Professor Marc Oxenham
Areas of expertise
- Archaeology 2101
- Archaeological Science 210102
- Forensic Biology 069901
Research interests
I have research interests in bioarchaeology, archaeology and forensic anthropology. My chief focus centres on understanding ancient human biological responses to major lifeway shifts in Southeast Asia. My work in Japan, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam (in particular) has been funded from a number of sources, with the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and Australian Research Council providing the bulk of support. A secondary research focus is elucidating the processes, patterning and rate of soft and hard tissue decomposition in a range of media (surface, sub-surface, and aquatic) in order to develop more precise models for estimating human time since death in Australian conditions.
Since coming to the ANU I have directly supervised 26 Honours; 15 Masters; and 9 PhD student completions in the areas of mortuary archaeology, bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. I have written 35 forensic anthropological and archaeological reports for a range of local and federal government agencies over the past 5 years. In addition, and during the same period, I have volunteered 127 days to the Australian Defence Forces in the capacity of a forensic consultant.
Selected Publications
Hayman J, Oxenham MF. 2016. Human Body decomposition. Amsterdam: Academic Press, Elsevier.
Oxenham MF. 2016. Bioarchaeology of Ancient Vietnam. BAR International Series 2781: Hadrian Books.
Oxenham MF, Buckley H, editors. 2016. The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. London and New York: Routledge.
Behie AM, Oxenham MF, editors. 2015. Taxonomic Tapestries: The Threads of Evolutionary, Behavioural and Conservation Research. Canberra: ANU Press.
Pechenkina K, Oxenham MF, editors. 2013. Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health. University of Florida Press.
Oxenham MF, Matsumura H, Nguyen KDD, editors. 2011. Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam. The Biology. Terra Australis 33. Australian National University Press.
Oxenham MF, editor. 2008. Forensic Approaches to Death, Disaster and Abuse. Queensland: Australian Academic Press.
Oxenham MF, Tayles N, editors. 2006. Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Biography
Marc F Oxenham is Professor of Bioarchaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University, Canberra. He gained his bioanthropological and archaeological training at the Northern Territory University (Charles Darwin University) where he was awarded a PhD in 2001. He has held teaching and research positions at Colorado College, USA, and the ANU. He was president of the Australasian Society of Human Biology (2012-14), an Australian Future Fellow (2013-17), elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2011 and elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2016. Since 2009, he has acted as consultant (pro bono) for the Unrecovered War Casualties Unit-Army (Australian Department of Defence) in which capacity he has searched for, recovered and identified defence force personnel from conflicts ranging from WWI to the Vietnam War, in France, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and northern Australia. In 2018 he was awarded a Silver Commendation by the Deputy Chief of Army in recognition of this work. Over the past two decades he has undertaken archaeological and/or bioanthropological research in Japan, China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. His research specialisations include the reconstruction of health from human skeletal and dental remains, mortuary archaeology, and human identification and estimation of the time since death in forensic anthropological contexts. He is best known as a bioarchaeologist, focusing on human biological and socio-cultural adaptation to climate and technological variability/change in Holocene Southeast Asia.
Researcher's projects
Origins, Health & Demography of Ancestral Southeast
Asians: 2500 BC to 1000 AD
Shortly after 3,000 BC Southeast Asia experienced an enormous suite of changes, particularly in the key areas of human biology, migration, genetic diversity, demographic expansion, dietary breadth and procurement strategies and changing health profiles. This project expands on my previous research in order to better understand both the underlying processes involved in fuelling these changes as well as assessing their impact, particularly health outcomes, on these ancient communities. This research focuses on a pivotal turning point in human history shared by hundreds of millions of people living in the Southeast Asian region today.
Available student projects
Origins, Health & Demography of Ancestral Southeast
Asians: 2500 BC to 1000 AD
Honours, MA and PhD projects are available in this area, including:
(1) Linear Enamel hypoplasia and physiological stress
(2) Dental calculus and diet
(3) Southeast Asian Palaeopathology
(4) Social and biological constructions of childhood and old age in the past
Forensic Anthropology & Archaeology
Honours, MA and PhD projects are available in this area, including:
(1) Human decomposition
(2) The post-mortem interval
(3) Skeletal trauma
(4) Taphonomy
Current student projects
Doctoral Projects
Clark, Bonnie. Immigration and Integration in Egypt during the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (c.2050-1550 BCE).
Gilbert, Felicity. Modelling Decomposition in Aqueous Environments to Determine Time Since Death.
McFadden, Clare. Palaeodemography: A New Hope.
McFarlane, Nicole. Bone Decomposition in Aquatic Environments.
Mariath, Heloisa. TBA.
Matthews, Don. Islands of Transition in the Landscape: Open Filipino Metal Age Jar Burial Sites.
Meyer, Juliet. Differential Decomposition Schedules in Simulated Mass Graves.
Ross, Ken. The Identity at Death of the Old and Young from the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages on the Southeast Asian Mainland.
Watson, Lindsay. A New and Easily Applicable Method for Determining Age-at-Death in Juvenile Remains from SE Asia using a modified version of Demirjian (1973) to be used in both Forensic and Archaeological contexts.
Masters Projects
Honours Projects
Past student projects
Doctoral projects
2018. Cave, Christine. Living with One Foot in the Grave: The Elderly in Early Anglo-Saxon England.
2017. Cameron, Alyce. Estimating the post-mortem interval of skeletal remains: a taphonomic approach.
2016. Cairns, Alison. Health in Medieval and Early Modern Norway: A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Social, Economic and Environmental Change on Skeletal Remains.
2016. Willis, Anna. The Bioarchaeology of An Son and Hòa Diêm: Biosocial Insights into Prehistoric Southern Vietnam.
2015. Wise, Francis. Modernising Bioarchaeological Methods: A Study of Ancient Egyptian Periodontal Health
2013. Hayman, Jarvis. Towards a More Accurate Estimation of the Time Since Death in Human Bodies Found Decomposed in Australian Conditions
2013. Tilley, Lorna. Towards a Bioarchaeology of Care
2012. Huffer, Damien. The Ties That Bind: Population Dynamics, Mobility, and Kinship During the Mid-Holocene in Northern Vietnam
2011. Cougle, Lisa. Dress and Gender in Iron Age Italy
Masters projects
2016. Karen Cooke. A Comparative Study of Enamel Hypoplasia in the Lapita Sites of Teouma, Vanuatu, and Talasiu, Tonga.
2016. Page, Jacinda. Baring the tooth of the matter: a microscopic examination of physiological health from the dental assemblage of the Con Co Ngua skeletal sample.
2015. Page, Ruth. Iron Period Nagsabaran, Philippines: An Osteobiography of an Adult Male.
2014. Howley, Donna. Estimating sex and stature from body dimensions.
2012. Bertrand, Jessica. Taphonomy of Bone Shrinkage Under Controlled Temperature Conditions.
2012. Rachkovsky, Elana. Differentiation of Human Hair by Bodily Location and Race using Confocal Microscopy.
2011. Ackerman, Kim. Race-Specific Bias in facial Recognition: Forensic Identification Applications.
2010. Inada, Mayu. Multivariate Sex Determination of Japanese Mandibles.
2009. Lu, Aggie. Activity Assessed through Analyses of Femoral Cross-Sectional Geometry and Muscle Insertion Morphology in the Iron Age Skeletal Assemblage from Shi San Hang, Taiwan.
2008. Larkin, Zoe. Adding Injury to Insult: Prison Improvised Weapons and Forensic Anthropology.
2008. Treffiletti, Tamara. Fracture Analysis: A comparative study of blunt force trauma in adult and juvenile skulls.
2007. Lewis-Cook, Deirdre Sharee. A re-evaluation of mortuary behaviour at the Aboriginal Burial Site of Broadbeach, Queensland.
2006. Claunch, Laurel. Trauma Analysis in Forensic Anthropology.
2006. Huffer, Damien Garrett. Social Organization at the Neolithic/Bronze Age Boundary in Northern Vietnam: Man Bac Cemetery as a Case Study (Grade: H1).
2006. Roberts, Phillip. Gold Fever; Disease and its Cultural Relationship. A Case Study on Victoria 1850 – 1900.
Honours projects
2016. Melandri Vlok. Healing Bones: A Case Study of Healthcare Practice in the Metal Period, Philippines.
2016. Nick Dempsey. Modelling Blunt Force Trauma Using Sus scrofa Tibiae.
2015. Clare McFadden. Sex, Parity and Scars.
2015 Henriquez, Alejandra Cares. Quantitative microscopic analysis of systemic LEH in prehistoric Vietnam.
2013. Jensen, Ashlea. Sexual Dimorphism in Melanesian Crania: A quantitative and qualitative analysis.
2012. Church, Emma. Childhood Health at Iron Age Nagsabaran: A Study of the Prevalence, Chronology and Duration of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia.
2012. Planert, Vera. Patterns of the Dead: A Spatial Mortuary Analysis of a Metal Age Jar Burial Site in the Central Philippines.
2009-2010. Cobbold, Emily. The Nature of Health in Bioarchaeological Contexts: Poundbury.
2010. Brackman-Ross, Keri. Influence of Decomposing Tissue on Clothing Fabric Integrity.
2010. Knox, Elizabeth. A Neolithic Assemblage from Callao Cave, Philippines: An Exercise in Taphonomy.
2010. Cave, Christine. Out of the Cradle into the Grave: An Analysis of Mortuary Patterns of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Great Chesterford, and What They Say About the Lived Experience of its Children.
2010. Pedersen, Lucille. The Disjuncture Between Dental and Long Bone Age-at-Death Determinations: A Case Study from Man Bac, Vietnam.
2010. McDonell, Amy. The implications of LEH and LHPC Frequencies for Community and Neonate Health in Northern Vietnam at the Neolithic-Bronze Age Boundary.
2009. Shaw, Heidi. 2009. Bio-Mortuary Archaeology of Iron Age Cemetery Sites in Northern Philippines.
2008-9. Hirst, Roslyn. Manners of grief; the mortuary treatment of infants in a Romano-British Context.
2008. Wright, Michelle. Maxillary sinusitis as an indicator of respiratory health: A comparative analysis between the Okhotsk and Jomon of Japan.
2008. Cameron, Alyce. The effects of scavenging upon pig carcasses within the ACT, Australia.
2008. Drake, Allison. The Cold Screen Hypothesis: An analysis of its validity in preventing the spread of infectious disease from human migration through the Bering Land Strait to the Americas.
2008. Stannard, Georgia. The impacts of differing subsistence economies on palaeohealth within populations from precontact Papua New Guinea.
2007. Fitzgerald, Catherine. Synchronistic Decomposition in Pigs as a Model for Human Decomposition in Forensic Archaeology.
2007. Watson, L. Reliability of Forensic Attributions of Ancestry: Comparing and Contrasting the Craniometric Computer programs CRANID and FORDISC.
2006-7. Ross, Ken. Sub-Adult Identity: Attitudes towards Childhood Viewed from Mortuary Settings in Neolithic and Bronze Age Thailand.
2006. Bell, Greg. The Heritability of Human Frontal Sinus Patterns and the Implications for Biological Anthropological Study.
2006. Muller, Sarah. An Examination of Health, Stature and Disease in Bronze Age Specimens from Man Bac, Viet Nam.
2006. Wallwork, Chris. An Osteological Investigation into the Looted Iron-Age Remains from Koh Krabas, Northeast Cambodia.
2005. Vrsek, Anique. A Forensic Examination of a Secondary Burial in Zdar Monastery.
2004. Arthur, Claire Susannah. The Role of Archaeology in Forensic Investigations.
Publications
- McFadden, C & Oxenham, M 2019, 'The Impacts of Underenumeration and Age Estimation Error on the D0-14/D Ratio and Palaeodemographic Measures', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 23, no. February 2019, pp. 57-61.
- Kinaston R, Willis A, Miszkiewicz JJ, Tromp M, Oxenham MF. 2019. The Dentition: Development, Disturbances, Disease, Diet, and Chemistry. In: Buikstra JE (ed) Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remain, Academic Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 749-797.
- Oxenham, M, Donlon, D, MacGregor, D et al 2018, 'Mass Disasters (Australia)', in (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, Wiley Online Library, Medford, MA, USA.
- Oxenham, M 2018, 'Anemia', in (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, Wiley Online Library, Medford, MA, USA.
- Cares Henriquez, A & Oxenham, M 2018, 'New distance-based exponential regression method and equations for estimating the chronology of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) defects on the anterior dentition', American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
- McFadden, C & Oxenham, M 2018, 'The D0-14/D ratio: A new paleodemographic index and equation for estimating total fertility rates', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 165, no. 3, pp. 471-479.
- McFadden, C & Oxenham, M 2018, 'Rate of natural population increase as a paleodemographic measure of growth', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 19, pp. 352-356pp.
- Howley, D, Howley, P & Oxenham, M 2018, 'Estimation of sex and stature using anthropometry of the upper extremity in an Australian population', Forensic Science International, vol. 287, pp. 220.e1-220.e10.
- Lipson, M, Cheronet, O, Mallick, S et al 2018, 'Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory', Science, vol. 361, no. 6397, pp. 92-95pp.
- Oxenham, M, Trinh, H, Willis, A et al 2018, 'Between foraging and farming: Strategic responses to the Holocene Thermal Maximum in Southeast Asia', Antiquity, vol. 92, no. 364, pp. 940-957pp.
- McFadden, C, Buckley, H, Halcrow, S et al 2018, 'Detection of temporospatially localized growth in ancient Southeast Asia using human skeletal remains', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 98, pp. 93-101.
- Bridge A, Oxenham M, Miszkiewicz JJ. 2018. Estimating stature using human forearm and leg anthropometric data in an Australian female sample. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, early view
- Castillo, C.C, Piper, P, Bellwood, P, Oxenham, M et al 2016, 'Hunter-gatherer specialization in the late Neolithic of southern Vietnam - The case of Rach Nui', Quaternary International, vol. In Press, pp. -.
- Dempsey N, Gilbert F, Miszkiewicz JJ, Oxenham M. 2018. Biomechanical analysis of controlled tibial blunt force trauma. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, early view.
- Cares Henriquez, A & Oxenham, M 2017, 'An alternative objective microscopic method for the identification of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) in the absence of visible perikymata', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 14, pp. 76-84pp.
- Frieman, C, Piper, P, Nguyen, K et al 2017, 'Rach Nui: Ground stone technology in coastal Neolithic settlements of southern Vietnam', Antiquity, vol. 91, no. 358, pp. 933-946.
- Matsumura, H, Oxenham, M, Simanjuntak, T et al 2017, 'The Biological History of Southeast Asian Populations from Late Pleistocene and Holocene Cemetery Data', in (ed.), First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia, Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, pp. 98-106pp.
- 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).
- Cave, C & Oxenham, M 2017, 'Sex and the elderly: Attitudes to long-lived women and men in early Anglo-Saxon England', Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 48, pp. 207-216pp.
- Cave, C & Oxenham, M 2017, 'Out of the Cradle and into the Grave: The Children of Anglo-Saxon Great Chesterford, Essex, England', in Eileen Murphy and Melie Le Roy (ed.), Children, Death and Burial, Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 179-195pp.
- Corny, J, Galland, M, Arzarello, M et al 2017, 'Dental phenotypic shape variation supports a multiple dispersal model for anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia', Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 112, pp. 41-56pp.
- Oxenham, M & Willis, A 2017, 'Towards a Bioarchaeology of Care of Children', in Lorna Tilley, Alecia A. Schrenk (ed.), New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care: Further Case Studies and Expanded Theory, Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland, pp. 219-236pp.
- Vlok, M, Paz, V, Crozier, R et al 2017, 'A New Application of the Bioarchaeology of Care Approach: A Case Study from the Metal Period, the Philippines', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 662-671pp.
- McFadden, C & Oxenham, M 2017, 'Sex, Parity, and Scars: A Meta-analytic Review', Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. online, pp. 1-6pp.
- Jones, R, Meijer, H, Piper, P et al 2017, 'The Identification and Modification of Greater Adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) Bones in the Holocene Archaeological Record of Northern Vietnam', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 387-397.
- Hayman, J & Oxenham, M 2017, 'Estimation of the time since death in decomposed bodies found in Australian conditions', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 31-44.
- Piper, P, Nguyen, K, Tran, T et al 2017, 'The Neolithic settlement of Loc Giang on the Vam Co Dong River, southern Vietnam and its broader regional context', Archaeological Research in Asia, vol. 10, pp. 32-47pp.
- Ross, K & Oxenham, M 2017, 'The distribution of unworked molluscs, with special reference to Unionidae (freshwater mussels), in mainland Southeast Asian mortuary contexts. ', Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology, vol. 41, pp. 1-12pp..
- Hayman, J & Oxenham, M 2016, Human Body Decomposition, Academic Press, London UK.
- Buckley, H & Oxenham, M 2016, 'Bioarchaeology in the Pacific Islands: A temporal and geographical examination of nutritional and infectious disease', in Marc Oxenham and 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. 363-388.
- Willis, A & Oxenham, M 2016, 'Reconstructing diet at An son and Hoa Diem: Implications for understanding Southeast Asian subsistence patterns', in Marc Oxenham and 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. 137-157.
- Oxenham, M 2016, Bioarchaeology of Ancient Northern Vietnam, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.
- Huffer, D & Oxenham, M 2016, 'Investigating activity and mobility patterns during the mid-Holocene in northern Vietnam', in Marc Oxenham and 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. 110-136.
- Buckley, H & Oxenham, M 2016, 'Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific', in Marc Oxenham and 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. 1-6.
- Oxenham, M & Buckley, H 2016, 'Meta-themes in bioarcheology of the Asia-Pacific Region', in Marc Oxenham and 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. 655-662.
- Tilley, L & Oxenham, M 2016, 'Reflections on life and Times in Neolithic Vietnam: one person's story', in Marc Oxenham and 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. 95-109.
- Oxenham, M & Buckley, H, eds, 2016, The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York.
- Oxenham, M & Buckley, H 2016, 'The population History of mainland and island Southeast Asia', in Marc Oxenham and 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. 9-23.
- Kinaston, R, Roberts, G, Buckley, H et al 2016, 'A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Oral and Physiological Health on the South Coast of New Guinea', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 160, no. 3, pp. 414-426.
- Cave, C & Oxenham, M 2016, 'Identification of the Archaeological 'Invisible Elderly': An Approach Illustrated with an Anglo-Saxon Example', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 163-175.
- Hayman, J & Oxenham, M 2016, 'Peri-mortem disease treatment: a little known cause of error in the estimation of the time since death in decomposing human remains', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 171-185.
- McFadden, C & Oxenham, M 2016, 'Revisiting the Phenice technique sex classification results reported by MacLaughlin and Bruce (1990)', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 159, no. 1, pp. 182-183.
- Oxenham, M 2016, 'Letter to the editor: Ban Non Wat as a test of the two-layer hypothesis', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 159, no. 2, pp. 355-357.
- Oxenham, M & Ross, K 2016, 'To Follow in Their Footsteps : An examination of the burial identity of the elderly from Non Nok Tha', in Marc Oxenham and 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. 187-219.
- Oxenham, M, Willis, A, Hung, H et al 2016, 'Dealing with death in late Neolithic to Metal Period Nagsabaran, the Phillipines', in Marc Oxenham and 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. 311-338pp.
- Wood, R, Duval, M, Huong, N, Piper, P.J et al 2016, 'The effect of grain size on carbonate contaminant removal from tooth enamel: Towards an improved pretreatment for radiocarbon dating', Quaternary Geochronology, vol. 36, pp. 174-187.
- Pinhasi, R, Fernandes, D, Sirak, K et al 2015, 'Optimal ancient DNA yields from the inner ear part of the human petrous bone', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 10, no. 6.
- Oxenham, M & Behie, A 2015, 'The warp and weft: Synthesising our taxonomic tapestry', in Alison M. Behie and Marc F. Oxenham (ed.), Taxonomic Tapestries: The Threads of Evolutionary, Behavioural and Conservation Research, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 373-380.
- Behie, A & Oxenham, M, eds, 2015, Taxonomic Tapestries : The threads of evolutionary, behavioural and conservation research, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Behie, A & Oxenham, M 2015, 'Lamarck on species and evolution', in Alison M. Behie and Marc F. Oxenham (ed.), Taxonomic Tapestries: The Threads of Evolutionary, Behavioural and Conservation Research, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 155-170.
- Matsumura, H, Oxenham, M & Cuong, N 2015, 'Hoabinhians', in Yousuke Kaifu, Masami Izuho, Ted Goebel, Hiroyuki Sato, Akira Ono (ed.), Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia, Texas A&M University, United States of America, p. 583.
- Huffer, D & Oxenham, M 2015, 'How Much Life do I Lose from the Plague? Educational Board Games as Teaching Tools in Archaeology and Ancient History Courses', Public Archaeology, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 81-91.
- Oxenham, M 2015, 'Mainland Southeast Asia: towards a new theoretical approach', Antiquity, vol. 89, no. 347, pp. 1221-1223.
- Oxenham, M, Piper, P, Bellwood, P et al 2015, 'Emergence and diversification of the neolithic in Southern Vietnam: insights from coastal Rach Nui', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 309-338.
- Bertrand, J & Oxenham, M 2015, 'Low-temperature-induced bone shrinkage: a controlled study using kangaroo femora', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 173-181.
- Behie, A & Oxenham, M 2015, 'The Groves effect: 50 years of influence on behaviour, evolution and conservation research', in Alison M. Behie and Marc F. Oxenham (ed.), Taxonomic Tapestries: The Threads of Evolutionary, Behavioural and Conservation Research, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 03-09.
- Marsumura, H & Oxenham, M 2014, 'Demographic transitions and migration in prehistoric East/Southeast Asia through the lens of nonmetric dental traits', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 155, no. 1, pp. 45-65.
- Piper, P & Oxenham, M 2014, 'Of Prehistoric Pioneers: The Establishment of the First Sedentary Settlements in the Mekong Delta Region of Southern Vietnam during the Period 2000-1500 cal. bc', in Katherine Boyle, Ryan J Rabett, Chris O Hunt (ed.), Living in the Landscape - Essays in Honour of Graeme Barker, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, London, pp. 209-226.
- Piper, P, Campos, F, Ngoc Kinh, D et al 2014, 'Early Evidence for Pig and Dog Husbandry from the Neolithic Site of An Son, Southern Vietnam', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 68-78.
- McDonnell, A & Oxenham, M 2014, 'Localised Primary Canine Hypoplasia: Implications for Maternal and Infant Health at Man Bac, Vietnam, 4000-3500years BP', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 531-539.
- Cairns, A & Oxenham, M 2013, 'Disease, climate and the peopling of the Americas', Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology, vol. 25, no. 5-6, pp. 565-597.
- Willis, A & Oxenham, M 2013, 'The neolithic demographic transition and oral health: The Southeast Asian experience', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 152, no. 2, pp. 197-208.
- Pechenkina, K & Oxenham, M, eds, 2013, Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
- Pechenkina, K & Oxenham, M 2013, 'Research on human skeletal biology in East Asia: a historical overview', in Pechenkina, K and Oxenham, M (ed.), Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 1-27.
- Matsumura, H & Oxenham, M 2013, 'Population dispersal from East Asia into Southeast Asia: evidence from cranial and dental morphology', in Pechenkina, K and Oxenham, M (ed.), Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 179-209.
- Pechenkina, K & Oxenham, M 2013, 'Human ecology in continental and insular East Asia', in Pechenkina, K and Oxenham, M (ed.), Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 28-58.
- Oxenham, M, Matsumura, H & Cairns, A 2013, 'Trauma and infectious disease in northern Japan: Okhotsk and Jomon', in Pechenkina, K and Oxenham, M (ed.), Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 399-416.
- Oxenham, M & Pechenkina, K 2013, 'East Asian bioarchaeology: major trends in a temporally, genetically, and eco-culturally diverse region', in Pechenkina, K and Oxenham, M (ed.), Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 482-498.
- Matsumura, H & Oxenham, M 2013, 'Eastern Asia and Japan: human biology', in Wiley's On Line Library (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley-Blackwell, London, pp. 1-7pp.
- Willis, A & Oxenham, M 2013, 'A Case of Maternal and Perinatal Death in Neolithic Southern Vietnam, c. 2100-1050 BCE', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 676-684.
- Pechenkina, K & Oxenham, M 2013, 'Research on Human Skeletal Biology in East Asia', in Pechenkina, K and Oxenham, M (ed.), Bioarchaeology of East Asia: Movement, Contact, Health, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 01-27.
- Cameron, A & Oxenham, M 2012, 'Disarticulation sequences and scattering patterns in temperate southeastern Australia', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 197-211.
- Oxenham, M 2012, Kids through adult eyes: the bioarchaeology of children, pp. 35-37.
- Hanihara, T, Matsumura, H, Kawakubo, Y et al 2012, 'Population history of northern Vietnamese inferred from nonmetric cranial trait variation', Anthropological Science, vol. 120, no. 2, pp. 157-165.
- Bellwood, P, Oxenham, M, Chi Hoang, B et al 2011, 'An Son and the neolithic of southern Vietnam', Asian Perspectives, vol. 50, no. 1-2, pp. 144-175.
- Matsumura, H, Oxenham, M, Thuy, N et al 2011, 'Population history of mainland Southeast Asia: the Two Layer model in the context of Northern Vietnam', in Enfield, N. J. (ed.), Dynamics of human diversity : the case of mainland Southeast Asia, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 153-178.
- Oxenham, M, Matsumura, H & Nguyen, K, eds, 2011, Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam, The Biology. Terra Australis 33, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Oxenham, M & Matsumura, H 2011, 'Man Bac: Regional, Cultural and Temporal Context', in Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura and Nguyen Kim Dung (ed.), Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam, The Biology. Terra Australis 33, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 127-133.
- Matsumura, H & Oxenham, M 2011, 'Introduction: Man Bac Biological Research Objectives', in Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura and Nguyen Kim Dung (ed.), Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam, The Biology. Terra Australis 33, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 1-8.
- Domett, K & Oxenham, M 2011, 'The Demographic Profile of the Man Bac Cemetery Sample', in Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura and Nguyen Kim Dung (ed.), Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam, The Biology. Terra Australis 33, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 9-20.
- Oxenham, M & Domett, K 2011, 'Palaeohealth at Man Bac', in Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura and Nguyen Kim Dung (ed.), Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam, The Biology. Terra Australis 33, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 78-93.
- Tilley, L & Oxenham, M 2011, 'Survival against the odds: Modeling the social implications of care provision to seriously disabled individuals', International Journal of Paleopathology, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 35-42.
- Hung, H.C., Carson, M, Bellwood, P et al 2011, 'The first settlement of Remote Oceania:from the Philippines to the Marianas', Antiquity, vol. 85, no. 329, pp. 909-926.
- Oxenham, M & Cavill, I 2010, 'Porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia: The erythropoietic response to iron-deficiency anaemia', Anthropological Science, vol. 118, no. 3, pp. 199-200.
- Oxenham, M, Tilley, L, Matsumura, H et al 2009, 'Paralysis and severe disability requiring intensive care in Neolithic Asia', Journal of Anthropological Sciences, vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 107-112.
- Fitzgerald, C & Oxenham, M 2009, 'Modeling time-since-death in Australian temperate conditions', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 27-41.
- Oxenham, M, Matsumura, H, Domett, K et al 2008, 'Childhood in late neolithic Vietnam: bio-mortuary insights into an ambiguous life stage', in Krum Bacvarov (ed.), Babies reborn: infant-child burials in pre and protohistory, Archaeopress, oxford, pp. 123-136.
- Oxenham, M, ed., 2008, Forensic approaches to death, disaster and abuse, Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd, Bowen Hills, Qld.
- Matsumura, H, Oxenham, M, Dodo, Y et al 2008, 'Morphometric affinity of the late Neolithic human remains from Man Bac, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam: key skeletons with which to debate the 'two layer' hypothesis', Journal of Anthropological Sciences, vol. 116, no. 2, pp. 135-148.
- Matsumura, H, Yoneda, M, Dodo, Y et al 2008, 'Terminal Pleistocene human skeleton from hang Cho Cave, northern Vietnam: implications for the biological affinities of Hoabinhian people', Journal of Anthropological Sciences, vol. 116, no. 3, pp. 210-217.
- Oxenham, M & Barwick, R 2008, 'Human, Sheep or Kangaroo: a Practical Guide to Identifying Human Skeletal Remains in Australia', in Marc Oxenham (ed.), Forensic approaches to death, disaster and abuse, Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd, Bowen Hills, Qld, pp. 63-94.
- Oxenham, M & Matsumura, H 2008, 'Oral and Physiological Paleohealth in Cold Adapted Peoples: Northeast Asia, Hokkaido', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 135, pp. 64-74.
- Oxenham, M, Knight, T & Westaway, M 2008, 'Identification of Australian Aboriginal Mortuary remains', in Marc Oxenham (ed.), Forensic approaches to death, disaster and abuse, Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd, Bowen Hills, Qld, pp. 37-54.
- Oxenham, M 2008, 'The Forensic Sciences, Anthropology and Investigations into Abuse and the Loss of Life', in Marc Oxenham (ed.), Forensic approaches to death, disaster and abuse, Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd, Bowen Hills, Qld, pp. 1-14.
- Oxenham, M, Matsumura, H, Domett, K et al 2008, 'Health and the Experience of Childhood in late Neolithic Viet Nam', Asian Perspectives, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 190-209.
- Bellwood, P & Oxenham, M 2008, 'The expansions of farming societies and the role of the Neolithic Demographic Transition', in J. P. Bocquet-Appel and O. Bar-Yosef (ed.), The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 13-34.
- Nguyen, L, Nguyen, K, Matsumura, H et al 2007, 'Human bones from Hang Cho site (Hoa Binh)', Vietnam Archaeology (Khao Co Hoc), vol. 5, pp. 3-17.
- Bulbeck, F, Oxenham, M, Nguyen, L et al 2007, 'Implications of the Terminal Pleistocene Skull from Hang Muoi, Northern Vietnam', Vietnam Archaeology (Khao Co Hoc), vol. 2, pp. 42-52.
- Oxenham, M 2006, 'Biological responses to change in prehistoric Vietnam', Asian Perspectives, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 212-239.
- Oxenham, M, Nguyen, L & Nguyen, K 2006, 'The oral health consequences of the adoption and intensification of agriculture in Southeast Asia', in M Oxenham and N Tayles (ed.), Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 263-289.
- Oxenham, M & Tayles, N 2006, 'Synthesising Southeast Asian Population History and Palaeohealth', in M Oxenham and N Tayles (ed.), Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 335-349.
- Oxenham, M & Tayles, N, eds, 2006, Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Oxenham, M, Matsumura, H & Nishimoto, T 2006, 'Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Late Jomon Hokkaido, Japan', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 16, pp. 34-46.
- Tayles, N & Oxenham, M 2006, 'Southeast Asian Bioarchaeology: Past and Present', in M Oxenham and N Tayles (ed.), Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1-30.
- Oxenham, M & Whitworth, J 2006, 'Frequency, Location, Morphology and Aetiology of Osseous Mandibular Condylar Concavities', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 16, pp. 517-527.
- Bower, N, Yasutomo, Y, Oxenham, M et al 2006, 'Preliminary reconstruction of diet at a neolithic site in Vietnam using stable isotope and BA/SR analyses', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 26, pp. 79-85.
- Oxenham, M, Thuy, N & Cuong, N 2005, 'Skeletal evidence for the emergence of infectious disease in bronze and Iron Age northern Vietnam', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 126, no. 4, pp. 359-76.
- Oxenham, M 2004, 'Review of Ban Chiang, A Prehistoric Village Site in Northeast Thailand I: The Human Skeletal Remains', Asian Perspectives, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 162-167.
- Oxenham, M 2003, 'Investigations into the oral health of Jomon and Okhotsk communities living in prehistoric Hokkaido Japan', Medical Science Report, vol. 11, pp. 228-232.
- Oxenham, M, Cuong, N & Thuy, N 2002, 'Oral Health in Northern Vietnam: Neolithic Through Metal Periods', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 121-134.
- Oxenham, M, Locher, C, Nguyen, L et al 2002, 'Identification of Areca catechu (Betel Nut) residues on the dentitions of the bronze age inhabitants of Nui Nap, Northern Vietnam', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 909-915.
- Oxenham, M, Walters, I, Cuong, N et al 2001, 'Case studies in Ancient trauma: mid-Holocene through Metal periods in Northern Vietnam', in <> (ed.), <>, pp. 83-102.
- Oxenham, M, Walters, I, Long, V et al 2000, 'Pleistocene Hominoid Dental Variation in Vietnam', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 17, pp. 93-103.
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- Origins, Health & Demography of Ancestral Southeast Asians: 2500 BC to 1000 AD (Primary Investigator)
- The Archaeological and Biological Foundations of Southeast Asia, 2500 to 1000 BC (Secondary Investigator)