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  1. The Mystery of the St Michael : Site Formation Processes and River Wrecks at Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia

    Article • MAINSHEET, December 2025, Mystic Seaport Museum

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  2. Panopticon to Plexus: Analysing Colonial Labour and Migration in 1820s NSW

    Article • Labour History, November 2025, Liverpool University Press

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  3. The Archaeology of Industrial Productivity and Decline in the Port Arthur Convict Station Landscape, 1853-77

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  4. Ghosts and the machine: testing the use of Artificial Intelligence to deliver historical life course biographies from big data

    Article • Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  5. Carceral Time at Port Arthur and the Tasman Peninsula: An Archaeological View of the Mechanisms of Convict Time Management in a Nineteenth Century Penal Landscape

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  6. The Port Macquarie Settlement, New South Wales, 1821–1847: Interconnections within Landscapes of Convict Labor and Industry

    Article • Historical Archaeology, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  7. At the Edge of Space: the Archaeology of Boundaries within a Landscape for Young Convicts

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  8. An Historical Archaeology of Labor in Convict Australia: A Framework for Engagement

    Article • Historical Archaeology, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  9. My father put them up there: Anthropogenic environmental change associated with abandoned river vessels in the Clarence River, NSW, Australia

    Article • River Research and Applications, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  10. Article • Australian Journal of Biography and History, June 2023, ANU Press

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  11. World War II in the Solomon Islands

    Article • June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  12. Maritime Industry

    Article • April 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  13. Future use or no future at all? An examination of post-excavation historical archaeological repositories in NSW

    Article • Australian Archaeology, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  14. The convict huts of Parramatta 1788–1841: an archaeological view of the development of an early Australian urban landscape

    Article • Post-Medieval Archaeology, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  15. When margins are centres: de-ranging Pitcairn Island’s place in Pacific scholarship

    Article • Journal of the Polynesian Society, September 2021, The Polynesian Society

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  16. Whaling and Sealing in Nineteenth-Century Australia

    Article • May 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  17. ‘ … One of the Most Severe Duties … ’: Landscapes of Timber-getting at a Former Tasmanian Convict Station

    Article • Industrial Archaeology Review, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  18. The People of Solomon:

    Article • April 2020, JSTOR

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  19. The Archaeology of the Convict Probation System: The Labor Landscapes of Port Arthur and the Cascades Probation Station, 1839–55

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  20. Landscapes of production and punishment: LiDAR and the process of feature identification and analysis at a Tasmanian convict station

    Article • Australian Archaeology, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  21. ‘Uninformed and impractical’? The convict probation system and its impact upon the landscape of 1840s Van Diemen’s Land

    Article • History Australia, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  22. Repopulating Landscapes: Using Offence Data to Recreate Landscapes of Incarceration and Labour at the Port Arthur Penal Station, 1830–1877

    Article • International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, October 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Richard Tuffin, Professor Martin David Gibbs

  23. Early Port Arthur: Convict Colonization and the Formation of a Penal Station in Van Diemen’s Land 1830–35

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  24. Archaeology of the Solomon Islands By Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard Otago University Press, Dunedin, NZ, 2017 ISBN: 9780947522537. Pp. 200. NZD 50

    Article • Archaeology in Oceania, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  25. Complex history of dog (Canis familiaris) origins and translocations in the Pacific revealed by ancient mitogenomes

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  26. Transforming the Colony: The Archaeology of Convictism in Western Australia

    Article • Historical Archaeology, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  27. Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour management on the Tasman Peninsula 1830–1877

    Article • Antiquity, April 2018, Antiquity Publications

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  28. Landscapes of Production and Punishment: Convict labour in the Australian context

    Article • Journal of Social Archaeology, February 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  29. The free and unfree settlements of Norfolk Island: an overview of archaeological research

    Article • Australian Archaeology, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  30. The Failed Sixteenth Century Spanish Colonizing Expeditions to the Solomon Islands, Southwest Pacific: The Archaeologies of Settlement Process and Indigenous Agency

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  31. Shipwrecks as Archaeological Signatures of a Maritime Industrial Frontier in the Solomon Islands, 1788–1942

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  32. Everyday artefacts: subsistence and quality of life at the Prisoner Barracks, Port Arthur, Tasmania

    Article • Archaeology in Oceania, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  33. Sherds on the Edge: Characterization of 16th Century Colonial Spanish Pottery Recovered from the Solomon Islands

    Article • Archaeometry, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  34. Spanish Maritime Exploration in the South-west Pacific: the search for Mendaña's lostalmiranta,Santa Isabel,1595

    Article • The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, April 2015, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  35. Shipping Mishaps and the Maritime Cultural Landscape

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  36. Please God Send Me a Wreck

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  37. Sourcing Olive Jars Using U-Pb Ages of Detrital Zircons: A Study of 16th Century Olive Jars Recovered from the Solomon Islands

    Article • Geoarchaeology, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  38. Interpreting ground-penetrating radar By Lawrence B. Conyers Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2012 ISBN 978-1-61132-216-3. Pp. 220. AUD 126. Available from Footprint Books, Warriewood, NSW.

    Article • Archaeology in Oceania, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  39. The sherds of conquistadors: a petrological study of ceramics from Graciosa Bay and Pamua, Solomon Islands

    Article • Archaeology in Oceania, April 2013, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  40. Digital preservation, online access and historical archaeology ‘grey literature’ from New South Wales, Australia

    Article • Australian Archaeology, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  41. Aboriginal prehistory, historical and contemporary archaeology in the Sydney Basin

    Article • Archaeology in Oceania, July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  42. The Convict System of New South Wales: A review of archaeological research since 2001

    Article • Archaeology in Oceania, July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  43. The Shore Whalers of Western Australia: historical archaeology of a maritime frontier - By Martin Gibbs

    Article • The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, February 2011, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  44. Aboriginal fish trap on the Swan Coastal Plain: the Barragup mungah

    Article • Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement, January 2011, Western Australian Museum

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  45. Landscapes of Redemption: Tracing the Path of a Convict Miner in Western Australia

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  46. Remote Sensing In An Urban Australian Setting: An Example from Dr H.J. Foley Rest Park, Sydney

    Article • Australian Archaeology, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  47. Dynamics Of Dispersion Revisited? Archaeological Context and the Study of Aboriginal Knapped Glass Artefacts in Australia

    Article • Australian Archaeology, December 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  48. Cultural Site Formation Processes in Maritime Archaeology: Disaster Response, Salvage and Muckelroy 30 Years on

    Article • The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, April 2006, Wiley

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  49. Useless graduates?: Why do we all think that something has gone wrong with Australian archaeological training?

    Article • Australian Archaeology, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  50. The Archaeology of Crisis: Shipwreck Survivor Camps in Australasia

    Article • Historical Archaeology, March 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs

  51. Maritime Archaeology at the Land-Sea Interface

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin David Gibbs