Publications for Peter Hiscock
Publications for Peter Hiscock
2016
Hiscock, P., Maloney, T. (2016). Australian
lithic technology: evolution, dispersion and
connectivity (forthcoming). In Tamar Hodos
(Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology
and Globalization. New York: Routledge (Taylor
and Francis).
Hiscock, P. (2016). Horizons of change:
entanglement of palaeoenvironment and cultural
dynamic in Australian lithic technology
(forthcoming). In E Robinson and F Sellet
(Eds.), Lithic Technological Organisation and
Paleoenvironmental Change. New York:
Springer.
Hiscock, P., O'Connor, S., Balme, J., Maloney,
T. (2016). World’s earliest ground-edge axe
production coincides with human colonisation of
Australia. Australian Archaeology, 82(1), 2-11.
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href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2016.
1164379">[More Information]</a>
2015
Hiscock, P. (2015). Cultural Diversification and
the Global Dispersion of Homo sapiens: Lessons
from Australia. In Yousuke Kaifu, Masami
Izuho, Ted Goebel, Hiroyuki Sato, Akira Ono
(Eds.), Emergence and Diversity of Modern
Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia, (pp.
225-236). Texas, United States: Texas A&M
University Press.
Attenbrow, V., Hiscock, P. (2015). Dates and
demography: are radiometric dates a robust
proxy for long-term prehistoric demographic
change? Archaeology in Oceania,
50(Supplement S1), 29-35. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/arco.5052">[Mo
re Information]</a>
Hiscock, P. (2015). Dynamics of knapping with
bipolar techniques: modelling transitions and the
implications of variability. Lithic Technology,
40(4), 342-348. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/2051618515Y.0
000000021">[More Information]</a>
Hiscock, P., Clarkson, C. (2015). Retouch
intensity on Quina scrapers at Combe Grenal: A
test of the reduction model. In Alison M Behie,
Marc F Oxenham (Eds.), Taxonomic Tapestries:
The Threads of Evolutionary, Behavioural and
Conservation Research, (pp. 103-128). Canberra:
ANU Press.
Shine, D., Marshall, M., Wright, D., Denham, T.,
Hiscock, P., Jacobsen, G., Stephens, S. (2015).
The archaeology of Bindjarran rockshelter in
Manilikarr Country, Kakadu National Park,
Northern Territory. Australian Archaeology, 80,
104-111.
Hiscock, P. (2015). The Pleistocene colonization
and occupation of Australasia. In David
Christian (Eds.), The Cambridge World History:
VOLUME I: Introducing World History, to
10,000 BCE, (pp. 433-460). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO978113919
4662.019">[More Information]</a>
2014
Hiscock, P. (2014). Archaeology in Film. In
Claire Smith (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global
Archaeology, (pp. 2779-2781). New York:
Springer.
Hiscock, P. (2014). Creators or Destroyers? The
Burning Questions of Human Impact in Ancient
Aboriginal Australia. Humanities Australia, 5,
40-52.
Hiscock, P. (2014). Early Old World migrations
of Homo sapiens: archaeology. In Peter
Bellwood (Eds.), The Global Prehistory of
Human Migration, (pp. 136-162). London:
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Hiscock, P. (2014). Geographical variation in
Australian backed artefacts: trialling a new index
of symmetry. Australian Archaeology, 79,
124-130.
Hiscock, P. (2014). Learning in Lithic
Landscapes: A Reconsideration of the Hominid
"Toolmaking" Niche. Biological Theory, 9,
27-41. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-013-015
8-3">[More Information]</a>
Hiscock, P. (2015). Making it small in the
Palaeolithic: bipolar stone-working, miniature
artefacts and models of core recycling. World
Archaeology, 47(1), 158-169. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2014.
991808">[More Information]</a>
Sterelny, K., Hiscock, P. (2014). Symbols,
Signals, and the Archaeological Record.
Biological Theory, 9, 1-3. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-013-015
4-7">[More Information]</a>
Hiscock, P. (2015). Recycling in the Haua Fteah
sequence of North Africa. Quaternary
International, 361, 251-255. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.08.
028">[More Information]</a>
Hughes, P., Sullivan, M., Hiscock, P., Neyland,
A. (2014). The need to have understood your
local geology: Nature and sources of materials
used to manufacture stone artefacts at Olympic
Dam, South Australia. Journal of the
Anthropological Society of South Australia, 38,
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108-135.
Sullivan, M., Hiscock, P., Hughes, P. (2014).
Three Scales: GIS, GPS and Digital Site and
Data Recording Technology in Archaelogical
Salvage at Olympic Dam in Arid South
Australia. Journal of the Anthropological Society
of South Australia, 38, 85-107.
2013
Bellwood, P., Hiscock, P. (2013). Australia and
the Pacific Basin during the Holocene. In
Scarre, C. (Eds.), The Human Past: World
Prehistory and the Development of Human
Societies, (pp. 264-305). New York: Thames &
Hudson Ltd.
Hiscock, P. (2013). Beyond the Dreamtime:
archaeology and explorations of religious change
in Australia. World Archaeology, 45(1), 124-136.
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href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2012.
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Shine, D., Wright, D., Denham, T., Aplin, K.,
Hiscock, P., Parker, K., Walton, R. (2013).
Birriwilk rockshelter: A mid- to late Holocene
site in Manilikarr Country, southwest Arnhem
Land, Northern Territory. Australian
Archaeology, 76, 69-78.
Hiscock, P. (2013). Early Old World migrations
of Homo sapiens: archaeology. In Immanuel
Ness (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human
Migration, (pp. 38-48). Chichester, United
Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Hiscock, P. (2013). Occupying New Lands:
Global Migrations and Cultural Diversification
with Particular Reference to Australia. In Kelly
E Graf, Caroline V Ketron, Michael R Waters
(Eds.), Paleoamerican Odyssey, (pp. 3-11).
Texas: Center for the Study of the First
Americans.
Wright, D., Hiscock, P., Aplin, K. (2013).
Re-Excavation of Dabangay, a Mid-Holocene
Settlement Site on Mabuyag in Western Torres
Strait. Queensland Archaeological Research, 16,
15-31.
Hiscock, P. (2013). The human colonization of
Australia. In Peter Bellwood (Eds.), The Global
Prehistory of Human Migration, (pp. 55-60).
London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Numen, 59(2-3), 156-177. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852712X630
761">[More Information]</a>
Hiscock, P. (2012). L'Archaeologue dangereux:
Ou comment le cinema present l'archeologie
comme une menace pour le monde. Silence on
Fouille! L'archeologie entre science et fiction,
(pp. 112-127). France: ARCHEA.
Hiscock, P. (2012). Mines and Quarries:
Australian Mines. In Neil Asher Silberman
(Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Archaeology,
(pp. 405-406). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hiscock, P. (2012). The arrival of humans in
Australia. Agora, 47(2), 19-22.
2011
Hiscock, P., Clarkson, C., Mackay, A. (2011).
Big debates over little tools: ongoing disputes
over microliths on three continents. World
Archaeology, 43(4), 653-664.
Hiscock, P. (2011). Changing Perspectives in
Australian Archaeology, Part VI. Point
Production at Jimede 2, Western Arnhem Land.
Technical Reports of the Australian Museum,
23(6), 73-82. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.1835-4211.23.2
011.1571">[More Information]</a>
Clarkson, C., Hiscock, P. (2011). Estimating
original flake mass from 3D scans of platform
area. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(5),
1062-1068. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.12.001
">[More Information]</a>
Hiscock, P., Attenbrow, V. (2011). Technology
and technological change in eastern Australia,
the example of Capertee 3. In Ben Marwick and
Alex Mackay (Eds.), Keeping your Edge: Recent
Approaches to the Organisation of Stone Artefact
Technology, (pp. 21-32). Oxford, UK:
Archaeopress / British Archeology Reports.
Hughes, P., Hiscock, P., Watchman, A. (2011).
Terminological Debate in the Upper Hunter
Valley: Indurated Mudstone versus Tuff.
Australian Archaeology, 72, 45-46.
2010
Hiscock, P. (2012). Australia and New Guinea:
Aboriginal Peoples of Australia. In Neil Asher
Silberman (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to
Archaeology, (pp. 161-164). Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Aplin, K., Ford, F., Hiscock, P. (2010). Early
Holocene human occupation and environment of
the southeast Australian Alps: New evidence for
the Yarrangobilly Plateau, New South Wales.
In Simon Haberle, Janelle Stevenson, Matthew
Prebble (Eds.), Altered Ecologies: Fire, Climate
and Human Influence on Terrestrial Landscapes,
(pp. 187-212). Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU
E Press.
Hiscock, P. (2012). Cinema, Supernatural
Archaeology, and the Hidden Human Past.
Hiscock, P., Tabrett, A. (2010). Generalization,
inference and the quantification of lithic
2012
Publications for Peter Hiscock
reduction. World Archaeology, 42(4), 545-561.
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href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2010.
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2009
Veth, P., Smith, M., Bowler, J., Fitzsimmons, K.,
Williams, A., Hiscock, P. (2009). Excavations at
Parnkupirti, Lake Gregory, Great Sandy Desert:
OSL Ages for Occupation before the Last
Glacial Maximum. Australian Archaeology, 69,
1-10.
Hiscock, P., Bellwood, P. (2009). Holocene
Australia and the Pacific Basin. In Christopher
Scarre (Eds.), The Human Past: World
Prehistory and the Development of Human
Societies, (pp. 264-305). London, UK: Thames &
Hudson Ltd.
Robertson, G., Attenbrow, V., Hiscock, P.
(2009). Multiple uses for Australian backed
artefacts. Antiquity, 83, 296-308.
Hiscock, P. (2009). Quina procurement and tool
production. In Brian Adams, Brooke Blades
(Eds.), Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies,
(pp. 232-246). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Publishing.
Hiscock, P. (2009). Reduction recycling and raw
material Procurement in Western Arnhem Land,
Australia. In Brian Adams, Brooke Blades
(Eds.), Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies,
(pp. 78-94). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Publishing.
Attenbrow, V., Robertson, G., Hiscock, P.
(2009). The changing abundance of backed
artefacts in south-eastern Australia: a response to
Holocene climate change? Journal of
Archaeological Science, 36(12), 2765-2770. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.08.018
">[More Information]</a>
Hiscock, P., Clarkson, C. (2009). The reality of
reduction experiments and the GIUR: reply to
Eren and Sampson. Journal of Archaeological
Science, 36(7), 1576-1581. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.03.019
">[More Information]</a>
2008
Hiscock, P. (2008). Archaeology of Ancient
Australia. London: Routledge.
Mercieca, A., Hiscock, P. (2008). Experimental
insights into alternative strategies of lithic heat
treatment. Journal of Archaeological Science,
35(9), 2634-2639. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.04.021
">[More Information]</a>
Clarkson, C., Hiscock, P. (2008). Tapping into
the past: Exploring Palaeolithic Retouching
through experimentation. Lithic Technology,
33(1), 5-16.
Hiscock, P., Clarkson, C. (2008). The
Construction of Morphological Diversity: A
Study of Mousterian Implement Retouching at
Combe Grenal. In William Andrefsky Jr (Eds.),
Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use
and Curation, (pp. 106-135). New York, UK:
Cambridge University Press.
Hiscock, P. (2008). The first boat people.
Archaeology in Oceania, 43(1), 44-47.
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. <a
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095977430600
0126">[More Information]</a>
2005
Hiscock, P., Attenbrow, V. (2005). Australia's
Eastern Regional Sequence Revisited:
Technology and Change at Capertee 3. Oxford,
UK: Archaeopress.
Veth, P., Smith, M., Hiscock, P. (2005). Desert
Peoples: archaeological perspectives. Malden,
MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Attenbrow, V., Hiscock, P. (2005). Reduction
Continuums and Tool Use. In Clarkson, C and
Lamb, L (Eds.), Lithics 'Down Under':
Australian Perspectives on Lithic Reduction, Use
and Classification, (pp. 43-55). Oxford, UK:
Archaeopress.
2004
Hiscock, P., Attenbrow, V. (2004). A Revised
Sequence Of Backed Artefact Production At
Capertee 3, NSW. Archaeology in Oceania,
39(2), 94-99.