Richard Fullagar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 86978 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Fullagar |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Fullagar |
| FIRMA | FULLAGAR R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1047-1466 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 100 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1271 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 18 |
Recent archaeological investigations at Widgingarri Shelter 1, northwest Australia
Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia
Silcrete and chert are commonly represented in Aboriginal archaeological lithic assemblages across large parts of the southwestern Murray‐Darling Basin (MDB). In South Australia (SA), these materials were sourced from a series of quarries located along the incised course of the Murray River through the upper Riverland region. However, only cursory details have been recorded for these quarries and there remains a lack of reliable chronological dat…
Processing of Pueraria montana var. lobata (kudzu bean) and Colocasia esculenta (Taro ) during the early holocene at kuk swamp in the papua new guinea highlands
Identifying use-related residues from stone artefacts has become increasingly important in determining starchy plant exploitation over time and in different locales. Standard methods for processing residues samples are widely available but there is no clear consensus on suitable methods for attributing unknown starch grains to known plant taxa. We revisit the case study of a flaked stone artefact (K/76/S29B) recovered from Phase 1 (c. 10,000 ka) …
Traditional cultural knowledge and functional analysis of a non-returning wangim (boomerang) from Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, southeastern Australia
Boomerangs are part of a suite of Australian throwing sticks, which are specialised wooden implements of purposeful design and aerodynamic properties that are used as projectiles. While throwing sticks are known to occur throughout Australia, they are less commonly found in buried contexts. In this paper, we report on a single, non-returning wooden wangim (boomerang) recovered from a reported burial mound at Yarra Junction, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung…
New braided knowledge understandings of an Aboriginal earth ring and biik wurrdha (Jacksons Creek, Sunbury) on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, southeastern Australia
Aboriginal rings are circular, earth (or rock) features that are preserved at increasingly fewer locations across eastern Australia today. While previous studies indicate these rings are sacred locations of ceremony, little is documented from cultural values and landscape perspectives–particularly in southeastern Australia. This study applies a braided knowledge approach to the study of an Aboriginal earth ring, and the broader biik wurrdha (Jack…
Andrew Border (20 July 1954–11 March 2024)
Garden Range 2
This paper provides new insights into the long-term history of Aboriginal use of mountainous Victoria over the past 25,000 years. It presents results of excavations at Garden Range 2 rock art site located on the edge of the Strathbogie Ranges in central Victoria. The excavations were a research collaboration between the Taungurung Land and Waters Council (TLaWC) and Monash University. Results indicate possible ephemeral visitation by the Old Peop…
A comparative study of early shell knife production using archaeological, experimental and ethnographic datasets
We investigate archaeological evidence for the early production of Melo (or commonly named 'baler') shell knives recovered from Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene deposits in Boodie Cave, Barrow Island. The site is in the Country of Thalanyji people in northwestern Western Australia. The oldest shell knife fragments were recovered from units dated to 46.2–42.6 ka, making this one of the oldest Homo sapiens sapiens shell tool technologies current…
Experimental use-wear patterns on silcrete, bottle glass and porcelain plate tools
Aboriginal people in Australia have used stone tools since first arrival about 65,000 years ago. After permanent European colonisation over 200 years ago people continued to use stone, but also incorporated new, introduced tool materials in novel ways. To understand how these introduced materials supplemented or replaced stone, we need new functional analyses and reference databases that compare experimental use-wear patterns on introduced materi…
Paradigm shifts and ontological turns at Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai Country, Australia
In recent years, a number of authors have theorized an “ontological turn” that is reorienting research in the human and social sciences. In this setting, we have witnessed an increasing number of anthropological and archaeological works seeking to recognize ontological difference among a variety of human groups, from Indigenous societies to Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. While ontological approaches have been restricted to anatomically modern huma…
A functional study of denticulate sickles and knives, ground stone tools from the early Neolithic Peiligang culture, China
Use-polished stone flakes from Liang Bua, Indonesia
Edge-glossed flakes, usually recognised as stone tools with macroscopically visible polish from use, have been documented in parts of Southeast Asia from contexts spanning the past 12,000 years and possibly more than 30,000 years. It has been proposed that the edges of these flakes were polished by cutting, splitting or otherwise processing siliceous and fibrous plants for matting, basketry and bindings, and possibly by the reaping of cereals suc…
Holocene grinding stones at Madjedbebe reveal the processing of starchy plant taxa and animal tissue
Years and Worlds Apart
In this paper we report on new research at the iconic archaeological site of Cloggs Cave (GunaiKurnai Country), in the southern foothills of SE Australia’s Great Dividing Range. Detailed chronometric dating, combined with high-resolution 3D mapping, geomorphological studies and archaeological excavations, now allow a dense sequence of Late Holocene ash layers and their contents to be correlated with GunaiKurnai ethnography and current knowledge. …
Head, Lesley M.
Stone Tool Usewear and Residue Analysis
Functional studies of flaked and ground stone artefacts reveal starchy tree nut and root exploitation in mid-Holocene highland New Guinea
Ground stone technology for processing starchy plant foods has its origins in the late Pleistocene, with subsequent intensification and transformation of this technology coinciding with the global emergence of agriculture in the early Holocene. On the island of New Guinea, agriculture first emerges in the highland Wahgi Valley, potentially from c. 9 kya, and clearly evident by 6.5 kya. Approximately 400 km further east in the highland Ivane Valle…
Wala-gaay Guwingal
Aboriginal culturally modified trees are a distinctive feature of the Australian archaeological record, generating insights into Aboriginal interactions with wood and bark, which rarely survive in archaeological contexts. However, they are under-studied, in decline and typically presumed to pre-date the 20th century. Here we investigate the origin of a scar with a stone tool embedded in the scar overgrowth, located in the Central Tablelands, New …
Tool-use experiments to determine the function of an incised ground stone artefact with potential symbolic significance
Ground stone implements are found across most Australian landscapes and are often regarded as Aboriginal tools that were used for processing or modifying other items such as plant foods, plant fibres, resins, bone points, pigments and ground-stone axes and knives. Less common are ground stones modified for non-utilitarian, symbolic purposes; for example, polished and carved stone ornaments; ritual implements such as cylcons and tjuringa sacred st…
Raman and optical microscopy of bone micro-residues on cobbles from the Cerutti mastodon site
A key to identify use-related micro-residues on prehistoric stone artefacts using Raman spectroscopy
An unusual, incised ground stone artefact from southwestern Victoria, Australia
An unusual, incised sandstone artefact recovered during an archaeological salvage program in Bannockburn, southwestern Victoria, has been uniformly ground and contains sets of regularly spaced, shallow grooves on either side. Microscopic study indicates that the grooves were incised with stone and used to sharpen or shape the edges of wooden implements. The wear outside the grooves indicates contact with soft wood or other plant material, possibl…
Archaeological site interpretation using experimental quantitative and qualitative data
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Reply to comments on Clarkson et al. (2017) ‘Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’
We thank the authors for their comments in the previous issue of Australian Archaeology. The 2012-2015 research at Madjedbebe offers a new and comprehensive look at the early occupation of Sahul and adds substantially to our knowledge of the timing of that event and the behaviour of the first people to enter the region. Establishing occupation of northern Australia by 65 ± 6 thousand years ago (ka, with the uncertainty expressed at 95.4% probabil…
Raman spectroscopy of lipid micro-residues on Middle Palaeolithic stone tools from Denisova Cave, Siberia
The Early to Middle Stone Age Transition and the Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Sudan
The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II)
Pleistocene seed-grinding implements from the Australian arid zone
Grinding-stones as a technology are seen as a key element in the artefactual transformations of the latest Pleistocene - both for themselves and the foods which were ground on them. In Australia, as in other regions, their age and status is also material to what (if any) kind of a broad-spectrum revolution in foraging accompanied them
Integrating Phytoliths within Use-Wear/Residue Studies of Stone Tools
The role of silica in Polish formation
New Pleistocene ages for backed artefact technology in Australia
Two recently excavated sites adjacent to the Gregory River at Riversleigh in northwestern Queensland have yielded backed artefacts from Pleistocene sediments. One backed artefact is from an 80 cm deep, dense shell midden near the Old Lilydale Homestead (OLH) and radiocarbon determinations on associated freshwater mussel Alathyria cf. pertexta returned Late Pleistocene ages. Two backed artefacts from the limestone rockshelter GRE8 were also recove…
Early human occupation of northern Australia
The nature and date of the human colonization of Australia remains a key issue in prehistory at the world scale, for a sufficiently early presence there indicates either Homo sapiens sapiens arriving precociously in a place remote from a supposed African origin, or a greater competence in sea-crossing than has been expected of archaic humans. Stratigraphic integrity, the new science of luminescent dating and the recognition of worked stone and of…
Clues to Stone Tool Function Re-examined
Sandstone grinding/pounding tools
Hunter-gatherer archaeology and pastoral contact
We discuss four components of the post‐European archaeological record of the northwest Northern Territory, Australia; site locations and contents, rock art, stone tools, and evidence of plant food use. These provide insights into how Aboriginal hunter‐gatherers have negotiated their interaction with pastoral colonization, and the conditions under which either continuity or change occurred. The strongest influence on both the latter was Aboriginal…
Evidence for Pleistocene seed grinding at Lake Mungo, south‐eastern Australia
Grinding stones and fragments have often been found in archaeological sites at Lake Mungo, south‐western New South Wales, and their function has mostly been inferred on the basis of grindstone morphology. Of particular interest has been the antiquity of grass seed grinding, which is usually associated with deeply grooved, large sandstone dishes. Previous studies of grinding stones from the region have found no compelling evidence for seed grindin…
A functional analysis of grinding stones from an early holocene site at Donghulin, North China
Humans and megafauna in a late Pleistocene environment from Cuddie Springs, north western New South Wales
We report the first site in Australia with a dated association of human technology and megafauna, in a palaeoenvironmental context. There are few sites in Australia where evidence of humans and Pleistocene megafauna coincide (Flannery and Gott, 1984; Flood, 1983 151–159; Gillespie et al., 1978; Gorecki et al., 1984). Such coincidences are often poorly dated or undated due to their antiquity or stratigraphic context. Cuddie Springs contains severa…
Aboriginal Settlement during the LGM at Brockman, Pilbara Region, Western Australia
This paper describes the results and implications of recent excavations on the Hamersley Iron Brockman 4 tenement, near Tom Price, Western Australia. Results concentrate on two rock shelters with Aboriginal occupation starting at least 32,000 years ago and extending throughout the Last Glacial period. Preliminary observations are proposed concerning the nature of Aboriginal foraging patterns as displayed in the flaked stone and faunal records for…
Identifying specialisation, production and exchange in the archaeological record
Analyses of shell beads and stone drillpoints from Motupore Island, near Port Moresby, PNG contribute to the debate about the specialised role of the site in a prehistoric exchange network as well as to theoretical discussions concerning the relationship between craft specialisation and social stratification. The presence of drillpoints, which are specialised and efficient tools for making beads, demonstrates a level of technological efficiency e…
Usewear and residue analysis of stone artefacts from the Enclosed Chamber, Rocky Cape, Tasmania
The Enclosed Chamber from the Rocky Cape South excavations of Rhys Jones (1971) contained a sealed, intact, 6,000 year old living area with excellent organic preservation and minimal post depositional disturbance. From a selection of 150 stones, RF identified 43 used implements with a total of 55 utilised edges/surfaces, after examining usewear and a preliminary analysis of residues. Only six artefacts had retouch. Specific activities identified …
The Palaeolithic in the Philippines
This report presents an overview of the state of Palaeolithic archaeology in the Philippines, a type of study that began about 80 years ago. A number of Palaeolithic sites have been investigated, mainly on the islands of Palawan and Luzon. Indications for the presence of early human occupation can be found in the Middle Pleistocene, while the oldest human fossils associated with Palaeolithic stone tools are about 50,000 years old. Morphological, …
Grinding grounds
What did grinding stones grind? New light on Early Neolithic subsistence economy in the Middle Yellow River Valley, China
Grinding stones have provided a convenient proxy for the arrival of agriculture in Neolithic China. Not any more. Thanks to high-precision analyses of use-wear and starch residue, the authors show that early Neolithic people were mainly using these stones to process acorns. This defines a new stage in the long transition of food production from hunter-gatherer to farmer
Obsidian sources at Mopir, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea
On the island of New Britain obsidian has been found at Talasea, Mopir, Witori and Rabaul. Research has focussed on Talasea but recent fieldwork shows that, in terms of abundance of flaking quality, obsidian exposures at Mopir rank as equal to any in the Talasea area. As forecast by Specht and Hollis (1982:426), current views on obsidian exploitation and exchange can now be refined
Movement of lithics by trampling
Changing ecological concerns in rock-art subject matter of north Australia's Keep River region
The Keep River region has a complex body of engraved and painted rock-art, distinct from but with links to regions to the east, west and south. At least four major periods of figurative rock-art have been identified with differing subject matters and ages. Significant changes in depictions of human figures and animals are evident, reflecting shifts in emphasis associated with ecological concerns and environmental change. We flesh out the relative…
Minimum ages for pecked rock markings from Jinmium, north western Australia
Sixteen accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon (14C) determinations for oxalate crusts overlying three pecked rock markings (cupules) at three separate localities in the Keep River area of north western Australia provide age estimates from 1430–11,000 years since the markings were last retouched. These are the first direct dates reported for rock‐art of this kind. While these determinations do not lend strong support to previous argument…
Prehistoric Obsidian Exchange in Melanesia
The Talasea region in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea figures prominently in the prehistory of the western Pacific. During the last 12,000 years at least, it was a major source of the obsidian which was transported widely throughout the western Pacific Islands, particularly during the time of Lapita pottery (e.g. Ambrose and Green 1972; Ambrose 1976; Best 1987; Specht et al. 1981; cf. Allen and White in press). In addition, Lapita pot…
Raman spectroscopy of lipid micro-residues on Middle Palaeolithic stone tools from Denisova Cave, Siberia
User-wear and residues on stone tools. Functional Analysis and its application to two southeastern Australian archaeological assemblages
2. User-wear and residues on stone tools. Functional Analysis and its application to two southeastern Australian archaeological assemblages." Australian Archaeology, 24(1), pp. 54–55
Archaeometry
Prehistoric Obsidian Exchange in Melanesia
The Talasea region in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea figures prominently in the prehistory of the western Pacific. During the last 12,000 years at least, it was a major source of the obsidian which was transported widely throughout the western Pacific Islands, particularly during the time of Lapita pottery (e.g. Ambrose and Green 1972; Ambrose 1976; Best 1987; Specht et al. 1981; cf. Allen and White in press). In addition, Lapita pot…
Engraved Diprotodon tooth from the Spring Creek locality, Victoria
A Reconstructed Obsidian Core From The Talasea Excavations
A Reconstructed Obsidian Core From The Talasea Excavations." Australian Archaeology, 30(1), pp. 79–80
The role of silica in Polish formation
[Diversity, Continuity and Change in the History of the Bismarck Archipelago] What Was the Significance of Lapita Pottery at Talasea
Obsidian sources at Mopir, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea
On the island of New Britain obsidian has been found at Talasea, Mopir, Witori and Rabaul. Research has focussed on Talasea but recent fieldwork shows that, in terms of abundance of flaking quality, obsidian exposures at Mopir rank as equal to any in the Talasea area. As forecast by Specht and Hollis (1982:426), current views on obsidian exploitation and exchange can now be refined
Humans and megafauna in a late Pleistocene environment from Cuddie Springs, north western New South Wales
We report the first site in Australia with a dated association of human technology and megafauna, in a palaeoenvironmental context. There are few sites in Australia where evidence of humans and Pleistocene megafauna coincide (Flannery and Gott, 1984; Flood, 1983 151–159; Gillespie et al., 1978; Gorecki et al., 1984). Such coincidences are often poorly dated or undated due to their antiquity or stratigraphic context. Cuddie Springs contains severa…
Back Fill
Trench Shoring For Archaeologists And The Randwick Grave Digging Course
Victorian offshore islands in a mainland coastal economy
In English literature, the sea is often seen as a testing ground for the human spirit, and islands, like ships, provide a ready literary v watercraft; and stone tool production. This survey will provide data that will clarify the use of the islands in Victoria as well as further our knowledge of economies and settlement history on the adjacent mainland territories
Residues on stone artefacts
It is a startling experience to look down a microscope at a stone tool - a real Palaeolithic artefact, not a modern thing or a replicated copy - and see on its flint surface grubby brown-red stains that look the colour of old blood. Is a consensus emerging from the archaeological scientists as to just what traces of, especially, biological materials do survive on ancient stone surfaces, where they can be reliably characterized and identified
Early human occupation of northern Australia
The nature and date of the human colonization of Australia remains a key issue in prehistory at the world scale, for a sufficiently early presence there indicates either Homo sapiens sapiens arriving precociously in a place remote from a supposed African origin, or a greater competence in sea-crossing than has been expected of archaic humans. Stratigraphic integrity, the new science of luminescent dating and the recognition of worked stone and of…
Australian Museum starch reference collection
One of the major limitations on research into plant management systems in Oceania has been the lack of appropriate methods for recovering macroscopic remains in these settings with high rainfall and acid soils. Starch grains have been recognised in archaeological sediments and as residue on the surface of stone tools (Loy 1994; Therin 1994; Therin et al. in press). Accurate identification of these grains would enable a much greater understanding …
Residue and use-wear analysis of grinding implements from Puntutjarpa Rockshelter in the Western Desert
The excavation of Puntutjarpa Rockshelter, located within the Western Desert Culture Bloc, provided the first complete Holocene sequence for Aboriginal occupation of the arid interior of Australia (Gould 1977). Continuities in artefact sequences at this site were used to typify the conservatism of desert adaptations in Australia generally (Gould 1977:75; 1980:146)
Investigating Changing Attitudes Towards an Australian Aboriginal Dreaming Mountain Over >37,000 Years of Occupation via Residue and Use Wear Analyses of Stone Artefacts
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Identifying specialisation, production and exchange in the archaeological record
Analyses of shell beads and stone drillpoints from Motupore Island, near Port Moresby, PNG contribute to the debate about the specialised role of the site in a prehistoric exchange network as well as to theoretical discussions concerning the relationship between craft specialisation and social stratification. The presence of drillpoints, which are specialised and efficient tools for making beads, demonstrates a level of technological efficiency e…
Hunter-gatherer archaeology and pastoral contact
We discuss four components of the post‐European archaeological record of the northwest Northern Territory, Australia; site locations and contents, rock art, stone tools, and evidence of plant food use. These provide insights into how Aboriginal hunter‐gatherers have negotiated their interaction with pastoral colonization, and the conditions under which either continuity or change occurred. The strongest influence on both the latter was Aboriginal…
Cupule engravings from Jinmium-Granilpi (northern Australia) and beyond
Antiquity last year reported a startlingly old series of dates from Jinmium in tropical north Australia. At Jinmium are old rock-engravings, the pecked cups or cupules that are widespread in Australia. This study of the Jinmium cupules goes beyond that immediate topic to broader issues
Pleistocene seed-grinding implements from the Australian arid zone
Grinding-stones as a technology are seen as a key element in the artefactual transformations of the latest Pleistocene - both for themselves and the foods which were ground on them. In Australia, as in other regions, their age and status is also material to what (if any) kind of a broad-spectrum revolution in foraging accompanied them
Optical and radiocarbon dating at Jinmium rock shelter in northern Australia
Clues to Stone Tool Function Re-examined
Archaeological Research In The Keep River Region, Northern Territory
Archaeological Research In The Keep River Region, Northern Territory." Australian Archaeology, 49(1), pp. 45–46
Integrating Phytoliths within Use-Wear/Residue Studies of Stone Tools
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