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List of works by Matthew Spriggs

An ancient DNA Pacific journey: a case study of collaboration between archaeologists and geneticists

scientific article published on 8 August 2019

Ancient DNA reveals five streams of migration into Micronesia and matrilocality in early Pacific seafarers

scientific article published on 30 June 2022

Ancient tortoise hunting in the southwest Pacific

scientific article

Beyond curse or blessing: the opportunities and challenges of aDNA analysis

scientific article published on 8 August 2019

Celebrating archaeology and the archaeology of celebrations

scholarly article by Naomi Sykes published in March 2018

Debates and emerging issues in 2021

Early Lapita skeletons from Vanuatu show Polynesian craniofacial shape: Implications for Remote Oceanic settlement and Lapita origins

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

Exploitation and utilization of tropical rainforests indicated in dental calculus of ancient Oceanic Lapita culture colonists

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Pleistocene human occupation of the Solomon Islands, Melanesia

Possible diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) in a 3000-year-old Pacific Island skeletal assemblage

scholarly article

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

scientific article published on 22 March 2014

Tattooing tools and the Lapita cultural complex

The use of Lapita pottery: Results from the first analysis of lipid residues

Who taught Marx, Engels and Morgan about Australian aborigines?

journal article; published in History and Anthropology in Apr 1997