Patrick Faulkner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 635459 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patrick Faulkner |
| NOMBRES | Patrick |
| APELLIDO | Faulkner |
| FIRMA | FAULKNER P |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1876-6915 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 516 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1950 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Seasonal and gendered patterns in subsistence fishing and shellfish gathering
The village of Mfumbwi (Jambiani, Zanzibar Island) is home to maritime fishers and shellfish gatherers who use traditional methods to harvest marine fauna for subsistence. This study examines the extent to which seasonality and gendered patterns of behavior affect the marine subsistence record of Mfumbwi using an extensive ethnographic maritime subsistence dataset (MS-1819) collected between June 2018 and June 2019. As we show, seasonality driven…
Gleaning the Rocky Shore? 2500 Years of Coastal Resource Use at Red Bluff 1, GunaiKurnai Country, SE Australia
Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short‐duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high‐diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a location that features the first intertidal rocky platform habitat between Wilsons Promontory in the west and …
Dietary tryptophan predicts resting state functional connectivity within the emotion regulation network
Standing back, thinking forward, acting globally
Archaeology of Australia’s coastline
In Australia as elsewhere in the world, coastal archaeological sites are increasingly threatened by rising seas and changing storm patterns, along with encroaching human activities. Understanding the geomorphological context is key to understanding the positioning of archaeological deposits in or on coastal landforms, their vulnerability to erosion and their resilience and capacity for longer-term management and preservation. Here we review the d…
Communicating your point of view
What is it like to give birth? Or have your first child? Or see red for the first time? Arguably, knowing how to answer these questions requires having certain experiences. Arguably you cannot get to know what it is like to give birth, for instance, by simply reading someone's birth story. If this is so, then there are certain limits on testimony as a source of knowledge. This claim is familiar: it has been argued that we cannot, or should not, r…
Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar
Unguja Ukuu, located on the Zanzibar Archipelago, eastern Africa, was an active Indian Ocean trading settlement from the mid-first millennium until the early second millennium AD. As part of recent archaeological excavations aimed at understanding the site’s transregional trade networks, geoarchaeological analyses were undertaken to document the geomorphic context of the ancient settlement. Here, we outline the results of these field and laborato…
Lockdown
To protect against COVID-19, the UK Government imposed a national lockdown that shut schools and business, and required people to stay at home. This lockdown instituted a social coordination problem: it demanded the individual bear a cost – a significant restriction to their movement – in order to achieve a collective good. Initially there were remarkably high levels of social compliance with the lockdown restrictions, but the Government defense …
The presumption of assurance
According to the Assurance Theory of testimony, in telling an audience something, a speaker offers their assurance that what is told is true, which is something like their guarantee, or promise, of truth. However, speakers also tell lies and say things they do not have the authority to back up. So why does understanding tellings to be a form of assurance explain how tellings can provide a reason for belief? This paper argues that reasons come onc…
The Exchange of Words
Much of our knowledge of the world comes through testimony. When philosophers have attempted to explain this fact, it has been natural to apply existing epistemologies. Thus, testimony can be thought of as just another sign in the world, indicating its truth in the same way that smoke indicates fire. Understood in this way, testimonial knowledge might be explained in reliabilist terms, since both the receipt of a speaker's words and the observati…
Investigating intentionality of burning through macroscopic taphonomy in complex legacy funerary assemblages
Australian Archaeological Association Inc. (AAA)
Middle to Late Holocene near-shore foraging strategies at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea
Toponyms from 3000 years ago? Implications for the history and structure of the Yolŋu social formation in north‐east Arnhem Land
The paper focuses on a set of toponyms found on the coast of Blue Mud Bay in northern Australia, in an area today occupied by Yolŋu (Murngin) peoples. In the first part of the paper, we present an analysis, based on geomorphological, archaeological, anthropological and linguistic evidence, to suggest that these toponyms have been in place for at least 3000 years, and that they are early Yolŋu toponyms. We then argue that certain social practices …
Towards a Historical Ecology of Intertidal Foraging in the Mafia Archipelago
Understanding the timing and nature of human influence on coastal and island ecosystems is becoming a central concern in archaeological research, particularly when investigated within a historical ecology framework. Unfortunately, the coast and islands of eastern Africa have not figured significantly within this growing body of literature, but are important given their historically contingent environmental, social, and political contexts, as well…
Indirect Communication, Authority, and Proclamation as a Normative Power
Year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of research on this transition is currently focused on southern Africa due to a lack of long-term, stratified sites across much of the African continent. Here, we report a 78,000-year-long archeological record from Panga ya Saidi, a cave in the humid coastal forest of Kenya. Fo…
Long-term Trends in Terrestrial and Marine Invertebrate Exploitation on the Eastern African Coast
The nature and trajectory of coastal and maritime adaptations, and the complex ways foraging economies have been structured to include both marine and terrestrial resources, are becoming key topics of interest in African archaeological research. There is, therefore, an increasing need to understand the longer-term context for more recent shifts in coastal economies, and for greater attention to be paid to the role of a broader spectrum of resourc…
Analysis of pit and score tooth-mark sizes from bones modified by Holocene Australian terrestrial fauna in relation to body size
Trust and the Radical Ethical Demand
Macroscopic approaches to the identification of expedient bivalve tools
Current methodological issues in archaeomalacological studies
Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age
Ruisasi 1 and the Earliest Evidence of Mass-produced Ceramics in Caution Bay (Port Moresby Region), Papua New Guinea
The history of pottery use along the south coast of Papua New Guinea spans from Lapita times, here dated to 2900–2600 cal BP, through to mass production of pottery associated with a number of ethnographically-known interaction (and exchange) networks. Understanding the antecedents and developmental histories of these interaction networks is of considerable importance to archaeological research from local to western Pacific geographical scales. Th…
The ebb and flow
This thesis is primarily concerned with human-environment interactions on the tropical coast of northern Australia during the late Holocene. Based on the suggestion that significant change can occur within short time-frames as a direct result of interactive processes, the archaeological evidence from the Point Blane peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, is used to address the issue of how much change and variability occurred in hunter-gatherer economic and so…
The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II)
Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory
Recent archaeological research has firmly established eastern Africa's offshore islands as important localities for understanding the region's pre-Swahili maritime adaptations and early Indian Ocean trade connections. While the importance of the sea and small offshore islands to the development of urbanized and mercantile Swahili societies has long been recognized, the formative stages of island colonization—and in particular the processes by whi…
Climate variability in the mid to late Holocene Arnhem Land Region, North Australia
A number of archaeologists have suggested that significant climatic change with environmental and social consequences occurred between 1000 and 400 years ago in the Indo‐Pacific region. We investigate this premise by examining the archaeological record of changes in hunter‐gatherer economies in three geographically distinct coastal regions of tropical northern Australia. These case studies support the argument that Aboriginal mollusc exploitation…
New Direction In Human Colonisation of The Pacific
Expansion of Austronesianspeaking peoples from the Bismarck Archipelago out into the Pacific commencing c.3300 cal BP represents the last great chapter of human global colonisation. Bismarck Indonesia Archipelago Papua New Guinea Torres Strait Caution Bay The earliest migrants were bearers of finelymade dentate-stamped Lapita pottery, hitherto found only across Island Melanesia and western Polynesia. We document the first known occurrence of Lapi…
Focused, intense and long-term
Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation
The late Pleistocene and Holocene history of eastern Africa is complex and major gaps remain in our understanding of human occupation during this period. Questions concerning the identities, geographical distributions and chronologies of foraging, herding and agricultural populations — often problematically equated with the chronological labels ‘Later Stone Age (LSA)’, ‘Neolithic’ and ‘Iron Age’ — are still unresolved. Previous studies at the sit…
Life on the Margins
The research presented here is primarily concerned with human-environment interactions on the tropical coast of northern Australia during the late Holocene. Based on the suggestion that significant change can occur within short time-frames as a direct result of interactive processes, the archaeological evidence from the Point Blane Peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, is used to address the issue of how much change and variability occurred in hunter-gatherer…
A refined protocol for calculating MNI in archaeological molluscan shell assemblages
Morphometric and taphonomic analysis of granular ark (Anadara granosa) dominated shell deposits of Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia
Castle Planning in the Fourteenth Century
Late Holocene mollusc exploitation and changing near-shore environments
Occupation on the coastal margins of northern Australia over the mid to late Holocene characteristically reflects chronological and spatial variability in settlement and subsistence. In many geographically diverse regions across the tropical coast, the archaeological record indicates patterns of molluscan resource exploitation that reflects the altered local ecological habitats that accompanied broader coastal environmental change over the last f…
Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age
Patterns of chronological variability in occupation on the coastal margin of Blue Mud Bay
This paper presents an analysis of radiocarbon dating of shell mounds and middens in Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia. The aim is to investigate variability in use of the landscape and foraging activity through time. By considering both mounded and non‐mounded shell deposits, results indicate that occupation and use of coastal landscapes during the Holocene in this region of northeast Arnhem Land was highly variable, with several overlapping phas…
Domestic Planning from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries
(1958). Domestic Planning from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 115, No. 1, pp. 150-183
Quantifying shell weight loss in archaeological deposits
While a range of physical and chemical taphonomic processes are known to affect archaeological shell assemblages, it has been difficult to directly quantify the effects of these degradational processes on the shell itself. Here the measurements of Anadara granosa shell features are used to derive morphometric equations for estimating expected shell weights. A cubic regression model is developed to this end, based on measurements of all shell elem…
What Is Wrong with Lying
One thing wrong with lying is that it can be manipulative. Understanding why lying can be a form of manipulation involves understanding how our telling someone something can give them a reason to believe it, and understanding this requires seeing both how our telling things can invite trust and how trust can be a reason to believe someone. This paper aims to outline the mechanism by means of which lies can be manipulative and through doing so ide…
Late-Holocene occupation and coastal economy in Blue Mud Bay, northeast Arnhem Land
Twelve months of archaeological excavation and survey were conducted on the Blane Peninsula in Blue Mud Bay over three field seasons between 2000 and 2002. During this time, 141 sites were recorded, and 16 sites were excavated. Though archaeological work in the region prior to this study has not been extensive, some general patterns have been identified that are similar to those reported by other researchers across the tropical North of Australia…
Life on the Margins (Terra Australis 38)
The research presented here is primarily concerned with human-environment interactions on the tropical coast of northern Australia during the late Holocene. Based on the suggestion that significant change can occur within short time-frames as a direct result of interactive processes, the archaeological evidence from the Point Blane Peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, is used to address
Morphometric Reconstructions And Size Variability Analysis Of The Surf Clam, Atactodea (=Paphies) Striata From Muralag 8, Southwestern Torres Strait, Northern Australia
This paper describes (a) the methods and results of a morphometric reconstruction and (b) a size variability study of a heavily fragmented Atactodea (=Paphies) striata (surf clam) assemblage recovered from a small midden on the island of Muralag in the southwest Torres Strait, Queensland. Two intense but discrete pulses of late Holocene cultural activity at the site have been determined. Phase 1 is centred around 622 cal. BP (544–674 cal. BP) and…
The ebb and flow
This thesis is primarily concerned with human-environment interactions on the tropical coast of northern Australia during the late Holocene. Based on the suggestion that significant change can occur within short time-frames as a direct result of interactive processes, the archaeological evidence from the Point Blane peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, is used to address the issue of how much change and variability occurred in hunter-gatherer economic and so…
Lockdown
To protect against COVID-19, the UK Government imposed a national lockdown that shut schools and business, and required people to stay at home. This lockdown instituted a social coordination problem: it demanded the individual bear a cost – a significant restriction to their movement – in order to achieve a collective good. Initially there were remarkably high levels of social compliance with the lockdown restrictions, but the Government defense …
Toponyms from 3000 years ago? Implications for the history and structure of the Yolŋu social formation in north‐east Arnhem Land
The paper focuses on a set of toponyms found on the coast of Blue Mud Bay in northern Australia, in an area today occupied by Yolŋu (Murngin) peoples. In the first part of the paper, we present an analysis, based on geomorphological, archaeological, anthropological and linguistic evidence, to suggest that these toponyms have been in place for at least 3000 years, and that they are early Yolŋu toponyms. We then argue that certain social practices …
Some Medieval Archiepiscopal Palaces
(1970). Some Medieval Archiepiscopal Palaces. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 127, No. 1, pp. 130-146
Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar
Unguja Ukuu, located on the Zanzibar Archipelago, eastern Africa, was an active Indian Ocean trading settlement from the mid-first millennium until the early second millennium AD. As part of recent archaeological excavations aimed at understanding the site’s transregional trade networks, geoarchaeological analyses were undertaken to document the geomorphic context of the ancient settlement. Here, we outline the results of these field and laborato…
Investigating intentionality of burning through macroscopic taphonomy in complex legacy funerary assemblages
Nottingham House
Kensington Palace and Sir Christopher Wren
(1951). Kensington Palace and Sir Christopher Wren: A Vindication. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-10
Domestic Planning from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries
(1958). Domestic Planning from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 115, No. 1, pp. 150-183
Castle Planning in the Fourteenth Century
Medieval Undercrofts and Town Houses
Some Medieval Archiepiscopal Palaces
(1970). Some Medieval Archiepiscopal Palaces. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 127, No. 1, pp. 130-146
Maxstoke Castle, Warwickshire
The architectural development of Maxstoke Castle is described, in the light of its historical background and of relevant documents. It began as a meticulously planned fortified quadrangular house of the Earl of Huntingdon in c c.1345, and continued as a major residence of the Stafford family until 1521. After neglect in the sixteenth century, it was refurbished following its purchase by Sir Thomas Dilke in 1599. Despite further alterations, its t…
On the Rationality of our Response to Testimony
Late-Holocene occupation and coastal economy in Blue Mud Bay, northeast Arnhem Land
Twelve months of archaeological excavation and survey were conducted on the Blane Peninsula in Blue Mud Bay over three field seasons between 2000 and 2002. During this time, 141 sites were recorded, and 16 sites were excavated. Though archaeological work in the region prior to this study has not been extensive, some general patterns have been identified that are similar to those reported by other researchers across the tropical North of Australia…
Dating the Dreaming? Creation of Myths and Rituals for Mounds along the Northern Australian Coastline
Shell mounds ceased to be built in many parts of coastal northern Australia about 800–600 years ago. They are the subject of stories told by Aboriginal people and some have been incorporated in ritual and political activities during the last 150 years. These understandings emerged only after termination of the economic and environmental system that created them, 800–600 years ago, in a number of widely separated coastal regions. Modern stories an…
What Is Wrong with Lying
One thing wrong with lying is that it can be manipulative. Understanding why lying can be a form of manipulation involves understanding how our telling someone something can give them a reason to believe it, and understanding this requires seeing both how our telling things can invite trust and how trust can be a reason to believe someone. This paper aims to outline the mechanism by means of which lies can be manipulative and through doing so ide…
Climate variability in the mid to late Holocene Arnhem Land Region, North Australia
A number of archaeologists have suggested that significant climatic change with environmental and social consequences occurred between 1000 and 400 years ago in the Indo‐Pacific region. We investigate this premise by examining the archaeological record of changes in hunter‐gatherer economies in three geographically distinct coastal regions of tropical northern Australia. These case studies support the argument that Aboriginal mollusc exploitation…
Procedures for measuring women's influence
Preparing data from artefact catalogues of previously published German excavation reports, in the project 'Engendering Roman Spaces', required ongoing refinement of data translation and digital manipulation using a variety of software packages. This process included the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, spreadsheets, database and graphics programs, and the final presentation of the data in ArcGIS as an interpretative tool. With…
Focused, intense and long-term
Patterns of chronological variability in occupation on the coastal margin of Blue Mud Bay
This paper presents an analysis of radiocarbon dating of shell mounds and middens in Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia. The aim is to investigate variability in use of the landscape and foraging activity through time. By considering both mounded and non‐mounded shell deposits, results indicate that occupation and use of coastal landscapes during the Holocene in this region of northeast Arnhem Land was highly variable, with several overlapping phas…
Artefact Assemblage Characteristics and Distribution on the Point Blane Peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, Arnhem Land
Previous analysis of the archaeological material recorded on the Point Blane Peninsula in Blue Mud Bay has highlighted the dominance of shell deposits within this landscape. While only minimally represented within the study area, the stone artefact assemblage characteristics, the level of artefact reduction, raw material use and the distribution of artefacts across the peninsula all suggest that, while there may not have been a heavy reliance on …
Morphometric and taphonomic analysis of granular ark (Anadara granosa) dominated shell deposits of Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia
Knowledge on Trust
"We know a lot about the world and our place in it. We have come to this knowledge in a variety of ways. And one central way that we, both as individuals and as a society, have come to know what we do is through communication with others. Much of what we know, we know on the basis of testimony. In 'Knowledge on Trust', Paul Faulkner presents an epistemological theory of testimony, or a theory that explains how it is that we acquire knowledge and …
Holocene settlement of the northern coastal plains, Northern Territory, Australia
The northern Australian coastal plains are relatively recent landforms that have undergone dynamic evolution over the last 10,000 years. Over 300 radiocarbon dates have enabled archaeologists and geomorphologists to provide a more detailed interpretation of human settlement and resource use. This paper provides a synthesis of the archaeological evidence and integrates it within the palaeo-environmental frameworks. It characterises the timing, pat…
New Direction In Human Colonisation of The Pacific
Expansion of Austronesianspeaking peoples from the Bismarck Archipelago out into the Pacific commencing c.3300 cal BP represents the last great chapter of human global colonisation. Bismarck Indonesia Archipelago Papua New Guinea Torres Strait Caution Bay The earliest migrants were bearers of finelymade dentate-stamped Lapita pottery, hitherto found only across Island Melanesia and western Polynesia. We document the first known occurrence of Lapi…
New Radiocarbon Dates for Kulpi Mara Rockshelter, Central Australia
Kulpi Mara is one of three known late Pleistocene sites in Central Australia. Four recent radiocarbon determinations combined with 7 earlier results clarify the sedimentation history and occupation phases at the rockshelter. The sequence shows a number of pulses of occupation, the earliest dating between c.34,178 and 29,102 cal BP, with little use of the shelter during intermediate periods. This contrasts with the more or less continuous sequence…
Late Holocene mollusc exploitation and changing near-shore environments
Occupation on the coastal margins of northern Australia over the mid to late Holocene characteristically reflects chronological and spatial variability in settlement and subsistence. In many geographically diverse regions across the tropical coast, the archaeological record indicates patterns of molluscan resource exploitation that reflects the altered local ecological habitats that accompanied broader coastal environmental change over the last f…
Quantifying shell weight loss in archaeological deposits
While a range of physical and chemical taphonomic processes are known to affect archaeological shell assemblages, it has been difficult to directly quantify the effects of these degradational processes on the shell itself. Here the measurements of Anadara granosa shell features are used to derive morphometric equations for estimating expected shell weights. A cubic regression model is developed to this end, based on measurements of all shell elem…
Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast
Insights into Austronesian environmental impacts on the New Guinea mainland are negligible, as until now no conclusive evidence for Lapita settlement of mainland New Guinea had been found (e.g. Lilley 2008:79) and the period of concern reveals 'very little correlation with [anthropogenic] environmental change' (Hope and Haberle 2005:548). The recent excavation of Lapita and post-Lapita sites dating between 2900 and 2000 years ago at Caution Bay i…
Forum Introduction
We thank all the commentators for their thoughtful comments, and especially Jim Specht for initiating this stimulating Forum on the discovery of Lapita ceramics at Caution Bay on the south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea. All flag numerous important implications of these discoveries for Pacific archaeology. To make the most economical use of our limited space to respond, we address key Lapita-related criticisms and queries raised by the five c…
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