Contact
Room 2C25
Tel +64 3 479 8399
Email glenn.summerhayes@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests
Pacific archaeology, in particular Melanesia; the archaeology of trade and exchange; the development of social complexity; the archaeology of East Asia; archaeometry; cultural heritage management; archaeology and the school curriculum in Papua New Guinea.
Courses
- ANTH 106 Human Origins and Civilisations
- ANTH 203 Asian Archaeology
- ANTH 231 The Emergence of Agriculture: An Archaeological Journey
Publications
Horrocks, M., Summerhayes, G., & Presswell, B. (2024). Palaeoparasitology confirms Early Lapita evidence of pig and dog at Kamgot, Bismarck Archipelago. Journal of Helminthology, 98(e8). doi: 10.1017/s0022149x23000998 Journal - Research Article
Ulm, S., McNiven, I. J., Summerhayes, G. R., Wu, P.-h., Bunbury, M. M. E., Petchey, F., … and the Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC. (2024). Early Aboriginal pottery production and offshore island occupation on Jiigurru (Lizard Island group), Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108624 Journal - Research Article
Hogg, N. W. S., Chiu, S., Kirch, P. V., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2024). A network of designs: Studying Early Lapita exchange networks in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea through Social Network Analysis. Archaeology in Oceania. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/arco.5322 Journal - Research Article
Field, J. H., Coster, A. C., Shaw, B., Hayes, E., Fullagar, R., Lovave, M., … Summerhayes, G. R. (2024). Ancient starch and usewear analyses of an excavated pestle fragment from the Upper Kaironk Valley, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. In A. Ford, B. Shaw & D. Gaffney (Eds.), Forty years in the south seas: Archaeological perspectives on the human history of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific region. (pp. 391-415). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA57.2024 Chapter in Book - Research
Chiu, S., Su, Y., Killick, D., Kirch, P., Summerhayes, G. R., Specht, J., & Ambrose, W. (2024). Understanding social connections within the Bismarck Archipelago through petrographic and motif analyses of Mussau Lapita pottery assemblages. In A. Ford, B. Shaw & D. Gaffney (Eds.), Forty years in the south seas: Archaeological perspectives on the human history of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific region. (pp. 75-107). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA57.2024 Chapter in Book - Research
Hogg, N. W. S., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2024). The Lapita pottery of Tamuarawai (EGS), Emirau Island, Papua New Guinea: Studying the form and decoration of one of the earliest pottery assemblages in the western Pacific. In A. Ford, B. Shaw & D. Gaffney (Eds.), Forty years in the south seas: Archaeological perspectives on the human history of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific region. (pp. 51-74). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA57.2024 Chapter in Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. (2023). Reflections on populating the Western Pacific. In C. Nimura, R. O'Sullivan & R. Bradley (Eds.), Sentient archaeologies: Global perspectives on places, objects, and practice: Essays in honour of Professor Chris Gosden. (pp. 9-17). Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books. Chapter in Book - Research
Roberts, P., Hixon, S., Hamilton, R., Lucas, M., Ilgner, J., Marzo, S., … Luu, S., … Summerhayes, G. (2023). Assessing Pleistocene–Holocene climatic and environmental change in insular Near Oceania using stable isotope analysis of archaeological fauna. Journal of Quaternary Science, 38 (8), 1267-1278. doi: 10.1002/jqs.3555 Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. R. (2023). New Guinea's past: The last 50,000 years. In R. T. Jones & M. K. Matsuda (Eds.), The Cambridge history of the Pacific Ocean (Vol. 1): The Pacific Ocean to 1800. (pp. 406-433). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108539272.024 Chapter in Book - Research
Kerby, G., Ford, A., Summerhayes, G. R., Leavesley, M. G., & Palin, J. M. (2023). Fit for purpose: Investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. World Archaeology, 1-21. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00438243.2023.2172070 Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. R. (2022). Sue Bulmer and New Guinea archaeology. In H. Howes, T. Jones & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Uncovering Pacific pasts: Histories of archaeology in Oceania. (pp. 527-534). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/UPP.2021 Chapter in Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. R. (2022). Kisim save long graun: Understanding the nature of landscape change in modelling Lapita in Papua New Guinea. In M. T. Carson (Ed.), Palaeolandscapes in archaeology: Lessons for the past and the future. (pp. 291-312). London, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003139553-10 Chapter in Book - Research
Roberts, P., Douka, K., Tromp, M., Bedford, S., Hawkins, S., Bouffandeau, L., … Luu, S., … Summerhayes, G., & Spriggs, M. (2022). Fossils, fish and tropical forests: Prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers on Oceania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377, 20200495. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0495 Journal - Research Article
Hogg, N. W. S., Chen, Y.-l. E., Summerhayes, G. R., Boswijk, G., Manning, S. W., Hogg, A. G., & Gosden, C. (2022). Building on the past: Refining our current understanding of Lapita stilt structures. Australian Archaeology, 88(3), 268-281. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2022.2148184 Journal - Research Article
Field, J. H., Shaw, B., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2022). Pathways to the interior: Human settlement in the Simbai-Kaironk Valleys of the Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 88(1), 2-17. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2021.2007600 Journal - Research Article
Mialanes, J., Ford, A., Goodall, B., Codlin, M., McCoy, M., Summerhayes, G., … Richards, T., & McNiven, I. J. (2022). The stone artefacts of Tanamu 1. In B. David, K. Szabó, M. Leavesley, I. J. McNiven, J. Ash & T. Richards (Eds.), The archaeology of Tanamu 1: A pre-Lapita to post-Lapita site from Caution Bay, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea. (pp. 89-106). Oxford, UK: Archaeopress Publishing. Chapter in Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. R. (2023). History of archaeology in Papua New Guinea: the early years up to 1960. In I. J. McNiven & B. David (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea. (pp. 85-108). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190095611.013.3 Chapter in Book - Research
Douglass, K., Gaffney, D., Feo, T. J., Bulathsinhala, P., Mack, A. L., Spitzer, M., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2021). Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene sites in the montane forests of New Guinea yield early record of cassowary hunting and egg harvesting. PNAS, 118(40), e2100117118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2100117118 Journal - Research Article
Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., Luu, S., Menzies, J., Douglass, K., Spitzer, M., & Bulmer, S. (2021). Small game hunting in montane rainforests: Specialised capture and broad specturm foraging in the Late Pleistocene to Holocene New Guinea Highlands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 253, 106742. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106742 Journal - Research Article
Hogg, N. W. S., Summerhayes, G. R., & Chen, Y.-l. (2021). Moving on or settling down? Studying the nature of mobility through Lapita pottery from the Anir Islands, Papua New Guinea. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online, 34, 71-86. doi: 10.3853/j.1835-4211.34.2021.1744 Journal - Research Article
Radclyffe, C. J. T., Summerhayes, G. R., Scott, J. M., & Walter, R. (2021). Pottery production and exchange in the last millennium in the western Solomon Islands: A ceramic sequence for Choiseul. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 12(1), 25-46. Retrieved from https://pacificarchaeology.org/ Journal - Research Article
Thomas, T., McStay, A., Sheppard, P., & Summerhayes, G. (2021). Interaction and isolation in New Georgia: Insights from the Nabo Point ceramic assemblage, Tetepare. Archaeology in Oceania, 56(1), 45-64. doi: 10.1002/arco.5221 Journal - Research Article
Wang, N., Brown, S., Ditchfield, P., Hebestreit, S., Kozilikin, M., Luu, S., … Summerhayes, G., … Douka, K. (2021). Testing the efficacy and comparability of ZooMS protocols on archaeological bone. Journal of Proteomics, 233, 104078. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2020.104078 Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. R. (2020). Oceania. In E. Hermans (Ed.), A companion to the global early middle ages. (pp. 95-110). Leeds, UK: ARC Humanities Press. Chapter in Book - Research
Shaw, B., Field, J. H., Summerhayes, G. R., Coxe, S., Coster, A. C. F., Ford, A., … Kealhofer, L. (2020). Emergence of a Neolithic in highland New Guinea by 5000 to 4000 years ago. Science Advances, 6(13), eaay4573. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay4573 Journal - Research Article
Field, J. H., Summerhayes, G. R., Luu, S., Coster, A. C. F., Ford, A., Mandui, H., … Kealhofer, L. (2020). Functional studies of flaked and ground stone artefacts reveal starchy tree nut and root exploitation in mid-Holocene highland New Guinea. Holocene, 30(9), 1360-1374. doi: 10.1177/0959683620919983 Journal - Research Article
Grainger, A., Summerhayes, G. R., & Gosden, C. (2021). Investigating the nature of mobility patterns and interaction: Ceramic production at the late Lapita site of Amalut, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 87(1), 93-104. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2020.1840489 Journal - Research Article
Chynoweth, M., Summerhayes, G. R., Ford, A., & Negishi, Y. (2020). Lapita on Wari Island: What's the problem? Asian Perspectives, 59(1), 100-116. doi: 10.1353/asi.2020.0009 Journal - Research Article
Gaffney, D., Greig, K., Stoddart, D., Tromp, M., Field, J. H., Luu, S., … Russell, T., … Summerhayes, G. R. (2020). Tropical foodways and exchange along the coastal margin of Northeastern New Guinea. Journal of Field Archaeology, 45(7), 498-511. doi: 10.1080/00934690.2020.1786285 Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. (2019). The archaeology of Melanesia. In E. Hirsch & W. Rollason (Eds.), The Melanseian world. (pp. 43-62). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Chapter in Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. R. (2019). Austronesian expansions and the role of mainland New Guinea: A new perspective. Asian Perspectives, 58(2), 250-260. doi: 10.1353/asi.2019.0015 Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. R., Szabó, K., Fairbairn, A., Horrocks, M., McPherson, S., & Crowther, A. (2019). Early Lapita subsistence: The evidence from Kamgot, Anir Islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. In S. Bedford & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. (pp. 379-402). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA52.2019.18 Chapter in Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. R., Szabó, K., Leavesley, M., & Gaffney, D. (2019). Kamgot at the lagoon's edge: Site position and resource use of an Early Lapita site in Near Oceania. In S. Bedford & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. (pp. 89-103). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA52.2019.04 Chapter in Book - Research
Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., Szabo, K., & Koppel, B. (2019). The emergence of shell valuable exchange in the New Guinea highlands. American Anthropologist, 121(1), 30-47. doi: 10.1111/aman.13154 Journal - Research Article
Gaffney, D., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2019). Coastal mobility and lithic supply lines in northeast New Guinea. Archaeological & Anthropological Sciences, 11(6), 2849-2878. doi: 10.1007/s12520-018-0713-8 Journal - Research Article
Sutton, N., Summerhayes, G. R., & Ford, A. (2019). Oposisi revisited: A fabric analysis of an Early Papuan Pottery assemblage from Yule Island, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 14(3), 411-425. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2018.1531329 Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. (2018). Les premiers habitants de la Nouvelle-Guinée. In J.-P. Demoule, D. Garcia & A. Schnapp (Eds.), Une histoire des civilisations: Comment l'archéologie bouleverse nos connaissances. (pp. 138-143). Paris, France: La Découverte. Chapter in Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. R. (2018). Coconuts on the move: Archaeology of western Pacific. Journal of Pacific History, 53(4), 375-396. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2018.1520082 Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. R. (2018). An Austronesia presence in the Sakishima Islands: An archaeological update. In N. Guo & T. Shogimen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Overseas Symposium in Otago: Japanese Studies Down Under: History, Politics, Literature and Art. (pp. 27-37). Kyoto, Japan: International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Retrieved from http://publications.nichibun.ac.jp/en/item/symp/2018-03-30/pub Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Summerhayes, G. R., Field, J. H., Shaw, B., & Gaffney, D. (2017). The archaeology of forest exploitation and change in the tropics during the Pleistocene: The case of Northern Sahul (Pleistocene New Guinea). Quaternary International, 448, 14-30. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.04.023 Journal - Research Article
Roberts, P., Gaffney, D., Lee-Thorp, J., & Summerhayes, G. (2017). Persistent tropical foraging in the highlands of terminal Pleistocene/Holocene New Guinea. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 44. doi: 10.1038/s41559-016-0044 Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. R., Leavesley, M., Fairbairn, A., Mandui, H., Field, J., Ford, A., & Fullagar, R. (2010). Human adaptation and plant use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 years ago. Science, 330, 78-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1193130 Journal - Research Article
Gaffney, D., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2017). An archaeology of Madang Papua New Guinea. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/7294 Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., Mennis, M., Beni, T., Cook, A., Field, J., … Buckley, H., & Mandui, H. (2018). Archaeological investigations into the origins of Bel trading groups around the Madang Coast, Northeast New Guinea. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 13(4), 501-530. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2017.1315349 Journal - Research Article
Vilgalys, G., & Summerhayes, G. (2016). Do hiccups echo? Late Holocene interaction and ceramic production in Southern Papua New Guinea. Asian Perspectives, 55(1), 61-88. Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. R., & Ford, A. (2014). Late Pleistocene colonisation and adaptation in New Guinea: Implications for modelling modern human behaviour. In R. Dennell & M. Porr (Eds.), Southern Asia, Australia and the search of human origins. (pp. 213-227). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Chapter in Book - Research
Ford, A., Leavesley, M., & Summerhayes, G. (Eds.). (2016). Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(1) [Special issue: Chief bilong PNG Akiologi: Papers in Honour of Herman Mandui]. [Guest Editors]. Other - Edited Journal
Sutton, N., Vilgalys, G., Summerhayes, G., & Ford, A. (2016). Revisiting the late prehistoric sequence of the Port Moresby region of Papua New Guinea: The continuing contribution of Susan Bulmer. Archaeology in Oceania, 51(S1), 41-49. doi: 10.1002/arco.5110 Journal - Research Article
Gaffney, D., Ford, A., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2016). Sue Bulmer's legacy in highland New Guinea: A re-examination of the Bulmer Collection and future directions. Archaeology in Oceania, 51(Suppl. 1), 23-32. doi: 10.1002/arco.5111 Journal - Research Article
Dennison, J., & Summerhayes, G. R. (Eds.). (2015). The Empress Augusta / Sepik River by Otto Reche [Translated by John Dennison]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago, 514p. Edited Book - Research
Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., Ford, A., Scott, J. M., Denham, T., Field, J., & Dickinson, W. R. (2015). Earliest pottery on New Guinea mainland reveals Austronesian influences in highland environments 3000 years ago. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0134497. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134497 Journal - Research Article
Gaffney, D., Ford, A., & Summerhayes, G. (2015). Crossing the Pleistocene–Holocene transition in the New Guinea Highlands: Evidence from the lithic assemblage of Kiowa rockshelter. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 39, 223-246. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2015.04.006 Journal - Research Article
Heath, H., Summerhayes, G. R., & Hung, H.-C. (2017). Enter the ceramic matrix: Identifying the nature of early Austronesian settlement in the Cagayan Valley, Philippines. In P. J. Piper, H. Matsumura & D. Bulbeck (Eds.), New perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory: Terra Australis 45. (pp. 213-231). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. Chapter in Book - Research
Skelly, R., Ford, A., Summerhayes, G., Mialanes, J., & David, B. (2016). Chemical signatures & social interactions: Implications of west Fergusson Island obsidian at Hopo, east of the Vailala River (Gulf of Papua), Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(1), 126-138. Journal - Research Article
Shaw, B., Leclerc, M., Dickinson, W., Spriggs, M., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2016). Identifying prehistoric trade networks in the Massim region, Papua New Guinea: Evidence from petrographic and chemical compositional pottery analyses from Rossel and Nimowa Islands in the Louisiade Archipelago. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6, 518-535. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.03.034 Journal - Research Article
Ford, A., Leavesley, M., & Summerhayes, G. (2016). Chief bilong PNG Akiologi: Papers in honour of Herman Mandui. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(1), 1-3. [Editorial]. Journal - Research Other
Specht, J., Gosden, C., Pavlides, C., Richards, Z., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2016). Exploring Lapita diversity on New Britain's South Coast, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7(1), 20-29. Journal - Research Article
Sutton, N., Summerhayes, G., & Ford, A. (2015). Regional Interaction Networks in Southern Papua New Guinea During the Late Holocene: Evidence from the Chemical Characterisation of Chert Artefacts. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 81, 343-359. doi: 10.1017/ppr.2015.14 Journal - Research Article
Sheppard, P. J., Thomas, T., & Summerhayes, G. R. (Eds.). (2009). Lapita: Ancestors and descendants (New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph 28). Auckland, New Zealand: NZAA, 229p. Edited Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. R. (2015). Archaeology of trade and exchange. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. (2nd ed.) (pp. 481-484). Oxford, UK: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.13043-0 Chapter in Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. (2000). Lapita interaction: Terra Australis 15. Canberra: ANH Publications & Australian National University, 244p. Authored Book - Research
Dennison, J., & Summerhayes, G. R. (Eds.). (2013). Admiralty Islands by Dr Hans Nevermann [Translated by John Dennison]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago, 384p. Edited Book - Research
Summerhayes, G., & Buckley, H. (Eds.). (2013). Pacific Archaeology: Documenting the past 50,000 years. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago, 197p. Edited Book - Research
Summerhayes, G. R., Kennedy, J., Matisoo-Smith, E., Mandui, H., Ambrose, W., Allen, C., … Wadra, F. (2014). Lepong: A new obsidian source in the Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea. Geoarchaeology, 29(3), 238-248. doi: 10.1002/gea.21475 Journal - Research Article
Mialanes, J., David, B., Ford, A., Richards, T., McNiven, I. J., Summerhayes, G. R., & Leavesley, M. (2016). Imported obsidian at Caution Bay, south coast of Papua New Guinea: Cessation of long distance procurement c. 1,900 cal BP. Australian Archaeology, 82(3), 248-262. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2016.1252079 Journal - Research Article
Summerhayes, G. R. (2017). Island Southeast Asia and Oceania interactions. In J. Habu, P. V. Lape & J. W. Olsen (Eds.), Handbook of East and Southeast Asian archaeology. (pp. 659-673). New York, NY: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6521-2_38 Chapter in Book - Research
Dennison, J., & Summerhayes, G. R. (Eds.). (2017). New Guinea by Dr Maximilian Krieger [Translated by John Dennison]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago, 358p. Edited Book - Research
Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., & Miamba, K. (2018). An archaeological survey of inland Madang, Northeast Papua New Guinea. Archaeology in New Zealand, 61(3), 12-26. Journal - Research Article
Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., & Mennis, M. (2019). A Lapita presence on Arop/Long Island, Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea. In S. Bedford & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. (pp. 115-133). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA52.2019.06 Chapter in Book - Research
Bedford, S., Spriggs, M., Burley, D. V., Sand, C., Sheppard, P., & Summerhayes, G. R. (2019). Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. In S. Bedford & M. Spriggs (Eds.), Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. (pp. 5-33). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA52.2019.01 Chapter in Book - Research
Radclyffe, C. J. T., Summerhayes, G., & Walter, R. (2019). Discovery of Talasea obsidian in a post-Lapita deposit in Arnavon Islands, Solomon Islands. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 10(2), 73-79. Journal - Research Article
Dennison, J., & Summerhayes, G. R. (Eds.). (2019). The Sepik and its catchment area by Dr Walter Behrmann [Translated by John Dennison]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago, 129p. Edited Book - Research