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Duncan Wright

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Australian National University

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Duncan Wright is an Assistant Professor at the College of Arts and Social Sciences in Australia. His research focuses on the archaeology of the Torres Strait Islands, including topics such as ancient ceramics, dugong bone mounds, and the cultural significance of stones. Additionally, he has contributed to studies on early Upper Paleolithic hunters and the interaction of Torres Strait Islander communities with their mythological geography.

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Waiet: Archaeology of a Torres Strait Islander ritual pathway

Open Date: 2021-06-02

Close Date: 2025-06-01

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Wellington Range rock art in a global context

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2018-12-31

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Establishing the provenance of Torres Strait Islander remains: Genetics, craniometrics and isotopes

Open Date: 2014-01-01

Close Date: 2017-12-31

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Luc Vrydaghs

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

BELGIUM

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Guillaume Molle

Professor

Australian National University

AUSTRALIA

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Petr Neruda

head of the institute

CZECH REPUBLIC

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Petr Škrdla

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Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno

CZECH REPUBLIC

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Miriam Nývltová Fisakova

assistant professor

Masaryk University

CZECH REPUBLIC

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Sofia Cristina Samper Carro

Australian National University

AUSTRALIA

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Dylan Gaffney

Associate Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology

University of Oxford

UNITED KINGDOM

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Piotr Moska

lecturer

Silesian University of Technology

POLAND

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Yannick Devos

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

BELGIUM

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Timothy T Barrows

Associate Professor

University of New South Wales

AUSTRALIA

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Philip Piper

The Australian National University

AUSTRALIA

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Amy Mosig Way

Senior Lecturer

University of Sydney

AUSTRALIA

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Tim Denham

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Australian National University

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Multi-directional exchange and south-to-north transport of lithic material to Ormi, Eastern Torres Strait, 2600 years ago

Is Shamanism Timeless? Archaeological Perspectives on Religious Continuity and Change

Engraved Limestone Block from Švédův stůl Cave, Czech Republic

Stratigraphic Narratives from the Eastern Torres Strait: A Multi-proxy Geoarchaeological Study at Ormi, Dauar Island

The earliest evidence of high-elevation ice age occupation in Australia

Re-excavation of cultural deposits at Svedův stůl cave in the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic

Exotic ceramics from the Murray Islands, Eastern Torres Strait

The sacred stone from the sea. Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the ritual value of coral across the Pacific

Combining quantification, sex, age, and utility patterns to interpret two dugong bone mounds from Woeydhul Island (Western Torres Strait, Australia)

Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory

Archaeology of powerful stones in the Australia-Pacific region

Cosmo-political landscapes of Torres Strait adhi and misœri stones

A 15,000-year history of Early Upper Paleolithic hunters moving through the Pustý Žleb valley – Artefacts and chronology of Pod Hradem Cave, Moravian Karst, Czech Republic

Histories of Torres Strait Islander interaction and mythological geography

The archaeology of overburden

The 'Waiat Archaeology Project' in Torres Strait, northern Australia

Collaborators (13)

Luc Vrydaghs

Guillaume Molle

Petr Neruda

Petr Škrdla

Miriam Nývltová Fisakova

Sofia Cristina Samper Carro

Dylan Gaffney

Piotr Moska

Yannick Devos

Timothy T Barrows

Philip Piper

Amy Mosig Way

Tim Denham

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