Emeritus Professor Matthew Spriggs
MA (Cantab), PhD (ANU), FSA, FAHA, FRAI, Order of Vanuatu, GSM (Vanuatu)
Emeritus Professor of Archaeology
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
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02 61258229
Areas of expertise
- Archaeology Of New Guinea And Pacific Islands (Excl. New Zealand) 210106
- Pacific History (Excl. New Zealand And Maori) 210313
- British History 210305
- Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200406
- Archaeological Science 210102
Research interests
Ancient DNA, Linguistics and archaeology
Pacific and Island Southeast Asian Archaeology
History of Archaeology in Australia and the Pacific
Cornish Language History
Biography
I retired from the ANU at the end of March 2021, after nearly 34 years (nearly 24 years of that as Professor of Archaeology), but still remain active in research. My research interests are areally the archaeology of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, and also Cornish Studies. My thematic areas of interest are history of archaeology, archaeological theory, archaeology and lingusitics, human-environment interactions, politics and archaeology, ancient DNA analysis and archaeology, and Cornish language history. Most recently I have undertaken a five year project (2015-2020) funded by the ARC Laureate scheme on the history of Pacific archaeology, currently have an ARC Strategic Initiative Grant with Prof. Lynette Russell of Monash University on Indigenous Australian involvement in the development of archaeology from the 1830s onwards. I have carried out archaeological research in Indonesia, East Timor, New Guinea, the Bismack Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Hawaii. I was appointed Professor of Archaeology in 1997 in what is now the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences at the ANU. Previously I was a Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology and Natural History, in what is now the College of Asia Pacific. Before joining the ANU in 1987, I was an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department of University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. I took up a position there after finishing my PhD at the ANU in 1981.
Publications
- Roberts, P, Douka, K, Tromp, M et al. 2022, 'Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, vol. 377, no. 1849, p. 13.
- Shaw, B, Hawkins, S, Becerra-Valdivia, L et al. 2022, 'Frontier Lapita interaction with resident Papuan populations set the stage for initial peopling of the Pacific', Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 6, pp. 802-812.
- Liu, Y, Hunter-Anderson, R, Cheronet, O et al. 2022, 'Ancient DNA reveals five streams of migration into Micronesia and matrilocality in early Pacific seafarers', Science, vol. 337, no. 6601, pp. 72-79.
- Howes, H, Jones, T & Spriggs, M, eds, 2022, Uncovering Pacific Pasts, ANU Press, Canberra, AUS.
- Spriggs, M 2021, 'The Genetic History of Pacific Islanders: Evidence from ancient DNA (aDNA) and support from other disciplines', International Austronesian Languages Revitalization Forum 2019, ed. Yang Zhengbin, Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples, Taipei, pp. 116-156.
- Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S, Anthony, D, Babiker, H et al. 2021, 'Ethics of DNA Research on Human Remains: Five Globally Applicable Guidelines', Nature, vol. 599, no. 7883, pp. 41-46.
- Wang, N, Brown, S, Ditchfield, P et al. 2021, 'Testing the efficacy and comparability of ZooMS protocols on archaeological bone', Journal of Proteomics, vol. 233.
- Spriggs, M & Reich, D 2020, 'An ancient DNA Pacific journey: a case study of collaboration between archaeologists and geneticists', World Archaeology, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 620-639.
- Spriggs, M 2020, 'Everything You've Been Told About the History of Australian Archaeology is Wrong!', Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. -.
- Spriggs, M 2020, ''Casey did very good work for Wheeler and you are lucky to have him': Dermot Casey's under-appreciated importance in Australian archaeology', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. -.
- Dotte, E, Di Piazza, A, Valentin, F et al. 2020, 'Introduction: Pour une histoire de la prehistoire en Oceanie (Towards a History of Pacific Prehistory)', in Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Anne Di Piazza, Frederique Valentin and Matthew Spriggs (ed.), Pour une histoire de la préhistoire océanienne: Approches historiographiques de l’archéologie francophone dans le Pacifique (Towards a History of Pacific Prehistory: Historiographic approaches to francophone archaeology in Oceania), pacific-credo Publications, Marseille France, pp. 7-20.
- Langley, M, Bedford, S, Spriggs, M et al. 2020, 'Manufacture and Use of Lapita Conus Multi-Segment Broad Rings: Evidence from the Teouma site, Central Vanuatu', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 364-383.
- Sykes, N, Spriggs, M & Evin, A 2020, 'Beyond curse or blessing: The opportunities and challenges of aDNA analysis', World Archaeology, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 503-516.
- 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.
- Jones, M, Zubrzycka, A, Bedford, S et al. 2020, 'Death and his body-servant: health, architecture and missionary endeavour at the Anelcauhat Mission House, Vanuatu', Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 34-46.
- Lipson, M, Spriggs, M., Valentin, F et al. 2020, 'Three phases of ancient migration shaped the ancestry of human populations in Vanuatu', Current Biology, vol. 30, no. 24, pp. 4846-4856.
- Spriggs, M & Bedford, S 2020, Redécouverte, confirmation et datation d’un profil stratigraphique décrit par Gustave Glaumont sur l’île de Ambae en 1890'', in Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Anne Di Piazza, Frederique Valentin and Matthew Spriggs (ed.), Pour une histoire de la préhistoire océanienne Approches historiographiques de l’archéologie francophone dans le Pacifique, pacific-credo Publications, France, pp. 189-200.
- 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
- Zinger, W, Detroit, F, Valentin, F et al. 2019, 'Ancient and recent phenotypic variation in Oceania: 3 millennia of migrations in Southern Melanesia documented by linear morphometry', The Journal of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 51-53.
- Furholt, M, Grier, C, Spriggs, M et al. 2019, 'Political Economy in the Archaeology of Emergent Complexity: a Synthesis of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches', Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 27, pp. 157-191.
- Bedford, S & Spriggs, M, eds, 2019, Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Bedford, S, Spriggs, M, Burley, D et al. 2019, 'Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence', in Stuart Bedford and Matthew Spriggs (ed.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence (Terra Australis 52), ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 5-36.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M 2019, 'Covert control? Indigenous agency in Edward Winslow Gifford's Fijian archaeological expedition of 1947', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 397-416.
- 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.
- Howes, H & Spriggs, M 2019, 'Writing the history of archaeology in the Pacific: voices and perspectives', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 295-306.
- 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.
- Sykes, N, Conneller, C, Schofield, J et al 2018, 'Introduction: Celebrating archaeology and the archaeology of celebrations', World Archaeology, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 201-209.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Murray, T & Spriggs, M 2017, 'The historiography of archaeology: exploring theory, contingency and rationality', World Archaeology, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 151-157pp.
- Spriggs, M 2017, 'The Hidden History of a Third of the World: the Collective Biography of Australian and International Archaeology in the Pacific (CBAP) Project', Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 1-11pp..
- Spriggs, M 2017, ''The Curve of the Hook' by Yosi Sinoto: 'Unearthing the Polynesian Past; Explorations and Adventures of an Island Archaeologist' by Patrick V. Kirch', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 52, pp. 135 - 138pp..
- Spriggs, M 2016, 'Ex Oriente Lux: Recent Data from Lapita Culture Sites Bearing on the Autronesian Diaspora within Island Southeast Asia', International Symposium on Austronesian Disaspora, ed. B. Prasetyo, TS Nastiti and T. Simanjuntak, Gadjah Mada University Press, Bali, pp. 105-124pp.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M 2016, 'Lapita and the Linearbandkeramik: What Can a Comparative approach Tell Us about Either?', in Luc Amkreutz, Fabian Haack, Daniela Hofmann and Ivo van Wijk (ed.), Something Out of the Ordinary? : Interpreting Diversity in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik and Beyond, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 481-504.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M 2016, 'Thoughts of a Comparativist on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration', in Lene Melheim, Hakon Glorstad, Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad (ed.), Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration, Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag), Sheffield, Bristol, pp. 271-280pp.
- 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.
- Shaw, B, Leclerc, M, Dickinson, W et al 2016, 'Identifying prehistoric trade networks in the Massim region, Papua New Guinea: Evidence from petrographic and chemical compositional pottery analyses from Rossel and Nimowa Islands in the Louisiade Archipelago', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 6, pp. 518-535.
- Spriggs, M 2016, 'What archaeologists want human biologists to tell them, about Teouma for example', 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. 623-636pp.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M 2015, 'Preface : Plen An Gwari', in Will Coleman (ed.), Plen An Gwari - The Playing Places of Cornwall, Golden Tree Productions, Kernow, p. 01.
- Spriggs, M 2015, 'A 1980 Attempt at Reviving Ancient Irrigation Practices in the Pacific: Rationale, Failure, and Success', in Christian Isendahl and Daryl Stump (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 1-12.
- Earle, T & Spriggs, M 2015, 'Political economy in prehistory: A marxist approach to pacific sequences', Current Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 515-544.
- 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.
- Flexner, J & Spriggs, M 2015, 'Mission Sites as indigenous heritage in southern Vanuatu', Journal of Social Archaelology, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 184-209.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M & Scarr, D, eds, 2014, terra australis 41: Degei's Descendants : Spirits, Place and People in Pre-Cession Fiji, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Spriggs, M 2014, 'Degei's Descendants: Spirits, Place and People in Pre-Cession Fiji', in Matthew Spriggs and Deryck Scarr (ed.), Degei's descendants : spirits, place and people in pre-cession Fiji, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. vii - xiii.
- Spriggs, M 2014, 'You will never know the why of a region's history, if you haven't pinned down the when: getting the dates right in Eastern Polynesia', in Ingjerd Hoem (ed.)Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki in New Light. The Kon-Tiki Museum Occasional Papers, vol. 14, pp. 169-180.
- Sand, C, Marshall, Y, Sheppard, P et al 2013, 'Ritually breaking Lapita pots: Or, can we get into the minds of Oceanic first settlers? A discussion', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 2-6.
- Spriggs, M 2013, 'Comment on "Fijian Polygenesis and the Melanesian/Polynesian divide " by D. Burley', Current Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 454-455.
- Spriggs, M 2013, 'Comment on "On Applied Archaeology, Indigenous Knowledge, and the usable past " by D. Stump', Current Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 291-292.
- Spriggs, M 2013, 'Oceania: Lapita migration', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration Volume 1 Prehistory, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 308-314pp.
- Spriggs, M 2013, 'Philip Payton: cultural entrepreneur for a rhetorically defined space', in Philip Payton (ed.), Cornish studies 21: Cornwall's right: internal self government assemblies for Scotland and Wales: why not Cornwall?, University of Exeter Press, Exeter, pp. 9-16.
- Spriggs, M 2013, 'Leaving Safe Harbours: Movement to Immobility, Homogeneity to Diversification. A Comparative Archaeological Sequence from the Western Pacific', in Bergerbrant, S and Sabatini, S (ed.), Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen, Archaeopress, Oxford.
- Spriggs, M 2013, 'Three carved cone shells from Collingwood Bay', in L Bolton, N Thomas, E Bonshek, J Adams & B Burt (ed.), Melanesia: Art and Encounter, British Museum Press, London, pp. 7-11.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M. 2013 Comment on 'Ritually breaking pots: or can we get into the minds of Oceania's first settlers? A discussion' by C. Sand. Archaeology in Oceania 48(1): 8-9.
- Spriggs, M. 2013. Comment on 'Fijian Polygenesis and the Melanesian/Polynesian divide' by D. Burley. Current Anthropology 54(4): 454-5
- Spriggs, M. 2013. Comment on 'On applied archaeology, indigenous knowledge and the usable past' by D. Stump. Current Anthropology 54(3): 291-2.
- Spriggs, M. 2013. Leaving safe harbours: movement to immobility, homogeneity to diversification. A comparative archaeological sequence from the Western Pacific, in Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen, ed. by S. Bergerbrant and S. Sabatini, pp. 549-556. British Archaeological Reports International Series 2508. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Spriggs, M. 2013. Oceania: Lapita migration, The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Vol. 1, Prehistory, ed. I. Ness and P. Bellwood, pp.308-314. Malden MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M 2012, 'Is the neolithic spread in island southeast Asia really as confusing as the archaeologists (and some linguists) make it seem?', in Tjoa-Bonatz, M. L, Reinecke, A. and Bonatz, D. (ed.), Crossing borders: selected papers from the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, volume 1, NUS Press - National University of Singapore, Singapore, pp. 109-121.
- Spriggs, M & Matthews, P 2012, 'Conclusion: Irrigated taro in the Indo-Pacific: multiple perspectives', in Matthew Spriggs, David Addison and Peter J. Matthews (ed.), Irrigated Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: biological, social and historical perspectives, National Museum of Ethnology Japan, Osaka, pp. 341-347.
- Spriggs, M 2012, 'From Mendana to Riesenfeld: early accounts of and speculation on taro irrigation in the Asia-Pacific area', in Matthew Spriggs, David Addison and Peter J. Matthews (ed.), Irrigated Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: biological, social and historical perspectives, National Museum of Ethnology Japan, Osaka, pp. 1-19.
- Spriggs, M, Addison, D & Matthews, P, eds, 2012, Irrigated Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: biological, social and historical perspectives, National Museum of Ethnology Japan, Osaka.
- Spriggs, M 2012, Gow, the headhunter (Cannibal Island): audio essay.
- Spriggs, M 2012, 'Comment: Lapita sites in the Central Province of mainland Papua New Guinea', Australian Archaeology, vol. 75, no. Dec 2012, pp. 15-16.
- Spriggs, M, Reepmeyer, C, Anggraeni, A et al 2011, 'Obsidian sources and distribution systems in Island Southeast Asia: a review of previous research', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 2873-2881.
- Reepmeyer, C, Spriggs, M, Anggraeni, A et al 2011, 'Obsidian sources and distribution systems in Island Southeast Asia: new results and implications from geochemical research using LA-ICPMS', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 2995-3005.
- Petchey, F, Spriggs, M, Leach, F et al 2011, 'Testing the human factor: Radiocarbon dating the first peoples of the South Pacific', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 29-44.
- Spriggs, M 2011, 'Peter Gathercole (1929-2010): A Life Well-Lived', Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 307-309.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M 2011, 'Pacific islands as Crossroads: Ancient connectivities in an island world', in Tim Curtis (ed.), Islands as Crossroads: Sustaining Cultural Diversity in Small Island Developing States, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris France, pp. 23-39.
- Spriggs, M 2011, 'Anatom', in (ed.), 101 mots pour comprendre le Vanuatu, Groupe de Recherche sur l'Histoire Océanienne Contemporaine/Délégation de la Commission Européenne au Vanuatu / Sun Productions, New Caledonia, pp. 4-5.
- Lynch, J & Spriggs, M 2011, 'Erromango', in (ed.), 101 mots pour comprendre le Vanuatu, Groupe de Recherche sur l'Histoire Océanienne Contemporaine/Délégation de la Commission Européenne au Vanuatu / Sun Productions, New Caledonia, pp. 91-92.
- Spriggs, M 2011, 'Article Review. Lapita Colonization across the Near/Remote Oceania Boundary', Current Anthropology, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 799-840pp.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M 2011, 'Archaeology and the Austronesian expansion: Where are we now?', Antiquity vol. 85, no. 328, pp. 510-528.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M & Dickinson, W 2010, 'Pottery manufacture and trade in Maluku Tengah, Indonesia: 35 years after Ellen and Glover', in Berenice Bellina, Elisabeth A Bacus, Thomas Oliver Pryce, Jan Wisseman Christie (ed.), 50 Years of Archaeology in Southeast Asia: Essays in Honour of Ian Glover, River Books, Bangkok, pp. 273-285.
- Spriggs, M 2010, 'Geomorphic and archaeological consequences of human arrival and agricultural expansion on Pacific islands: a reconsideration after 30 years of debate', in Haberle, S G, Stevenson, J and Prebble, M (ed.), Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes (Terra Australis 32), ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 239-252.
- Spriggs, M 2010, 'The Neolithisation of Southeast Asia', in Christophe Sand and Stuart Bedford (ed.), Lapita: Oceanic Ancestors, Somogy Editions d'Art, Paris, pp. 58-73.
- Spriggs, M 2010, 'I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now: why the dates keep changing for the spread of Austronesian languages', in John Bowden, Nikolaus P Himmelmann & Malcolm Ross (ed.), A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space: Papers in honour of Andrew Pawley, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, ACT, pp. 113-140.
- Spriggs, M & Gendall, R 2010, 'The three epitaphs of Dolly Pentreath', in Philip Payton (ed.), Cornish Studies Eighteen, University of Exeter Press, Exeter, UK, pp. 203-224.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- O'Connor, S, Barham, A, Spriggs, M et al 2010, 'Cave Archaeology and Sampling issues in the Tropics; A Case Study from Lene Hara Cave, a 42,000 year old occupation site in East Timor, Island Southeast Asia', Australian Archaeology, vol. 71, no. 71, pp. 29-40.
- Spriggs, M 2007, 'The Neolithic and Austronesian expansion within Island Southeast Asia and into the Pacific', 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. 104-125.
- Spriggs, M, Bird, R & Ambrose, W 2010, 'A reanalysis of the Tikopia obsidians', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 31-38.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M & Mattingly, J 2009, 'Speaking Cornish in Mount's Bay', in Joanna Mattingly (ed.), Cornwall and the Coast; Mousehole and Newlyn, Phillimore & Co Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp. 75-84.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M 2009, 'Oceanic Connections in Deep Time', PacifiCurrents: eJournal of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 7-27.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M 2009, Archives Relocation Starts to Yield Treasures, Pambu Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Newsletter.
- Spriggs, M 2008, 'Are islands islands? Some thoughts on the history of chalk and cheese', 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. 211-226.
- Ambrose, W, Allen, C, O'Connor, S et al. 2008, 'Possible obsidian sources for artifacts from Timor: narrowing the options using chemical data', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 607-615.
- Spriggs, M 2008, 'Ethnographic parallels and the denial of history', World Archaeology, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 538-552.
- 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 & 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.
- 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 & 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.
- Spriggs, M 2007, 'Population in a Vegetable Kingdom: Aneityum Island (Vanuatu) at European Contact in 1830', in Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu (ed.), The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies: archaeological and demographic perspectives, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, pp. 278-305.
- 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.
- Larson, G, Matisoo-Smith, E, Anderson, A et al 2007, 'Phylogeny and ancient DNA of SUS provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 104, no. 12, pp. 4834-4839.
- 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.
- Spriggs, M 2006, 'Additional Thoughts on the Medieval 'Cornish Bible'', in Phillip Payton (ed.), Cornish Studies Fourteen, University of Exeter Press, Exeter, pp. 44-55.
- Spriggs, M 2006, 'Who was the Duchess of Cornwall in Nicolas Boson's (c1660-70) 'The Duchesse of Cornwall's Progresse to see the Land's End..'?', in Philip Payton (ed.), Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion, 1490-1690, University of Exeter Press, Exeter, UK, pp. 56-69.
- Spriggs, M, Veth, P, O'Connor, S et al 2005, 'Three Seasons of Archaeological Survey in the Aru Islands, 1995-97', in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, P. Veth (ed.), The Archeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 63-84.
- O'Connor, S, Spriggs, M & Veth, P, eds, 2005, The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Pandanus Books, Canberra.
- Veth, P, O'Connor, S, Spriggs, M et al 2005, 'The Ujir Site: An Early Historic Maritime Settlement in Northwestern Aru', in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, P. Veth (ed.), The Archeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 85-93.
- Veth, P, Spriggs, M, O'Connor, S et al 2005, 'Wangil Midden: a Late Prehistoric Site, With Remarks on Ethnographic Pottery Making', in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, P. Veth (ed.), The Archeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 95-124.
- Spriggs, M, O'Connor, S & Veth, P 2005, 'The Aru Islands in Perspective: A General Introduction', in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, P. Veth (ed.), The Archeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 1-24.
- O'Connor, S, Spriggs, M & Veth, P 2005, 'On the Cultural History of the Aru Islands: Some Conclusions', in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, P. Veth (ed.), The Archeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 307-314.
- O'Connor, S, Aplin, K, Szabo, K et al 2005, 'Liang Lemdubu: A Pleistocene Cave Site in the Aru Islands', in S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, P. Veth (ed.), The Archeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 171-204.
- Veth, P, Spriggs, M & O'Connor, S 2005, 'Continuity in Tropical Cave Use: Examples from East Timor and the Aru Islands, Maluku', Asian Perspectives, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 180-192.
- Valentin, F, Shing, R & Spriggs, M 2005, 'Human remains of early mangaasi age (2400-1800 BP) from mangaliliu (Efate, Vanuatu) [Des restes humains dat�s du d�but de la p�riode de Mangaasi (2400-1800 BP) d�couverts � Mangaliliu (Efate, Vanuatu)]', Academie des Sciences Comptes Rendus: Palevol, vol. 4, pp. 420-427.
- Spriggs, M 2005, 'Bougainvilles Early History: in Archaeological Perspective', in Anthony J Regan and Helga M Griffin (ed.), Bougainville before the conflict, Pandanus Books, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-19.
- Spriggs, M 2005, 'William Scawen (1600-1689) - A neglected Cornish patriot and father of the Cornish language revival', in Philip Payton (ed.), Cornish Studies Thirteen, University of Exeter Press, Exeter, pp. 98-125.
- Spriggs, M 2004, 'Boson Family (per.c.1675-1730)', in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the earliest times to the year 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 713-714.
- Spriggs, M 2004, 'Pentreath [Later Jeffery], Dorothy [Dolly](bap.1692 d. 1777)', in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the earliest times to the year 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 623-624.
- Spriggs, M 2004, 'Keigwin, John (bap.1642 d.1716)', in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the earliest times to the year 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 39.
- Spriggs, M 2004, 'Gwavas, William (1676-1741/2)', in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the earliest times to the year 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 339-340.
- Spriggs, M 2004, 'Jordan, William (fl.1611)', in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the earliest times to the year 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 709-710.
- Spriggs, M 2004, 'Scawen, William (1600-1689)', in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the earliest times to the year 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 195-196.
- Spriggs, M 2004, 'Is There Life After Lapita, and Do You Remember the 60s? The Post-Lapita Sequences of the Western Pacific', Records of the Australian Museum - Supplement, vol. Supplement 29, pp. 139-144.
- Veth, P, O'Connor, S & Spriggs, M 2004, 'Changing research perspectives from Australia's doorstep: the Joint Australian-Indonesian Aru Islands Initiative and the Archaeology of East Timor Project', in Tim Murray (ed.), Archaeology from Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 209-230.
- Spriggs, M 2004, 'The Cornish Language, Archaeology, and the Origins of English Theatre', in Martin Jones (ed.), Traces of Ancestry: studies in honour of Colin Renfrew, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, UK, pp. 143-161.
- Spriggs, M 2004, 'The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania', in Peter Bellwood (ed.), The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ANU ePress, Australia, pp. 119-142.
- Spriggs, M 2003, 'Where Cornish was spoken and When: A Provisional Synthesis', in Philip Payton (ed.), Cornish Studies, University of Exeter Press, Exeter, pp. 228-270.
- Spriggs, M 2003, 'Chronology of the Neolithic Transition in Island Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific: A view from 2003', Review of Archaeology, The, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 57-80.
- Spriggs, M 2003, 'Post-Lapita evolutions in island Melanesia', International Conference for the 50th anniversary of the first Lapita excavation (July 1952), ed. Christophe Sand, Le Cahiers de l�Arch�ologie en Nouvelle-Cal�donie, Noumea, pp. 205-213.
- Spriggs, M, O'Connor, S & Veth, P 2003, 'Vestiges of Early Pre-agricultural economy in the landscape of East Timor - Recent research', International Conference of the EurASEAA 2003, ed. Anna Karlstrom and Anna Kallen, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 49-59.
- Spriggs, M 2003, 'Seafaring in the Pleistocene', Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 54-55.
- Spriggs, M 2002, 'They've grown accustomed to your face', 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. 51-57.
- Spriggs, M 2002, 'Taro Cropping Systems in the Southeast Asian-Pacific Region: An Archaeological Update', in Yoshida Shuji & Peter Matthews (ed.), Vegeculture in Eastern Asia and Oceania, National Museum of Ethnology Japan, Osaka, pp. 77-94.
- O'Connor, S, Aplin, K, Spriggs, M et al. 2002, 'From Savannah to Rainforest: Changing Environments and Human Occupation at Liang Lembudu, Aru Islands, Maluku (Indonesia)', in P. Kershaw, B. David, N. Tapper, D. Penny and J. Brown (ed.), Bridging Wallace's Line: The environmental and cultural history and dynamics of the SE-Asian-Australian Region, Catena Verlag GMBH, Germany, pp. 279-307.
- 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.
- Jones, R & Spriggs, M 2002, 'Theatrum Oceani: Themes and arguments concerning the prehistory of Australia and the Pacific', in B. Cunliffe, W. Davies, and C. Renfrew (ed.), Archaeology: The widening debate, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 245-294.
- Mead, J, Steadman, D, Bedford, S et al 2002, 'New Extinct Mekosuchine Crocodile from Vanuatu, South Pacific', Copeia, vol. 3, pp. 632-641.
- O'Connor, S, Spriggs, M & Veth, P 2002, 'Excavation at Lene Hara Cave establishes occupation in East Timor at least 35,000 years ago', Antiquity, vol. 76, pp. 45-50.
- Spriggs, M 2001, 'Who cares what time it is? The importance of chronology in Pacific archaeology', in A.Anderson, I.Lilley & S.O'Connor (ed.), Histories of Old Ages: Essays in honour of Rhys Jones, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 237-250.
- Spriggs, M & Bedford, S 2001, 'Arapus: A Lapita site at Mangaasi in central Vanuatu', in GR Clark, AJ Anderson, T Vunidilo (ed.), The archaeology of Lapita dispersal in Oceania, Pandanus Books, Canberra ACT, pp. 93-104.
- Tuggle, H & Spriggs, M 2001, 'The age of the Bellows Dune site O18, Oahu, Hawaii, and the antiquity of Hawaiian colonization', Asian Perspectives, vol. 39, no. 1-2, pp. 165-188.
- Wilson, M, Spriggs, M & Lawson, E 2001, 'Dating the rock art of Vanuatu: AMS radiocarbon determinations from abandoned mud-wasp nests and charcoal pigment found in superimposition', Rock Art Research, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 24-32.
- Spriggs, M 2001, 'Future eaters in Australia, Future Eaters in the Pacific? Early human environmental impacts', Australian Archaeology, vol. 52, pp. 53-59.
- Spriggs, M 2000, 'Lapita Culture', in <> (ed.), <>, pp. 58pp.
- Bedford, S & Spriggs, M 2000, 'Crossing the Pwanmwou: preliminary report on recent excavations adjacent to and south west of Mangaasi, Efate, Vanuatu', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 120-126.
- Spriggs, M 2000, 'Can Hunter-Gatherers live in Tropical Rain Forests?', in Schweitzer, P.; Biesele, M.; Hitchcock, R. (ed.), Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance and Self-Determination, Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 287-304.
- Spriggs, M 2000, 'Out of Asia: the Spread of Southeast Asia Pleistocene and neolithic maritime cultures in island Southeast Asia and the western pacific', in O?Connor, S.; Veth, P. (ed.), East of Wallace�s Line: Studies of past and present maritime cultures of the Indo-Pacific region, A A Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 51-75.
- Spriggs, M 2000, 'The Solomon islands as bridge and barrier in the settlement of the Pacific', in Anderson, A.; Murray, T. (ed.), Australian Archaeologist: Collected Papers in Honour of Jim Allen, Coombs Academic Publishing, Canberra, pp. 348-364.
- Bedford, S, Spriggs, M & Regenvanu, R 1999, 'The Australian National University - Vanuatu Cultural Centre Archaeology Project, 1994-7: Aims and Results', Oceania, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 16-24.
- Spriggs, M 1999, 'Les eclats du triangle polynesien: Archeologie des diables etrangers', in Dunis, Serge (ed.), D�ile en Ile Pacifique, Klincksieck, Paris, pp. 24-44.
- Bellwood, P & Spriggs, M 1999, 'Invited commentary on Helen Leach's Intensification in the Pacific: a Critique of the Archaeological Criteria and their Application', Current Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 324-5.
- Spriggs, M 1999, 'Remote Delivery of Archaeological Discovery Results to a Classroom Context', in Paul Wallin (ed.), Archaeology, Communication and Language. No Barriers Seminar Papers, Vol. I, Kon-Tiki Museum, Kon-Tiki, pp. 5-7pp.
- Spriggs, M 1999, 'Pacific Archaeologies: Contested Ground in the Construction of Pacific History', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 109-121.
- Spriggs, M & Blench, R 1999, 'Introducing the Papers', in Spriggs (ed.), Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, Languages and Texts, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 21-28.
- Spriggs, M 1999, 'The Dating of Non Nok Tha and the Gakushuin Factor', in Bulbeck, F.; Barnard, N. (ed.), Ancient Chinese and Southeast Asian Bronze Age Cultures: The Proceedings of a Conference held at the Edith and Joy London Foundation property, Kioloa NSW, SMC Publishing Inc, Taipei, pp. 941-948.
- Spriggs, M & Blench, R 1999, 'General Introduction', in Blench, R; Spriggs, M (ed.), Archaeology and Language IV: Language Change and Cultural Transformation, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 1-20.
- Spriggs, M & Blench, R 1999, 'Introduction [to Volume IV]', in Blench, R; Spriggs, M (ed.), Archaeology and Language IV: Language Change and Cultural Transformation, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 21-28.
- Spriggs, M & Blench, R 1999, Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, Languages and Texts, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London.
- Spriggs, M & Blench, R, eds, 1999, Archaeology and Language IV: Language Change and Cultural Transformation, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London.
- Spriggs, M 1999, 'The stratigraphy of the Ponamla site, northwest Erromango, Vanuatu: evidence for 2700 year old stone structures.', in Galipaud, J.C.; Lilley, I. (ed.), The Pacific from 5000 to 2000 BP: Colonisation and Transformations/Le Pacifique de 5000 a 2000 avant le present: Supplements a l'histoire d'une colonisation, IRD Editions, Paris, pp. 323-331.
Projects and Grants
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- Beyond migration and diffusion: The prehistoric mobility of people & ideas (Secondary Investigator)
- The collective biography of archaeology in the Pacific: a hidden history (Primary Investigator)
- From Lapita to Liturgy: The archaeological and environmental history of the three millenia of human settlement of Aneityum, Southern Vanuatu (Primary Investigator)
- Understanding the migrations of prehistoric populations through direct dating and isotopic tracking of their mobility patterns (Secondary Investigator)
- Persistence and transformation in Ancestral Oceanic Society: the archaeology of the first 1500 years in the Vanuatu archipelago (Secondary Investigator)
