DHSC Project Publication List
The bibliography below represents the DHSC published scholarly output:
Peer-reviewed
Benjamin, J., O’Leary M., McCarthy, J., Reynen, W., Leach J., Wiseman, C., Bobeldyk, S., Buchler, J., Kermeen, P., Langley, M., Black, A., Yoshida, H., Stevens, A., Jeffries, P., Ulm, S., McDonald, J., Veth, P., Bailey, G. (2023) Stone artefacts on the seabed at a submerged freshwater spring confirm a drowned cultural landscape in Murujuga, Western Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews. Volume 313, 1 August 2023, 108190
O’Leary, M.J., Cuttler M.V.W., Benjamin, J., McDonald, J., Wiseman, C., McCarthy, J., Ulm, S., Stephens, A., Bailey, G. (2023) New approaches for assessing site formation of submerged lithic scatters. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. Volume 49, June 2023, 104046 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104046
McCarthy, J., Wiseman, C., Woo, K., Steinberg, D., O’Leary, M., Wesley, D., Brady, L., UIm, S., Benjamin, J. (2022) Beneath the Top End: a regional assessment of submerged archaeological potential in the Northern Territory, Australia. Australian Archaeology. DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2021.1960248
Leach, J., Wiseman, C., O’Leary, M., McDonald, J., McCarthy, J., Morrison, P., Jeffries, P., Hacker, J., Ulm, S., Bailey, G., Benjamin, J. (2021) The integrated cultural landscape of North Gidley Island: Coastal, intertidal and nearshore archaeology in Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia. Australian Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2021.1949085
Benjamin, J., Ulm, S. (2021) The Big Flood: Responding to Sea-Level Rise and the Inundated Continental Shelf. In McNiven, I., David, B. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Astrup, P.M., Benjamin, J., Stankiewicz, F., Woo, K., McCarthy, J., Wiseman, C., Baggaley, P., Jerbić, K., Fowler, M., Skriver, C., Bailey, G. (2021) A drowned Mesolithic shell-midden complex at Hjarnø Vesterhoved, Denmark: taphonomic history, sea-level change and palaeoeconomic significance. Quaternary Science Reviews https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106854
Cook-Hale, J., Benjamin, J., Woo, K., Astrup, P.M., McCarthy, J., Hale, N., Stankiewicz, F., Wiseman, C., Skriver, C., Garrison, E., Ulm, S., Bailey, G. (2021) Submerged landscapes, marine transgression and underwater shell middens: comparative analysis of site formation and taphonomy in Europe and North America. Quaternary Science Reviews https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106867
Wiseman, C., O’Leary, Hacker, J., McCarthy, J., Stankewicz, F., Beckett, E., Leach, Baggaley, Collins, P., Ulm, S., McDonald, J., Benjamin, J. (2021) A multi-scalar approach to marine survey and underwater archaeological site prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia. Quaternary International. 584: 152-170.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.005
McDonald, J., Beckett, E., Hacker, J., Morrison, P. and O’Leary, M., (2020) Seeing the Landscape: Multiple Scales of Visualising Terrestrial Heritage on Rosemary Island (Dampier Archipelago). Open Quaternary, 6(1), p.10. http://doi.org/10.5334/oq.8181
Benjamin, J., O’Leary, M., McDonald, J., Wiseman, C., McCarthy, Beckett, E., Morrison, P., Stankewicz, F., Leach, J., Hacker, J., Baggaley, P., Jerbić, K., Fowler, M., Fairweather, J., Jeffries, P., Ulm, S., Bailey, G. (2020) Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia. PLOS ONE 15(7): e0233912. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233912
O’Leary, M., Paumard, V., Ward, I. (2020) Exploring Sea Country through high-resolution 3D seismic imaging of Australia’s NW shelf: Resolving early coastal landscapes and preservation of underwater cultural heritage. Quaternary Science Reviews 239: 106353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106353
Astrup, P.M., Skriver, C., Benjamin, J., Ward, I., Stankewicz, F., Ross, P., McCarthy, J., Baggaley, P., Ulm, S., Bailey, G. (2019) Underwater Shell Middens: Excavation and Remote Sensing of a Submerged Mesolithic site at Hjarnø, Denmark. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2019.1584135
Ward, I., Moe-Astrup, P., Merigot, K. (2019) At the water’s edge: Micromorphological and quantitative mineral analysis of a submerged Mesolithic shell midden at Hjarnø Sund, Denmark. Journal of Archaeological Science 102: 11-25.
Veth, P., McDonald, J., Ward, I., O’Leary, M., Beckett, E., Benjamin, J., Ulm, S., Hacker, J., Ross, P.J., Bailey, G. (2019) A strategy for assessing continuity in terrestrial and maritime landscapes from Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), North West Shelf, Australia. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2019.1572677
Benjamin, J., McCarthy, J., Wiseman, C., Bevin, S., Kowlessar, J., Astrup, P.M., Naumann, J., Hacker, J. (2019) Integrating Aerial and Underwater Data for Archaeology: Digital Maritime Landscapes in 3D. In: McCarthy J. et al. (eds) 3D Recording and Interpretation for Maritime Archaeology. Coastal Research Library, vol 31. Springer, Cham https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-03635-5_14
Ward, I., Smyth, D., Veth, P., McDonald, J., McNeair, S. (2018) Recognition and value of submerged prehistoric landscape resources in Australia. Ocean and Coastal Management. 160: 167-174.
Benjamin, J. & Bailey, G.N. (2017) Coastal Adaptations and Submerged Landscapes: Where World Prehistory Meets Underwater Archaeology. In Magarit et al. (Eds). From hunter-gatherers to farmers Human adaptations at the end of the Pleistocene and the first part of the Holocene. Festschrift in honour of Prof. Clive Bonsall. 169-183. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Editura Cetatea de Scaun, Romania.
Non-reviewed
Benjamin, J., O’Leary, M., McDonald, J., Ulm, S., Jeffries, P., Bailey, G. (2022) A wet strawman: A response to Ward et al. Geoarchaeology. 37(6). 813-818. DOI: 10.1002/gea.21936
Woo, K., Bailey, G., Cook Hale, J., Benjamin, J., Ulm, S. Ancient undersea middens offer clues about life before rising seas engulfed the coast. Now we have a better way to study them. The Conversation (21/03/2021)
Benjamin, J., O’Leary, M., Ward, I., Hacker, J., Ulm, S., Veth, P., Holst, M., McDonald, J., Ross, P., Bailey, G. (2018) Underwater archaeology and submerged landscapes in Western Australia. Antiquity. 92(363) e10 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.103
Benjamin, J., Bailey, G., McDonald, J., O’Leary, M., Ulm, S. (2020) In a first discovery of its kind, researchers have uncovered an ancient Aboriginal archaeological site preserved on the seabed. The Conversation (01/07/2020)
Deep History of Sea Country 