Dr Katherine Szabo
Areas of expertise
- Archaeological Science 210102
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Archaeology 210101
- Archaeology Of Asia, Africa And The Americas 210103
- Maritime Archaeology 210110
- Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) 060205
- Archaeology Of New Guinea And Pacific Islands (Excl. New Zealand) 210106
- Archaeology 2101
Research interests
Shell-working and shell as a raw material; shell as a food resource and environmental indicator; material culture; theory of technology; human/hominid perception and manipulation of raw materials and the natural environment.
Biography
After completing my doctorate and an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship within Archaeology and Natural, I am now based at the University of Guam as an Assistant Professor in Anthropology. My doctoral research investigated potential linkages in neolithic shell-working traditions across Island Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, while my post-doctoral research focused on the neolithic/metal age transition in the Philippines. I have conducted research in a variety of places within the Asia-Pacific region including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, the Marianas, Fiji and French Polynesia and have worked extensively with both Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological material.
Career highlights
1999 ANU summer scholar; 2000 PhD scholarship awarded by the Endowment for Excellence, ANU; 2005 ARC postdoctoral fellowship; 2007-8 British Academy Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge UK.
Publications
- Szabo, K 2009, 'Molluscan remains from Fiji', in Geoffrey Clark and Atholl Anderson (ed.), The Early Prehistory of Fiji (Terra Australis 31), ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 183-211.
- Clark, G & Szabo, K 2009, 'The fish bone remains', in Geoffrey Clark and Atholl Anderson (ed.), The Early Prehistory of Fiji (Terra Australis 31), ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 213-230.
- Szabo, K, Piper, P & Barker, G 2008, 'Sailing between worlds: The symbolism of death in northwest Borneo', 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. 149-170.
- Szabo, K & Dizon, E 2007, 'The Archaeology of Linaminan, Central Palawan: A Preliminary Report on Excavations', Hukay, vol. 11, pp. 1-84.
- Szabo, K 2007, 'An assessment of shell fishhooks of the Lapita cultural complex', in Atholl Anderson, Kaye Green & Foss Leach (ed.), Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture in honour of Janet M. Davidson, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 227-241.
- Szabo, K, Brumm, A & Bellwood, P 2007, 'Shell Artefact Production at 32,000-28,000 BP in Island Southeast Asia: Thinking across Media?', Current Anthropology, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 701-723.
- Szabo, K 2007, 'Book review: Archaeomalacology: Molluscs in Former Environments of Human Behavior', Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 63, pp. 112-113.
- 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.
- Eichhorst, T & Szabo, K 2004, 'Nerita textilis Gmelin, 1791: Description and Range Extension', American Conchologist Quarterly Journal of the Conchologists of America, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 7-11.
- Szabo, K, Swete Kelly, M & Penalosa, A 2004, 'Preliminary Results from Excavations in the Eastern Mouth of Ille Cave, Northern Palawan', in Victor Paz (ed.), Southeast Asian Archaeology, University of the Philippines Press, The Philippines, pp. 209-224.
- Szabo, K & O'Connor, S 2004, 'Migration and complexity in Holocene Island Southeast Asia', World Archaeology, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 621-628.
- Szabo, K, Ramirez, H, Anderson, A et al 2003, 'Prehistoric subsistence strategies on the Batanes Islands, Northern Phillippines', Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 2002, ed. Peter Bellwood, Doreen Bowdery, Richard Pearson & Judy Voelker, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Canberra, pp. 163-172.
- Szabo, K & Summerhayes, G 2002, 'Worked shell artefacts - new data from Early Lapita', 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. 91-100.
- Szabo, K 2001, 'Molluscan evidence for Late Holocene Climate Change on Motutapu Island, Hauraki Gulf', Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 79-87.
- Szabo, K 2001, 'The reef, the beach and the rocks: An environmental analysis of mollusc remains from Natunuku, Viti Levu, Fiji', in GR Clark, AJ Anderson, T Vunidilo (ed.), The archaeology of Lapita dispersal in Oceania, Pandanus Books, Canberra ACT, pp. 159-166.
