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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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Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific
Pontus Skoglund,Pontus Skoglund,Pontus Skoglund,Cosimo Posth,Kendra Sirak,Kendra Sirak,Matthew Spriggs,Frédérique Valentin,Stuart Bedford,Geoffrey Clark,Christian Reepmeyer,Fiona Petchey,Daniel Fernandes,Daniel Fernandes,Qiaomei Fu,Eadaoin Harney,Eadaoin Harney,Mark Lipson,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Mario Novak,Nadine Rohland,Kristin Stewardson,Kristin Stewardson,Kristin Stewardson,S M Abdullah,Murray P. Cox,Françoise R. Friedlaender,Jonathan S. Friedlaender,Toomas Kivisild,Toomas Kivisild,George Koki,Pradiptajati Kusuma,D. Andrew Merriwether,François-X Ricaut,Joseph Wee,Nick Patterson,Johannes Krause,Ron Pinhasi,David Reich,David Reich,David Reich +41 more
TL;DR: The finding that the ancient individuals had little to no Papuan ancestry implies that later human population movements spread Papuan Ancestry through the South Pacific after the first peopling of the islands.
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Pleistocene human occupation of the Solomon Islands, Melanesia
Stephen Wickler,Matthew Spriggs +1 more
TL;DR: Pleistocene dates from a rockshelter on Buka Island at the northern end of the Solomons Chain demonstrate human settlement by 28,000 b.p., some 25,000 years earlier than previously reported for this island group as discussed by the authors.
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Archaeology and the Austronesian expansion: where are we now?
TL;DR: For many years the author has been tracking the spread of the Neolithic of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and its extension eastwards into the western Pacific, as a proxy for dating the Austronesian (AN) languages across that same vast area as mentioned in this paper.
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The Teouma Lapita site and the early human settlement of the Pacific Islands
TL;DR: The Teouma site, on Efate in central Vanuatu, was uncovered during quarrying in 2003 and has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries to date for the colonisation of Remote Oceania as discussed by the authors.
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The Lapita cultural complex: Origins, distribution, contemporaries and successors ∗
TL;DR: The Lapita cultural complex: origins, distribution, contemporaries and successors as discussed by the authors is a well-known example of the Lapita culture complex in the Pacific region, and it has been studied extensively.