Rebecca Phillipps
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3601682 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebecca Phillipps |
| NOMBRES | Rebecca |
| APELLIDO | Phillipps |
| FIRMA | PHILLIPPS R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1192-5618 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The “too hard box”
Archaeological collections held by universities represent a persistent challenge in decolonising and re-imagining collections within academic contexts. Situated between research and education, these collections often develop over many decades of field-based research carried out by staff with varied interests. Within neo-liberalising university contexts and increasingly challenging funding environments, collections often find themselves placed in …
Raw Material Economisation in Aotearoa New Zealand
Raw materials are used to characterise the early settlement of Aotearoa Te Wai Pounamu New Zealand by Māori. Current models suggest change in raw material use over time occurred in response to changing social organisation and reduced resource availability. However, few studies have examined spatial variation in raw material use. Here we examine four basalt artefact assemblages from Ahuahu Great Mercury Island to examine potential spatial variatio…
Quantification of stone artefacts assemblages in Aotearoa New Zealand
Many of the popular models of pre-European Māori settlement rely on the quantification of stone artefact abundance when made from different raw materials. Relative proportions of these materials provide the basis for inferences about mobility, trade and exchange, and social interactions. However, a number of methods for calculating artefact abundance exist with these reflecting different aspects of artefact completeness, fragmentation, and artefa…
Experimental Improvements to the Volume Ratio and Quantifying Movement Using Stone Artefact Analysis
Many conceptual frameworks of archaeological assemblages have assumed that stone artefact assemblages include all products of manufacture, use, and discard, although recent studies have indicated this is not always the case. The volume ratio is a method that examines the potential for the removal or addition of stone artefacts to an assemblage after manufacture. As humans transport material, and the movement of material effects the composition of…
Archaeological site types, and assemblage size and diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand
Archaeological settlement models involve the identification of functional site types like base camps and extraction sites based, in part, on differences in the range and frequency of artefact types and fauna. Using reports describing such assemblages from Aotearoa (New Zealand) archaeological sites dating to the first 300 years after initial colonisation, differences in assemblage composition are assessed against total assemblage size. Aotearoa p…
Kom W and X Basin
Artefact Categories, Artefact Assemblages and Ontological Alterity
Joan Gero argued that archaeological interpretation is not the accumulation of truth but rather an ideological construct. Post-colonial studies building on Gero's work critique notions of universal value, that aspects of human cultural heritage hold value for all peoples. However, these studies are not specific about what a post-colonial analysis of the archaeological record might look like, particularly involving material culture categories. Wha…
A large trolling lure shank from Ahuahu Great Mercury Island, New Zealand
Large stone trolling lure shanks, greater than 100 mm, are rare and stylistically associated with the early period of Māori occupation of Aotearoa New Zealand. The triangular-sectioned shank is distinctive and reminiscent of Polynesian forms. The 2016 find during excavations at T10/360 at Waitapu in Coralie Bay, Ahuahu Great Mercury Island, is the first to be recovered in an archaeological context and only the third large shank attributed to the …
The Archaeology of Western Sahara
Review of Joanne Clarke and Nick Brooks (Eds.), The Archaeology of Western Sahara: A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009. Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2018, 256 pp., ISBN 978-1-7829-7172-6 (hardcover)
Māori settlement of New Zealand
The lateness and prominence of Polynesian colonisation of New Zealand make it an ideal place to investigate the Anthropocene. We review the Anthropocene as a process and the information needed to understand the consequences of ongoing human–environmental interaction. Elsewhere in the world, a lengthy history complicates the ability to differentiate between the impact of people on the environment and the consequences of engagement. In New Zealand,…
Digitizing Roonka
A Minimalist Approach to Archaeological Data Management Design
The Desert Fayumin the twenty-first century
From 1924-1928, Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Elinor Gardner surveyed and excavated Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic sites across the Fayum north shore in Egypt, publishing a volume entitledThe Desert Fayum(1934). Since then, a number of researchers have worked in the Fayum (e.g. Wendorf & Schild 1976; Hassan 1986; Wenkeet al. 1988; Kozłowski & Ginter 1989), and most recently the UCLA/RUG/UOA Fayum Project. The long history of research in the area mea…
Sourcing without sources
Reimag(in)ing the Past
The excavation of the site of Kom W in the Fayum region of Egypt during the 1920s by Caton-Thompson and Gardner resulted in the loss of the original surface topography. Detailed section drawings recorded the surface and bottom of excavation, but it was previously difficult to interpret the published images. This article reports on the use of these images to create a three-dimensional representation of the site as it was before and after excavatio…
Human-Environmental Interrelationships and the Origins of Agriculture in Egypt and Sudan
Northeast Africa forms an interesting case study for investigating the relationship between changes in environment and agriculture. Major climatic changes in the early Holocene led to dramatic changes in the environment of the eastern Sahara and to the habitation of previously uninhabitable regions. Research programs in the eastern Sahara have uncovered a wealth of archaeological evidence for sustained occupation during the African Humid Period, …
Occupation duration and mobility in New Zealand prehistory
The Fayum revisited
Variability in the Neolithic Settlement Patterns of the Egyptian Nile Valley
Estimating Core Number in Assemblages
Mid-Holocene occupation of Egypt and global climatic change
Identifying low-level food producers
The existence of low-level food producers, neither wholly hunter-gatherers nor wholly agriculturalists, is predicted but hard to prove. Here the authors use lithics, the one ubiquitous common indicator, to show how the detection of missing flakes can indicate degrees of mobility, while mobility in turn shows how people coped with the unpredictable appearance of food resources. In Australia, they were opportunists, armed with a ready cutting edge.…
Heat-retainer hearth identification as a component of archaeological survey in western NSW, Australia
Concentrationsofheat-fracturedrockarecommoninsomeareasofwesternNewSouthWales,Australia, andarefrequentlyidentifiedduringarchaeologicalsurveysastheerodedremainsofheat-retainerhearths, a type of earth oven used in the past byAboriginal people to cook food. However, it can be difficult to consistentlyidentifythesefeaturessinceheat-fracturedrocks,likeotherclastslyingonthesurface,canbe dispersedorconcentratedbyavarietyofgeomorphicprocesses.Inthispaper…
The Delta Survey
This fieldwork report presents the results of the ground survey phase of fieldwork of the Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey during the 2008 and 2009 seasons. These seasons also saw the continuation of investigations into the cemetery and Sacred Falcon Necropolis at the Quesna archaeological area and into the archaeological remains at Kom el-Ahmar, Minuf. The 2008 season saw the first visit of the ground survey to the region between el-Khatatbah and…
Identifying low-level food producers
The existence of low-level food producers, neither wholly hunter-gatherers nor wholly agriculturalists, is predicted but hard to prove. Here the authors use lithics, the one ubiquitous common indicator, to show how the detection of missing flakes can indicate degrees of mobility, while mobility in turn shows how people coped with the unpredictable appearance of food resources. In Australia, they were opportunists, armed with a ready cutting edge.…
Estimating Core Number in Assemblages
Māori settlement of New Zealand
The lateness and prominence of Polynesian colonisation of New Zealand make it an ideal place to investigate the Anthropocene. We review the Anthropocene as a process and the information needed to understand the consequences of ongoing human–environmental interaction. Elsewhere in the world, a lengthy history complicates the ability to differentiate between the impact of people on the environment and the consequences of engagement. In New Zealand,…
Digitizing Roonka
A Minimalist Approach to Archaeological Data Management Design
Reimag(in)ing the Past
The excavation of the site of Kom W in the Fayum region of Egypt during the 1920s by Caton-Thompson and Gardner resulted in the loss of the original surface topography. Detailed section drawings recorded the surface and bottom of excavation, but it was previously difficult to interpret the published images. This article reports on the use of these images to create a three-dimensional representation of the site as it was before and after excavatio…
Variability in the Neolithic Settlement Patterns of the Egyptian Nile Valley
Kom W and X Basin
Artefact Categories, Artefact Assemblages and Ontological Alterity
Joan Gero argued that archaeological interpretation is not the accumulation of truth but rather an ideological construct. Post-colonial studies building on Gero's work critique notions of universal value, that aspects of human cultural heritage hold value for all peoples. However, these studies are not specific about what a post-colonial analysis of the archaeological record might look like, particularly involving material culture categories. Wha…
The Desert Fayumin the twenty-first century
From 1924-1928, Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Elinor Gardner surveyed and excavated Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic sites across the Fayum north shore in Egypt, publishing a volume entitledThe Desert Fayum(1934). Since then, a number of researchers have worked in the Fayum (e.g. Wendorf & Schild 1976; Hassan 1986; Wenkeet al. 1988; Kozłowski & Ginter 1989), and most recently the UCLA/RUG/UOA Fayum Project. The long history of research in the area mea…
Sourcing without sources
Human-Environmental Interrelationships and the Origins of Agriculture in Egypt and Sudan
Northeast Africa forms an interesting case study for investigating the relationship between changes in environment and agriculture. Major climatic changes in the early Holocene led to dramatic changes in the environment of the eastern Sahara and to the habitation of previously uninhabitable regions. Research programs in the eastern Sahara have uncovered a wealth of archaeological evidence for sustained occupation during the African Humid Period, …
A large trolling lure shank from Ahuahu Great Mercury Island, New Zealand
Large stone trolling lure shanks, greater than 100 mm, are rare and stylistically associated with the early period of Māori occupation of Aotearoa New Zealand. The triangular-sectioned shank is distinctive and reminiscent of Polynesian forms. The 2016 find during excavations at T10/360 at Waitapu in Coralie Bay, Ahuahu Great Mercury Island, is the first to be recovered in an archaeological context and only the third large shank attributed to the …
Heat-retainer hearth identification as a component of archaeological survey in western NSW, Australia
Concentrationsofheat-fracturedrockarecommoninsomeareasofwesternNewSouthWales,Australia, andarefrequentlyidentifiedduringarchaeologicalsurveysastheerodedremainsofheat-retainerhearths, a type of earth oven used in the past byAboriginal people to cook food. However, it can be difficult to consistentlyidentifythesefeaturessinceheat-fracturedrocks,likeotherclastslyingonthesurface,canbe dispersedorconcentratedbyavarietyofgeomorphicprocesses.Inthispaper…
The Delta Survey
This fieldwork report presents the results of the ground survey phase of fieldwork of the Minufiyeh Archaeological Survey during the 2008 and 2009 seasons. These seasons also saw the continuation of investigations into the cemetery and Sacred Falcon Necropolis at the Quesna archaeological area and into the archaeological remains at Kom el-Ahmar, Minuf. The 2008 season saw the first visit of the ground survey to the region between el-Khatatbah and…
Identifying low-level food producers
The existence of low-level food producers, neither wholly hunter-gatherers nor wholly agriculturalists, is predicted but hard to prove. Here the authors use lithics, the one ubiquitous common indicator, to show how the detection of missing flakes can indicate degrees of mobility, while mobility in turn shows how people coped with the unpredictable appearance of food resources. In Australia, they were opportunists, armed with a ready cutting edge.…
Mid-Holocene occupation of Egypt and global climatic change
Estimating Core Number in Assemblages
Occupation duration and mobility in New Zealand prehistory
The Fayum revisited
Variability in the Neolithic Settlement Patterns of the Egyptian Nile Valley
Sourcing without sources
Reimag(in)ing the Past
The excavation of the site of Kom W in the Fayum region of Egypt during the 1920s by Caton-Thompson and Gardner resulted in the loss of the original surface topography. Detailed section drawings recorded the surface and bottom of excavation, but it was previously difficult to interpret the published images. This article reports on the use of these images to create a three-dimensional representation of the site as it was before and after excavatio…
Human-Environmental Interrelationships and the Origins of Agriculture in Egypt and Sudan
Northeast Africa forms an interesting case study for investigating the relationship between changes in environment and agriculture. Major climatic changes in the early Holocene led to dramatic changes in the environment of the eastern Sahara and to the habitation of previously uninhabitable regions. Research programs in the eastern Sahara have uncovered a wealth of archaeological evidence for sustained occupation during the African Humid Period, …
A Minimalist Approach to Archaeological Data Management Design
The Desert Fayumin the twenty-first century
From 1924-1928, Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Elinor Gardner surveyed and excavated Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic sites across the Fayum north shore in Egypt, publishing a volume entitledThe Desert Fayum(1934). Since then, a number of researchers have worked in the Fayum (e.g. Wendorf & Schild 1976; Hassan 1986; Wenkeet al. 1988; Kozłowski & Ginter 1989), and most recently the UCLA/RUG/UOA Fayum Project. The long history of research in the area mea…
The Archaeology of Western Sahara
Review of Joanne Clarke and Nick Brooks (Eds.), The Archaeology of Western Sahara: A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009. Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2018, 256 pp., ISBN 978-1-7829-7172-6 (hardcover)
Māori settlement of New Zealand
The lateness and prominence of Polynesian colonisation of New Zealand make it an ideal place to investigate the Anthropocene. We review the Anthropocene as a process and the information needed to understand the consequences of ongoing human–environmental interaction. Elsewhere in the world, a lengthy history complicates the ability to differentiate between the impact of people on the environment and the consequences of engagement. In New Zealand,…
Digitizing Roonka
A large trolling lure shank from Ahuahu Great Mercury Island, New Zealand
Large stone trolling lure shanks, greater than 100 mm, are rare and stylistically associated with the early period of Māori occupation of Aotearoa New Zealand. The triangular-sectioned shank is distinctive and reminiscent of Polynesian forms. The 2016 find during excavations at T10/360 at Waitapu in Coralie Bay, Ahuahu Great Mercury Island, is the first to be recovered in an archaeological context and only the third large shank attributed to the …
Kom W and X Basin
Artefact Categories, Artefact Assemblages and Ontological Alterity
Joan Gero argued that archaeological interpretation is not the accumulation of truth but rather an ideological construct. Post-colonial studies building on Gero's work critique notions of universal value, that aspects of human cultural heritage hold value for all peoples. However, these studies are not specific about what a post-colonial analysis of the archaeological record might look like, particularly involving material culture categories. Wha…
Quantification of stone artefacts assemblages in Aotearoa New Zealand
Many of the popular models of pre-European Māori settlement rely on the quantification of stone artefact abundance when made from different raw materials. Relative proportions of these materials provide the basis for inferences about mobility, trade and exchange, and social interactions. However, a number of methods for calculating artefact abundance exist with these reflecting different aspects of artefact completeness, fragmentation, and artefa…
Experimental Improvements to the Volume Ratio and Quantifying Movement Using Stone Artefact Analysis
Many conceptual frameworks of archaeological assemblages have assumed that stone artefact assemblages include all products of manufacture, use, and discard, although recent studies have indicated this is not always the case. The volume ratio is a method that examines the potential for the removal or addition of stone artefacts to an assemblage after manufacture. As humans transport material, and the movement of material effects the composition of…
Archaeological site types, and assemblage size and diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand
Archaeological settlement models involve the identification of functional site types like base camps and extraction sites based, in part, on differences in the range and frequency of artefact types and fauna. Using reports describing such assemblages from Aotearoa (New Zealand) archaeological sites dating to the first 300 years after initial colonisation, differences in assemblage composition are assessed against total assemblage size. Aotearoa p…
Raw Material Economisation in Aotearoa New Zealand
Raw materials are used to characterise the early settlement of Aotearoa Te Wai Pounamu New Zealand by Māori. Current models suggest change in raw material use over time occurred in response to changing social organisation and reduced resource availability. However, few studies have examined spatial variation in raw material use. Here we examine four basalt artefact assemblages from Ahuahu Great Mercury Island to examine potential spatial variatio…
The “too hard box”
Archaeological collections held by universities represent a persistent challenge in decolonising and re-imagining collections within academic contexts. Situated between research and education, these collections often develop over many decades of field-based research carried out by staff with varied interests. Within neo-liberalising university contexts and increasingly challenging funding environments, collections often find themselves placed in …
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