Ian J. McNiven

Best Publications

• Saltwater People: spiritscapes, maritime rituals and the archaeology of Australian indigenous seascapes

  Ian James McNiven

  277
  Citations

• Ritually Orchestrated Seascapes: Hunting Magic and Dugong Bone Mounds in Torres Strait, NE Australia

  Ian James McNiven;Ricky Feldman

  152
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• New direction in human colonisation of the Pacific: Lapita settlement of south coast New Guinea

  Ian J. McNiven;Bruno David;Thomas Richards;Ken Aplin

  143
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• Theoretical challenges of indigenous archaeology: Setting an agenda

  Ian J. McNiven

  127
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• Mask cave : Red-slipped pottery and the Australian-Papuan settlement of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait)

  Ian James McNiven;William R Dickinson;Bruno David;Marshall I Weisler

  106
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• Lapita sites in the Central Province of mainland Papua New Guinea

  Bruno David;Ian J. McNiven;Thomas Richards;Sean P. Connaughton

  98
  Citations

• Dating Aboriginal stone-walled fishtraps at Lake Condah, southeast Australia

  Ian James McNiven;Joseph Albert Stanton Crouch;Thomas Henry Richards;Nicolas James Dolby

  96
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• Berberass: Marine resource specialisation and environmental change in Torres Strait during the past 4000 years

  Joseph Albert Stanton Crouch;Ian James McNiven;Bruno David;Cassandra Rowe

  92
  Citations

• Navigating the human-animal divide: marine mammal hunters and rituals of sensory allurement

  Ian J. McNiven

  87
  Citations

• Australian coastal archaeology

  Jay Hall;Ian J. McNiven

  86
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• Complex history of dog ( Canis familiaris ) origins and translocations in the Pacific revealed by ancient mitogenomes

  Karen Greig;Anna Gosling;Catherine Collins;James Boocock

  85
  Citations

• Ritualized Middening Practices

  Ian James McNiven

  82
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• Badu 15 and the Papuan-Austronesian settlement of Torres Strait

  Bruno David;Ian James McNiven;Rod Mitchell;Meredith L Orr

  81
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• Nawarla gabarnmang, a 45,180 +/- 910 cal BP site in Jawoyn country, Southwest Arnhem land Plateau`

  Bruno David;Jean-Michel Geneste;Ray L. Whear;Jean-Jacques Delannoy

  80
  Citations

• Of Lightning Brothers and White Cockatoos: dating the antiquity of signifying systems in the Northern Territory, Australia

  Bruno David;Ian McNiven;Val Attenbrow;Josephine Flood

  79
  Citations

• High-resolution radiocarbon dating of marine materials in archaeological contexts: radiocarbon marine reservoir variability between Anadara, Gafrarium, Batissa, Polymesoda spp. and Echinoidea at Caution Bay, Southern Coastal Papua New Guinea

  Fiona Petchey;Sean Ulm;Bruno David;Ian James McNiven

  79
  Citations

• Past and present marine mammal hunting rates and abundances: dugong (Dugong dugon) evidence from Dabangai Bone Mound, Torres Strait

  Ian James McNiven;Alice Bedingfield

  77
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• The Bradshaw Debate: Lessons Learned From Critiquing Colonialist Interpretations of Gwion Gwion Rock Paintings of The Kimberley, Western Australia

  Ian J. McNiven

  72
  Citations

• Dauan 4 and the emergence of ethnographically-known social arrangements across Torres Strait during the last 600-800 years

  Ian James McNiven

  68
  Citations

• Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies, The

  Bruno David;Bryce Barker;Ian J McNiven

  25
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