Areas of expertise

• Palaeoecology 060206
• Quaternary Environments 040606
• Archaeological Science 210102
• Geomorphology And Regolith And Landscape Evolution 040601
• Soil Sciences 0503
• Palaeontology (Incl. Palynology) 040308

Research interests

Biography

Publications

• Stevenson, J & Bellwood, P 2013, 'Appendix: Archaeobotanical and Palaeoenvironmental Observations', in Peter Bellwood and 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. 241-242.
• Daniau, A, Bartlein, P, Harrison, S et al 2012, 'Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. -.
• Mooney, S, Harrison, S, Bartlein, P et al 2012, 'The Prehistory of Fire in Australasia', in Ross A Bradstock, A Malcolm Gill and Richard J Williams (ed.), Flammable Australia, CSIRO Publishing, Australia, pp. 3-25.
• Athens, J & Stevenson, J 2012, 'Pohnpei Coring Records: The Natural Distribution of Cyrtosperma chamissonis and Neolithic Charcoal Particles', Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 35-48.
• Ledru, M & Stevenson, J 2012, 'The rise and fall of the genus Araucaria: A southern hemisphere climatic connection', in Simon G Haberle & Bruno David (ed.), Peopled landscapes: (terra australis 34)archaeological and biogeographic approaches to landscapes, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 241-253.
• Haberle, S & Stevenson, J 2012, Cape York Peninsula Fire History and Palaeoecology Report.
• Mooney, S.D., Harrison, S.P., Bartlein, P.J., Daniau, A.-L., Stevenson, J., Brownlie, K.C., Buckman, S., Cupper, M., Luly, J., Black, M., Colhoun, E., D'Costa, D., Dodson, J., Haberle, S.G., Hope, G.S., Kershaw, P. Kenyon, C., McKenzie, M., Williams, N. (2011) Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 28-46.
• Prebble, M, Stevenson, J & Haberle, S 2010, 'A D-section and a tin whistle: A tribute to Prof. Geoff Hope', 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. 1-14.
• Haberle, S, Stevenson, J & Prebble, M, eds, 2010, Altered Ecologies: Fire, Climate and Human Influence on Terrestrial Landscapes, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
• Stevenson, J, Gillespie, R, Hope, G et al 2010, 'The archaic and puzzling record of Lake Xere Wapo, New Caledonia', 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. 381-393.
• Stevenson, J, Siringan, F, Finn, J et al 2010, 'Paoay Lake, northern Luzon, the Philippines: a record of Holocene environmental change', Global Change Biology, vol. 2009, pp. [17 pages].
• Hope, G, Stevenson, J & Southern, W 2009, 'Vegetation histories from the Fijian Islands: Alternative records of human impact', in Geoffrey Clark and Atholl Anderson (ed.), The Early Prehistory of Fiji (Terra Australis 31), ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 63-86.
• 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.
• Bellwood, P, Stevenson, J, Dizon, E et al 2008, 'Where are the Neolithic landscapes of Ilocos Norte?', Hukay, vol. 13, pp. 25-38.
• Stevenson, J, Haberle, S, Johnston, F et al 2007, 'Seasonal distribution of pollen in the atmosphere of Darwin, tropical Australia: Preliminary results', Grana, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 34-42.
• Stevenson, J 2007, 'Mid-Holocene environmental change in the Northern Philippines', XVII INQUA Congress the Tropics: Heat Engine of the Quaternary, ed. Norm R. Catto, Elsevier, Oxford, p. 397.
• Stevenson, J & Hope, G 2005, 'A comparison of late Quaternary forest changes in New Caledonia and northeastern Australia', Quaternary Research, vol. 64, pp. 372-383.
• Pickett, E, Harrison, S, Hope, G et al 2004, 'Pollen-based reconstructions of biome distributions for Australia, southeast Asia and the Pacific', Journal of Biogeography, vol. 31, pp. 1381-1444.
• Stevenson, J 2004, 'A late-Holocene record of human impact from the southwest coast of New Caledonia', Holocene, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 888-898.
• Lu, H, Prosser, I, Moran, C et al 2003, 'Predicting sheetwash and rill erosion over the Australian continent', Australian Journal of Soil Research, vol. 41, pp. 1037-1062.
• Bellwood, P, Stevenson, J, Anderson, A et al 2003, 'Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research in the Batanes and Ilocos Norte Provinces, Northern Philippines', Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 2002, ed. Peter Bellwood, Doreen Bowdery, Richard Pearson & Judy Voelker, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Canberra, pp. 141-162.
• Stevenson, J, Dodson, J & Prosser, I 2001, 'A late Quaternary record of environmental change and human impact from Plum Swamp, New Caledonia', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 168, no. 1-2, pp. 97-123.

Projects and Grants

Grants are drawn from ARIES. To add Projects or Grants please contact your College Research Office.

• From Prehistory to History: Landscape and Cultural Change on the South Alligator River, Kakadu National Park (Secondary Investigator)
• Enhancing cultural heritage management for mining operations: a multi-disciplinary approach (Secondary Investigator)
• The Archaeology of Sulawesi: A Strategic Island for Understanding Modern Human Colonization and Interactions Across our Region (Secondary Investigator)
• The Creation of Southeast Asian Peoples and Cultures, 3500 BC to AD 500 (Secondary Investigator)
• Understanding the Early Phases of Neolithic Dispersal in the Western Pacific (Secondary Investigator)