Pat Faulkner is a zooarchaeologist whose research focusses on the investigation of human-environment interactions in tropical environments. As a coastal archaeologist and specialist archaeomalacologist, he has undertaken collaborative research across Australasia, the Pacific, Sri Lanka, Oman, and the offshore islands of eastern Africa. Pat is the recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship (2022-2026 - FT200100464) working on the project 'From the Rainforest to the Coast: Deep-Time Human-Environmental Interactions in South Asia'.

Research interests

Coastal palaeoeconomies, with a principal focus on the tropics
Australian archaeology, zooarchaeology (molluscs) and taphonomy
Human ecology, economics, human-environment interactions and technology

Current projects

The archaeology and historical ecology of eastern African coasts and islands
Long-term human-environment interactions in Sri Lanka (FT200100464)
Earliest village people: the shift to sedentary life in the Natufian period (DP210102250) - with Associate Professor Phillip Edwards (La Trobe University)
Global South Anthropocene Project - with Professor Nicole Boivin (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology)
Occupation and molluscan resource use on Australian freshwater ecosystems

Associations

Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
Research Associate, Australian Museum
Associate Editor, Archaeology in Oceania

PhD and master's project opportunities

Coastal palaeoeconomies

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Broughton Island: an archaeological study of human coastal occupation	Laura DAFTER
Archaeology and Natural History of the Mithaka Country	Kieran MCGEE
Coastal Living: Environmental Changes and Human Responses in Southern Sri Lanka in the mid-to-late Holocene	Madeline ROBINSON
Using Economic Intensification to interpret population change in the dry zone of southeast Sri Lanka through the analysis of Holocene middens	Martin WRIGHT
Core reduction strategies across Australia	Simon WYATT-SPRATT

Selected publications

Life on the Margins: An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Coastal Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia

(ANU E Press, 2013)

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Books

Faulkner, P. (2013). Life on the Margins: An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Coastal Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia. Canberra: ANU E Press. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Wright, M., Faulkner, P., Westaway, M. (2023). Evaluating Mid- to Late Holocene Economic Intensification through Analysis of a Mollusk Assemblage on the Tropical North Australian Coast. In Heather B. Thakar and Carola Flores Fernandez (Eds.), Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments, (pp. 199-228). Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Asmussen, B., Faulkner, P., Szabo, K., Ulm, S. (2022). The Molluscan Remains of Tanamu 1: Subsistence and Resource Habitats. The Archaeology of Tanamu 1: A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea, (pp. 107-116). Oxford: Archaeopress.
Faulkner, P. (2020). Late Holocene Coastal Settlement Patterns and Subsistence Strategies: A Landscape Perspective from Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia. In Lisa A. Dunbar, Rebecca Parkes, Christine Gant-Thompson and Damian Tybussek (Eds.), Yachay Wasi: The House of Knowledge of I.S. Farrington, (pp. 1-14). Oxford: BAR Publishing.
David, B., Aplin, K., Peck, H., Skelly, R., Leavesley, M., Mialanes, J., Szabo, K., Koppel, B., Petchey, F., Faulkner, P., et al (2019). Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland. In Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs (Eds.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence, (pp. 61-88). Canberra: ANU Press. [More Information]
David, B., Richards, T., McNiven, I., Mialanes, J., Aplin, K., Petchey, F., Peck, H., Asmussen, B., Ulm, S., Szabo, K., Faulkner, P., et al (2016). The Caution Bay Project field and laboratory methods. In Not known (Eds.), Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: Cultural, linguistic and environmental setting, (pp. 145-175). TBC.
Aplin, K., Rowe, C., Peck, H., Asmussen, B., Ulm, S., Faulkner, P., Richards, T. (2016). The natural setting of Caution Bay. In Not known (Eds.), Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: Cultural, linguistic and environmental setting, (pp. 75-111). TBC.
Faulkner, P. (2014). Late Holocene Coastal Economies and the Anadara Granosa-Dominated Shell Mounds of Northern Australia: Evidence from Blue Mud Bay, Northeast Arnhem Land. In M. Roksandic, S. Mendonca de Souza, S. Eggers, M. Burchell, D. Klokler (Eds.), The Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites, (pp. 57-73). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
McNiven, I., David, B., Aplin, K., Mialanes, J., Asmussen, B., Ulm, S., Faulkner, P., Rowe, C., Richards, T. (2012). Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast. In Simon G Haberle, Bruno David (Eds.), Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, (pp. 121-156). Canberra: ANU E Press.
Faulkner, P. (2011). Stone artefact technology in Willandra National Park: Reduction, risk and mobility. In Ben Marwick and Alex Mackay (Eds.), Keeping your Edge: Recent Approaches to the Organisation of Stone Artefact Technology, (pp. 5-20). Oxford, UK: Archaeopress / British Archeology Reports.
Clarke, A., Faulkner, P. (2005). Living Archaeology in the Madarrapa Homeland of Yilpara, north east Arnhem Land. In Lydon, J and Ireland, T (Eds.), Object Lessons: Archaeology and Heritage in Australia, (pp. 225-242). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

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Journals

Faulkner, P. (2024). Standing back, thinking forward, acting globally. Australian Archaeology, 90(1), 28-29. [More Information]
Kennedy, D., David, B., Fresløv, J., Rogers, A., Mullett, R., Birkett-Rees, J., Bowman, O., Faulkner, P. (2023). Archaeology of Australia’s coastline: The role of geomorphology in the visibility and preservation of archaeological deposits on sandy shores, with a Gippsland case study. Australian Archaeology. [More Information]
Kotarba-Morley, A., Kourampas, N., Morley, M., MacAdams, C., Crowther, A., Faulkner, P., Horton, M., Boivin, N. (2022). Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: Contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Sarathi, A., Crowther, A., Smith, T., Harris, M., Ali, A., Haji, O., LaViolette, A., Norman, N., Horton, M., et al (2022). Human-ecodynamics and the intertidal zones of the Zanzibar Archipelago. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 982694. [More Information]
Evans, M., Faulkner, P., Asmussen, B. (2022). Investigating intentionality of burning through macroscopic taphonomy in complex legacy funerary assemblages: Opportunities and challenges. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 41, 103243. [More Information]
Helwing, B., Perera, N., Pushparatnam, P., Perera, J., Siriwardana, T., Wright, M., Faulkner, P. (2022). The Lifeways of Early Kantharodai, Sri Lanka. Ancient Lanka, 1. Siran Deraniyagala Commemoration Volume. [More Information]
Kwiecien, O., Braun, T., Brunello, C., Faulkner, P., Hausmann, N., Helle, G., Hoggarth, J., Ionita, M., Jazwa, C., Kelmelis, S. (2022). What we talk about when we talk about seasonality - A transdisciplinary review. Earth-Science Reviews, 225(103843), 1-49. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Miller, J., Morales, E., Crowther, A., Shipton, C., Ndiema, E., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. (2021). 67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa. PloS One, 16(8), 1-29. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Martinon-Torres, M., d'Errico, F., Santos, E., Alvaro Gallo, A., Amano, N., Archer, W., Armitage, S., Arsuaga, J., Bermudez de Castro, J., et al (2021). Earliest known human burial in Africa. Nature, 593, 95-100. [More Information]
Wedage, O., Roberts, P., Faulkner, P., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Picin, A., Blinkhorn, J., Deraniyagala, S., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M., et al (2020). Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena. Quaternary Science Reviews, 231(106200), 1-19. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Thangavelu, A., Ferguson, R., Aird, S., David, B., Drury, T., Rowe, C., Barker, B., McNiven, I., Richards, T., et al (2020). Middle to Late Holocene near-shore foraging strategies at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 34, 1-14. [More Information]
Morphy, F., Morphy, H., Faulkner, P., Barber, M. (2020). Toponyms from 3000 years ago? Implications for the history and structure of the Yolngu social formation in north‐east Arnhem Land. Archaeology in Oceania, 55, 153-167. [More Information]
Stephens, L., Fuller, D., Boivin, N., Rick, T., Gauthier, N., Kay, A., Marwick, B., Geralda Armstrong, C., Barton, M., Denham, T., Faulkner, P., Hiscock, P., et al (2019). Archaeological Assessment Reveals Earth's Early Transformation Through Land Use. Science, 365(6456), 897-902. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Harris, M., Haji, O., Ali, A., Crowther, A., Shipton, C., Horton, M., Boivin, N. (2019). Long-term Trends in Terrestrial and Marine Invertebrate Exploitation on the Eastern African Coast: Insights from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 14(4), 479-514. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Harris, M., Haji, O., Crowther, A., Horton, M., Boivin, N. (2019). Towards a historical ecology of intertidal foraging in the mafia archipelago: Archaeomalacology and implications for marine resource management. Journal of Ethnobiology, 39(2), 182-203. [More Information]
Shipton, C., Roberts, P., Archer, W., Armitage, S., Bitam, C., Blinkhorn, J., Courtney-Mustaphi, C., Crowther, A., Curtis, R., d'Errico, F., Faulkner, P., et al (2018). 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9(1), 1-8. [More Information]
Koungoulos, L., Faulkner, P., Asmussen, B. (2018). Analysis of pit and score tooth-mark sizes from bones modified by Holocene Australian terrestrial fauna in relation to body size. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 20, 271-283. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Harris, M., Ali, A., Haji, O., Crowther, A., Horton, M., Boivin, N. (2018). Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age: Archaeomalacological evidence from Unguja Ukuu and Fukuchani, Zanzibar. Quaternary International, 471, 66-80. [More Information]
Jerardino, A., Faulkner, P., Flores, C. (2017). Current methodological issues in archaeomalacological studies. Quaternary International, 427, 1-4. [More Information]
Harris, M., Faulkner, P., Asmussen, B. (2017). Macroscopic approaches to the identification of expedient bivalve tools: A case study investigating Polymesoda (=Geloina) coaxans (Bivalvia: Corbiculidae) shell valves from Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland, Australia. Quaternary International, 427, 201-215. [More Information]
Crowther, A., Faulkner, P., Prendergast, M., Quintana Morales, E., Horton, M., Wilmsen, E., Kotarba-Morley, A., Christie, A., Petek, N., Tibesasa, R., et al (2016). Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 11(2), 211-237. [More Information]
Shipton, C., Crowther, A., Kourampas, N., Prendergast, M., Horton, M., Douka, K., Schwenninger, J., Faulkner, P., Quintana Morales, E., Langley, M., et al (2016). Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation. Azania: archaeological research in Africa, 51(2), 197-233. [More Information]
David, B., Jones-Amin, H., Richards, T., Mialanes, J., Asmussen, B., Petchey, F., Aplin, K., Leavesley, M., McNiven, I., Zetzmann, C., Faulkner, P., et al (2016). Ruisasi 1 and the Earliest Evidence of Mass-produced Ceramics in Caution Bay (Port Moresby Region), Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(1), 41-60.
Woo, K., Faulkner, P., Ross, A. (2016). The effects of sampling on the analysis of archeological molluscan remains: A quantitative approach. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 7, 730-740. [More Information]
Harris, M., Weisler, M., Faulkner, P. (2015). A refined protocol for calculating MNI in archaeological molluscan shell assemblages: a Marshall Islands case study. Journal of Archaeological Science, 57, 168-179. [More Information]
Kourampas, N., Shipton, C., Mills, W., Tibesasa, R., Horton, H., Horton, M., Prendergast, M., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Faulkner, P., et al (2015). Late Quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in a tropical carbonate island: Pango la Kuumbi (Kuumbi Cave), Zanzibar. International Journal of Speleology, 44(3), 293-314. [More Information]
Clarkson, C., Smith, M., Marwick, B., Fullagar, R., Wallis, L., Faulkner, P., Manne, T., Hayes, E., Roberts, R., Jacobs, Z., et al (2015). The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation. Journal of Human Evolution, 83, 46-64. [More Information]
Fairbairn, A., Ross, A., Ulm, S., Nichols, S., Faulkner, P. (2013). Keeping country: A web-based approach to indigenous outreach in cultural heritage management. Australian Archaeology, (77), 127-134.
Fairbairn, A., Ross, A., Ulm, S., Nichols, S., Faulkner, P. (2013). Keeping country: A web-based approach to Indigenous outreach in cultural heritage management. Australian Archaeology, 77, 127-134.
Brockwell, S., Marwick, B., Bourke, P., Faulkner, P., Willan, R. (2013). Late Holocene climate change an d human behavioural variability in the coastal wet -dry tropics of northern Australia : Evidence from a pilot study of oxygen isotopes in marine bivalve shells from archaeological sites. Australian Archaeology, 76, 21-33. [More Information]
Brockwell, S., Marwick, B., Bourke, P., Faulkner, P., Willan, R. (2013). Late Holocene climate change and human behavioural variability in the coastal wet-dry tropics of northern Australia: Evidence from a pilot study of oxygen isotopes in marine bivalve shells from archaeological sites. Australian Archaeology, (76), 21-33.
Ash, J., Faulkner, P., Brady, L., Rowe, C. (2013). Morphometric reconstructions and size variability analysis of the surf clam, atactodea (=paphies) striata, from Muralag 8, southwestern Torres Strait, northern Australia. Australian Archaeology, (77), 82-93.
Ash, J., Faulkner, P., Brady, L., Rowe, C. (2013). Morphometric reconstructions and size variability analysis of the surf clam, Atactodea (=Paphies) striata: From Muralag 8, southwestern Torres Strait, northern Australia. Australian Archaeology, 77, 82-93.
McNiven, I., David, B., Richards, T., Rowe, C., Leavesley, M., Mialanes, J., Connaughton, S., Barker, B., Aplin, K., Asmussen, B., et al (2012). Lapita on the south coast of Papua New Guinea: challenging new horizons in Pacific archaeology. Australian Archaeology, 75, 16-22.
Brockwell, S., Bourke, P., Clarke, A., Crassweller, C., Faulkner, P., Meehan, B., O'Connor, S., Sim, R., Wesley, D. (2011). Holocene settlement of the northern coastal plains, Northern Territory, Australia. Beagle: records of the museums and art galleries of the Northern Territory, 27, 1-22.
Faulkner, P. (2011). Late Holocene mollusc exploitation and changing near-shore environments: A case study from the coastal margin of Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia. Environmental Archaeology, 16(2), 137-150. [More Information]
McNiven, I., David, B., Richards, T., Aplin, K., Asmussen, B., Mialanes, J., Leavesley, M., Faulkner, P., Ulm, S. (2011). New direction in human colonisation of the Pacific: Lapita settlement of south coast New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 72, 1-6. [More Information]
Thorley, P., Faulkner, P., Smith, M. (2011). New radiocarbon dates for Kulpi Mara Rockshelter, Central Australia. Australian Archaeology, 72, 47-49.
Faulkner, P. (2011). Quantifying shell weight loss in archaeological deposits. Archaeology in Oceania, 46(3), 118-129. [More Information]
Faulkner, P. (2010). Morphometric and taphonomic analysis of granular ark (Anadara granosa) dominated shell deposits of Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37(8), 1942-1952. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Clarke, A. (2009). Artefact Assemblage Characteristics and Distribution on the Point Blane Peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, Arnhem Land. Australian Archaeology, 69(December), 21-28. [More Information]
Faulkner, P. (2009). Focused, intense and long-term: Evidence for granular ark (Anadara granosa) exploitation from late Holocene shell mounds of Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(3), 821-834. [More Information]
Brockwell, S., Faulkner, P., Bourke, P., Clarke, A., Crassweller, C., Guse, D., Meehan, B., Sim, R. (2009). Radiocarbon dates from the Top End: A cultural chronology for the Northern Territory coastal plains. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2009 (1), 54-76.
Faulkner, P. (2008). Patterns of chronological variability in occupation on the coastal margin of Blue Mud Bay. Archaeology in Oceania, 43(2), 81-88. [More Information]
Bourke, P., Brockwell, S., Faulkner, P., Meehan, B. (2007). Climate variability in the mid to late Holocene Arnhem Land Region, North Australia: Archaeological archives of environmental and cultural change. Archaeology in Oceania, 42(3), 91-101. [More Information]
Hiscock, P., Faulkner, P. (2006). Dating the Dreaming? Creation of Myths and Rituals for Mounds along the Northern Australian Coastline. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 16(2), 209-222. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Clarke, A. (2004). Late-Holocene Occupation And Coastal Economy In Blue Mud Bay, Northeast Arnhem Land: Preliminary Archaeological Findings. Australian Archaeology, 59, 23-30.

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Report

Edwards, P., Armstrong, B., Bocquentin, F., Capezio, I., Faulkner, P., Gyngell, S., Prosser, L., Michalewicz, A., Reade, W., Al Shobaki, S., et al (2022). Preliminary report on La Trobe University excavations at the Natufian site of Wadi Hammeh 27, Jordan in 2022.

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2024

Faulkner, P. (2024). Standing back, thinking forward, acting globally. Australian Archaeology, 90(1), 28-29. [More Information]

2023

Kennedy, D., David, B., Fresløv, J., Rogers, A., Mullett, R., Birkett-Rees, J., Bowman, O., Faulkner, P. (2023). Archaeology of Australia’s coastline: The role of geomorphology in the visibility and preservation of archaeological deposits on sandy shores, with a Gippsland case study. Australian Archaeology. [More Information]
Wright, M., Faulkner, P., Westaway, M. (2023). Evaluating Mid- to Late Holocene Economic Intensification through Analysis of a Mollusk Assemblage on the Tropical North Australian Coast. In Heather B. Thakar and Carola Flores Fernandez (Eds.), Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments, (pp. 199-228). Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

2022

Kotarba-Morley, A., Kourampas, N., Morley, M., MacAdams, C., Crowther, A., Faulkner, P., Horton, M., Boivin, N. (2022). Coastal landscape changes at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar: Contextualizing the archaeology of an early Islamic port of trade. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Sarathi, A., Crowther, A., Smith, T., Harris, M., Ali, A., Haji, O., LaViolette, A., Norman, N., Horton, M., et al (2022). Human-ecodynamics and the intertidal zones of the Zanzibar Archipelago. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 982694. [More Information]
Evans, M., Faulkner, P., Asmussen, B. (2022). Investigating intentionality of burning through macroscopic taphonomy in complex legacy funerary assemblages: Opportunities and challenges. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 41, 103243. [More Information]
Edwards, P., Armstrong, B., Bocquentin, F., Capezio, I., Faulkner, P., Gyngell, S., Prosser, L., Michalewicz, A., Reade, W., Al Shobaki, S., et al (2022). Preliminary report on La Trobe University excavations at the Natufian site of Wadi Hammeh 27, Jordan in 2022.
Helwing, B., Perera, N., Pushparatnam, P., Perera, J., Siriwardana, T., Wright, M., Faulkner, P. (2022). The Lifeways of Early Kantharodai, Sri Lanka. Ancient Lanka, 1. Siran Deraniyagala Commemoration Volume. [More Information]
Asmussen, B., Faulkner, P., Szabo, K., Ulm, S. (2022). The Molluscan Remains of Tanamu 1: Subsistence and Resource Habitats. The Archaeology of Tanamu 1: A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea, (pp. 107-116). Oxford: Archaeopress.
Kwiecien, O., Braun, T., Brunello, C., Faulkner, P., Hausmann, N., Helle, G., Hoggarth, J., Ionita, M., Jazwa, C., Kelmelis, S. (2022). What we talk about when we talk about seasonality - A transdisciplinary review. Earth-Science Reviews, 225(103843), 1-49. [More Information]

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2021

Faulkner, P., Miller, J., Morales, E., Crowther, A., Shipton, C., Ndiema, E., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. (2021). 67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa. PloS One, 16(8), 1-29. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Martinon-Torres, M., d'Errico, F., Santos, E., Alvaro Gallo, A., Amano, N., Archer, W., Armitage, S., Arsuaga, J., Bermudez de Castro, J., et al (2021). Earliest known human burial in Africa. Nature, 593, 95-100. [More Information]

2020

Faulkner, P. (2020). Late Holocene Coastal Settlement Patterns and Subsistence Strategies: A Landscape Perspective from Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia. In Lisa A. Dunbar, Rebecca Parkes, Christine Gant-Thompson and Damian Tybussek (Eds.), Yachay Wasi: The House of Knowledge of I.S. Farrington, (pp. 1-14). Oxford: BAR Publishing.
Wedage, O., Roberts, P., Faulkner, P., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Picin, A., Blinkhorn, J., Deraniyagala, S., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M., et al (2020). Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena. Quaternary Science Reviews, 231(106200), 1-19. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Thangavelu, A., Ferguson, R., Aird, S., David, B., Drury, T., Rowe, C., Barker, B., McNiven, I., Richards, T., et al (2020). Middle to Late Holocene near-shore foraging strategies at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 34, 1-14. [More Information]
Morphy, F., Morphy, H., Faulkner, P., Barber, M. (2020). Toponyms from 3000 years ago? Implications for the history and structure of the Yolngu social formation in north‐east Arnhem Land. Archaeology in Oceania, 55, 153-167. [More Information]

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2019

Stephens, L., Fuller, D., Boivin, N., Rick, T., Gauthier, N., Kay, A., Marwick, B., Geralda Armstrong, C., Barton, M., Denham, T., Faulkner, P., Hiscock, P., et al (2019). Archaeological Assessment Reveals Earth's Early Transformation Through Land Use. Science, 365(6456), 897-902. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Harris, M., Haji, O., Ali, A., Crowther, A., Shipton, C., Horton, M., Boivin, N. (2019). Long-term Trends in Terrestrial and Marine Invertebrate Exploitation on the Eastern African Coast: Insights from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 14(4), 479-514. [More Information]
David, B., Aplin, K., Peck, H., Skelly, R., Leavesley, M., Mialanes, J., Szabo, K., Koppel, B., Petchey, F., Faulkner, P., et al (2019). Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland. In Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs (Eds.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence, (pp. 61-88). Canberra: ANU Press. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Harris, M., Haji, O., Crowther, A., Horton, M., Boivin, N. (2019). Towards a historical ecology of intertidal foraging in the mafia archipelago: Archaeomalacology and implications for marine resource management. Journal of Ethnobiology, 39(2), 182-203. [More Information]

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2018

Shipton, C., Roberts, P., Archer, W., Armitage, S., Bitam, C., Blinkhorn, J., Courtney-Mustaphi, C., Crowther, A., Curtis, R., d'Errico, F., Faulkner, P., et al (2018). 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9(1), 1-8. [More Information]
Koungoulos, L., Faulkner, P., Asmussen, B. (2018). Analysis of pit and score tooth-mark sizes from bones modified by Holocene Australian terrestrial fauna in relation to body size. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 20, 271-283. [More Information]
Faulkner, P., Harris, M., Ali, A., Haji, O., Crowther, A., Horton, M., Boivin, N. (2018). Characterising marine mollusc exploitation in the eastern African Iron Age: Archaeomalacological evidence from Unguja Ukuu and Fukuchani, Zanzibar. Quaternary International, 471, 66-80. [More Information]

2017

Jerardino, A., Faulkner, P., Flores, C. (2017). Current methodological issues in archaeomalacological studies. Quaternary International, 427, 1-4. [More Information]
Harris, M., Faulkner, P., Asmussen, B. (2017). Macroscopic approaches to the identification of expedient bivalve tools: A case study investigating Polymesoda (=Geloina) coaxans (Bivalvia: Corbiculidae) shell valves from Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland, Australia. Quaternary International, 427, 201-215. [More Information]

2016

Crowther, A., Faulkner, P., Prendergast, M., Quintana Morales, E., Horton, M., Wilmsen, E., Kotarba-Morley, A., Christie, A., Petek, N., Tibesasa, R., et al (2016). Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 11(2), 211-237. [More Information]
Shipton, C., Crowther, A., Kourampas, N., Prendergast, M., Horton, M., Douka, K., Schwenninger, J., Faulkner, P., Quintana Morales, E., Langley, M., et al (2016). Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation. Azania: archaeological research in Africa, 51(2), 197-233. [More Information]
David, B., Jones-Amin, H., Richards, T., Mialanes, J., Asmussen, B., Petchey, F., Aplin, K., Leavesley, M., McNiven, I., Zetzmann, C., Faulkner, P., et al (2016). Ruisasi 1 and the Earliest Evidence of Mass-produced Ceramics in Caution Bay (Port Moresby Region), Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(1), 41-60.
David, B., Richards, T., McNiven, I., Mialanes, J., Aplin, K., Petchey, F., Peck, H., Asmussen, B., Ulm, S., Szabo, K., Faulkner, P., et al (2016). The Caution Bay Project field and laboratory methods. In Not known (Eds.), Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: Cultural, linguistic and environmental setting, (pp. 145-175). TBC.
Woo, K., Faulkner, P., Ross, A. (2016). The effects of sampling on the analysis of archeological molluscan remains: A quantitative approach. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 7, 730-740. [More Information]
Aplin, K., Rowe, C., Peck, H., Asmussen, B., Ulm, S., Faulkner, P., Richards, T. (2016). The natural setting of Caution Bay. In Not known (Eds.), Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: Cultural, linguistic and environmental setting, (pp. 75-111). TBC.

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2015

Harris, M., Weisler, M., Faulkner, P. (2015). A refined protocol for calculating MNI in archaeological molluscan shell assemblages: a Marshall Islands case study. Journal of Archaeological Science, 57, 168-179. [More Information]
Kourampas, N., Shipton, C., Mills, W., Tibesasa, R., Horton, H., Horton, M., Prendergast, M., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Faulkner, P., et al (2015). Late Quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in a tropical carbonate island: Pango la Kuumbi (Kuumbi Cave), Zanzibar. International Journal of Speleology, 44(3), 293-314. [More Information]
Clarkson, C., Smith, M., Marwick, B., Fullagar, R., Wallis, L., Faulkner, P., Manne, T., Hayes, E., Roberts, R., Jacobs, Z., et al (2015). The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation. Journal of Human Evolution, 83, 46-64. [More Information]

2014

Faulkner, P. (2014). Late Holocene Coastal Economies and the Anadara Granosa-Dominated Shell Mounds of Northern Australia: Evidence from Blue Mud Bay, Northeast Arnhem Land. In M. Roksandic, S. Mendonca de Souza, S. Eggers, M. Burchell, D. Klokler (Eds.), The Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites, (pp. 57-73). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

2013

Fairbairn, A., Ross, A., Ulm, S., Nichols, S., Faulkner, P. (2013). Keeping country: A web-based approach to indigenous outreach in cultural heritage management. Australian Archaeology, (77), 127-134.
Fairbairn, A., Ross, A., Ulm, S., Nichols, S., Faulkner, P. (2013). Keeping country: A web-based approach to Indigenous outreach in cultural heritage management. Australian Archaeology, 77, 127-134.
Brockwell, S., Marwick, B., Bourke, P., Faulkner, P., Willan, R. (2013). Late Holocene climate change an d human behavioural variability in the coastal wet -dry tropics of northern Australia : Evidence from a pilot study of oxygen isotopes in marine bivalve shells from archaeological sites. Australian Archaeology, 76, 21-33. [More Information]
Brockwell, S., Marwick, B., Bourke, P., Faulkner, P., Willan, R. (2013). Late Holocene climate change and human behavioural variability in the coastal wet-dry tropics of northern Australia: Evidence from a pilot study of oxygen isotopes in marine bivalve shells from archaeological sites. Australian Archaeology, (76), 21-33.
Faulkner, P. (2013). Life on the Margins: An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Coastal Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia. Canberra: ANU E Press. [More Information]
Ash, J., Faulkner, P., Brady, L., Rowe, C. (2013). Morphometric reconstructions and size variability analysis of the surf clam, atactodea (=paphies) striata, from Muralag 8, southwestern Torres Strait, northern Australia. Australian Archaeology, (77), 82-93.
Ash, J., Faulkner, P., Brady, L., Rowe, C. (2013). Morphometric reconstructions and size variability analysis of the surf clam, Atactodea (=Paphies) striata: From Muralag 8, southwestern Torres Strait, northern Australia. Australian Archaeology, 77, 82-93.

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2012

McNiven, I., David, B., Richards, T., Rowe, C., Leavesley, M., Mialanes, J., Connaughton, S., Barker, B., Aplin, K., Asmussen, B., et al (2012). Lapita on the south coast of Papua New Guinea: challenging new horizons in Pacific archaeology. Australian Archaeology, 75, 16-22.
McNiven, I., David, B., Aplin, K., Mialanes, J., Asmussen, B., Ulm, S., Faulkner, P., Rowe, C., Richards, T. (2012). Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast. In Simon G Haberle, Bruno David (Eds.), Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, (pp. 121-156). Canberra: ANU E Press.

2011

Brockwell, S., Bourke, P., Clarke, A., Crassweller, C., Faulkner, P., Meehan, B., O'Connor, S., Sim, R., Wesley, D. (2011). Holocene settlement of the northern coastal plains, Northern Territory, Australia. Beagle: records of the museums and art galleries of the Northern Territory, 27, 1-22.
Faulkner, P. (2011). Late Holocene mollusc exploitation and changing near-shore environments: A case study from the coastal margin of Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia. Environmental Archaeology, 16(2), 137-150. [More Information]
McNiven, I., David, B., Richards, T., Aplin, K., Asmussen, B., Mialanes, J., Leavesley, M., Faulkner, P., Ulm, S. (2011). New direction in human colonisation of the Pacific: Lapita settlement of south coast New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 72, 1-6. [More Information]
Thorley, P., Faulkner, P., Smith, M. (2011). New radiocarbon dates for Kulpi Mara Rockshelter, Central Australia. Australian Archaeology, 72, 47-49.
Faulkner, P. (2011). Quantifying shell weight loss in archaeological deposits. Archaeology in Oceania, 46(3), 118-129. [More Information]
Faulkner, P. (2011). Stone artefact technology in Willandra National Park: Reduction, risk and mobility. In Ben Marwick and Alex Mackay (Eds.), Keeping your Edge: Recent Approaches to the Organisation of Stone Artefact Technology, (pp. 5-20). Oxford, UK: Archaeopress / British Archeology Reports.

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2010

Faulkner, P. (2010). Morphometric and taphonomic analysis of granular ark (Anadara granosa) dominated shell deposits of Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37(8), 1942-1952. [More Information]

2009

Faulkner, P., Clarke, A. (2009). Artefact Assemblage Characteristics and Distribution on the Point Blane Peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, Arnhem Land. Australian Archaeology, 69(December), 21-28. [More Information]
Faulkner, P. (2009). Focused, intense and long-term: Evidence for granular ark (Anadara granosa) exploitation from late Holocene shell mounds of Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(3), 821-834. [More Information]
Brockwell, S., Faulkner, P., Bourke, P., Clarke, A., Crassweller, C., Guse, D., Meehan, B., Sim, R. (2009). Radiocarbon dates from the Top End: A cultural chronology for the Northern Territory coastal plains. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2009 (1), 54-76.

2008

Faulkner, P. (2008). Patterns of chronological variability in occupation on the coastal margin of Blue Mud Bay. Archaeology in Oceania, 43(2), 81-88. [More Information]

2007

Bourke, P., Brockwell, S., Faulkner, P., Meehan, B. (2007). Climate variability in the mid to late Holocene Arnhem Land Region, North Australia: Archaeological archives of environmental and cultural change. Archaeology in Oceania, 42(3), 91-101. [More Information]

2006

Hiscock, P., Faulkner, P. (2006). Dating the Dreaming? Creation of Myths and Rituals for Mounds along the Northern Australian Coastline. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 16(2), 209-222. [More Information]

2005

Clarke, A., Faulkner, P. (2005). Living Archaeology in the Madarrapa Homeland of Yilpara, north east Arnhem Land. In Lydon, J and Ireland, T (Eds.), Object Lessons: Archaeology and Heritage in Australia, (pp. 225-242). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

2004

Faulkner, P., Clarke, A. (2004). Late-Holocene Occupation And Coastal Economy In Blue Mud Bay, Northeast Arnhem Land: Preliminary Archaeological Findings. Australian Archaeology, 59, 23-30.

Selected Grants

2022

Understanding long-term human-environmental interactions in South Asia, Faulkner P, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Future Fellowships (FT)

2021

Earliest Village People: the shift to sedentary life in the Natufian period, Edwards P, Faulkner P, Valdiosera C, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

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"A cave site in Kenya’s forests reveals the oldest human burial in Africa ", with Alison Crowther (UQ), opinion,The Conversation, 6 May 2021

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