Sarawak Museum Journal

Archaeological Investigations at the Trader's Cave,Niah National Park: Reports on the Second and Third (2018 & 2019) Field Seasons

In November 2017, 50 years after Tom and Barbara Harrisson completed their excavations in the West Mouth of the Niah Great Cave Complex (NGCC), we began archaeological excavations in the Trader's Cave.

Mohd. Sherman bin Sauffi, Darren Curnoe, Hsiao Goh Mei, Xue-feng Sun, Jarrad W. Paul, David R. Cohen, Hank Sombroek, Matthew McDowell, Roshan Peiris, Michael Slack, Clara Magalhães, Rosário Soares, Haidar Ali and Mortiza Jamil

Wiley

Preanalytical processing of archaeological mammal enamel apatite carbonates for stable isotope investigations

A comparative analysis of the effect of acid treatment on samples from Northwest Australia. Stable isotopic analysis of palaeontological and archaeological biogenic apatite carbonates from herbivorous mammalian species represents an important tool for worldwide palaeoecological research.

Jane Skippington 1,2, Peter Veth 1,5, Tiina Manne 3, Michael Slack 4,5

Australian Archaeology

On the need for cultural heritage practice to pivot to a new Australia

Fifty years ago Australian archaeologists would have had no idea just how many of us there would be now and how a largely academic interest has become a profession employing hundreds of people throughout the country.

In 1973, this would not have even been possible.

Fieldwork in remote areas not serviced by airlines, rather by dirty old Landrovers and long-distance drives; maps and compasses rather than hand-held tablets and GIS programs as the standard; aerial maps rather than satellite imagery and drones; and at the end of it all the daunting prospect of typing a report on an actual typewriter.

Michael J. Slack 2024

Quaternary Science Reviews

A 47,000 year archaeological and palaeo-environmental record

from Juukan 2 rockshelter on the western Hamersley Plateau of the Pilbara region, Western Australia.

Michael J. Slack a,b,c,*, W. Boone Law b,c,d, Adelle C.F. Coster e, Kane Ditchfield f,g, Judith Field h, Jillian Garvey i, Luke A. Gliganic j,k, Patrick Moss l, Jarrad W. Paul m, Wendy Reynen g, Ingrid Ward n, Sally Wasef o, Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Aboriginal Corporation p

The Conversation June 2024 (150,000 reads).

The first published results from Juukan Gorge show 47,000 years of Aboriginal heritage was destroyed in mining blast.

The Juukan 2 rockshelter was blown up in 2020. The results of an archaeological dig carried out six years earlier are only now being published for the first time.

Slack, M.J., Ralph, J., Law W.B.  June 2024

Quaternary Science Reviews

A 47,000 year archaeological and palaeo-environmental record

from Juukan 2 rockshelter on the western Hamersley Plateau of the Pilbara region, Western Australia.

Michael J. Slack a,b,c,*, W. Boone Law b,c,d, Adelle C.F. Coster e, Kane Ditchfield f,g, Judith Field h, Jillian Garvey i, Luke A. Gliganic j,k, Patrick Moss l, Jarrad W. Paul m, Wendy Reynen g, Ingrid Ward n, Sally Wasef o, Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Aboriginal Corporation p

Journal of Archaeological Science

Tending to tradition

Dating stone arrangement maintenance in northwest Australia using optical methods

L.A. Gliganica, b,*, M. Slack c,d, M.C. Meyer b

Quaternary Science Reviews

The early occupation of the Eastern Pilbara revisited

New radiometric chronologies and archaeological results from Newman Rockshelter and Newman Orebody XXIX

Michael Jon Slack a, b, *, Wallace Boone Law a, b, c, Luke Andrew Gliganica, d

Journal of Field Archaeology

The Story is in the Rocks

How Stone Artifact Scatters can Inform our Understanding of Ancient Aboriginal Stone Arrangement Functions

W. Boone Law & Michael J. Slack

Archaeology in Oceania

Pleistocene settlement of the eastern Hamersley Plateau

A regional study of 22 rock-shelter sites.

Michael Jon Slack, Wallace Boone Law and Luke Andrew Gliganic

Australian Archaeology

Post-Last Glacial Maximum

Settlement of the West Angelas region in the inland Hamersley Plateau, Western Australia

Michael Slack, Kate Connell, Annabelle Davis, Luke Andrew Gliganic, W. Boone Law & Michael Meyer

Archaeological Prospection

Digital Terrain Analysis

Reveals New Insights into the Topographic Context of Australian Aboriginal Stone Arrangements

W. Boone Law 1,2*, Michael J Slack 2,3, Bertram Ostendorf 1 and Megan M Lewis 1

Quaternary Geochronology 32 (2016)

Post-depositional mixing processes 

Sediment mixing in aeolian sandsheets identified and quantfied using single-grain optically stimulated luminescence

Luke Andrew Gliganica, b, *, Tim J. Cohen b, Michael Slack c, d, James K. Featherse