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Richard Fullagar is an Australian archaeologist and a Founding Director of Scarp Archaeology. He grew up in Melbourne, Victoria, and completed his Higher School Certificate in 1972. He completed a B.A. at the University of Melbourne in 1977, picking up archaeology as a fill-in subject, and worked for the Victoria Archaeological Survey (VAS) from 1978 until 1983. He went on to complete a Ph.D. in archaeology at La Trobe University in 1986.
While at the VAS, he undertook numerous surveys and excavations on the Victorian coast and along a transect running north from Warrnambool (through the Western District, the Mallee, and the Little Desert) to the Murray River. He also undertook field research in the Philippines, initially with Peter Coutts (Director, VAS) and later on his own. He has lived in Wollongong since 1987 and has held Australian Research Council (ARC) Fellowships at the Australian Museum (Sydney) and the University of Sydney.
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Brumm, A., F. Aziz, G.D. Van Den Bergh, M. Moore, M. Morwood, D. Hobbs, I. Kurniawan, and R. Fullagar. 2006. Early Pleistocene artefacts from Mata Menge, Flores: Implications for Homo floresiensis. Nature 44 (4618): 624–626.
Denham, T., R. Fullagar, and L. Head. 2009. Plant exploitation on Sahul: From colonization to the emergence of regional specialization during the Holocene. Quaternary International 202 (1-2): 29–40.
Fullagar, R. 2006. Residues and usewear. In Archaeology in practice: A student guide to archaeological analysis, ed. J. Balme and A. Paterson, 207–234. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Fullagar, R. 2011. Burins, bones and base camps: A re-analysis of Aire Shelter 2, Glenaire, southern Victoria. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 23 (8): 103–131.
Fullagar, R., ed. 1998. A closer look: Recent studies of Australian stone tools, Sydney University archaeological methods series. Vol. 6. Sydney: Archaeological Computing Laboratory, School of Archaeology, University of Sydney.
Fullagar, R., and J. Field. 1997. Pleistocene seed grinding implements from the Australian arid zone. Antiquity 71 (272): 300–307.
Fullagar, R., J. Field, T. Denham, and C. Lentfer. 2006. Early and mid Holocene processing of taro (Colocasia esculenta), yam (Dioscorea sp.) and other plants at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science 33: 595–614.
Fullagar, R., J. McDonald, J. Field, and D. Donlon. 2009. Deadly weapons: Backed microliths from Narrabeen. In Archaeological science under a microscope: Studies in residue and ancient DNA analysis in honour of Thomas H. Loy, Terra Australis, ed. M. Haslam, G. Robertson, A. Crowther, S. Nugent, and L. Kirkwood, vol. 30, 248–260. Canberra: The Australian National University.
Liu, L., J. Field, R. Fullagar, Z. Chaohong, C. Xingcan, and Y. Jincheng. 2010. A functional analysis of grinding stones from an early Holocene site at Donghulin, North China. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 2630–2639.
Summerhayes, G.R., M. Leavesley, A. Fairnbairn, H. Mandui, J. Field, A. Ford, and R. Fullagar. 2010. Human adaptation and plant use in highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 years ago. Science 330: 78–81.
Van Peer, P., R. Fullagar, S. Stokes, R. Bailey, J. Moeyersons, F. Steenhoudt, A. Geerts, T. Vanderbeken, M. De Dapper, and F. Geus. 2003. The early to middle Stone Age transition and the emergence of modern human behaviour at site 8-B-11, Sai Island, Sudan. Journal of Human Evolution 45: 187–193.
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Head, L. (2020). Fullagar, Richard L. K.. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_2402
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