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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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Are islands islands? Some thoughts on the history of chalk and cheese
TL;DR: The islands of the Southern Sea comprising those which are in the neighbourhood of the Indian Continent, and the clusters which extend into more distant spaces in the ocean, present a field of enquiry extremely interesting to the natural historian of mankind.
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The historiography of archaeology: exploring theory, contingency and rationality
Tim Murray,Matthew Spriggs +1 more
TL;DR: The history of archaeology has been enjoying something of a vogue from the 1990s onwards as discussed by the authors, with the publication of the five-volume Encyclopedia of the History of Archaeology (Murray 1999, 2001).
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The use of Lapita pottery : results from the first analysis of lipid residues
Mathieu Leclerc,Karine Taché,Stuart Bedford,Matthew Spriggs,Alexandre Lucquin,Oliver E. Craig +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, biomolecular and isotopic characterisation of absorbed organic residues have been performed on eight dentate-stamped and two plain Lapita potsherds from the site of Teouma, in Vanuatu.
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The Aru Islands in Perspective: A General Introduction
TL;DR: Alfred Russell Wallace arrived at the sand-spit settlement of Dobo in the Aru Islands (Fig. 1.1) on January 8, 1857, having travelled from the Kei Islands by local sailing perahu on a journey which had taken 30 hours.