed contextual associations and established understandings of 14 C offsets, and collated all available information in a Bayesian framework to establish the age and duration of the settlement at Teouma.
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A Preliminary Report on Health and Disease in Early Lapita Skeletons, Vanuatu: Possible Biological Costs of Island Colonization
TL;DR: The first large sample (36 individuals) of early Lapita-associated skeletons from Teouma, Vanuatu, dated to ca. 3100-3000 BP was reported in this paper.
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Holocene mammal faunas from archaeological sites in island Melanesia
TL;DR: Faunal remains from archaeological sites on Buka, Nissan, and Tikopia islands have been found to include a number of taxa not previously recorded from those islands.