Susan O'Connor

2024

Exploring changing occupation dynamics at the lakeside cave site Matja Kuru 2, Timor-Leste

Samper Carro, S. C., O'Connor, S., Kealy, S., Jones, R. K., Raymond, C., Boulanger, C., Hawkins, S., Lu, T., Langley, M. C. & Clarkson, C., Jan 2024, In: Quaternary Science Advances. 13, 100127.

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2023

Big questions for small animals. Taphonomic analysis of small vertebrates in Matja Kuru 2 (Timor-Leste) during the late pleistocene

Samper Carro, S. C., Raymond, C., Weisbecker, V. & O'Connor, S., Oct 2023, In: Quaternary Science Advances. 12, 100102.

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5 Citations (Scopus)

Diversity and continuity in the pottery traditions of the Wallacean islands: New evidence from Makpan Cave, Alor island, Indonesia

Beaumont, P., Leclerc, M., Kealy, S. & O'Connor, S., Mar 2023, In: Archaeological Research in Asia. 33, 100417.

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Fishhooks, Lures, and Sinkers: Intensive Manufacture of Marine Technology from the Terminal Pleistocene at Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia

Langley, M. C., O’Connor, S., Kealy, S. & Mahirta, 2023, In: Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 18, 1, p. 33-52 20 p.

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11 Citations (Scopus)

Late Quaternary Mammal Introduction and Extinction Records from Archaeological Cave Deposits in Timor-Leste

Louys, J., O’Connor, S., Kealy, S., Hawkins, S. & Aplin, K. P., 2023, In: Records of the Australian Museum. 75, 5, p. 765-786 22 p.

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2 Citations (Scopus)

New archaeological discoveries in north-central Timor-Leste indicate sociocultural adaptations to landscape change during the Holocene

Brockwell, S., McWilliam, A., Kealy, S., Litster, M., Cooling, S., Hawkins, S., Langley, M. C., Wolfe, L. & O’Connor, S., 2023, In: Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. p. 1-34

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2 Citations (Scopus)

Sailing the deep blue sea: The rock art of Wetang Island, Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia

O’Connor, S., Kealy, S., Wattimena, L., Black, A., Husni, M. & Mahirta, 2023, In: Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 18, 3, p. 398-425 28 p.

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1 Citation (Scopus)

Sequins from the sea: Nautilus shell bead technology at Makpan, Alor Island, Indonesia

Langley, M. C., Kealy, S., Mahirta & O'connor, S., 15 Aug 2023, In: Antiquity. 97, 394, p. 810-828 19 p.

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5 Citations (Scopus)

Shell-beading traditions at Asitau Kuru (Timor-Leste)

Langley, M. C., O’Connor, S., Shipton, C. & Kealy, S., Dec 2023, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15, 12, 192.

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The Exploitation of Toxic Fish from the Terminal Pleistocene in Maritime Southeast Asia: A Case Study from the Mindoro Archaeological Sites, Philippines

Boulanger, C., Pawlik, A., O’Connor, S., Sémah, A. M., Reyes, M. C. & Ingicco, T., Jul 2023, In: Animals. 13, 13, 2113.

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3 Citations (Scopus)

2022

Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea

Oliveira, S., Nägele, K., Carlhoff, S., Pugach, I., Koesbardiati, T., Hübner, A., Meyer, M., Oktaviana, A. A., Takenaka, M., Katagiri, C., Murti, D. B., Putri, R. S., Mahirta, Petchey, F., Higham, T., Higham, C. F. W., O’Connor, S., Hawkins, S., Kinaston, R., Bellwood, P., & 5 othersOno, R., Powell, A., Krause, J., Posth, C. & Stoneking, M., Jul 2022, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 6, 7, p. 1024-1034 11 p.

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15 Citations (Scopus)

Art in the bark: Indigenous carved boab trees (Adansonia gregorii) in north-west Australia

O'Connor, S., Balme, J., Frederick, U., Garstone, B., Bedford, R., Bedford, J., Rivers, A., Bedford, A. & Lewis, D., 25 Dec 2022, In: Antiquity. 96, 390, p. 1574-1591 18 p.

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4 Citations (Scopus)

Continuity and variability in prehistoric fishing practices by Homo sapiens in Island Southeast Asia: new ichthyofaunal data from Asitau Kuru, Timor-Leste

Boulanger, C., Hawkins, S., Samper Carro, S. C., Ono, R. & O’Connor, S., 2022, In: World Archaeology. 54, 2, p. 288-316 29 p.

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5 Citations (Scopus)

Fibre technologies in Indigenous Australia: Evidence from archaeological excavations in the Kimberley region

Balme, J., O’Connor, S., Maloney, T. R., Akerman, K., Keaney, B. & Dilkes-Hall, I. E., 2022, In: Australian Archaeology. 88, 2, p. 115-128 14 p.

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3 Citations (Scopus)

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., 15 Jul 2022, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 288, 107577.

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13 Citations (Scopus)

Talking Dead. New burials from Tron Bon Lei (Alor Island, Indonesia) inform on the evolution of mortuary practices from the terminal Pleistocene to the Holocene in Southeast Asia

Samper-Carro, S. C., O'Connor, S., Mahirta, Kealy, S. & Shipton, C., Aug 2022, In: PLoS ONE. 17, 8 August, e0267635.

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5 Citations (Scopus)

Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea

O’Connor, S., Kealy, S., Reepmeyer, C., Samper Carro, S. C. & Shipton, C., 2022, In: World Archaeology. 54, 2, p. 244-263 20 p.

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12 Citations (Scopus)

2021

Bone artifacts from Riwi Cave, south-central Kimberley: Reappraisal of the timing and role of osseous artifacts in northern Australia

Langley, M. C., Balme, J. & O'Connor, S., 1 Sept 2021, In: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 31, 5, p. 673-682 10 p.

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8 Citations (Scopus)

Burial practices in the early mid-Holocene of the Wallacean Islands: A sub-adult burial from Gua Makpan, Alor Island, Indonesia

Samper Carro, S. C., Stewart, T. J., Mahirta, Wood, R. & O'Connor, S., 30 Nov 2021, In: Quaternary International. 603, p. 125-138 14 p.

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8 Citations (Scopus)

Diverse stone artefacts around Lake Woods, Central Northern Territory, Australia

Shipton, C., Cohen, T., Forbes, M., Boesl, F., Jacobs, Z., Dixon, R. D., Dixon, E., Kingston, S., Albert, C. & O’Connor, S., 2021, In: Australian Archaeology. 87, 2, p. 156-178 23 p.

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1 Citation (Scopus)

Faces in the Stone: Further Finds of Anthropomorphic Engravings Suggest a Discrete Artistic Tradition Flourished in Timor-Leste in the Terminal Pleistocene

O'Connor, S., Oliveira, N. V., Standish, C. D., Garciá-Diez, M., Kealy, S. & Shipton, C., Feb 2021, In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 31, 1, p. 129-142 14 p.

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4 Citations (Scopus)

Miniaturized Late Pleistocene Lithic Technology From Alor Island Articulates with the Records of Flores and Timor Across Southern Wallacea

Shipton, C., Kealy, S., Mahirta, M., Irfan, A., Patridina, E. P. B. G. G. & O'Connor, S., 2021, In: PaleoAnthropology. p. 1-20

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Mitogenomes reveal two major influxes of papuan ancestry across wallacea following the last glacial maximum and austronesian contact

Purnomo, G. A., Mitchell, K. J., O’connor, S., Kealy, S., Taufik, L., Schiller, S., Rohrlach, A., Cooper, A., Llamas, B., Sudoyo, H., Teixeira, J. C. & Tobler, R., Jul 2021, In: Genes. 12, 7, 965.

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17 Citations (Scopus)

No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

Louys, J., Braje, T. J., Chang, C. H., Cosgrove, R., Fitzpatrick, S. M., Fujita, M., Hawkins, S., Ingicco, T., Kawamura, A., MacPhee, R. D. E., McDowell, M. C., Meijer, H. J. M., Piper, P. J., Roberts, P., Simmons, A. H., Van den Bergh, G., Van der Geer, A., Kealy, S. & O'Connor, S., 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 20, e2023005118.

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33 Citations (Scopus)

Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul

Bradshaw, C. J. A., Norman, K., Ulm, S., Williams, A. N., Clarkson, C., Chadœuf, J., Lin, S. C., Jacobs, Z., Roberts, R. G., Bird, M. I., Weyrich, L. S., Haberle, S. G., O’Connor, S., Llamas, B., Cohen, T. J., Friedrich, T., Veth, P., Leavesley, M. & Saltré, F., 1 Dec 2021, In: Nature Communications. 12, 1, 2440.

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43 Citations (Scopus)

The biogeographic threshold of Wallacea in human evolution

Shipton, C., O'Connor, S. & Kealy, S., 10 Feb 2021, In: Quaternary International. 574, p. 1-12 12 p.

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18 Citations (Scopus)

2020

An examination of rockshelter palynology: Carpenter’s Gap 1, northwestern Australia

Rowe, C., O’Connor, S. & Balme, J., 1 Aug 2020, In: Holocene. 30, 8, p. 1142-1154 13 p.

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4 Citations (Scopus)

Archaeobotany of Aboriginal plant foods during the Holocene at Riwi, south central Kimberley, Western Australia

Dilkes-Hall, I. E., Balme, J., O’Connor, S. & Dotte-Sarout, E., 1 May 2020, In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 29, 3, p. 309-325 17 p.

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7 Citations (Scopus)

Early ground axe technology in Wallacea: The first excavations on Obi Island

Shipton, C., O’Connor, S., Kealy, S., Mahirta, Syarqiyah, I. N., Alamsyah, N. & Ririmasse, M., Aug 2020, In: PLoS ONE. 15, 8 August, e0236719.

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13 Citations (Scopus)

Early Metal Age Pottery from Fatu Aki Anik Knua, Timor-Leste and the Appearance of Ceramics in the Wallacean Islands

Beaumont, P., O'Connor, S. & Leclerc, M., 2020, In: Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology. 44, p. 113-141

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Evaluating human responses to ENSO driven climate change during the Holocene in northwest Australia through macrobotanical analyses

Dilkes-Hall, I. E., Balme, J., O’Connor, S. & Dotte-Sarout, E., 1 Dec 2020, In: Holocene. 30, 12, p. 1728-1740 13 p.

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5 Citations (Scopus)

Expanding population edge craniometrics and genetics provide insights into dispersal of commensal rats through nusa tenggara, Indonesia

Louys, J., Herrera, M. B., Thomson, V. A., Wiewel, A. S., Donnellan, S. C., O'Connor, S. & Aplin, K., 25 Nov 2020, In: Records of the Australian Museum. 72, 5, p. 287-302 16 p.

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6 Citations (Scopus)

Expanding Population Edge Craniometries and Genetics Provide Insights into Dispersal of Commensal Rats through Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Louys, J., Herrera, M. B., Thomson, V. A., Wiewel, A., Donnellan, S., O'Connor, S. & Aplin, K. P., 2020, In: Records of the Australian Museum. 72, 5, p. 287-302

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Forty-thousand years of maritime subsistence near a changing shoreline on Alor Island (Indonesia)

Kealy, S., O'Connor, S., Mahirta, Sari, D. M., Shipton, C., Langley, M. C., Boulanger, C., Kaharudin, H. A. F., Patridina, E. P. B. G. G., Algifary, M. A., Irfan, A., Beaumont, P., Jankowski, N., Hawkins, S. & Louys, J., 1 Dec 2020, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 249, 106599.

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28 Citations (Scopus)

Hand stencil discoveries at Lene Hara Cave hint at Pleistocene age for the earliest painted art in Timor-Leste

Standish, C. D., García-Diez, M., O'Connor, S. & Oliveira, N. V., Jun 2020, In: Archaeological Research in Asia. 22, 100191.

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8 Citations (Scopus)

Island rule and bone metabolism in fossil murines from Timor

Miszkiewicz, J. J., Louys, J., Beck, R. M. D., Mahoney, P., Aplin, K. & O'Connor, S., 28 Feb 2020, In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 129, 3, p. 570-586 17 p.

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17 Citations (Scopus)

Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea

Roberts, P., Louys, J., Zech, J., Shipton, C., Kealy, S., Carro, S. S., Hawkins, S., Boulanger, C., Marzo, S., Fiedler, B., Boivin, N., Mahirta, Aplin, K. & OʼConnor, S., 1 Dec 2020, In: Nature Communications. 11, 1, 2068.

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44 Citations (Scopus)

Late Holocene coastal land-use, site formation and site survival: Insights from five middens at Cape Leveque and Lombadina, Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Australia

Litster, M., Barham, A., Meyer, J., Maloney, T. R., Shipton, C., Fallon, S., Willan, R. C. & O'Connor, S., 3 May 2020, In: Australian Archaeology. 86, 2, p. 118-136 19 p.

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3 Citations (Scopus)

Lene Kici cave art: Possible symbolic evidence associated with palaeolithic human occupation in Timor-Leste

García-Diez, M., Standish, C. D., Oliveira, N. V. & O’Connor, S., 2020, In: Asian Perspectives. 60, 1, p. 197-212 16 p.

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2 Citations (Scopus)

Metal-age maritime culture at jareng bori rockshelter, Pantar Island, Eastern Indonesia

Hawkins, S., Arumdhati, F. S., Litster, M., Lim, T. S., Basile, G., Leclerc, M., Reepmeyer, C., Maloney, T. R., Boulanger, C., Louys, J., Mahirta, Clark, G., Keling, G., Willan, R. C., Yuwono, P. & O'Connor, S., 25 Nov 2020, In: Records of the Australian Museum. 72, 5, p. 237-262 26 p.

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3 Citations (Scopus)

New painted rock art sites in Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia, support a diversity of artistic traditions in the late holocene

Yuwono, P., Mahirta, O’connor, S., Kealy, S., Black, A. & Hawkins, S., May 2020, In: Rock Art Research. 37, 1, p. 35-45 11 p.

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5 Citations (Scopus)

Phylogenetic relationships of the cuscuses (Diprotodontia: Phalangeridae) of island Southeast Asia and Melanesia based on the mitochondrial ND2 gene

Kealy, S., Donnellan, S. C., Mitchell, K. J., Herrera, M., Aplin, K., O'Connor, S. & Louys, J., Sept 2020, In: Australian Mammalogy. 42, 3, p. 266-276 11 p.

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12 Citations (Scopus)

Shell Adzes, Exotic Obsidian, and Inter-Island Voyaging in the Early and Middle Holocene of Wallacea

Shipton, C., O’Connor, S., Reepmeyer, C., Kealy, S. & Jankowski, N., 1 Oct 2020, In: Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 15, 4, p. 525-546 22 p.

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28 Citations (Scopus)

The Lives of Creatures Obscure, Misunderstood, and Wonderful: A Volume in Honour of Ken Aplin 1958-2019

Louys, J., O'Connor, S. & Helgen, K. M., 2020, In: Records of the Australian Museum. 72, 5, p. 149-160

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The rock art of Kisar Island, Indonesia: A small island with a wealth and diversity of artistic expression

O'Connor, S., Kealy, S., Black, A., Ririmasse, M., Mahirta, M., Hawkins, S., Husni, M., Tanudirjo, D., Alifah, A., Wattimena, L., Handoko, W. & Al Mujabuddawat, M., 2020, In: Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology . 44, p. 19-51

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2019

40,000 Years of Ochre Utilization in Timor-Leste: Powders, Prehensile Traces, and Body Painting

Langley, M. & O'Connor, S., 2019, In: PaleoAnthropology. p. 82-104

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A new 44,000-year sequence from Asitau Kuru (Jerimalai), Timor-Leste, indicates long-term continuity in human behaviour

Shipton, C., O’Connor, S., Jankowski, N., O’Connor-Veth, J., Maloney, T., Kealy, S. & Boulanger, C., 1 Oct 2019, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 11, 10, p. 5717-5741 25 p.

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