Michelle Langley

Experience

• 2020–present
  Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University

Education

• 2014 
  University of Oxford, Ph.D.
• 2009 
  University of Queensland, M.Phil.

Publications

• 2021
  The 40,000-year-old Venus of Hohle Fels: Previous assumptions and new perspectives., Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• 2021
  Children and innovation: Play, play objects, and object play in cultural evolution., Evolutionary Human Sciences
• 2021
  Fishhooks, lures, and sinkers: Intensive manufacture of marine technology from the terminal Pleistocene at Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia., Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
• 2021
  Gymea and the fishing technologies of the New South Wales coast, Australia. , Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• 2021
  Bone artefacts from Riwi Cave, south-central Kimberley: Reappraisal of the timing and role of osseous artefacts in northern Australia. , International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
• 2020
  Homo neanderthalensis and the evolutionary origins of ritual in Homo sapiens. , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
• 2020
  Mobile containers in human cognitive evolution studies: Understudied and underrepresented. , Evolutionary Anthropology
• 2020
  Space to play: Identifying children’s sites in the Pleistocene archaeological record., Evolutionary Human Sciences
• 2020
  Early evidence for bows-and-arrows and brilliant symbolic displays in the south Asian tropics., Science Advances
• 2020
  Portable art from Pleistocene Sulawesi., Nature: Human Behaviour
• 2020
  Playing with language, creating complexity: Has play contributed to the evolution of complex language?, Evolutionary Anthropology
• 2019
  Ancient tattooing in Polynesia., Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
• 2019
  41,000 years of utilising ochre in Timor-Leste: Powders, prehensile traces, mastics, and engravings, Palaeoanthropology
• 2019
  Small arboreal prey hunting specialisation in South Asian tropical rainforests 45,000 years ago. , Nature Communications
• 2019
  Symbolic expression in Sahul, Sunda, and Wallacea., Quaternary Science Reviews
• 2019
  Manufacture and use of Lapita Conus multi-section broad rings: Evidence from the Teouma site, Central Vanuatu., Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
• 2018
  Is it ritual? Or is it children? Distinguishing consequences of play from ritual actions in the Palaeolithic archaeological record., Current Anthropology
• 2018
  Pastoral Neolithic settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania., Journal of Field Archaeology
• 2018
  Explaining the lack of emu eggshell material culture in Australia: Experimental working and archaeological implications., Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
• 2018
  Establishing a typology for Australian pointed bone implements. , Australian Archaeology
• 2017
  Early human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Island Southeast Asia., Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
• 2017
  Magdalenian children: Projectile points, portable art, and playthings., Oxford Journal of Archaeology
• 2017
  Investigating the prehistoric material culture characteristics of the Massim region, Eastern Papua New Guinea: Insights from the manufacture and use of shell objects in the Louisiana Archipelago., Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
• 2016
  A >46,000-year-old macropod bone implement from Carpenter’s Gap 1: Challenging past perspectives of Pleistocene Australia, Quaternary Science Reviews
• 2016
  Painted shark vertebrate beads from the Djawumbu-Madjawarrnja Complex, Western Arnhem Land, Australian Archaeology
• 2016
  Poison arrows and bone utensils in Late Pleistocene eastern Africa: Evidence from Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, Azania
• 2016
  42,000-year-old worked and pigment-stained Nautilus shell from Jerimalai (Timor-Leste): Evidence for an early coastal adaptation in ISEA, Journal of Human Evolution
• 2016
  An enduring shell artefact tradition from Timor-Leste: Oliva bead production from the Pleistocene to Late Holocene at Jerimalai, Lene Hara, and Matja Kuru 1 and 2, PLoS ONE
• 2015
  6,500-year-old Nassarius shell appliqués in Timor-Leste: Technological and use wear analyses, Journal of Archaeological Science
• 2015
  Investigating maintenance and discard behaviours for osseous projectile points: A Middle to Late Magdalenian (c.19,000 to 14,000 cal. BP) example, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
• 2015
  A newly discovered Magdalenian near complete decorated Baguette Demi-Ronde from Grotte de l’Abbé (Charente, France), Comptes Rendus Paleovol
• 2014
  Magdalenian antler projectile point design: Determining original form for uni- and bilaterally barbed points, Journal of Archaeological Science
• 2013
  Long range inland-coastal networks during the late Magdalenian: Evidence for individual acquisition of marine resources at Andernach-Martinsberg, German Central Rhineland, Journal of Human Evolution
• 2013
  A newly discovered horse engraving from La Madeleine (Dordogne), France, The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
• 2013
  Storied landscapes make us (modern) human: Landscape socialisation in the Palaeolithic and consequences for the archaeological record, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Grants and Contracts

• 2020
  Discovery

  Role:

  Co-CI

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2017
  DECRA

  Role:

  CI

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

• Australian Archaeological Association
• European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
• Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past

Honours

2018 Queensland Young Tall Poppy; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London