Dylan Gaffney
@dylangaffneynz.bsky.social
A/Prof Palaeolithic Archaeology, University of Oxford. Island archaeology; anthropology; human dispersal; zooarchaeology; lithics
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This 🎄 we are celebrating 70 years of innovation & impact at our Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art (RLAHA to our friends). 🎉👏⚛️🔬🧪🌋🦴🧬 The history of the lab is one long list of shameless namedropping for #archaeologicalscience! So many industry leaders through these doors!
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This 🎄 we are celebrating 70 years of innovation & impact at our Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art (RLAHA to our friends). 🎉👏⚛️🔬🧪🌋🦴🧬 The history of the lab is one long list of shameless namedropping for #archaeologicalscience! So many industry leaders through these doors!
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Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford?
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford?
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
New seminars in our PalEvo series
Exciting line up for Michaelmas Term 2025!
October 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
New seminars in our PalEvo series
Rock art from the Raja Ampat islands of Papua doi.org/10.70460/jpa...
Rock Painting Traditions around Waigeo Island, Raja Ampat, West New Guinea
Rock paintings around the western tip of New Guinea are extensive but poorly understood. This paper describes rock art around the northern Raja Ampat Islands, just off the coast of western New Guinea....
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Rock art from the Raja Ampat islands of Papua doi.org/10.70460/jpa...
Coverage on our recent paper reporting wallaby translocation from New Guinea to the Raja Ampat islands
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!
archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2025/world/?location=indonesia-3
archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2025/world/?location=indonesia-3
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Coverage on our recent paper reporting wallaby translocation from New Guinea to the Raja Ampat islands
Raja Ampat fieldwork 2025
August 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Raja Ampat fieldwork 2025
Coverage of our recent paper on Pleistocene translocations of marsupials
Ancient people took wallabies to Indonesian islands in canoes
Humans established a wild population of brown forest wallabies in the Raja Ampat Islands thousands of years ago for their meat and fur in one of the earliest known species translocations
www.newscientist.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Coverage of our recent paper on Pleistocene translocations of marsupials
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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
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
June 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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
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
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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...
If you can't make it, why not check out our collection of Oceania #Archaeology, which is completely FREE: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
June 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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...
If you can't make it, why not check out our collection of Oceania #Archaeology, which is completely FREE: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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
June 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What can lithics tell us about the evolution of learning and development? Find out in this new article published in Archaeometry! buff.ly/uhyD5xu
My @antiquity.ac.uk review of the new book by Ueki, Summerhayes, and Hiscock doi.org/10.15184/aqy.... Well worth picking up a copy
In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: Following Homo sapiens into Asia and Oceania
In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors details through archaeological analysis, the dispersal of our species, Homo sapiens, providing a broad examination of evidence for early human migration into Asia and...
www.routledge.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
My @antiquity.ac.uk review of the new book by Ueki, Summerhayes, and Hiscock doi.org/10.15184/aqy.... Well worth picking up a copy
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Ancient DNA reveals Asian connection to Papua New Guinean people cosmosmagazine.com/people/anthr...
Ancient DNA tells a 2,500-year-old story of Papua New Guinean people
Archaeologists have studied the ancient genomes of 42 individuals spanning 2,500 years from Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands.
cosmosmagazine.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ancient DNA reveals Asian connection to Papua New Guinean people cosmosmagazine.com/people/anthr...
What can lithics tell us about key topics in archaeology - a few great articles already online in our special issue of @archaeometry.bsky.social and more articles to come:
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What can lithics tell us about technological complexity? Reflections on and around the Hoabinhian phenomenon in the cobble world
For a long time, scientific discussions of the behavioral, technological, cultural, and cognitive complexity of Homo sapiens have been Europe- and Africa-centered for their abundant archaeological di...
doi.org
June 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
What can lithics tell us about key topics in archaeology - a few great articles already online in our special issue of @archaeometry.bsky.social and more articles to come:
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
New paper on some of the first ancient genomes from New Guinea doi.org/10.1038/s415...
The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years - Nature Ecology & Evolution
New archaeological and ancient genomic data from humans in Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago shed light on regional human admixture and genetic isolation over the past 2,500 years.
doi.org
June 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New paper on some of the first ancient genomes from New Guinea doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Our new paper on marsupial translocations into Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Culturing island biomes: marsupial translocation and bone tool production around New Guinea during the Pleistocene–Holocene
Humans have shaped island ecosystems for tens of millennia. A crucial part of this process included the anthropogenic translocation of wild animals be…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Our new paper on marsupial translocations into Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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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#OpenAccess #EarlyView #Aotearoa #ChronologicalModelling #Genealogies #Māori #C14dating #whakapapa
April 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Genealogies and oral histories as chronological networks: interfacing whakapapa (Māori genealogies) with Gregorian calendar year archaeological radiocarbon dates
buff.ly/XwKPZ9I
#OpenAccess #EarlyView #Aotearoa #ChronologicalModelling #Genealogies #Māori #C14dating #whakapapa
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#OpenAccess #EarlyView #Aotearoa #ChronologicalModelling #Genealogies #Māori #C14dating #whakapapa
My summary of the exciting new excavations by @elliescerri.bsky.social and her colleagues, showing Mesolithic hunter gatherers arrived to Malta by sea
Hunter-gatherers journeyed by sea to Malta
Evidence reveals that people reached Malta 8,500 years ago. Hunter-gatherers made the long trip there 1,000 years before agricultural societies arrived.
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
My summary of the exciting new excavations by @elliescerri.bsky.social and her colleagues, showing Mesolithic hunter gatherers arrived to Malta by sea
An overview of archaeological and anthropological research in West Papua based on our recent @anupress.bsky.social book.
Fitting the ‘missing puzzle pieces’ – research sheds light on the deep history of social change in West Papua
Archaeologists show some of the first people to settle the ancient continent of Sahul arrived on the shores of present-day West Papua, some 50,000 years ago.
theconversation.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
An overview of archaeological and anthropological research in West Papua based on our recent @anupress.bsky.social book.
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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
YouTube video by University of Oxford
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March 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
📢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?...
Voyaging canoe from Rēkohu
Ocean Waka: ‘Most important discovery in New Zealand archaeology’
What began as a a Rēkohu (Chatham Island) father and son's routine search has led to one of Aotearoa's most significant discoveries - possibly even in Polynesian archaeology
www.teaonews.co.nz
March 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Voyaging canoe from Rēkohu
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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...
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...
February 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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...
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...
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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
Our upcoming title is the first book to detail the human history of this richly diverse area.
doi.org/10.22459/TA58.2024
February 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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
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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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/...
www.sapiens.org
November 29, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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/...