Dr Aleese Barron
BA Hons (USyd), M Arch Sc (ANU), PhD (ANU)
Post doctoral fellow
ANU College of Science
Research interests
3D imaging and analysis
Archaeobotany
Archaeological science
Digital collections
Plant domestication
Rock mechanics
Xray microtomography
Publications
- Prideaux, G, Kerr, I, van Zoelen, J et al. 2022, 'Re-evaluating the evidence for late-surviving megafauna at Nombe rockshelter in the New Guinea highlands', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 223-248.
- Barron, A, Fuller, D, Champion, L et al. 2021, 'Transition From Wild to Domesticated Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Revealed in Ceramic Temper at Three Middle Holocene Sites in Northern Mali', African Archaeological Review, vol. 38, pp. 211-230.
- Barron, A, Datan, I, Bellwood, P et al. 2020, 'Sherds as archaeobotanical assemblages: Gua Sireh reconsidered', Antiquity, vol. 94, no. 377, pp. 1325-1336.
- Barron, A, Fuller, D, Stevens, C et al. 2020, 'Snapshots in time: MicroCT scanning of pottery sherds determines early domestication of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in East Africa', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 123, no. -, pp. 1-10.
- Denham, T, Barton, H, Castillo, C et al. 2020, 'The domestication syndrome in vegetatively propagated field crops', Annals of Botany, vol. 125, no. 4, pp. 581-597.
- Denham, T, Zhang, Y & Barron, A 2018, 'Is there a centre of early agriculture and plant domestication in southern China?', Antiquity, vol. 92, no. 365, pp. 1165-1179p.
- Barron, A & Denham, T 2018, 'A microCT protocol for the visualisation and identi�cation of domesticated plant remains within pottery sherds', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 21, no. 2018, pp. 350-358pp.
- Barron, A, Turner, M, Beeching, L et al. 2017, 'MicroCT reveals domesticated rice (Oryza sativa) within pottery sherds from early Neolithic sites (4150-3265 cal BP) in Southeast Asia', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 7410 (5pp).
- Edwards, T, Grono, E, Brink, F, Troitzsch, U et al 2017, 'Visualising scales of process: Multi-scalar geoarchaeological investigations of microstratigraphy and diagenesis at hominin bearing sites in South African karst', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 83, pp. 1-11.
