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