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  1. 4,000-year-old plaque reveals the art of ancient sea pioneers

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Ceri Shipton, Dr Shimona Kealy

  2. From the Sky to the Garden: A Top-Down and Bottom-Up Methodology for Estimating Population Trends in Port Moresby’s Informal Settlements

    Article • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, July 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  3. Fluctuating local mobility from the end of the Pleistocene to the end of the Holocene on the north coast of New Guinea

    Article • Journal of Pacific Archaeology, March 2026, New Zealand Archaeological Association

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  4. Recovering a legend: The Wara Liang pottery assemblage and the origin story of Lamalera, Lembata, Indonesia

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  5. State of the Field

    Article • Journal of Maritime Archaeology, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  6. Author Correction: Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  7. The genetic origins and impacts of historical Papuan migrations into Wallacea

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  8. Islands on the edge: 42,000-year-old occupation of the Tanimbar islands and its implications for the Sunda-Sahul early human migration discourse

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, August 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  9. The Southern Route to Sahul: Modern Human Dispersal and Adaptation in the Pleistocene

    Article • July 2024, IntechOpen

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  10. Living Seaward: Maritime Cosmology and the Contemporary Significance of Natar Fampompar, a Stone Boat Ceremonial Structure in the Village of Sangliat Dol, Tanimbar Islands

    Article • Ethnoarchaeology, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  11. The genetic origins and impacts of historical Papuan migrations into Wallacea

    Article • June 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  12. Abrupt onset of intensive human occupation 44,000 years ago on the threshold of Sahul

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  13. Staple or delicacy: Sea urchin exploitation over the last 40,000 years at Makpan Cave, Alor Island

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  14. How did Homo erectus reach Java? Least-cost pathway models and a consideration of possible Sumatran routes

    Article • April 2024, ANU Press

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  15. Exploring changing occupation dynamics at the lakeside cave site Matja Kuru 2, Timor-Leste

    Article • Quaternary Science Advances, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  16. Late Quaternary mammal introduction and extinction records from archaeological cave deposits in Timor-Leste

    Article • Records of the Australian Museum, December 2023, Australian Museum

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  17. Shell-beading traditions at Asitau Kuru (Timor-Leste)

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  18. Pleistocene and Early Holocene Occupation on the Eastern Wallacean Islands

    Article • November 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  19. New archaeological discoveries in north-central Timor-Leste indicate sociocultural adaptations to landscape change during the Holocene

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  20. Sequins from the sea: Nautilus shell bead technology at Makpan, Alor Island, Indonesia

    Article • Antiquity, August 2023, Antiquity Publications

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  21. Urrayira whitei gen. et sp. nov.: a dasyuromorphian (Mammalia: Marsupialia) with incipient zalambdodonty from the Middle Pleistocene of Queensland, Australia

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  22. Diversity and continuity in the pottery traditions of the Wallacean islands: New evidence from Makpan Cave, Alor island, Indonesia

    Article • Archaeological Research in Asia, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

    Article • World Archaeology, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. Diversity and Continuity in the Pottery Traditions of the Wallacean Islands: New Evidence from Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  27. Mitogenomes Reveal Two Major Influxes of Papuan Ancestry across Wallacea Following the Last Glacial Maximum and Austronesian Contact

    Article • Genes, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  28. No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  29. 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

  30. The biogeographic threshold of Wallacea in human evolution

    Article • Quaternary International, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  31. A review of archaeological dating efforts at cave and rockshelter sites in the Indonesian Archipelago

    Article • Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology, December 2020, University of Washington Libraries

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  32. The rock art of Kisar Island, Indonesia: a small island with a wealth and diversity of artistic expression

    Article • Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology, December 2020, University of Washington Libraries

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  33. 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

  34. Asymmetric midshaft femur remodeling in an adult male with left sided hip joint ankylosis, Metal Period Nagsabaran, Philippines

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  35. 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

  36. A different paradigm for the colonisation of Sahul

    Article • Archaeology in Oceania, September 2020, Wiley

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

    Article • PLOS One, August 2020, PLOS

    Dr Shimona Kealy, Ceri Shipton

  38. 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

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

    Article • Australian Mammalogy, January 2020, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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, Ceri Shipton

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

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

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

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

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

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

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  52. Differential preservation of vertebrates in Southeast Asian caves

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

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  53. 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

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

    Article • Archaeological Prospection, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Shimona Kealy

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

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  56. 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

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

    Article • Archaeology in Oceania, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Shimona Kealy

  58. 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