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Biography
I am currently conducting major archaeological research projects in Indonesia and East Timor investigating the earliest evidence for human settlement on potential pathways through Wallacea. This project complements and builds on previous research in eastern Maluku, and Papua New Guinea and the Kimberley region of northern Australia which focused on Pleistocene settlement and subsistence and interaction and exchange. I am also interested in the rock art of northern Australia and Island Southeast Asia and evidence for symbolic exchange in the mid to late Holocene.
Career highlights
Awarded Australian Research Council Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship in 2012
Awarded Australian Research Council QEII Fellowship (1999-2003); Project title: Characterising the Island Southeast Asian Neolithic Transition: a comparison of preceramic and ceramic (Neolithic) maritime cultures.
Research interests
Australian and Southeast Asian archaeology; Pleistocene colonisation of Island Southeast Asia, Australia and Papua New Guinea by modern humans and the links between these regions; change and continuity across the boundary of the Neolithic transition in Island Southeast Asia; human impacts on the environment, rock art.
Qualifications
BA (Hons I) (UNE), PhD (UWA)
Expertise Areas
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology
- Archaeological Science
- Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
- Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand)
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Archives in Bark: Carved and inscribed Kimberley Boab trees
O'Connor, S., Balme, J., Frederick, U. & Marshall, M.
Australian National University (ANU), Australian Research Council (ARC)
14/05/21 → 12/05/24
Project: Research
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The coming of the dingo and its interaction with Indigenous Australians
O'Connor, S., Balme, J. & McDowell, M.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
28/02/21 → 27/02/25
Project: Research
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Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) Externally led by University of Wollongong
O'Connor, S., Roberts, R. G., Asmussen, B., Bird, M. I., Bradshaw, C., Brook, B., Cohen, T. J., Curnoe, D., David, B., Delannoy, J., Haberle, S., Jacobs, Z., Johnson, C. N., Knowles, C., Leavesley, M., Miller, G. H., Nakata, N. M., Russell, L., Slack, M., Stevenson, J., Storey, M., Turney, C. & Ulm, S.
Australian National University (ANU), Australian Research Council (ARC)
30/06/17 → 30/07/24
Project: Research
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First Contact: Impact Of Pleistocene Hominins On Island Ecosystems (workshop)
5/09/16 → 1/05/17
Project: Research
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From Sunda to Sahul: Understanding modern human dispersal, adaptation and behaviour en route to Australia
O'Connor, S., Hawkins, S., Hawkins, S., Louys, J., Louys, J. & Maloney, T.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
30/06/13 → 29/06/18
Project: Research
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Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea
Oliveira, I. S., Nägele, K., Carlhoff, S., Pugach, I., Koesbardiati, T., Hübner, A., Angermeyer, M., Oktaviana, A. A., Takenaka, M., Katagiri, C., Murti, D. B., Putri, R. S., Mahirta, M., Petchey, F., Higham, T., Higham, C. F. W., O'Connor, S., Hawkins, S., Kinaston, R., Bellwood, P., & 5 others, 2022, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6, p. 1-19Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Fibre technologies in Indigenous Australia: Evidence from archaeological excavations in the Kimberley region
Balme, J., O'Connor, S., Maloney, T., Akerman, K., Keaney, B. & Dilkes-Hall, I. E., 2022, In: Australian Archaeology. 88, 2, p. 1-15Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Human occupation of the Kimberley coast of northwest Australia 50,000 years ago
Norman, K., Shipton, C., O'Connor, S., Malanali, W., Collins, P., Wood, R., Saktura, W. M., Roberts, R. G. & Jacobs, Z., 2022, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 288, p. 107577Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Bone artifacts from Riwi Cave, south-central Kimberley: Reappraisal of the timing and role of osseous artifacts in northern Australia
Langley, M., O'Connor, S. & Balme, J., 2021, In: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 31, 5, p. 673-682Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Communities of Practice in a Maritime World: Shared Shell Technology and Obsidian Exchange in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Wallacea
O'Connor, S., Reepmeyer, C., Mahirta, M., Langley, M. & Piotto, E., 2021, Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia. Bérénice Bellina, Roger Blench, and Jean-Christophe Galipaud (ed.). Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, p. 28-50Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter