Dr Stuart Bedford
Areas of expertise
- Archaeology Of New Guinea And Pacific Islands (Excl. New Zealand) 210106
- Maori Archaeology 210109
- Archaeological Science 210102
Research interests
My current research is focused on the archaeology of Malakula in the north of Vanuatu and the archaeology of the islands of southern Vanuatu. The Malakula project is funded by Max Planck (Jena) (it started as an ARC funded Future Fellowship) and titled "Investigating monumentality in Melanesia: the archaeology of ritual architecture on the islands of Malakula, Vanuatu". The aim of this project is to inject renewed impetus into understanding general processes of social transformation in the wider Pacific. It focuses on the archaeology of monumental and ritual architecture, cultural manifestations long recognised as indispensable in identifying prehistoric sociopolitical change. The study will provide rare comparative data from the Melanesian region, namely the islands of Malakula in Vanuatu, which can then be assessed against the long-established models of socio-political change generated for much of Polynesia and to a lesser extent Micronesia. Contemporary concerns such as population growth, land and food security are also addressed.
The Southern Vanuatu project started in 2016 (ARC funded project) with colleagues James Flexner and Frederique Valentin, looking at the 3000 year histories of human habitation there.
From 2008-2012 my research (as an ARC QEII Fellow) revolved around an ARC funded project titled "Persistence and transformation in Ancestral Oceanic Society: the archaeology of the first 1500 years in the Vanuatu archipelago". It involved a series of large-area excavations being conducted at a number of key Lapita and immediately Post-Lapita (dating to between 3000-1500 years ago) settlements and cemeteries across the archipelago; see the ANH Current Projects page for more information. The aim is to examine the internal settlement layout and social structures of the initial colonising groups, and their transformations and/or persistence during the first 1500 years of settlement of Vanuatu. In this way archaeology will contribute to further elucidation of what has been labelled Ancestral Oceanic Society, from which much of the diversity in present-day Pacific Island cultures derives. I am currently supervising six PhD students.
Career highlights
Archaeologist, Clutha Valley Development Scheme, Central Otago, New Zealand (1982-1985); archaeologist, London Museum, London 1988-1990; Regional Archaeologist New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Auckland New Zealand (2000-2005); ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2007); ARC QEII Fellow (2008-2012). ARC Future Fellow (2013-2017).
Biography
The fieldwork focus of my research over the last twenty years has been the islands of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific. Research issues that have been addressed at both a local and regional level have included origins, timing and strategies of colonisation, settlement pattern, levels of social interaction, cultural transformation, environmental impact and human responses to natural disasters. Other areas of interest include the archaeologies of Empire, Colonialism and Contact.
Publications
- Bedford, S 2020, 'Pakeha Settlements in a Maori World: New Zealand Archaeology 1769-1860', Journal of Pacific History, pp. -.
- Bedford, S, Flexner, J, Jones, M et al. 2020, 'The bright archaeological light that was Angela Middleton', Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 1-6.
- Bedford, S, Haskell-Crook, D, Spriggs, M, et al. 2020, 'Encounters with stone: Missionary battles with idols in the southern New Hebrides', Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 21-33.
- Tromp, M, Matisoo-Smith, E, Kinaston, R et al. 2020, 'Exploitation and utilization of tropical rainforests indicated in dental calculus of ancient Oceanic Lapita culture colonists, Nature Human Behaviour, 4: 489-495
- Bedford, S 2019, 'The complexity of monumentality in Melanesia: Mixed messages from Vanuatu', in Mathieu Leclerc & James Flexner (ed.), Archaeologies of Island Melanesia: Current approaches to landscapes, exchange and practice, ANU Press, Canberra Australia, pp. 67-80.
- Bedford, S, Spriggs, M, Burley, D et al 2019, 'Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence', in Stuart Bedford & Matthew Spriggs (ed.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 5-36.
- Bedford, S 2019, 'Lapita pottery from the small islands of north-east Malakula, Vanuatu: A brief overview and implications', in Stuart Bedford & Matthew Spriggs (ed.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 225-241.
- LeBlanc, K, Bedford, S & Sand, C 2019, 'A view from the west: A structural approach to analysing Lapita design in the Eastern Lapita Province', in Stuart Bedford & Matthew Spriggs (ed.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 275-306.
- Spriggs, M, Valentin, F, Bedford, S et al 2019, 'Revisiting ancient DNA insights into the human history of the Pacific Islands', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 53-56.
- Langley, M, Bedford, S, Spriggs, M et al 2019, 'Manufacture and Use of Lapita Conus Multi-Segment Broad Rings: Evidence from the Teouma site, Central Vanuatu [IN PRESS]', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. Online, pp. 1-19.
- Ono, R, Hawkins, S & Bedford, S 2019, 'Lapita maritime adaptations and the development of fishing technology: A view from Vanuatu', in Stuart Bedford & Matthew Spriggs (ed.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 415-438.
- Posth, C, Nagele, K, Colleran, H et al. 2019, 'Response to "Ancient DNA and its contribution to understanding the human history of the Pacific Islands" (Bedford et al. 2018)', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 57-61.
- Bouffandeau, L, Béarez, P, Keith, P et al 2019, 'Freshwater fishing among Lapita people: The Sleepers (Teleostei: Eleotridae) of Teouma, Vanuatu', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 26.
- Flexner, J, Bedford, S et al 2019, 'Who was Polynesian? Who was Melanesian? Hybridity and ethnogenesis in the South Vanuatu Outliers', Journal of Social Archaeology, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 403-426.
- Flexner, J, Bedford, S et al 2019, 'Who was Polynesian? Who was Melanesian? Hybridity and ethnogenesis in the South Vanuatu Outliers', Journal of Social Archaeology, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 403-426.
- Leclerc, M, Grono, E, Bedford, S and Spriggs M. 2019, 'Assessment of the technological variability in decorated Lapita pottery from Teouma, Vanuatu, by petrography and LA-ICP-MS: implications for Lapita social organisation', Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11:5257, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00862-z
- Leclerc, M, Taché, K, Bedford, S and Spriggs M. 2019, 'Organic residue analysis and the role of Lapita pottery', in Mathieu Leclerc and James Flexner (ed.), Archaeologies of Island Melanesia: current approaches to landscapes, exchange and practice, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 179-190.
- Foster, A, Kinaston, R, Spriggs, M et al. 2018, 'Possible diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) in a 3000-year-old Pacific Island skeletal assemblage', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 18, pp. 408-419pp.
- Lipson, M, Skoglund, P, Spriggs, M et al. 2018, 'Population Turnover in Remote Oceania Shortly after Initial Settlement', Current Biology, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 1157-1165pp.
- Torrence, R, Kononenko, N, Sheppard, P et al 2018, 'Tattooing tools and the Lapita cultural complex', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 58-73pp.
- Bedford, S, Simeoni, P & Lebot, V 2018, 'The anthropogenic transformation of an island landscape: Evidence for agricultural development revealed by LiDAR on the island of Efate, Central Vanuatu, South-West Pacific', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 1-14pp.
- Bedford, S 2018, 'Modified canines: Circular pig's tusks in Vanuatu and the wider Pacific', in M Langley, M Litster, D Wright & S May (ed.), The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives, Routledge, Oxford and New York, pp. 125-141.
- Haddow, E, Flexner, J, Bedford, S et al 2018, 'Pendants and beads of stone, shell, and tooth from southern Vanuatu', in M Langley, M Litster, D Wright & S May (ed.), The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives, Routledge, Oxford and New York, pp. 102-124.
- Bedford, S, Blust, R, Burley, D et al 2018, 'Ancient DNA and its contribution to understanding the human history of the Pacific Islands', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 205-219.
- Flexner, J, Bedford, S, Valentin, F et al. 2018, 'Preliminary Results of the South Vanuatu Archaeological Survey: Cultural Landscapes, Excavation, and Radiocarbon Dating', Asian Perspectives, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 244-266.
- Bouffandeau, L, Béarez, P, Bedford, S et al 2018, 'Fishing at Arapus-Mangaasi, Efate, Vanuatu (2800-2200 BP): New methodological approaches and results', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 18, pp. 356-369pp.
- Leclerc M, Taché K, Bedford S, Spriggs M and Lucquin A. 2018, 'The use of Lapita pottery: Results from the first analysis of lipid residues', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 17, pp. 712-722.
- Posth, C, Nagele, K, Colleran, H et al. 2018, 'Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania', Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 731-740pp.
- Posth, C, Nagele, K, Colleran, H et al. 2018, 'Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania', Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 731-740pp.
- Bedford, S 2017, 'A Good Moral Effect?: Local opposition and colonial persistence in Malakula, New Hebrides, 1875-1918', Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. Online.
- Valentin, F, Detroit, F, Spriggs, M et al 2016, 'Early Lapita skeletons from Vanuatu show Polynesian craniofacial shape: Implications for Remote Oceanic settlement and Lapita origins', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 113, no. 2, pp. 292-297.
- Flexner, J, Spriggs, M, Bedford, S et al 2016, 'Beginning Historical Archaeology in Vanuatu: Recent Projects on the Archaeology of Spanish, French, and Anglophone Colonialism', in Sandra Montón-SubÃas, Apen Ruiz MartÃnez, and MarÃa Cruz Berrocal (ed.), Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Heidelberg, pp. 205-228.
- Kinaston, R, Bedford, S, Spriggs, M et al. 2016, 'Is there a 'Lapita diet'? A comparison of Lapita and post-Lapita skeletal samples from four Pacific Island archaeological sites', in Marc Oxenham & Hallie R Buckley (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 427-461.
- Valentin, F, Alliese, F, Bedford, S et al 2016, 'Considerations on anthropogenic modifications of a corpse: the case of the Lapita burials at Teouma (Vanuatu) [Reflexions sur la transformation anthropique du cadavre: le cas des sepultures Lapita de Teouma (Vanuatu)]', BMSAP Bulletins et memoires de la Societe d'anthropologie de Paris, vol. 28, no. 1-2, pp. 39-44.
- Skoglund, P, Posth, C, Spriggs, M et al 2016, 'Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific', Nature, vol. 538, no. 7626, pp. 510-513.
- Hawkins, S, Worthy, T, Bedford, S et al 2016, 'Ancient tortoise hunting in the southwest Pacific', Scientific Reports, vol. 6.
- Bedford, S, Spriggs, M & Shing, R 2016, '"By all means let us complete the exercise":(1) the 50-year search for Lapita on Aneityum, southern Vanuatu and implications for other "gaps" in the Lapita distribution', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 122-130pp.
- Ravn, M, Bedford, S, Spriggs, M et al 2016, 'Pottery spatial patterns at the Lapita site of Teouma, Central Vanuatu: Some preliminary refitting results', in Frederique Valentin and Guillaume Molle (ed.), La pratique de l'espace en Oceanie Decouverte, Appropriation et Emergence Des Systems Sociaux Traditionnels (Spatial Dynamics in Oceania Discovery, Appropriation and the Emergence of Traditional Societies), French Prehistoric Society, Paris, Paris, pp. 163-177pp.
- Bedford, S 2015, 'Going beyond the known World 3000 years ago: Lapita exploration and colonization of Remote Oceania', in Christophe Sand, Scarlett Chiu, Nicholas Hogg (ed.), The Lapita Cultural Complex in time and space: expansion routes, chronologies and typologies, Institut d'archeologie de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et du Pacifique and Center for Archaeological Studies, New Caledonia, pp. 25-47.
- Valentin, F, Choi, J, Lin, H et al 2015, 'Three-thousand-year-old jar-burials at the Teouma cemetery (Vanuatu): A Southeast Asian - Lapita connection?', in Christophe Sand, Scarlett Chiu, Nicholas Hogg (ed.), The Lapita Cultural Complex in time and space: expansion routes, chronologies and typologies, Institut d'archeologie de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et du Pacifique and Center for Archaeological Studies, New Caledonia, pp. 81-101.
- Petchey, F, Spriggs, M, Bedford, S et al 2015, 'The chronology of occupation at Teouma, Vanuatu: Use of a modified chronometric hygiene protocol and Bayesian modeling to evaluate midden remains', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 4, pp. 95-105.
- Constantine, A, Reepmeyer, C, Bedford, S et al 2015, 'Obsidian distribution from a Lapita cemetery sheds light on its value to past societies', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 111-116.
- Worthy, T, Hawkins, S, Bedford, S et al 2015, 'Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, including a new genus and species of megapode', Pacific Science, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 205-254.
- Horrocks, M, Nieuwoudt, M, Kinaston, R et al. 2014, 'Microfossil and Fourier Transform InfraRed analyses of Lapita and post-Lapita human dental calculus from Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 17-33.
- Kinaston, R, Buckley, H, Valentin, F et al. 2014, 'Lapita Diet in Remote Oceania: New Stable Isotope Evidence from the 3000-Year-Old Teouma Site, Efate Island, Vanuatu', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1-18.
- Buckley, H, Kinaston, R, Halcrow, S et al. 2014, 'Scurvy in a tropical paradise? Evaluating the possibility of infant and adult vitamin C deficiency in the Lapita skeletal sample of Teouma, Vanuatu, Pacific islands', International Journal of Paleopathology, vol. 5, pp. 72-85.
- Valentin, F, Herrscher, E, Bedford, S et al. 2014, 'Evidence for Social and Cultural Change in Central Vanuatu Between 3000 and 2000 BP: Comparing Funerary and Dietary Patterns of the First and Later Generations at Teouma, Efate', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 381-399.
- Petchey, F, Spriggs, M, Bedford, S et al. 2014, 'Radiocarbon dating of burials from the Teouma Lapita cemetery, Efate, Vanuatu', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 227-242.
- Bedford, S & Spriggs, M 2014, 'The Archaeology of Vanuatu: 3,000 Years of History across Islands of Ash and Coral', in Ethan Cochrane and Terry Hunt (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1-17.
- Bedford, S 2014, 'Melanesia', in Colin Renfrew, Paul G. Bahn (ed.), The Cambridge World Prehistory Volume 1: Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 622-631.
- Valentin, F, Bedford, S, Spriggs, M et al. 2014, 'Manipuler les restes humains: une etape des funerailles Lapita', in Frederique Valentin, Isabelle Rivoal, Corinne Thevenet, Pascal Sellier (ed.), La Chaine operatoire funeraire - Ethnologie et archeologie de la mort, Editions de Boccard, Paris, pp. 32-33.
- Kinaston, R, Bedford, S, Richards, M et al. 2014, 'Diet and Human Mobility from the Lapita to the Early Historic Period on Uripiv Island, Northeast Malakula, Vanuatu', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 9, no. 8, pp. e104071-e104071.
- Bedford, S 2014, Barry Lee Fankhauser - A dedicated fastidious scientist and keen party man (1943-2014), Archaeology in New Zealand, 57(1): 15-24.
- Bedford, S 2013, 'From Paeroa to Pohue Pa: Remnant landscapes of events that once shook the world', in Matthew Campbell, Simon Holdaway and Sarah Macready (ed.), Finding our Recent Past: Historical Archaeology in New Zealand, New Zealand Archaeological Association, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 59-76.
- Foster, A, Buckley, H, Tayles, N et al. 2013, 'Gender, Labour Division and the Skeleton: A case study from the Teouma Lapita cemetery', 2011 Lapita Pacific Archaeology Conference, ed. Glenn R. Summerhayes & Hallie Buckley, University of Otago, Dunedin, pp. 76-90.
- Spriggs, M & Bedford, S 2013, 'Is there an Incised Lapita Phase after Dentate-stamped Pottery Ends? Data from Teouma, Efate Island, Vanuatu', 2011 Lapita Pacific Archaeology Conference, ed. Glenn R. Summerhayes & Hallie Buckley, University of Otago, Dunedin, pp. 148-156.
- Dickinson, W, Bedford, S & Spriggs, M 2013, 'Petrography of Temper Sands in 112 Reconstructed Lapita Pottery Vessels from Teouma (Efate): Archaeological implications and relations to other Vanuatu tempers', Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-20.
- Bedford, S 2012, 'Lapita and pre-Lapita Sites on the South New Guinea Coast: Next stop mainland Australia', Australian Archaeology, vol. 75, no. 75, pp. 12-13.
- Robb, K, Buckley, H, Spriggs, M et al. 2012, 'Cortical Index of Three prehistoric Human Pacific Island Samples', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 284-293.
- Bedford, S, Spriggs, M, Regenvanu, R et al 2011, 'Olfala Histri Wea i Stap Andanit long Graon. Archaeological Training Workshops in Vanuatu: A Profile, the Benefits, Spin-offs and Extraordinary Discoveries', in John Taylor and Nick Thieberger (ed.), Working together in Vanuatu: research histories, collaborations, projects and reflections, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 191-213.
- Bedford, S, Buckley, H, Valentin, F et al. 2011, 'Lapita Burials, a New Lapita Cemetery and Post-Lapita Burials from Malakula, Northern Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific', Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 26-48.
- Valentin, F, Bedford, S, Spriggs, M et al. 2011, 'Vanuatu Mortuary Practices over Three Millennia: Lapita to the Early European Contact Period', Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 49-65.
- Bedford, S, Regenvanu, R, Spriggs, M et al 2011, 'Introduction: A Brief History and Current State of Physical Anthropology in Vanuatu', in Nicholas Marquez-Grant and Linda Fibiger. (ed.), The Routledge handbook of archeological human remains and legislation: an international guide to laws and practice in the excavation and treatment of archaeological human remains I edited by, Routledge, Oxford, pp. 657-670.
- Reepmeyer, C, Spriggs, M, Bedford, S et al 2010, 'Provenance and technology of lithic artifacts from the Teouma Lapita site, Vanuatu', Asian Perspectives, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 205-225.
- Storey, A, Spriggs, M, Bedford, S et al 2010, 'Mitochondrial DNA from 3000-year old chickens at the Teouma site, Vanuatu', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 37, no. 10, pp. 2459-2468.
- White, A, Worthy, T, Hawkins, S et al 2010, 'Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 107, no. 35, pp. 15512-15516.
- Valentin, F, Buckley, H, Herrscher, E et al. 2010, 'Lapita subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns in the community of Teouma (Efate, Vanuatu)', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 1820-1829.
- Kononenko, N, Bedford, S & Reepmeyer, C 2010, 'Functional analysis of late Holocene flaked and pebble stone artefacts from Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 13-20.
- Bedford, S, Sand, C & Shing, R 2010, Lapita: people, Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Vanuatu.
- Bedford, S, Spriggs, M, Buckley, H et al. 2010, 'A Cemetery of First Settlement: the Site of Teouma, South Efate, Vanuatu', in Christophe Sand and Stuart Bedford (ed.), Lapita: Oceanic Ancestors, Somogy Editions d'Art, Paris, pp. 140-161.
- Bedford, S & Galipaud, J 2010, 'Chain of Islands: Lapita in the North Vanuatu', in Christophe Sand and Stuart Bedford (ed.), Lapita: Oceanic Ancestors, Somogy Editions d'Art, Paris, pp. 122-137.
- Horrocks, M & Bedford, S 2010, 'Introduced Dioscorea spp. starch in Lapita and later deposits, Vao Island, Vanuatu', New Zealand Journal of Botany, vol. 48, no. 3-4, pp. 179-183.
- Sand, C & Bedford, S 2010, 'Lapita, Archaeological Signature of the First Austronesian Settlement of the Southwest Pacific', in Christophe Sand and Stuart Bedford (ed.), Lapita: Oceanic Ancestors, Somogy Editions d'Art, Paris, pp. 14-27.
- Bedford, S, Spriggs, M, Buckley, H et al. 2010, 'Le cimetiere marin lapita (Lapita marine cemetery)', in Serge Dunis (ed.), 5000 Ans de Culture Ultramarine Pacifique (5000 Years of Ultramarine Pacific Culture), Editions Haere Po, Tahti Polynesia France, pp. 29-46.
- Scott, R, Buckley, H, Spriggs, M et al. 2010, 'Identification of the first reported Lapita cremation in the Pacific Islands using archaeological, forensic and contemporary burning evidence', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 901-909.
- Valentin, F, Bedford, S, Buckley, H et al. 2010, 'Lapita burial practices: evidence for complex body and bone treatment at the Teouma cemetery, Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 212-235.
- Bedford, S 2009, 'Les traditions potieres Erueti et Mangaasi du Vanuatu central : reevaluation et comparaison quarante ans apres leur identification initiale (The traditional potters Erueti Mangaasi and central Vanuatu: reassessment and comparison forty years after their in', Journal of the Societe des Oceanistes (Journal de la societe des oceanistes/Journal societe des oceanistes), vol. 128, pp. 25-38.
- Bedford, S, Dickinson, W, Green, R et al 2009, 'Detritus of Empire: Seventeenth Century Spanish Pottery from Taumako, Southeast Solomon Islands, and Mota, Northern Vanuatu', Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 118, no. 1, pp. 69-89.
- Horrocks, M, Bedford, S & Spriggs, M 2009, 'A short note on banana (Musa) phytoliths in Lapita, immediately post-Lapita and modern period archaeological deposits from Vanuatu', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 36, pp. 2048-2054.
- Hayes, S, Valentin, F, Buckley, H et al. 2009, 'Faces of the Teouma Lapita People: Art, Accuracy and Facial Approximation', Leonardo: Art Science and Technology, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 284-285.
- Bedford, S 2009, 'Le complexe culturel lapita', in Patricia Simeoni (ed.), Atlas Du Vanouatou (Vanuatu), Editions Geo-Consulte, Port Vila, Vanuatu, p. 208.
- Kinaston, R, Buckley, H, Halcrow, S et al. 2009, 'Investigating foetal and perinatal mortality in prehistoric skeletal samples: a case study from a 3000-year-old Pacific Island cemetery site', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 2780-2787.
- Valentin, F, Spriggs, M, Bedford, S et al. 2009, 'Une analyse diachronique des pratiques funeraires prehistoriques du centre du Vanuatu (A diachronic analysis of prehistoric burial practices in central Vanuatu)', Journal of the Societe des Oceanistes (Journal de la societe des oceanistes/Journal societe des oceanistes), vol. 128, pp. 39-52.
- Bedford, S, Spriggs, M, Buckley, H et al. 2009, 'The Teouma Lapita Site, South Efate, Vanuatu: A Summary of Three Field Seasons (2004-2006)', International Lapita Conference 2007, ed. Peter J. Sheppard, Tim Thomas and Glenn R. Summerhayes, New Zealand Archaeological Association, Auckland NZ, pp. 215-234.
- Bedford, S & Spriggs, M 2008, 'Northern Vanuatu as a Pacific Crossroads: The Archaeology of Discovery, Interaction, and the Emergence of the "Ethnographic Present"', Asian Perspectives, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 95-120.
- Clark, G & Bedford, S 2008, 'Friction zones in Lapita colonisation', in Geoffrey Clark, Foss Leach & Sue O'Connor (ed.), Islands of inquiry: colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes (Terra Australis 29), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 59-73.
- Buckley, H, Tayles, N, Spriggs, M et al. 2008, 'A Preliminary Report on Health and Disease in Early Lapita Skeletons, Vanuatu: Possible Biological Costs of Island Colonization', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 87-114.
- Bedford, S, Sand, C & Connaughton, S, eds, 2007, Terra Australis 26 - Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia.
- Bedford, S & Spriggs, M 2007, 'Birds on the rim: a unique Lapita carinated vessel in its wider context', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 12-21.
- Bedford, S, Spriggs, M, Regenvanu, R et al 2007, 'The excavation, conservation and reconstruction of Lapita burial pots from the Teouma site, Efate, Central Vanuatu', in Stuart Bedford, Christophe Sand and Sean P. Connaughton (ed.), Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement (Terra Australis 26), ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 223-240.
- Bedford, S 2007, 'Crucial first steps into Remote Oceania: Lapita in the Vanuatu Archipelago', in Scarlett Chiu & Christophe Sand (ed.), From Southeast Asia to the Pacific: Archaeological Perspectives on the Austronesian Expansion and the Lapita Cultural Complex, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC), pp. 185-213.
- Bedford, S & Sand, C 2007, 'Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement: Progress, prospects and persistent problems', in Stuart Bedford, Christophe Sand and Sean P. Connaughton (ed.), Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement (Terra Australis 26), ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-15.
- Bentley, R, Buckley, H, Spriggs, M et al. 2007, 'Lapita Migrants in the Pacific's oldest Cemetery: Isotopic Analysis at Teouma, Vanuatu', American Antiquity, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 645-656.
- Bedford, S, Spriggs, M & Regenvanu, R 2006, 'The Teouma Lapita site and the early human settlement of the Pacific Islands', Antiquity, vol. 80, no. 310, pp. 812-827.
- Bedford, S 2006, 'The Pacific's earliest painted pottery: an added layer of intrigue to the Lapita debate and beyond', Antiquity, vol. 80, no. 309, pp. 544-557.
- Bedford, S 2006, Pieces of the Vanuatu Puzzle: Archaeology of the North, South and Centre, Pandanus Books, Canberra Australia.
- Horrocks, M & Bedford, S 2005, 'Microfossil analysis of Lapita deposits in Vanuatu reveals introduced Araceae (aroids)', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 67-74.
- Bedford, S 2004, 'Tenacity of the traditional: the first hundred years of Maori-European settler contact on the Hauraki Plains, Aotearoa/New Zealand', in Tim Murray (ed.), The Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies, University of Cambridge, UK, pp. 144-154.
- Bedford, S 2004, 'Aotearoa and Ancestral Polynesian Connections: the long trek from Otto Meyer to the Lapita Ceramic Series, cultural complex and beyond', in Louise Furey & Simon Holdaway (ed.), Change Through Time. 50 Years of New Zealand Archaeology, New Zealand Archaeological Association, Auckland, pp. 283-296.
- Bedford, S & Spriggs, M 2002, 'Of Shell, Stone and Bone: A review of non-ceramic artefacts recovered from the first 1000 years of Vauatus archeological record', in S. Bedford, C. Sand and D. Burley (ed.), Fifty Years in the Field: Essays in Honour of Richard Shutler Jr's Archaeological Career, New Zealand Archaeological Association, Auckland, pp. 139-152.
- Mead, J, Steadman, D, Bedford, S et al 2002, 'New Extinct Mekosuchine Crocodile from Vanuatu, South Pacific', Copeia, vol. 3, pp. 632-641.
- Bedford, S 2001, 'Ceramics from Malekula, northern Vanuatu: The two ends of a potential 3000-year sequence', in GR Clark, AJ Anderson, T Vunidilo (ed.), The archaeology of Lapita dispersal in Oceania, Pandanus Books, Canberra ACT, pp. 105-114.
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Projects and Grants
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- Kuwae 1452 AD: multi-disciplinary perspectives on a Pacific super-eruption (Primary Investigator)
- (Ext led by U Syd) 3000 Years of settlement and interaction in southern Vanuatu (Primary Investigator)
- From Lapita to Liturgy: The archaeological and environmental history of the three millenia of human settlement of Aneityum, Southern Vanuatu (Secondary Investigator)
- Investigating monumentality in Melanesia: the archaeology of ritual architecture on the islands of Malakula, Vanuatu (Primary Investigator)
- Persistence and transformation in Ancestral Oceanic Society: the archaeology of the first 1500 years in the Vanuatu archipelago (Primary Investigator)