Dr Michelle Langley
Areas of expertise
- Archaeology 2101
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Archaeology 210101
- Archaeological Science 210102
- Archaeology Of Asia, Africa And The Americas 210103
- Archaeology Of Europe, The Mediterranean And The Levant 210105
Research interests
- Evolution of human cognition and behaviour;
- Use wear analysis;
- Prehistoric osseous and shell technologies;
- Archaeology of Neanderthals;
- Pleistocene/Early Holocene Australia;
- Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Eurasia;
- Middle and Later Stone Age Africa;
- Prehistoric trade networks;
- Identifying children in the archaeological record;
- The use of material culture in social signalling; and
- Assemblage formation processes.
Publications
- Langley, M, Prendergast, M, Shipton, C et al 2016, 'Poison arrows and bone utensils in late Pleistocene eastern Africa: evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar', Azania; Archaeological research in Africa, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 155-177.
- Shipton, C, Crowther, A, Kourampas, N et al 2016, 'Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation', Azania; Archaeological research in Africa, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 197-233.
- Wright, D, Langley, M, May, S et al 2016, 'Painted shark vertebrae beads from the Djawumbu-Madjawarrnja complex, western Arnhem Land', Australian Archaeology, vol. 82, no. 1, pp. 43-54.
- Langley, M, Dilkes-Hall, I, Balme, J et al 2016, 'A 600-year-old Boomerang fragment from Riwi Cave (South Central Kimberley, Western Australia)', Australian Archaeology, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 106-122.
- Langley, M, O'Connor, S & Piotto, E 2016, '42,000-year-old worked and pigment-stained Nautilus shell from Jerimalai (Timor-Leste): Evidence for an early coastal adaptation in ISEA', Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 97, pp. 1-16.
- Whitau, R, Dilkes-Hall, I, Dotte-Sarout, E et al 2016, 'X-ray computed microtomography and the identification of wood taxa selected for archaeological artefact manufacture: Rare examples from Australian contexts', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 6, pp. 536-546.
- Langley, M & O'Connor, S 2015, '6500-Year-old Nassarius shell appliques in Timor-Leste: technological and use wear analyses', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 62, pp. 175-192.
- Langley, M, Augier, D, Delage, C et al. 2015, 'A Magdalenian decorated baguette demi-ronde from Grotte de l'Abb� (Charente, France)', Academie des Sciences Comptes Rendus: Palevol, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 321-330pp.
- Langley, M 2015, 'Investigating maintenance and discard behaviours for osseous projectile points: A Middle to Late Magdalenian (c. 19,000-14,000 cal. BP) example', Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 40, pp. 340-360.
- Langley, M 2014, Reaching Australia's Ancient Refugia, pp. 33-35.
- Langley, M 2014, 'Patterns of Modernity: Taphonomy, Sampling and the Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Sahul', in Robin Dennell and Martin Porr (ed.), Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, pp. 200-212.
- Langley, M 2014, 'Magdalenian antler projectile point design: Determining original form for uni- and bilaterally barbed points', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 44, pp. 104-116.
- Langley, M 2013, 'Storied landscapes makes us (Modern) Human: Landscape socialisation in the Palaeolithic and consequences for the archaeological record', Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 614-629.