Publications by:
Matthew Leavesley
Also publishes as (Matthew G. Leavesley, M. Leavesley, M.G. Leavesley)
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Skelly, Robert, Urwin, Chris, Petchey, Fiona, Leavesley, Matthew, and Beni, Teppsy (2024) Agency amongst the entrepôts: Negotiating exchange associations between Motu hiri and Mailu seafaring exchange networks at Hood Bay on Papua New Guinea’s south coast. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. (In Press)
Lambrides, Ariana B.J., Ristevski, Jorgo, Mein, Erin, van Zoelen, Jacob D., Mcniven, Ian J., Leavesley, Matthew, David, Bruno, Ulm, Sean, and Weisbecker, Vera (2024) Fishboneviz: Enhancing the availability of zooarchaeological fish reference collections through an open access 3D database. Australian Archaeology, 90 (2). pp. 236-248.
Skelly, Robert, David, Bruno, Petchey, Fiona, Leavesley, Matthew, Mialanes, Jerome, Beni, Teppsy, and Urwin, Chris (2023) Agila and the reanimation of seafaring on the south coast of Papua New Guinea after 770 cal BP. Australian Archaeology, 89 (2). pp. 97-114.
Pedro, Nicole, Brucato, Nicolas, Cavadas, Bruno, Lisant, Valentine, Camacho, Rui, Kinipi, Christopher, Leavesley, Matthew, Pereira, Luisa, and Ricaut, François-Xavier (2023) First insight into oral microbiome diversity in Papua New Guineans reveals a specific regional signature. Molecular Ecology, 32 (10). pp. 2551-2564.
Tsang, Roxanne, Katuk, Sebastien, May, Sally K., Tacon, Paul S.C., Ricaut, François-Xavier, and Leavesley, Matthew G. (2023) Hand stencils and communal history: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Archaeology in Oceania, 58 (1). pp. 115-130.
Barker, Bryce, Lamb, Lara, Leavesley, Matthew, Manne, Tiina, Fairbairn, Andrew, Coe, Andrew, Lowe, Kelsey M., Beni, Teppsy, Neanda, Betty, and Aubert, Maxime (2023) A Holocene sequence from Walufeni Cave, Southern Highlands Province, and its implications for the settlement of the Great Papuan Plateau, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 89 (1). pp. 47-65.
Urwin, Chris, Lamb, Lara, Skelly, Robert, Bell, Joshua, Beni, Teppsy, Leavesley, Matthew, David, Bruno, and Arifeae, Henry (2023) Rethinking agency in hiri exchange relationships on Papua New Guinea’s south coast: Oral traditions and archaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 69. 101484.
David, Bruno, Szabó, Katherine, Leavesley, Matthew, Mcniven, Ian, Ash, Jeremy, and Richards, Thomas (2022) The Archaeology of Tanamu 1: A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea. Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology, 2 . Archaeopress, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Brucato, Nicolas, André, Mathilde, Hudjashov, Georgi, Mondal, Mayukh, Cox, Murray P., Leavesley, Matthew, and Ricaut, François Xavier (2022) Chronology of natural selection in Oceanian genomes. iScience, 25 (7). 104583.
Vespasiani, Davide M., Jacobs, Guy S., Cook, Laura E., Brucato, Nicolas, Leavesley, Matthew, Kinipi, Christopher, Ricaut, François Xavier, Cox, Murray, and Romero, Irene Gallego (2022) Denisovan introgression has shaped the immune system of present-day Papuans. PLoS Genetics, 18 (12). e1010470.
David, Bruno, Aplin, Ken, Rowe, Cassandra, Leavesley, Matthew, Szabó, Katherine, Richards, Thomas, Mcniven, Ian, Petchey, Fiona, and Mandui, Herman (2022) Emerging out of Lapita at Caution Bay. In: David, Bruno, Szabó, Katherine, Leavesley, Matthew, McNiven, Ian J., Ash, Jeremy, and Richards, Thomas, (eds.) The Archaeology of Tanamu 1: A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea. Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology, 2 . Archaeopress, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 1-12.
Karmin, Monika, Flores, Rodrigo, Saag, Lauri, Hudjashov, Georgi, Brucato, Nicolas, Crenna-Darusallam, Chelzie, Larena, Maximilian, Endicott, Phillip L., Jakobsson, Mattias, Lansing, J. Stephen, Sudoyo, Herawati, Leavesley, Matthew, Metspalu, Mait, Ricaut, François-xavier, and Cox, Murray P. (2022) Episodes of diversification and isolation in Island Southeast Asian and Near Oceanian male lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39 (3). msac045.
Kerby, Georgia, Ford, Anne, Summerhayes, Glenn, Leavesley, Matthew, and Palin, Michael J. (2022) Fit for purpose: investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. World Archaeology, 54 (2). pp. 317-337.
Tsang, Roxanne, Katuk, Sebastien, May, Sally K., Tacon, Paul S.C., Ricaut, François-xavier, and Leavesley, Matthew G. (2022) Rock Art and (Re)Production of Narratives: A Cassowary Bone Dagger Stencil Perspective from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 32 (4). pp. 547-565.
Tsang, Roxanne, Pleiber, William, Kariwiga, Jason, Plutniak, Sébastien, Forestier, Hubert, Taçon, Paul S.C., Ricaut, François-Xavier, and Leavesley, Matthew G. (2022) Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior: a case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 17 (3). pp. 432-444.
David, Bruno, Richards, Thomas, Mcniven, Ian, Aplin, Ken, Petchey, Fiona, Szabó, Katherine, Mialanes, Jerome, Rowe, Cassandra, Barker, Bryce, Connaughton, Sean P., Leavesley, Matthew, Mandui, Herman, and Jennings, Chris (2022) Tanamu 1: A 5000 year sequence from Caution Bay. In: David, Bruno, Szabó, Katherine, Leavesley, Matthew, McNiven, Ian J., Ash, Jeremy, and Richards, Thomas, (eds.) The Archaeology of Tanamu 1: A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea. Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology, 2 . Archaeopress, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 13-54.
Szabó, Katherine, David, Bruno, Mcniven, Ian, and Leavesley, Matthew (2022) Tanamu 1: Conclusions and future directions. In: David, Bruno, Szabó, Katherine, Leavesley, Matthew, McNiven, Ian J., Ash, Jeremy, and Richards, Thomas, (eds.) The Archaeology of Tanamu 1: A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea. Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology, 2 . Archaeopress, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 140-143.
Tsang, Roxanne, Brady, Liam M., Katuk, Sebastien, Tacon, Paul S.C., Ricaut, François-Xavier, and Leavesley, Matthew G. (2021) Agency, affect and archaeologists: transforming place with rock art in Auwim, upper Karawariarafundi region, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Rock Art Research, 38 (2). pp. 183-194.
Raimondeau, Pauline, Manzi, Sophie, Brucato, Nicolas, Kinipi, Christopher, Leavesley, Matthew, Ricaut, François Xavier, and Besnard, Guillaume (2021) Genome skims analysis of betel palms (Areca spp., Arecaceae) and development of a profiling method to assess their plastome diversity. Gene, 800. 145845.
Brucato, Nicolas, André, Mathilde, Tsang, Roxanne, Saag, Lauri, Kariwiga, Jason, Sesuki, Kylie, Beni, Teppsy, Pomat, William, Muke, John, Meyer, Vincent, Boland, Anne, Deleuze, Jean-François, Sudoyo, Herawati, Mondal, Mayukh, Pagani, Luca, Gallego Romero, Irene, Metspalu, Mait, Cox, Murray, Leavesley, Matthew, and Ricaut, François-xavier (2021) Papua New Guinean genomes reveal the complex settlement of north Sahul. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38 (11). pp. 5107-5121.
André, Mathilde, Brucato, Nicolas, Plutniak, Sebastien, Kariwiga, Jason, Muke, John, Morez, Adeline, Leavesley, Matthew, Mondal, Mayukh, and Ricaut, François-Xavier (2021) Phenotypic differences between highlanders and lowlanders in Papua New Guinea. PLoS ONE, 16 (7). e0253921.
Szabó, Katherine, David, Bruno, Mcniven, Ian, and Leavesley, Matthew (2021) Preceramic shell‐working, Caution Bay and the circum-New Guinea archipelago. In: Thomas, Tim, (ed.) Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory: Archaeological Perspectives. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 123-144.
Lamb, Lara, Barker, Bryce, Leavesley, Matthew, Aubert, Maxime, Fairbairn, Andrew, and Manne, Tiina (2021) Rock engravings and occupation sites in the Mount Bosavi Region, Papua New Guinea: implications for our understanding of the human presence in the Southern Highlands. Archaeology in Oceania, 56 (3). pp. 304-321.
Bradshaw, Corey J.A., Norman, Kasih, Ulm, Sean, Williams, Alan N., Clarkson, Chris, Chadœuf, Joël, Lin, Sam C., Jacobs, Zenobia, Roberts, Richard G., Bird, Michael I., Weyrich, Laura S., Haberle, Simon G., O'Connor, Sue, Llamas, Bastien, Cohen, Tim J., Friedrich, Tobias, Veth, Peter, Leavesley, Matthew, and Saltré, Frédérik (2021) Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul. Nature Communications, 12. 2440.
Wasef, Sally, Wrobel, Gabriel, Wright, Nathan, Wright, Joanne L., Adams, Shaun, Kariwiga, Jason, Leavesley, Matthew, Collard, Mark, and Westaway, Michael C. (2021) A contextualised review of genomic evidence for gene flow events between Papuans and Indigenous Australians in Cape York, Queensland. Quaternary International, 603. pp. 22-30.
Field, J.H., Summerhayes, G.R., Luu, S., Coster, A.C.F., Ford, A., Mandui, Herman, Fullagar, R., Hayes, E., Leavesley, M., Lovave, M., and Kealhofer, L. (2020) Functional studies of flaked and ground stone artefacts reveal starchy tree nut and root exploitation in mid-Holocene highland New Guinea. The Holocene, 30 (9). pp. 1360-1374.
Rowe, Cassandra, David, Bruno, Mialanes, Jerome, Ulm, Sean, Petchey, Fiona, Aird, Samantha, McNiven, Ian J., Leavesley, Matthew, and Richards, Thomas (2020) A Holocene record of savanna vegetation dynamics in southern lowland Papua New Guinea. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 29 (1). pp. 1-14.
Manne, Tiina, David, Bruno, Petchey, Fiona, Leavesley, Matthew, Roberts, Georgia, Szabó, Katherine, Urwin, Chris, Mcniven, Ian J., and Richards, Thomas (2020) How long have dogs been in Melanesia? New evidence from Caution Bay, south coast of Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 30. 102255.
Faulkner, Patrick, Thangavelu, Anbarasu, Ferguson, Redbird, Aird, Samantha J., David, Bruno, Drury, Tanya, Rowe, Cassandra, Barker, Bryce, McNiven, Ian J., Richards, Thomas, Leavesley, Matthew, Asmussen, Brit, Lamb, Lara, and Ulm, Sean (2020) Middle to Late Holocene near-shore foraging strategies at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 34 (Part A). 102629.
Pedro, Nicole, Brucato, Nicholas, Fernandes, Veronica, André, Mathilde, Saag, Lauri, Pomat, William, Besse, Céline, Boland, Anne, Deleuze, Jean-François, Clarkson, Chris, Sudoyo, Herawati, Metspalu, Mait, Stoneking, Mark, Cox, Murray, Leavesley, Matthew, Pereira, Luisa, and Ricaut, François-Xavier (2020) Papuan mitochondrial genomes and the settlement of Sahul. Journal of Human Genetics, 65. pp. 875-887.
Gheddar, Laurie, Ricaut, François Xavier, Ameline, Alice, Brucato, Nicolas, Tsang, Roxanne, Leavesley, Matthew, Raul, Jean Sébastien, and Kintz, Pascal (2020) Testing for betel nut alkaloids in hair of Papuans abusers using UPLC-MS/MS and UPLC-Q-Tof-MS. Journal of Analytical Toxicology, 44 (1). pp. 41-48.
Forestier, H., Kariwiga, J., Baills, H., Tsang, R., Puaud, S., Miampa, K., Plutniak, S., Kuaso, A., Ricaut, F.-X., and Leavesley, M. G. (2019) 30 years after P. Gorecki and D. S. Gillieson in Papua New Guinea: new data on the Holocene settlement of East Sepik, Upper Karawari-Arafundi Region. In: Advancing Southeast Asian Archaeology 2019: selected papers from the 3rd SEAMEO SPAFA International Conference (1) pp. 119-135. From: SEAMO SPAFA International Conference on Southeast Asian Archaeology, 17-21 June 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.
David, Bruno, Aplin, Ken, Peck, Helene, Skelly, Robert, Leavesley, Matthew, Mialanes, Jerome, Szabó, Katherine, Koppel, Brent, Petchey, Fiona, Richards, Thomas, Ulm, Sean, Mcniven, Ian J., Rowe, Cassandra, Aird, Samantha J., Faulkner, Patrick, and Ford, Anne (2019) Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland. In: Bedford, Stuart, and Spriggs, Matthew, (eds.) Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence. Terra Australis, 52 . ANU Press, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 61-88.
Skelly, Robert, David, Bruno, Leavesley, Matthew, Petchey, Fiona, Guise, Alu, Tsang, Roxanne, Mialanes, Jerome, and Richards, Thomas (2018) Changing ceramic traditions at Agila ancestral village, Hood Bay, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 84 (2). pp. 181-195.
Jagoda, Evelyn, Lawson, Daniel J., Wall, Jeffrey D., Lambert, David, Muller, Craig, Westaway, Michael, Leavesley, Matthew, Capellini, Terence D., Lahr, Marta Mirazon, Gerbault, Pascale, Thomas, Mark G., Migliano, Andrea Bamberg, Willerslev, Eske, Metspalu, Mait, and Pagani, Luca (2018) Disentangling immediate adaptive introgression from selection on standing introgressed variation in humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35 (3). pp. 623-630.
Leavesley, Matthew G. (2018) Heads in the clouds: early humans in New Guinea and the archaeology of the Ivane Valley. Journal of the History Teachers' Association of NSW, 52 (4). pp. 14-17.
Gabriel, Jennifer, Specht, Jim, Leavesley, Matthew, Kelly, Matthew, Wood, Michael, Foale, Simon, Filer, Colin, McIntyre-Tamwoy, Susan, Bourke, R. Michael, Gill, David, and Sounier, Jean-Paul (2018) The Nakanai Mountain Ranges of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Report. James Cook University, Cairns.
Mialanes, Jerome, David, Bruno, Ford, Anne, Richards, Thomas, McNiven, Ian J., Summerhayes, Glenn R., and Leavesley, Matthew (2017) Imported obsidian at Caution Bay, south coast of Papua New Guinea: cessation of long distance procurement c. 1,900 cal BP. Australian Archaeology, 82 (3). pp. 248-262.
David, Bruno, Richards, Thomas, Skelly, Robert, Walker, Siobhán, Leavesley, Matthew, Ash, Jeremy, and Mandui, Herman (2016) Archaeological surveys at Caution Bay. In: Richards, Thomas, David, Bruno, Aplin, Ken, and McNiven, Ian J., (eds.) Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: cultural, linguistic and environmental setting. Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology, 1 . Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, pp. 113-143.
David, Bruno, Richards, Thomas, Skelly, Robert, McNiven, Ian J., and Leavesley, Matthew (2016) Archaeology in Port Moresby and the southern lowlands of Papua New Guinea: intellectual and historical contexts for Caution Bay. In: Richards, Thomas, David, Bruno, Aplin, Ken, and McNiven, Ian J., (eds.) Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: cultural, linguistic and environmental setting. Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology, 1 . Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, pp. 9-25.
David, Bruno, Richards, Thomas, McNiven, Ian, Mialanes, Jerome, Aplin, Ken, Petchey, Fiona, Peck, Helene, Asmussen, Brit, Ulm, Sean, Szabó, Katherine, Jones-Amin, Holly, Faulkner, Patrick, Perrette, Claire, Rowe, Cassandra, Leavesley, Matthew, and Barker, Bryce (2016) The Caution Bay Project field and laboratory methods. In: Richards, Thomas, David, Bruno, Aplin, Ken, and McNiven, Ian J., (eds.) Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: cultural, linguistic and environmental setting. Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology, 1 . Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, pp. 145-175.
Pagani, Luca, Lawson, Daniel John, Jagoda, Evelyn, Mörseburg, Alexander, Eriksson, Anders, Mitt, Mario, Clemente, Florian, Hudjashov, Georgi, DeGiorgio, Michael, Saag, Lauri, Wall, Jeffrey D., Cardona, Alexia, Mägi, Reedik, Sayres, Melissa A. Wilson, Kaewert, Sarah, Inchley, Charlotte, Scheib, Christiana L., Järve, Mari, Karmin, Monika, Jacobs, Guy S., Antao, Tiago, Iliescu, Florin Mircea, Kushniarevich, Alena, Ayub, Qasim, Tyler-Smith, Chris, Xue, Yali, Yunusbayev, Bayazit, Tambets, Kristiina, Mallick, Chandana Basu, Saag, Lehti, Pocheshkhova, Elvira, Andriadze, George, Muller, Craig, Westaway, Michael C., Lambert, David M., Zoraqi, Grigor, Turdikulova, Shahlo, Dalimova, Dilbar, Sabitov, Zhaxylyk, Sultana, Gazi Nurun Nahar, Lachance, Joseph, Tishkoff, Sarah, Momynaliev, Kuvat, Isakova, Jainagul, Damba, Larisa D., Gubina, Marina, Nymadawa, Pagbajabyn, Evseeva, Irina, Atramentova, Lubov, Utevska, Olga, Ricaut, François-Xavier, Brucato, Nicolas, Sudoyo, Herawati, Letellier, Thierry, Cox, Murray P., Barashkov, Nikolay A., Škaro, Vedrana, Mulahasanovic´, Lejla, Primorac, Dragan, Sahakyan, Hovhannes, Mormina, Maru, Eichstaedt, Christina A., Lichman, Daria V., Abdullah, Syafiq, Chaubey, Gyaneshwer, Wee, Joseph T. S., Mihailov, Evelin, Karunas, Alexandra, Litvinov, Sergei, Khusainova, Rita, Ekomasova, Natalya, Akhmetova, Vita, Khidiyatova, Irina, Marjanović, Damir, Yepiskoposyan, Levon, Behar, Doron M., Balanovska, Elena, Metspalu, Andres, Derenko, Miroslava, Malyarchuk, Boris, Voevoda, Mikhail, Fedorova, Sardana A., Osipova, Ludmila P., Lahr, Marta Mirazón, Gerbault, Pascale, Leavesley, Matthew, Migliano, Andrea Bamberg, Petraglia, Michael, Balanovsky, Oleg, Khusnutdinova, Elza K., Metspalu, Ene, Thomas, Mark G., Manica, Andrea, Nielsen, Rasmus, Villems, Richard, Willerslev, Eske, Kivisild, Toomas, and Metspalu, Mait (2016) Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia. Nature, 538. pp. 238-242.
David, Bruno, Richards, Thomas, Goddard, Michael, Dutton, Tom, Leavesley, Matthew, McNiven, Ian J., and Mandui, Herman (2016) Historicizing Motu ceramics and the hiri trade. In: Richards, Thomas, David, Bruno, Aplin, Ken, and McNiven, Ian J., (eds.) Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: cultural, linguistic and environmental setting. Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology, 1 . Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, pp. 65-74.
Richards, Thomas, David, Bruno, Aplin, Ken, McNiven, Ian J., and Leavesley, Matthew (2016) Introduction to the Caution Bay archaeology project. In: Richards, Thomas, David, Bruno, Aplin, Ken, and McNiven, Ian J., (eds.) Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: cultural, linguistic and environmental setting. Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology, 1 . Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, pp. 1-7.
digim'Rina, Linus S., Richards, Thomas, David, Bruno, Leavesley, Matthew, Goddard, Michael, Dutton, Tom, Skelly, Robert, Duncan, Brad, Naidi, Laura, and Hagoria, Julia (2016) Koita and Motu landscapes and seascapes of Caution Bay. In: Richards, Thomas, David, Bruno, Aplin, Ken, and McNiven, Ian J., (eds.) Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: cultural, linguistic and environmental setting. Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology, 1 . Archeopress, Oxford, UK, pp. 53-63.
David, Bruno, Jones-Amin, Holly, Richards, Thomas, Mialanes, Jerome, Asmussen, Brit, Petchey, Fiona, Aplin, Ken, Leavesley, Matthew, McNiven, Ian J., Zetzmann, Camille, Rowe, Cassandra, Skelly, Robert, Jenkins, Robyn, Faulkner, Patrick, and Ulm, Sean (2016) Ruisasi 1 and the earliest evidence of mass-produced ceramics in Caution Bay (Port Moresby Region), Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7 (1). pp. 41-60.
Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Westaway, Michael C., Muller, Craig, Sousa, Vitor C., Lao, Oscar, Alves, Isabel, Bergström, Anders, Athanasiadis, Georgios, Cheng, Jade Y., Crawford, Jacob E., Heupink, Tim H., Macholdt, Enrico, Peischl, Stephan, Rasmussen, Simon, Schiffels, Stephan, Subramanian, Sankar, Wright, Joanne L., Albrechtsen, Anders, Barbieri, Chiara, Dupanloup, Isabelle, Eriksson, Anders, Margaryan, Ashot, Moltke, Ida, Pugach, Irina, Korneliussen, Thorfinn S., Levkivskyi, Ivan P., Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor, Ni, Shengyu, Racimo, Fernando, Sikora, Martin, Xue, Yali, Aghakhanian, Farhang A., Brucato, Nicolas, Brunak, Søren, Campos, Paula F., Clark, Warren, Ellingvåg, Sturla, Fourmile, Gudjugudju, Gerbault, Pascale, Injie, Darren, Koki, George, Leavesley, Matthew, Logan, Betty, Lynch, Aubrey, Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth A., McAllister, Peter J., Mentzer, Alexander J., Metspalu, Mait, Migliano, Andrea B., Murgha, Les, Phipps, Maude E., Pomat, William, Reynolds, Doc, Ricaut, Francois-Xavier, Siba, Peter, Thomas, Mark G., Wales, Thomas, Wall, Colleen Ma’run, Oppenheimer, Stephen J., Tyler-Smith, Chris, Durbin, Richard, Dortch, Joe, Manica, Andrea, Schierup, Mikkel H., Foley, Robert A., Lahr, Marta Mirazón, Bowern, Claire, Wall, Jeffrey D., Mailund, Thomas, Stoneking, Mark, Nielsen, Rasmus, Sandhu, Manjinder S., Excoffier, Laurent, Lambert, David M., and Willerslev, Eske (2016) A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia. Nature, 538 (7624). pp. 207-214.
Skelly, Robert, David, Bruno, Petchey, Fiona, and Leavesley, Matthew (2014) Tracking ancient beach-lines inland: 2600-year-old dentate-stamped ceramics at Hopo, Vailala River region, Papua New Guinea. Antiquity, 88 (340). pp. 470-487.
Oertle, Annette, Leavesley, Matthew, Ulm, Sean, Mate, Geraldine, and Rosendahl, Daniel (2014) At the margins: archaeological evidence for Macassan activities in the South Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 32. pp. 64-71.
Oertle, Annette, Leavesley, Matthew, Mate, Geraldine, Rosendahl, Daniel, and Ulm, Sean (2014) Connections across the Sea: characterising Macassan activities in the South Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria. In: Posters from the National Archaeology Student Conference. From: NASC 2014: National Archaeology Student Conference, 11-13 April 2014, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Leavesley, Matthew (2014) Kewibu, Vincent. In: Smith, Claire, (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY, USA, pp. 4274-4275.
Ferguson, Redbird, Aird, Samantha, Drury, Tanya, Leavesley, Matthew, Ulm, Sean, Tomkins, Helene, Asmussen, Brit, David, Bruno, McNiven, Ian, Thangavelu, Eddie, and Richards, Thomas (2014) Pre- to post-Lapita predation patterns: shellfish exploitation at Tanamu 1, Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea. In: Culture, Climate, Change: archaeology in the tropics: conference handbook. p. 89. From: AAA/ASHA2014: the joint Australian Archaeological Association and Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology annual conference: culture, climate, change: archaeology in the tropics, 1-3 December 2014, Cairns, QLD, Australia.
Migliano, Andrea Bamberg, Romero, Irene Gallego, Metspalu, Mait, Leavesley, Matthew, Pagani, Luca, Antao, Tiago, Huang, Da-Wei, Sherman, Brad T., Siddle, Katharine, Scholes, Clarissa, Hudiashov, Georgi, Kaitokai, Elton, Babalu, Avis, Belatti, Maggie, Cagan, Alex, Hopkinshaw, Bryony, Shaw, Colin, Nelis, Mari, Metspalu, Ene, Magi, Reedik, Lempicki, Richard A., Villems, Richard, Lahr, Marta Mirazon, and Kivisild, Toomas (2013) Evolution of the pygmy phenotype: evidence of positive selection from genome-wide scans in African, Asian, and Melanesian pygmies. Human Biology, 85 (1-3). 12. pp. 251-284.
Leavesley, Matthew G., and Sarar, Andrew (2013) Diving for pottery: Lapita in Jacquinot Bay, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. University of Otago Studies in Archaeology, 25. pp. 171-174.
Petchey, Fiona, Ulm, Sean, David, Bruno, McNiven, Ian J., Asmussen, Brit, Tomkins, Helene, Dolby, Nic, Aplin, Ken, Richards, Thomas, Rowe, Cassandra, Leavesley, Matthew, and Mandui, Herman (2013) High-resolution radiocarbon dating of marine materials in archaeological contexts: radiocarbon marine reservoir variability between Anadara, Gafrarium, Batissa, Polymesoda spp. and Echinoidea at Caution Bay, Southern Coastal Papua New Guinea. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 5 (1). pp. 69-80.
Rowe, Cassandra, McNiven, Ian J., David, Bruno, Richards, Thomas, and Leavesley, Matthew (2013) Holocene pollen records from Caution Bay, southern mainland Papua New Guinea. Holocene, 23 (8). pp. 1130-1142.
David, Bruno, McNiven, Ian J., Jones-Amin, Holly, Connaughton, Sean P., Parkinson, Charles, Rowe, Cassandra, Richards, Thomas, Leavesley, Matthew, Barker, Bryce, Mandui, Herman, Campanelli, Gisella, and Flood, Nick (2013) Three reconstructed Lapita plainware pots from Caution Bay, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea. University of Otago Studies in Archaeology, 25. pp. 157-170.
Petchey, Fiona, Ulm, Sean, David, Bruno, McNiven, Ian J., Asmussen, Brit, Tomkins, Helene, Richards, Thomas, Rowe, Cassandra, Leavesley, Matthew, Mandui, Herman, and Stanisic, John (2012) 14C marine reservoir variability in herbivores and deposit-feeding gastropods from an open coastline, Papua New Guinea. Radiocarbon, 54 (3-4). pp. 967-978.
McNiven, Ian, David, Bruno, Richards, Thomas, Rowe, Cassandra, Leavesley, Matthew, Mialanes, Jerome, Connaughton, Sean P., Barker, Bryce, Aplin, Ken, Asmussen, Brit, Faulkner, Patrick, and Ulm, Sean (2012) Lapita on the south coast of Papua New Guinea: challenging new horizons in Pacific archaeology. Australian Archaeology, 75 (1). pp. 16-22.
David, Bruno, McNiven, Ian J., Leavesley, Matthew, Barker, Bryce, Mandui, Herman, Richards, Thomas, and Skelly, Robert (2012) A new ceramic assemblage from Caution Bay, south coast of mainland PNG: the Linear Shell End-Impressed Tradition from Bogi 1. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 3 (1). pp. 73-89.
McNiven, Ian J., David, Bruno, Richards, Thomas, Aplin, Ken, Asmussen, Brit, Mialanes, Jerome, Leavesley, Matthew, Faulkner, Patrick, and Ulm, Sean (2011) New direction in human colonisation of the Pacific: Lapita settlement of south coast New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 72. pp. 1-6.
David, Bruno, McNiven, Ian J., Richards, Thomas, Connaughton, Sean P., Leavesley, Matthew, Barker, Bryce, and Rowe, Cassandra (2011) Lapita sites in the Central Province of mainland Papua New Guinea. World Archaeology, 43 (4). pp. 576-593.
Allen, Jim, Summerhayes, Glenn, Mandui, Herman, and Leavesley, Matthew (2011) New data from Oposisi: implications for the early Papuan pottery phase. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 2 (1). pp. 69-81.
Summerhayes, Glenn R., Leavesley, Matthew, Fairbairn, Andrew, Mandui, Herman, Field, Judith, Ford, Anne, and Fullagar, Richard (2010) Human adaptation and plant use in Highland New Guinea from 49,000 to 44,000 years ago. Science, 330 (6000). pp. 78-81.
Leavesley, Matthew (2010) Benefits of biological anthropology for public health. Pacific Journal of Medical Sciences, 7 (2). pp. 37-42.
Summerhayes, Glenn R., Leavesley, Matthew, and Fairbairn, Andy (2009) Impact of human colonization on the landscape: a view from the western Pacific. Pacific Science, 63 (4). pp. 725-745.
Ricaut, F.X., Thomas, T., Arganini, C., Staughton, J., Leavesley, M., Bellatti, M., Foley, R., and Mirazon Lahr, M. (2008) Mitachondrial DNA variation in Karkar Island. Annals of Human Genetics, 72 (3). pp. 349-367.
Leavesley, Matthew G., and Troitzsch, Ulrike (2007) A preliminary study into the Lavongai rectilinear earth mounds: an XRD and phytolith analysis. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 1835-4211, 20. pp. 245-254.
Leavesley, Matthew G. (2007) A shark-tooth ornament from Pleistocene Sahul. Antiquity, 81 (312). pp. 308-315.
Leavesley, Matthew (2006) Late Pleistocene complexities in the Bismarck Archipelago. In: Lilley, Ian, (ed.) Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, USA, pp. 189-204.
Leavesley, Matthew G., Minol, Bernard, Kop, Hugo, and Kewibu, Vincent H. (2005) Cross-cultural concepts of archaeology: kastom, community, education and cultural heritage management in Papua New Guinea. Public Archaeology, 4 (1). pp. 3-13.
Leavesley, Matthew G. (2005) Prehistoric hunting strategies in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: the evidence of the cuscus (Phalanger orientalis) remains from Buang Merabak Cave. Asian Perspectives, 44 (1). pp. 207-218.
Leavesley, M.G., Bird, M.I., Fifield, L.K., Hausladen, P.A., Santos, G.M., and di Tada, M.L. (2002) Buang Merabak: Early evidence for human occupation in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 54. pp. 55-57.
Leavesley, Matthew G. (2001) Earth mounds of New Hanover: distribution and function. In: Clark, G.R., Anderson, A.J., and Vunidilo, T., (eds.) The Archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania: papers from the fourth Lapita Conference, June 2000, Canberra, Australia. Terra Australis, 17 . Pandanus Books, Canberra, ACT, pp. 203-209.
Leavesley, Matthew, and Allen, Jim (1998) Dates, disturbance and artefact distributions: another analysis of Buang Merabak, a Pleistocene site on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Archaeology in Oceania, 33 (2). pp. 63-82.