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Research Disciplines: Pacific Peoples culture, language and history (4513)

Archaeology (4301)
Socio-Economic Objectives: Understanding past societies (1307)

Publications

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Journal Articles

Bradshaw C, Norman K, Ulm S, Williams A, Clarkson C, Chadœuf J, Lin S, Jacobs Z, Roberts R, Bird M, Weyrich L, Haberle S, O'Connor S, Llamas B, Cohen T, Friedrich T, Veth P, Leavesley M and Saltré F (2021) Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul. Nature Communications, 12, Article: 2440, DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-21551-3.
Tsang R, Pleiber W, Kariwiga J, Plutniak S, Forestier H, Taçon P, Ricaut F and Leavesley M (in press) Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior: a case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, , DOI:10.1080/15564894.2020.1834472.
Wasef S, Wrobel G, Wright N, Wright J, Adams S, Kariwiga J, Leavesley M, Collard M and Westaway M (2021) A contextualised review of genomic evidence for gene flow events between Papuans and Indigenous Australians in Cape York, Queensland. Quaternary International, 603, pp. 22-30, DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.02.011.
Faulkner P, Thangavelu A, Ferguson R, Aird S, David B, Drury T, Rowe C, Barker B, McNiven I, Richards T, Leavesley M, Asmussen B, Lamb L and Ulm S (2020) Middle to Late Holocene near-shore foraging strategies at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 34 (Part A), Article: 102629, DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102629.
Field J, Summerhayes G, Luu S, Coster A, Ford A, Mandui H, Fullagar R, Hayes E, Leavesley M, Lovave M and Kealhofer L (2020) Functional studies of flaked and ground stone artefacts reveal starchy tree nut and root exploitation in mid-Holocene highland New Guinea. The Holocene, 30 (9), pp. 1360-1374, DOI:10.1177/0959683620919983.
Gheddar L, Ricaut F, Ameline A, Brucato N, Tsang R, Leavesley M, Raul J and Kintz P (2020) Testing for betel nut alkaloids in hair of Papuans abusers using UPLC-MS/MS and UPLC-Q-Tof-MS. Journal of Analytical Toxicology, 44 (1), pp. 41-48, DOI:10.1093/jat/bkz045.
Manne T, David B, Petchey F, Leavesley M, Roberts G, Szabó K, Urwin C, Mcniven I and Richards T (2020) How long have dogs been in Melanesia? New evidence from Caution Bay, south coast of Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 30, Article: 102255, DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102255.
Pedro N, Brucato N, Fernandes V, André M, Saag L, Pomat W, Besse C, Boland A, Deleuze J, Clarkson C, Sudoyo H, Metspalu M, Stoneking M, Cox M, Leavesley M, Pereira L and Ricaut F (2020) Papuan mitochondrial genomes and the settlement of Sahul. Journal of Human Genetics, 65, pp. 875-887, DOI:10.1038/s10038-020-0781-3.
Rowe C, David B, Mialanes J, Ulm S, Petchey F, Aird S, McNiven I, Leavesley M and Richards T (2020) A Holocene record of savanna vegetation dynamics in southern lowland Papua New Guinea. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 29 (1), pp. 1-14, DOI:10.1007/s00334-019-00724-7.
Jagoda E, Lawson D, Wall J, Lambert D, Muller C, Westaway M, Leavesley M, Capellini T, Lahr M, Gerbault P, Thomas M, Migliano A, Willerslev E, Metspalu M and Pagani L (2018) Disentangling immediate adaptive introgression from selection on standing introgressed variation in humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35 (3), pp. 623-630, DOI:10.1093/molbev/msx314.

Book Chapters

Szabó K, David B, Mcniven I and Leavesley M (2021) Preceramic shell?working, Caution Bay and the circum-New Guinea archipelago. In: Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory: Archaeological Perspectives. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 123-144
David B, Aplin K, Peck H, Skelly R, Leavesley M, Mialanes J, Szabó K, Koppel B, Petchey F, Richards T, Ulm S, Mcniven I, Rowe C, Aird S, Faulkner P and Ford A (2019) Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland. In: Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence. Terra Australis, 52. ANU Press, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 61-88

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 54+ research outputs authored by Dr Matthew Leavesley from 1998 onwards.

Current Funding

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Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency - Grant

PNG WWII Historical Archaeology Project

Indicative Funding: $196,500 over 1 year
Summary: DPAA is the US govt organisation tasked with the recovery of the remains of US service people in the post-conflict context. DPAA has a global remit. In PNG, DPAA created a partnership with the PNG National Museum, PNGDF and the led by the UPNG Archaeology Laboratory to undertake some of these investigations. MACR 15077 involves the loss of a B-25D #43-29701. On 5 Oct 1942, the aircraft failed to return from a patrol from Port Moresby to the Oro Bay area after the aircraft was attacked by enemy fighters. The subject aircraft was ?last seen in steep dive toward the water with six Zeros on his tail.? An administrative finding of death has been issued for all seven crewmembers. Investigators have visited and validated Site PP-00299 on several occasions starting in 1944 when an ID bracelet for the pilot of MACR 15077 was found near the wreckage at Soroputa. Subsequent visits to the location in 1986, 2010, 2014, and 2019 confirmed the location and association with MACR 15077. Project Objectives: 1. Archaeological excavation focused on priority site locations identified during 19-3PG IT-P and reported in 2019 Archaeological Site Survey Report (ASSR). 2. Phase I/Phase II archaeological testing in areas already surveyed to confirm and expand current knowledge regarding site boundaries and density established during the 2019
Investigators: Matthew Leavesley in collaboration with Justin Harty (Cairns Institute and University of Papua New Guinea)
Keywords: Archaeology

Australian Research Council - Linkage - Projects

The Nakanai Caves Cultural Heritage Project

Indicative Funding: $228,000 over 5 years, in partnership with Archaeloogical & Heritage Management Solutions ($68,100)
Summary: This project will document and integrate the natural and cultural values of the Nakanai Caves in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, in preparation for a cultural landscape World Heritage nomination. Our novel methodology incorporates community knowledge with archaeological and anthropological evidence to link natural and cultural values and define the landscape from local perspectives. Local input into the research will be prioritised. By emphasizing local participation and management of World Heritage listing processes we address an identified gap in World Heritage methodologies. Our approach allows for a subtle, nuanced definition of cultural landscapes under the World Heritage Convention.
Investigators: Simon Foale, Michael Wood, Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy, Colin Filer, Matthew Leavesley, Matthew Kelly and Jim Specht in collaboration with Kenn Mondiai (College of Arts, Society & Education, Archaeological & Heritage Management Solutions, Australian National University, The University of Sydney and Partners with Melanesians Inc)
Keywords: Papua New Guinea; World Heritage; Cultural Heritage

Supervision

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Completed

Geophysical explorations of archaeological shell matrix sites: evaluating geophysical techniques in determining the boundaries, structure and volume of buried shell deposits (2017, PhD , Associate Advisor)

Data

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Kenady, S. (2016) Thundiy and Cairns experimental site, survey data: ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity. James Cook University

Collaboration

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