Dylan Gaffney
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A/Prof Palaeolithic Archaeology, University of Oxford. Island archaeology; anthropology; human dispersal; zooarchaeology; lithics
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Yes in person only at this point
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New seminars in our PalEvo series
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Coverage on our recent paper reporting wallaby translocation from New Guinea to the Raja Ampat islands
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In one of the earliest known examples of animal translocation, seafarers carried wallabies in their canoes when they set sail across the seas of Southeast Asia from the paleocontinent of Sahul as early as 13,000 years ago!

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Raja Ampat fieldwork 2025
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Congratulations to Dylan Gaffney et al., winners of the 2025 Ben Cullen Prize!

They uncovered the earliest evidence for human activity in the Pacific, c.55 000-50 000 years ago.

Check out our interview with Dylan Gaffney on the prize-winning research: youtu.be/kQMXnbQygcc
Several hilly, forested islands in a blue sea (the Raja Ampat Islands) with the text 'Who were the first people in the Pacific? Ben Cullen Prize 2025, Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55 000–50 000 years ago - Dylan Gaffney et al.'
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The World Archaeological Congress in Darwin, Australia begins today! Come over to our stand to say hi and learn how you can get published in Antiquity 🏺

If you can't make it, why not check out our collection of Oceania #Archaeology, which is completely FREE: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A lake in New Zealand with a mountain in the background, with the text 'Oceania Archaeology, Antiquity'.
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What can lithics tell us about the evolution of learning and development? Find out in this new article published in Archaeometry! buff.ly/uhyD5xu
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Genealogies and oral histories as chronological networks: interfacing whakapapa (Māori genealogies) with Gregorian calendar year archaeological radiocarbon dates
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#OpenAccess #EarlyView #Aotearoa #ChronologicalModelling #Genealogies #Māori #C14dating #whakapapa
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📢The School of Archaeology proudly presents: the #radiocarbon dating process - 🎞️⭐: Dr Rachel Wood, Jamie Cameron, Gary Lai, Shutong Jin, Silvia Tardaguila Giacomozzi & Nikta Sarie. #archaeologicalscience #womeninstem #lablife @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @graduate.ox.ac.uk youtu.be/xQka8ohWLFo?...
The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a Sample
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The latest volume in the Terra Australis series explores the human past in West New Guinea.

It describes the environmental and cultural history of the area and the boundary-making that has formed West New Guinea in the recent past.

Available now doi.org/10.22459/TA5...
ANU Press New Release
Cover image of West New Guinea, Social, Biological and Material Histories.
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Despite playing host to around 300 distinct languages and cultures, the human history of West New Guinea is barely recorded in anthropological and archaeological literature.

Our upcoming title is the first book to detail the human history of this richly diverse area.

doi.org/10.22459/TA58.2024
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Cover image: West New Guinea: Social, Biological, and Material Histories
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New archaeological research reveals insights into the first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands more than 50,000 years ago www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
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2024 Raja Ampat fieldwork