Professor Philip J. Piper
PhD Archaeology (University of York)
Professor
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
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Research interests
Zooarchaeology and Palaeoecology, Transition from hunting to animal management in Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Subsistence Strategies, Prehistoric island colonization and adaptation, the application of zooarchaeology and palaeoecology to issues of contemporary bioloigcal conservation.
Researcher's projects
The Neolithic Transition in central and southern Vietnam
The Mindoro Prehistoric Research Project, Philippines.
Publications
- Louys, J, Braje, T, Chang, C et al. 2021, 'No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118, no. 20, pp. Online.
- O'Connor, S, Bulbeck, F, Amano, N et al. 2020, 'The fortified settlement of Macapainara, Lautem District', in S. O'Connor, A. McWilliam & S. Brockwell (ed.), Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations (Terra Australis 53), ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 13-48.
- Fenner, J, Delgermaa, L, Piper, P et al 2020, 'Stable isotope and radiocarbon analyses of livestock from the Mongol Empire site of Avraga, Mongolia', Archaeological Research in Asia, vol. 22.
- Brockwell, S, O'Connor, S, Fenner, J et al. 2020. Excavations at the site of Vasino, Lautem District, Timor-Leste', in Sue O'Connor, Andrew McWilliam, Sally Brockwell (ed.), Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigation pp. pp. 67-100. Canberra: ANU Press.
- Lam, T, Nguyen, T, Tran, T et al 2020, 'Ru Diep and the Quynh Van culture of central Vietnam', Archaeological Research in Asia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2020.100190
- Boulanger, C, Ingicco, T, Piper, P et al 2019, 'Coastal Subsistence Strategies and Mangrove Swamp Evolution at Bubog I Rockshelter (Ilin Island, Mindoro, Philippines) from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 584-604.
- Pawlik, A, Crozier, R, Fuentes, R et al 2019, 'Burial traditions in early Mid-Holocene Island Southeast Asia: New evidence from Bubog-1, Ilin Island, Mindoro Occidental', Antiquity, vol. 93, no. 370, pp. 901-918.
- Detroit, F, Mijares, A, Piper, P.J. et al 2019, 'A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines', Nature, vol. 568, no. 7751, pp. 181-186.
- O'Connor, S, Bulbeck, F, Piper, P et al. 2018, 'The human occupation record of Gua Mo'o hono shelter, Towuti-Routa region of Southeastern Sulawesi', in S O'Connor, D Bulbeck and J Meyer (ed.), The Archaeology of Sulawesi: Current Research on the Pleistocene to the Historic Period, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 117-151.
- Pawlik, A & Piper, P 2018, 'The Philippines from c. 14,000 to 4,000 cal. bp in Regional Context', Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 1-22.
- 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. 940-957.
- Fenner, J, Jones, R, Piper, P et al 2018, 'Early Goats in Bali, Indonesia: Stable Isotope Analyses of Diet and Movement', Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 563-581.
- Piper, P, Matsumura, H & Bulbeck, F, eds, 2017, New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory, ANU Press, Acton, Australia.
- 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).
- 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.
- Herrera, M, Thomson, V, Wadley, J et al 2017, 'East African origins for Madagascan chickens as indicated by mitochondrial DNA', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 160787-160787.
- Ingicco, T, Piper, P, Amano, N et al 2017, 'Biometric Differentiation of Wild Philippine Pigs from Introduced Sus scrofa in Modern and Archaeological Assemblages', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. Online, pp. 1-17pp.
- Ochoa, J & Piper, P 2017, 'Holocene Large Mammal Extinctions in Palawan Island, Philippines', in Gregory G. Monks (ed.), Climate Change and Human Responses, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, Dordrecht, pp. 69-86pp.
- Piper, P 2017, 'Changing Patterns in Hunting Across Island Southeast Asia Before the Neolithic', in (ed.), First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia, Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, pp. 166-170pp.
- Piper, P 2017, 'Domesticated Animals in the Island Southeast Asian Neolithic', in (ed.), First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia, Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, pp. 297-301pp.
- 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.
- Reyes, M, Ingicco, T, Piper, P et al 2017, 'First fossil evidence of the extinct Philippine cloud rat Crateromys paulus (Muridae: Murinae: Phloeomyini) from Ilin Island, Mindoro, and insights into its Holocene abundance', Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 130, no. 1, pp. 84-97pp.
- Aplin, K, O'Connor, S, Bulbeck, F et al. 2016, 'The Walandawe Tradition from Southeast Sulawesi and Osseous Artifact Traditions in Island Southeast Asia', in Michelle C. Langley (ed.), Osseous Projectile Weaponry: Towards an Understanding of Pleistocene Cultural Variability, Springer Nature, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 189-208pp.
- 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. -.
- 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.
- Piper, P, Lewis, H, Reynolds, T et al 2016, 'The NCP Excavations in Lobang Hangus, Lobang Tulang, Gan Kira and Kain Hitam', in Graeme Barker; Lucy Farr (ed.), Archaeological investigations in the Niah Caves, Sarawak Vol 2, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 65-80pp.
- Piper, P & Rabett, R 2016, 'Vertebrate Fauna from the Niah Caves', in Graeme Barker; Lucy Farr (ed.), Archaeological investigations in the Niah Caves, Sarawak Vol 2, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 401-438pp; S285-S322pp.
- Piper, P 2016, 'Human cultural, technological and adaptive changes from the end of the Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene in Southeast Asia', 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. 25-44.
- 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.
- of Cranbrook, E & Piper, P 2015, 'TIKUS PURBAKALA: A Guide for Zooarchaeologists on the Identifications of Rats from Borneo Caves Excavations by Dental Characters', Sarawak Museum Journal, vol. 74, no. 95, pp. 1-37pp.
- LLoyd-Smith, L, Barker, G, Barton, H, Cameron, J et al 2015, ''Neolithic' Societies c. 4000-2000 Years Ago: Austronesian Farmers?', in Graeme Barker (ed.), Rainforest foraging and farming in Island Southeast Asia. Volume 1, Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 255-298.
- 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.
- Pawlik, A, Piper, P, Wood, R et al 2015, 'Shell tool technology in Island Southeast Asia: an early Middle Holocene Tridacna adze from Ilin Island, Mindoro, Philippines', Antiquity, vol. 89, no. 344, pp. 292-308.
- Robles, E, Piper, P, Ochoa, J et al 2015, 'Late Quaternary Sea-Level Changes and the Palaeohistory of Palawan Island, Philippines', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 76-96.
- Anggraeni, Simanjuntak T, Bellwood, P & Piper, P 2014, 'Neolithic foundations in the Karama Valley, West Sulawesi, Indonesia', Antiquity, vol. 88, no. 341, pp. 740-756.
- Louys, J, Corlett, R, Price, G et al 2014, 'Rewilding the tropics, and other conservation translocations strategies in the tropical Asia-Pacific region', Ecology and Evolution, vol. 4, no. 22, pp. 4380-4398.
- Pawlik, A, Piper, P, Faylona, M et al 2014, 'Adaptation and foraging from the Terminal Pleistocene to the Early Holocene: Excavation at Bubog on Ilin Island, Philippines', Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 230-247.
- Pawlik, A, Piper, P & Mijares, A 2014, 'Modern Humans in the Philippines: Colonization, Subsistence and New Insights into Behavioural Complexity', in Robin Dennell and Martin Porr (ed.), Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, pp. 135-147.
- Piper, P & Rabett, R 2014, 'Late Pleistocene Subsistence Strategies in Island Southeast Asia and their Implications for Understanding the Development of Modern Human Behaviour.', in Robin Dennell and Martin Porr (ed.), Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, pp. 118-134.
- 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.
- 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.
- Amano, N, Piper, P, Hung, H.C. and Bellwood, P. 2013. 'Introduced Domestic Animals in the Neolithic and Metal Age of the Philippines: Evidence From Nagsabaran, Northern Luzon' Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology , vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 317-335.
- Barker, G, Barton, H, Cole, F et al 2013, 'The Niah Caves, the 'Human Revolution', and foraging/farming transitions', in Graeme Barker (ed.), Rainforest foraging and farming in Island Southeast Asia, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, UK, pp. 341-366.
- Barker, G, Daly, P, Cole, F et al 2013, 'Archaeological investigations in the Niah Caves, 1954-2004', in Graeme Barker (ed.), Rainforest foraging and farming in Island Southeast Asia, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, UK, pp. 29-70.
- Barton, H, Barker, G, Gilbertson, D et al 2013, 'Late Pleistocene foragers, c. 35,000-11,500 years ago', in Graeme Barker (ed.), Rainforest foraging and farming in Island Southeast Asia, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, UK, pp. 173-216.
- Cranbrook, E & Piper, P 2013, 'Paleontology to policy: the Quaternary history of Southeast Asian tapirs (Tapiridae) in relation to large mammal species turnover, with a proposal for conservation of Malayan tapir by reintroduction to Borneo', Integrative Zoology Online, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 95-120.
- Gilbertson, D, McLaren, S, Stephens, M et al 2013, 'The cave entrance sequences and environmental change', in Graeme Barker (ed.), Rainforest foraging and farming in Island Southeast Asia, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, UK, pp. 71-134.
- Piper, P, Amano, N, Yang, H et al. 2013, 'The Terrestrial Vertebrate Remains', in Peter Bellwood & Eusebio Dizon (ed.), 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines (Terra Australis 40), ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 169-199.
- Reynolds, T, Barker, G, Barton, H et al 2013, 'The first modern humans at Niah, c. 50,000-35,000 years ago', in Graeme Barker (ed.), Rainforest foraging and farming in Island Southeast Asia, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, UK, pp. 135-172.
- Szabo, K, Cole, F, LLoyd-Smith, L et al 2013, 'The 'Metal Age' at the Niah Caves, c. 2000-500 years ago', in Graeme Barker (ed.), Rainforest foraging and farming in Island Southeast Asia, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, UK, pp. 299-340.
- Rabett, R, Barker, G, Barton, H et al 2013, 'Landscape transformations and human responses, c. 11,500-c. 4500 years ago', in Graeme Barker (ed.), Rainforest foraging and farming in Island Southeast Asia, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, UK, pp. 217-254.
- Piper, P, Rabett, R & Barker, G 2013, 'A zoologist with a taste for the past: The earl of Cranbrook's contribution to Zooarchaeological research in Southeast Asia', Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, no. SUPPL. 29, pp. 121-132.
- Pawlik, A., Piper, P.J., Faylona, P.G., Padilla, S.G., Carlos, J., Mijares, A.S.B., Vallejo Jr, B., Ingicco, T., Reyes, M., Amano, N. & Porr, M. in press. Archaeological excavations at Bubog I & II on Ilin Island, Philippines: Preliminary studies on island adaptation and foraging strategies in changing environments from the Terminal Pleistocene to the early Holocene. Journal of Field Archaeology
- Piper, P.J. in press. Small vertebrate remains with special reference to the house mouse and black rat in C. Evans, G. Appleby, S. Lucy & R. Regan (eds) Process and History Romano-British Communities at Colne Fen, Earith An Inland Port and Supply Farm, Cambridge Archaeological Unit Landscape Archives Series: The Archaeology of the Lower Ouse Valley, Volume II: 134-140
- Piper, P.J. in press. Small vertebrates, in C. Evans, G. Appleby, S. Lucy & R. Regan (eds) Process and History Romano-British Communities at Colne Fen, Earith An Inland Port and Supply Farm, Cambridge Archaeological Unit Landscape Archives Series: The Archaeology of the Lower Ouse Valley, Volume II: 388-391.
- Larson, G, Karlsson, E, Perri, A et al 2012, 'Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 109, no. 23, pp. 8878-8883.
- Porr, M, Mijares, A, Pawlik, A et al 2012, 'North of the Southern Arc - The Mindoro Archaeological Research Program: A summary of the 2010 and 2011 fieldwork activities', Australian Archaeology, no. 75, pp. 110-117.
- Piper, P & Rabett, R 2012, 'The Emergence of Bone Technologies at the end of the Pleistocene in Southeast Asia: Regional and Evolutionary Implications', Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 37-56.
- Rabett, R & Piper, P 2012, 'Eating Your Tools: Early Butchery and Craft Modification of Primate Bones in Tropical Southeast Asia', in Krish Seetah & Brad Gravina (ed.), Bones for tools - tools for bones: The interplay between objects and objectives, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp. 131-141pp.
- Cranbrook, Earl of. & Piper, P.J. in press. Paleontology to policy: The Quaternary history of South-east Asian tapirs (Tapiridae) in relation to large mammal species turnover, with a proposal for conservation of Malayan tapir by reintroduction to Borneo. Integrative Zoology.
- Pawlik, A., Piper, P.J. & Mijares, A.S.B. in press. Modern humans in the Philippines: Colonization, subsistence and new insights into behavioural complexity, in R. Dennell and M. Porr (Eds.), Southern Asia, Australasia and the search for modern human origins, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Piper, P.J. & Rabett, R.J. in press. Late Pleistocene subsistence strategies in Southeast Asia and their implications for understanding the development of modern human behaviour, in R. Dennell and M. Porr (Eds.), Southern Asia, Australasia and the search for modern human origins, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Rabett, R.J. & Piper, P.J. 2012. The emergence of bone technologies at the end of the Pleistocene in Island and Mainland Southeast Asia and their regional implications. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 22(1): 37-56.
- Heaney, L, Piper, P & Mijares, A 2011, 'The first fossil record of endemic murid rodents from the Philippines: A late Pleistocene cave fauna from northern Luzon', Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 124, no. 3, pp. 234-247.
- Barker, G, LLoyd-Smith, L, Barton, H et al 2011, 'Foraging-farming transitions at the Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo', Antiquity, vol. 85, no. 328, pp. 492-509.
- 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.
- Piper, P, Ochoa, J, Robles, E et al 2011, 'Palaeozoology of Palawan Island, Philippines', Quaternary International, vol. 233, no. 2, pp. 142-158.
- Barker, G, Lloyd-Smith, L., Barton, H., Cole, F., Hunt, C., Piper, P.J., Rabett, R. & Szabó, K. 2011. Foraging-farming transitions at the Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo. Antiquity 85(328): 492-509.
- Hung, H-c, Carson, M.T., Bellwood, P., Campos, F.Z., Piper, P.J., Dizon, E., Bolunia, M.J.L.A., Oxenham, M. & Zhang Chi 2011. The first settlement of Remote Oceania: the Philippines to the Marianas. Antiquity 85(329): 909-926.
- Ochoa, J. & Piper, P.J. in press. Holocene large mammal extinctions in Palawan Island, Philippines, in G. Monks (Ed.), Climate change, human response and zooarchaeology, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, New York: Springer.
- Piper, P.J., Ochoa, J., Robles, E., Lewis, H. & Paz, V. 2011. Palaeozoology of Palawan Island, Philippines. Quaternary International 233: 142-158.
- Mijares, ASB, Detroit, F., Piper, P.J., Bellwood, P., Grun, R., Aubert, M., Cuevas, N., De Leon, A. & Dizon, E. 2010. New evidence for a 67,000-year-old human presence at Callao Cave, Luzon, Philippines. Journal of Human Evolution 59:123-132.
- van den Bergh, G, Meijer, H, Awe Due, R et al 2009, 'The Liang Bua faunal remains: a 95 k.yr. sequence from Flores, East Indonesia', Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 527-537.
- Rabbett, R, Barker, G, Hunt, C et al 2009, 'The Trang an project: Late-to-post-pleistocene settlement of the lower song Hong Valley, North Vietnam', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 83-109.
- Cranbrook, E & Piper, P 2009, 'Borneo records of Malay Tapir, Tapirus indicus Desmarest: A zooarchaeological and historical review', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 491-507.
- Barton, H, Piper, P, Rabett, R et al 2009, 'Composite hunting technologies from the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene, Niah Cave, Borneo', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1708-1714.
- Piper, P & Rabbett, R 2009, 'Disentangling the Harrisson archive to interpret the spatial and temporal distribution of vertebrate remains at Niah Caves, Sarawak', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 464-475.
- Piper, P & Rabett, R 2009, 'Hunting in a tropical rainforest: Evidence from the terminal pleistocene at Lobang Hangus, Niah Caves, Sarawak', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 551-565.
- Hocknull, S, Piper, P, van den Bergh, G et al 2009, 'Dragon's paradise lost: Palaeobiogeography, evolution and extinction of the largest-ever terrestrial lizards (varanidae)', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 4, no. 9.
- Pritchard, P, Rabett, R & Piper, P 2009, 'Distinguishing species of geoemydid and trionychid turtles from shell fragments: Evidence from the Pleistocene at Niah Caves, Sarawak', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 531-550.
- Barker, G, Piper, P & Rabett, R 2009, 'Zooarchaeology at the Niah Caves, Sarawak: Context and Research Issues', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 447-463.
- Barton, H., Piper, P.J., Rabett, R.J. and Reeds, I. 2009. Composite hunting technologies from the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene, Niah Cave, Borneo. Journal of Archaeological Science 36:1708-1714.
- Piper, P., F. Campos & H.C. Hung 2009, 'A Study of the Animal Bone Recovered from Pits 9 and 10 at the Site of Nagsabaran in Northern Luzon, Philippines', Hukay (Journal for Archaeological Research in Asia and the Pacific), vol. 14, pp. 47-90.
- Piper, P., H.C. Hung, Campos, F et al 2009, 'A 4000 year-old introduction of domestic pigs into the Philippine Archipelago: implications for understanding routes of human migration through Island Southeast Asia and Wallacea', Antiquity, vol. 83, pp. 687-695.
- Piper, P.J. and Rabett, R.J. 2009. Disentangling the Harrisson archive to interpret the spatial and temporal distribution of vertebrate remains at Niah Caves, Sarawak. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 19(4):464-475.
- Piper, P.J. and Rabett, R.J. 2009. Hunting in a tropical rainforest: Evidence from the terminal Pleistocene at Lobang Hangus, Niah Caves, Sarawak. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 19(4): 551-565.
- Pritchard, P.C.H., Rabett, R.J. and Piper, P.J. 2009. Distinguishing species of Geoemydid and Trionychid turtles from shell fragments: Evidence from the Pleistocene at Niah Caves, Sarawak. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 19(4): 531-550.
- van den Bergh, G., Rokus Due Awe, Meijer, H.J.M, Szabó, K., van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Morwood, M.J., Sutikna, T., Saptomo, E. W., Piper, P.J. & Dobney, K.M. 2009. The Liang Bua faunal remains: a 95 kyr sequence from Flores, East Indonesia. Journal of Human Evolution 57: 527-537.
- Cranbrook, E & Piper, P 2008, 'Post-Pleistocene evolution of Bornean shrews Crocidura foetida (Mammalia, Soricidae)', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. 413-419.
- Piper, P, Ochoa, J, Lewis, H et al 2008, 'The first evidence for the past presence of the tiger Panthera tigris (L.) on the island of Palawan, Philippines: Extinction in an island population', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 264, no. 1-2, pp. 123-127.
- Piper, P, Rabett, R & Bin Kurui, E 2008, 'Using community, composition and structural variation in terminal Pleistocene vertebrate assemblages to identify human hunting behaviour at the Niah caves, Borneo', Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, vol. 28, pp. 88-98.
- Lewis, H, Paz, V, Lara, M et al 2008, 'Terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille Cave, Palawan, Philippines', Antiquity, vol. 82, no. 316, pp. 318-335.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- The Missing Millennium and the Origins of Agriculture in Southeast Asia (Primary Investigator)
- Tracking the development of agricultural lifestyles in island Southeast Asia through modern and prehistoric rodent communities. (Secondary Investigator)
- Landscape, resources and human migration during the Southeast Asian Neolithic (Secondary Investigator)
- Identifying the transition from hunting to animal management in mainland and Island Southeast Asia: Origins, impacts and proxies for human migration (Primary Investigator)
