Publications Archive Results

Year	Reference
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1991	Specht J; Fullagar, R; Torrence R.. What was the significance of Lapita pottery at Talasea?. Indo Pacific Prehistory 1990, Volume 2 281-294.
1997	Torrence R. and White, J. P.. For the Experimental Archaeologist: Papers Presented to Wal Ambrose. .
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.
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.
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.
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.
2011	Byrne, S; Clarke, A; Harrison, R; Torrence, R. Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum. 325 p. 83 illus., 47 in color.
2011	McKee, C. O; Neall, V. E; Torrence, R. A remarkable pulse of largescale volcanism on New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of Volcanology <em>73</em> 27-37.
1999	Torrence R; Bird, R; Bailey G; Johnson, P.. Description of the procedures for PIXE-PIGME analysis at ANSTO. International Association for Obsidian Studies Bulletin 23 22.
2006	Gott B; Barton, H; Samuel D; Torrence R.. Biology of starch. Ancient Starch Research 35-45.
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.
1988	Specht J; Fullagar, R; Torrence R; Baker, N.. Prehistoric obsidian exchange in Melanesia: a perspective from the Talasea sources. Australian Archaeology 27 3-16.
1989	van der Leeuw, S. E. and Torrence R.. What's New? A Closer Look at the Process of Innovation. .
1996	Torrence R; Specht J; Fullagar, R; Summerhayes G.. Which obsidian is worth it?. Oceanic Culture History: Essays in Honour of Roger Green 211-224.
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.
1997	Bird, J. R; Torrence R; Summerhayes G; Bailey G.. New Britain obsidian sources. Archaeology in Oceania 32 54-60.
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.

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