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Matthew Spriggs is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia, focusing primarily on research within the social sciences and earth and planetary sciences. Their scholarly work spans a variety of subfields, including geography, planning and development, paleontology, anthropology, demography, and genetics.

Their research concentrates on several key topics, with particular emphasis on Pacific and Southeast Asian studies, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, island studies and Pacific affairs, historical and cultural archaeology studies, forensic and genetic research, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, and Australian Indigenous culture and history.

Matthew Spriggs has contributed to multiple research papers, including the following recent publications:

  • Everything You've Been Told About the History of Australian Archaeology is Wrong!, 2020, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
  • Three Phases of Ancient Migration Shaped the Ancestry of Human Populations in Vanuatu, 2020, Current Biology
  • Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines, 2021, Nature
  • Frontier Lapita interaction with resident Papuan populations set the stage for initial peopling of the Pacific, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Ancient DNA reveals five streams of migration into Micronesia and matrilocality in early Pacific seafarers, 2022, Science

In addition to journal articles, Spriggs has authored books published by Cambridge University Press and ANU Press. Titles include Trade before Civilization (2022) and Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (2021).

Frequent collaborators in Spriggs's research include:

  • Stuart Bedford (14 co-authored works)
  • Frédérique Valentin (7 co-authored works)
  • Ron Pinhasi (5 co-authored works)
  • David Reich (5 co-authored works)
  • Richard Shing (5 co-authored works)

Spriggs's research has appeared in multiple venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Bulletin of the History of Archaeology (3 publications)
  • Journal of Pacific Archaeology (2 publications)
  • Journal of Pacific History (2 publications)
  • Nature (1 publication)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • The island Melanesians

    Matthew Spriggs

  • Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific

    Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund;Cosimo Posth;Kendra Sirak;Kendra Sirak;Matthew Spriggs

  • Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania.

    Greger Larson;Greger Larson;Thomas Cucchi;Masakatsu Fujita;Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith

  • Direct evidence for human use of plants 28,000 years ago: starch residues on stone artefacts from the northern Solomon Islands

    Thomas H. Loy;Matthew Spriggs;Stephen Wickler

  • Late colonization of East Polynesia

    Matthew Spriggs;Atholl Anderson

  • The dating of the Island Southeast Asian Neolithic: an attempt at chronometric hygiene and linguistic correlation

    Matthew Spriggs

  • Pleistocene human occupation of the Solomon Islands, Melanesia

    Stephen Wickler;Matthew Spriggs

  • Population Turnover in Remote Oceania Shortly after Initial Settlement

    Mark Lipson;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund;Matthew Spriggs;Frederique Valentin

  • The Teouma Lapita site and the early human settlement of the Pacific Islands

    Stuart Bedford;Matthew Spriggs;Ralph Regenvanu

  • Archaeology and the Austronesian expansion: where are we now?

    Matthew Spriggs

  • The Lapita cultural complex: Origins, distribution, contemporaries and successors ∗

    Matthew Spriggs

  • Excavation at Lene Hara Cave establishes occupation in East Timor at least 30,000–35,000 years ago

    Susan O'Connor;Matthew Spriggs;Peter M Veth

  • Lapita migrants in the Pacific's oldest cemetery: Isotopic analysis at Teouma, Vanuatu

    R. Alexander Bentley;Hallie R. Buckley;Matthew Spriggs;Stuart Bedford

  • Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific

    Arthur W. White;Trevor H. Worthy;Stuart Hawkins;Stuart Bedford

  • Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines.

    Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg;Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg;David Anthony;David Anthony;Hiba Babiker;Eszter Bánffy

  • Vegetable kingdoms : taro irrigation and Pacific prehistory

    Matthew James Thomas Spriggs

  • Ethnographic parallels and the denial of history

    Matthew Spriggs

  • Lapita sites of the Bismarck Archipelago

    C. Gosden;J. Allen;W. Ambrose;D. Anson

  • Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology

    Matthew Spriggs

  • Political Economy in the Archaeology of Emergent Complexity: a Synthesis of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches

    Martin Furholt;Colin Grier;Matthew Spriggs;Timothy Earle

  • Northern Vanuatu as a Pacific Crossroads: The Archaeology of Discovery, Interaction, and the Emergence of the "Ethnographic Present"

    Stuart Bedford;Matthew Spriggs

  • Political economy in prehistory: A marxist approach to pacific sequences

    Timothy K. Earle;Matthew Spriggs

Frequent Co-Authors

Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Patrick V. Kirch
Patrick V. Kirch University of Hawaii at Manoa
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University
Kumarasamy Thangaraj
Kumarasamy Thangaraj Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
William R. Dickinson
William R. Dickinson University of Arizona
Nadin Rohland
Nadin Rohland Harvard University
Janet Kelso
Janet Kelso Max Planck Society
Kathryn J. H. Robson
Kathryn J. H. Robson University of Oxford

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