Staff Publications

Publications Archive Results

Year	Reference
2015	Torrence, R. Reflections and connections. Object Stories: Artifacts and Archaeologists 153-159.
2016	Torrence, R. Social resilience and long-term adaptation to volcanic disasters: the archaeology of continuity and innovation in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. Quaternary Research 394 6-16.
2007	Torrence R.. New Approaches to the Study of Volcanic Glass. Papers from the Manilla Congress, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 27 114-162.
2006	Torrence R.. Description, classification and identification. Ancient Starch Research 115-144.
2006	Torrence R.. Starch in sediments. Ancient Starch Research 145-176.
2006	Torrence R.. Landscape change as detected by starch granules. Ancient Starch Research 168-170.
2006	Torrence R.. What really happened at Kuk Swamp?. Ancient Starch Research 24-26.
2006	Torrence R.. Comment on ‘Kimberley points and the technologies of enchantment’ by Rodney Harrison. Current Anthropology 47 83-4 .
1993	Torrence R.. Ethnoarchaeology, museum collections and prehistoric exchange: obsidian-tipped artifacts from the Admiralty Islands. World Archaeology 24 467-481.
1993	Torrence R.. Obsidian tools: a study in prehistoric Melanesian trade. The Encyclopedia of Humankind 160-1.
1992	Torrence R.. What is Lapita about obsidian? A view from the Talasea sources. Lapita et Peuplement 111-126.
1991	Torrence R.. Catalogue of chipped and ground stone from Kephala and Paoura. Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History 196-8.
2002	Torrence R.. Obsidian-tipped spears and daggers: what can we learn from 130 years of collecting. Arts from the Admiralty Islands 73-80.
1981	Torrence R.. Die Obsidiangewinnung und-bearbeitung auf der griechischen Insel Melos-- Ein Beitrag zum Tauschhandel. Der Anschnitt 3 86-103.
1979	Torrence R.. Macrocore production at the Melos obsidian quarries. Lithic Technology 8 51-60.
1978	Torrence R.. The Melos obsidian quarries: a case study in lithic technology. Third International Conference on Flint 70-3.
1975	Torrence R.. 'Comment' on Sheets' The structure of an industry: a behavioral analysis of Mesoamerican chipped stone. Current Anthropology l6 386.
2000	Torrence R.. Just another trader? An archaeological perspective on European barter with Admiralty Islanders, Papua New Guinea. The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania 104-141.
1996	Torrence R.. Prehistoric obsidian trade. Oxford Companion to Archaeology 721-722.
1994	Torrence R.. Strategies for moving on in Lithic studies. The Organization of Technology: North American Prehistoric Chipped Stone Technologies 123-131.
2006	Torrence R.. Starch and archaeology. Ancient Starch Research 17-34.
2006	Torrence R.. Celebrating differences. Archaeologies 2 80-84.
1991	Torrence R.. The chipped stone. Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History 175-195.
1989	Torrence R.. Time, Energy and Stone Tools. .
2005	Torrence R.. Valued stone: how so?. Many Exchanges: Archaeology, History, Community and the Work of Isabel McBryde 357-72.
1986	Torrence R.. Ground and polished stone. Ayia Irini: Period V 96-97.
2004	Torrence, R.. Pre-Lapita valuables in island Melanesia. A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht 163-172.
2004	Torrence R.. Now you see it, now you don’t: changing obsidian source use in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. Explaining Social Change: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew (McDonald Institute Monographs) 115-125.
1984	Torrence R.. Monopoly or direct access? Industrial organization at the Melos obsidian quarries. Quarry Production Analysis 49-63.
1984	Torrence R.. Towards an economic approach to pressure blade technology. Paris 2.
1983	Torrence R.. Time budgeting and hunter-gatherer technology. Hunter-Gatherer Economy in Prehistory: A European Perspective 11-22.
1982	Torrence R.. Obsidian quarries and their use. An Island Polity: The Archaeology of Exploitation in Melos 193-221.
1978	Torrence R.. Chipping away at some misconceptions about sampling lithic assemblages. Sampling in Contemporary British Archaeology 373-398.
1978	Torrence R.. Ports of trade in early Medieval Europe. Norwegian Archaeological Review 11 108-11.
2001	Torrence R.. Hunter-gatherer technology viewed at different scales. Hunter-Gatherers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 73-98.
1997	Torrence R.. Dear Wal. Archaeology in Oceania 32 1-3.
1996	Torrence R.. Trade, Prehistoric. Oxford Companion to Archaeology 718-720.
1995	Torrence R.. Lukluk bek long taim bepo. Past 20 1-2.
1989	Torrence R.. Tools as optimal solutions. Time, Energy, and Stone Tools 1-6.
1989	Torrence R.. Re-tooling: towards a behavioral theory of stone tools. Time, Energy, and Stone Tools 57-66.
1986	Torrence R.. Chipped stone. Ayia Irini: Period V 90-96.
1986	Torrence R.. Production and Exchange of Stone Tools: Prehistoric Obsidian in the Aegean. .
1985	Torrence R.. The chipped stone. The Archaeology of Cult: The Sanctuary at Phylakopi 469-478.
1979	Torrence R.. A technological approach to Cycladic blade industries. Los Angeles XIV.
2015	Barton, H; Torrence, R. Cooking up recipes for ancient starch: assessing current methodologies and looking to the future. Journal of Archaeological Science 56 194-201.
2009	Kononenko, N; Torrence, R. Tattooing in Melanesia: local invention or Lapita introduction?. Antiquity <em>83</em> <em>320</em> online.
2007	Specht, J; Torrence, R. Lapita all over: Land-use on the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement 71-96.
2007	Grattan, J; Torrence R.. Beyond gloom and doom: the long-term consequences of volcanic disasters. Living Under The Shadow: The Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions 1-18.
2006	Barton, H; Torrence R.. Looking ahead. Ancient Starch Research 217-224.
2008	Torrence, R; Swadling, P. Social networks and the spread of Lapita. Antiquity <em>82</em> 600-616.

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