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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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Political economy in prehistory: A marxist approach to pacific sequences
Timothy Earle,Matthew Spriggs +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify economic bottlenecks (constriction points) based on property rights for land or on production and trade of prestige goods and encourage archaeologists to formulate prehistoric research that draws on historical materialism, the Marxist reasoning for understanding political economy.
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Lapita Diet in Remote Oceania: New Stable Isotope Evidence from the 3000-Year-Old Teouma Site, Efate Island, Vanuatu
Rebecca Kinaston,Hallie R. Buckley,Frédérique Valentin,Stuart Bedford,Matthew Spriggs,Stuart Hawkins,Estelle Herrscher +6 more
TL;DR: The dietary interpretations for the humans suggest that broad-spectrum foraging and the consumption of domestic animals were the most important methods for procuring dietary protein at the site of Teouma, suggesting human adaptation to the environment in a colonizing population.
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Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific
TL;DR: The remains of meiolaniid turtles from cemetery and midden layers dating 3,100/3,000 calibrated years before present to approximately 2,900/2,800 calibrated Years before present are reported in the Teouma Lapita archaeological site on Efate in Vanuatu.
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Lapita subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns in the community of Teouma (Efate, Vanuatu)
Frédérique Valentin,Hallie R. Buckley,Estelle Herrscher,Rebecca Kinaston,Stuart Bedford,Matthew Spriggs,Stuart Hawkins,Ken Neal +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic data obtained from analyses of human and animal collagen samples from the site of Teouma (Efate, Vanuatu) dated to between c. 3000-2500 BP.