Nigel Spooner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3073087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel Spooner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel |
| FAMILY NAME | Spooner |
| SIGNATURE | SPOONER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia
Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia
The geoarchaeology of a Holocene site on the Woolshed Embankment, Lake George, New South Wales
An extensive scatter of stone artefacts recorded as Site WE-1 on the Woolshed Embankment at the northern end of Lake George in southern NSW has been examined in the light of recent information on the lake’s history. Optical dates show that the core of the embankment formed between ~22,000 and 15,000 ya. Archaeological materials have survived in the overlying deposits, though they have been affected to a degree by repeated cultivation. These archa…
What to make of the ‘Murchison Cement’?A re-examination of a megafaunal fossil site in the Mid West, Western Australia
The ‘Murchison Cement’ is a term that has been informally used since the 1960s to describe numerous stratigraphic units in the middle catchment of the Murchison and Greenough Rivers, in Mid West Western Australia. The significance of these deposits relates to their embedded artefact and megafaunal assemblages, uncovered by investigations from the Franco-Australian Quaternary Project (FAQP) during the 1970s. Researchers still debate the contempora…
The central lowlands of the Hunter Valley, NSW: Why so few early sites have been found in this archaeologically-rich landscape
The central lowlands of the Hunter Valley are rich in Holocene-aged open stone artefact concentrations but, to date, very few verified traces of Pleistocene occupation have been found there. The central lowlands would have been a reasonably attractive place to live, so logic suggests that there should be Pleistocene sites. Given the geomorphic and soil formation processes that have operated over the potentially long period of Aboriginal occupatio…
Prehistoric mining at Olympic Dam in arid South Australia
A site in the Olympic Dam area, recorded during archaeological surveying as a silcrete quarry, was investigated. Hand‐excavated squares and subsequent machine‐excavated trenches revealed an ancient “mine” rather than a simple surface quarry. Blocks of high‐quality silcrete were levered from below the ground surface and many were knapped in the immediate area. Rubble in the pit backfills included large numbers of flakes. Single‐grain optical dates…
Stratigraphy and chronology of the WLH 50 human remains, Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, Australia
Sediment dates with implications for the age of the conversion from palaeochannel to modern fluvial activity on the Murray River and tributaries
The central lowlands of the Hunter Valley, NSW: Why so few early sites have been found in this archaeologically-rich landscape
The central lowlands of the Hunter Valley are rich in Holocene-aged open stone artefact concentrations but, to date, very few verified traces of Pleistocene occupation have been found there. The central lowlands would have been a reasonably attractive place to live, so logic suggests that there should be Pleistocene sites. Given the geomorphic and soil formation processes that have operated over the potentially long period of Aboriginal occupatio…
Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia
Stratigraphy and chronology of the WLH 50 human remains, Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, Australia
What to make of the ‘Murchison Cement’?A re-examination of a megafaunal fossil site in the Mid West, Western Australia
The ‘Murchison Cement’ is a term that has been informally used since the 1960s to describe numerous stratigraphic units in the middle catchment of the Murchison and Greenough Rivers, in Mid West Western Australia. The significance of these deposits relates to their embedded artefact and megafaunal assemblages, uncovered by investigations from the Franco-Australian Quaternary Project (FAQP) during the 1970s. Researchers still debate the contempora…
The geoarchaeology of a Holocene site on the Woolshed Embankment, Lake George, New South Wales
An extensive scatter of stone artefacts recorded as Site WE-1 on the Woolshed Embankment at the northern end of Lake George in southern NSW has been examined in the light of recent information on the lake’s history. Optical dates show that the core of the embankment formed between ~22,000 and 15,000 ya. Archaeological materials have survived in the overlying deposits, though they have been affected to a degree by repeated cultivation. These archa…
Prehistoric mining at Olympic Dam in arid South Australia
A site in the Olympic Dam area, recorded during archaeological surveying as a silcrete quarry, was investigated. Hand‐excavated squares and subsequent machine‐excavated trenches revealed an ancient “mine” rather than a simple surface quarry. Blocks of high‐quality silcrete were levered from below the ground surface and many were knapped in the immediate area. Rubble in the pit backfills included large numbers of flakes. Single‐grain optical dates…
Sediment dates with implications for the age of the conversion from palaeochannel to modern fluvial activity on the Murray River and tributaries
Stratigraphy and chronology of the WLH 50 human remains, Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, Australia
The geoarchaeology of a Holocene site on the Woolshed Embankment, Lake George, New South Wales
An extensive scatter of stone artefacts recorded as Site WE-1 on the Woolshed Embankment at the northern end of Lake George in southern NSW has been examined in the light of recent information on the lake’s history. Optical dates show that the core of the embankment formed between ~22,000 and 15,000 ya. Archaeological materials have survived in the overlying deposits, though they have been affected to a degree by repeated cultivation. These archa…
What to make of the ‘Murchison Cement’?A re-examination of a megafaunal fossil site in the Mid West, Western Australia
The ‘Murchison Cement’ is a term that has been informally used since the 1960s to describe numerous stratigraphic units in the middle catchment of the Murchison and Greenough Rivers, in Mid West Western Australia. The significance of these deposits relates to their embedded artefact and megafaunal assemblages, uncovered by investigations from the Franco-Australian Quaternary Project (FAQP) during the 1970s. Researchers still debate the contempora…
The central lowlands of the Hunter Valley, NSW: Why so few early sites have been found in this archaeologically-rich landscape
The central lowlands of the Hunter Valley are rich in Holocene-aged open stone artefact concentrations but, to date, very few verified traces of Pleistocene occupation have been found there. The central lowlands would have been a reasonably attractive place to live, so logic suggests that there should be Pleistocene sites. Given the geomorphic and soil formation processes that have operated over the potentially long period of Aboriginal occupatio…
Prehistoric mining at Olympic Dam in arid South Australia
A site in the Olympic Dam area, recorded during archaeological surveying as a silcrete quarry, was investigated. Hand‐excavated squares and subsequent machine‐excavated trenches revealed an ancient “mine” rather than a simple surface quarry. Blocks of high‐quality silcrete were levered from below the ground surface and many were knapped in the immediate area. Rubble in the pit backfills included large numbers of flakes. Single‐grain optical dates…
Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia
Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia
Geography (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 works) · Paleontology (5 works) · Holocene (4 works) · Pleistocene (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Geology (3 works)