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  1. Inter-island networks in Wallacea 15,000 years ago

    Article • World Archaeology, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  2. 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

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2022, PLOS

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  5. 40 thousand years of adapting to sea-level change: the story of Alor’s first peoples

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, September 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2020, PLOS

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  9. Evolutionary tree of Cuscuses - a group of Asia-Pacific possums.

    Article • Australian Mammalogy, January 2020, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  10. Human foraging responses to climate change; Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter on Kisar Island

    Article • Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, October 2019, Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  11. Kisar, a small island participant in an extensive maritime obsidian network in the Wallacean Archipelago

    Article • Archaeological Research in Asia, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  14. Modelling earliest human migration from Southeast Asia to Australia & New Guinea.

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  15. New engraving finds in Alor Island, Indonesia extend known distribution of engravings in Oceania

    Article • Archaeological Research in Asia, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  16. A Geological and Spatial Approach to Prehistoric Archaeological Surveys on Small Islands: Case Studies from Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia

    Article • Kapata Arkeologi, July 2018, Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  17. Kisar and the Archaeology of Small Islands in the Wallacean Archipelago

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Tim Maloney, Lucas Wattimena , Dr Shimona Kealy

  18. Ideology, Ritual Performance and Its Manifestations in the Rock Art of Timor-Leste and Kisar Island, Island Southeast Asia

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, December 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  19. Fishing in life and death: Pleistocene fish-hooks from a burial context on Alor Island, Indonesia

    Article • Antiquity, December 2017, Antiquity Publications

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  20. Hominin Dispersal and Settlement East of Huxley’s Line

    Article • Current Anthropology, December 2017, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  21. Total evidence phylogeny and evolutionary timescale for Australian faunivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia)

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  22. Differential preservation of vertebrates in Southeast Asian caves

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, September 2017, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  23. Oldest human occupation of Wallacea at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, shows broad-spectrum foraging responses to late Pleistocene environments

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  24. Ancient seascape and visibility between the islands of east Indonesia, New Guinea, & Australia

    Article • Archaeological Prospection, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  25. Late Pleistocene/early Holocene maritime interaction in Southeastern Indonesia – Timor Leste

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  26. A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  27. Late Quaternary hominin-bat (Chiroptera) interactions in the Asia-Pacific

    Article • Archaeology in Oceania, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  28. The different possible paths early people could have traveled from Asia to Australia

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, December 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy