Staff Publications

Publications Archive Results

Year	Reference
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.
2007	Specht, J; Torrence, R. Pottery of the Talasea area, West New Britain Province. Archaeological Studies of the Middle and Late Holocene, Papua New Guinea, Part IV 131-196.
2003	Rath, P; Torrence R.. Producing value: stemmed tools from Garua Island, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology 57 119-127.
2008	Petrie, C; Torrence, R. Assessing the effects of volcanic disasters on human settlement in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea: a Bayesian approach. The Holocene 18 5 729-744.
1997	Torrence R; Summerhayes G.. Sociality and the short distance trader: intra-regional obsidian exchange in the Willaumez region. Archaeology in Oceania 32 74-84.
2006	Torrence R; Barton, H.. Preface. Ancient Starch Research 15-16.
2007	Lentfer, C; Torrence, R. Holocene volcanic activity, vegetation succession, and ancient human land use: unraveling the interactions on Garua Island, Papua New Guinea. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 143 83-105.
2006	Beck, W; Torrence R.. Starch pathways. Ancient Starch Research 53-74.
1973	Cherry, J. F; Torrence R.. An archaeological survey of Capote Canyon, Texas.. A Natural Areas Survey: Part 3, Capote Canyon 185-220.
1973	Cherry, J. F; Torrence R.. The current state of archaeological research in the Davis Mountains, Texas. A Natural Areas Survey: Part 4, Mount Livermore and Sawtooth Peak 105-20.
2007	Grattan, J; Torrence, R.. Living Under the Shadow: The Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions. 320.
2011	Torrence, R; Clarke, A. “Suitable for decoration of halls and billiard rooms:” finding indigenous agency in historic auction and sale catalogues. Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum 29-53.
2001	Torrence R; White, J.P.. Tattooed faces from Boduna Island, Papua New Guinea. The Archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania 135-140.
2006	Torrence R; Therin, M.. Experiments for testing starch extraction techniques. Ancient Starch Research 156-158.
2007	Torrence R; Doelman, T.. Problems of scale: evaluating the effects of volcanic disasters on cultural change in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. Living Under The Shadow: The Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions 42-66.
2006	Torrence R; Conway, R.. Classification using image analysis and multivariate techniques. Ancient Starch Research 137-142.
1993	Crowe D; Torrence R.. Admiralty Islands spear decorations: a minicatalog of pmm patterns. Symmetry: Culture and Science 4 385-396.
1995	Torrence R; Victor, K. L.. The relativity of density. Archaeology in Oceania 30 121-131.
1984	Cherry, J. F; Torrence R.. The typology and chronology of chipped stone assemblages in the prehistoric Cyclades. The Prehistoric Cyclades: Contributions to a Workshop on Cycladic Chronology 12-25.
1982	Cherry, J. F; Torrence R.. The earliest prehistory of Melos. An Island Polity: The Archaeology of Exploitation in Melos 24-34.
1973	Cherry, J. F; Torrence R.. An archaeological reconnaissance of Victorio Canyon, Hudspeth and Culberson Counties, Texas. A Natural Areas Survey: Part I, Victorio Canyon 175-230.
2007	Grattan, J. and Torrence R.. Living Under the Shadow: The Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions. 1-416.
2016	Mulrooney, M; Torrence, R; McAlister, A. The demise of a monopoly: implications of geochemical characterization of a stemmed obsidian tool from the Bishop Museum collection. Archaeology in Oceania 55 62-69.
1997	Torrence R. and White, J. P.. For the Experimental Archaeologist: Papers Presented to Wal Ambrose. .
1991	Specht J; Fullagar, R; Torrence R.. What was the significance of Lapita pottery at Talasea?. Indo Pacific Prehistory 1990, Volume 2 281-294.
1998	Barton, H; Fullagar, R; Torrence R.. Clues to stone tool function re-examined: comparing starch grain frequencies on used and unused obsidian artifacts. Journal of Archaeological Science 25 1231-1238.
2002	Torrence R. and Grattan, J.. Natural Disasters and Culture Change. .
2006	Torrence R. and Barton, H.. Ancient Starch Research. 256.
1979	Cherry, J. F; Torrence R.. Quantitative Distributional Data. Investigations in Orkney 173-80.
1973	Cherry, J. F; Torrence R.. A reconnaissance of the archaeological resources of Matagorda Island, Texas. A Natural Areas Survey: Part 2, Matagorda Island 175-230.
2013	Torrence, R; White, P; Kononenko, N. Meaningful stones: obsidian stemmed tools from Barema, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology 77 41852.
2003	Specht J; Attenbrow V; Torrence R.. Introduction to special volume. Australian Archaeology 57 iii.
2001	Lentfer C; Boyd, W; Torrence R.. Phytolith research relating to the archaeology of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.. Phytoliths: Applications in Earth Sciences and Human History 213-224.
1998	Boyd, W.E; Lentfer C; Torrence R.. Phytolith analysis for a wet tropics environment: methodological issues and implications for the archaeology of Garua Island, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Palynology N/A 213-228.
2015	Torrence, R; Martinon-Torres, M; Rehren, T. Forty years and still growing: Journal of Archaeological Science looks to the future.. Journal of Archaeological Science 56 1-8.
2013	Torrence, R; Kelloway, S; White, P. Stemmed tools, social interaction, and voyaging in early-mid Holocene Papua New Guinea.. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 8 278-310.
2010	Kononenko, N; Specht, J; Torrence, R. Persistent traditions in the face of natural disasters: stemmed and waisted stone tools in late Holocene New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology <em>70</em> 17-28.
2002	Araho, N; Torrence, R; White, J.. Valuable and useful: Mid-Holocene stemmed obsidian artefacts from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society <em>68</em> 61-81.
2009	Torrence, R; Neall, V; Boyd, B. Volcanism and Historical Ecology on the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Science <em>63</em> 507-535.
2004	Torrence R; Wright, R; Conwy, R.. Identification of starch granules using image analysis and multivariate techniques. Journal of Archaeological Science 31 519-532.
1989	Torrence R; van der Leeuw, S.E.. Introduction: what's new about innovation?. What's New? A Closer Look at the Process of Innovation 1-15.
1990	Torrence R; Specht J; Fullagar, R.. Pompeiis in the Pacific. Australian Natural History 23 457-63.
1999	Therin, M; Fullagar, R; Torrence R.. Starch in sediments: a new approach to the study of subsistence and land use in Papua New Guinea.. The Prehistory of Food 438-462.
1999	Kealhofer, L; Torrence R; Fullagar, R.. Integrating phytoliths within use-wear/residue studies of stone tools. Journal of Archaeological Science 26 527-546.
2015	Kononenko, N; Torrence, R; White, J. P. Unexpected uses for obsidian: experimental replication and use-wear/residue analyses of chopping tools.. Journal of Archaeological Science 54 254-269.
2009	Parr, J; Boyd, W; Harriott, V; Torrence, R. Human adaptive responses to catastrophic landscape disruptions during the Holocene at Numundo, Papua New Guinea. Geographical Research <em>47</em> 2 155-174.
2010	Kelloway, S; Kononenko, N; Torrence, R; Carter, E. Assessing the viability of portable Raman spectroscopy for determining the geological source of obsidian. Vibrational Spectroscopy <em>53</em> 88-96.
2010	Kononenko, N; Torrence, R; Barton, H; Hennell, A. Cross-cultural interaction on Wuvulu Island, Papua New Guinea: the perspective from use-wear and residue analyses of turtle bone artifacts. Journal of Archaeological Science <em>37</em> 2911-2919.

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