Peter Hiscock

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Peter Hiscock is affiliated with the following schools: University of Queensland, University of Sydney, Australian National University

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Dixon Hiscock is an Australian archaeologist. Born in Melbourne, he obtained a PhD from the University of Queensland. Between 2013 and 2021, he was the inaugural Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology at the University of Sydney, having previously held a position in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.

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Archaeology of Ancient Australia (2007) (308)
Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use (2019) (296)
Technological responses to risk in Holocene Australia (1994) (185)
Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives (2005) (119)
Quantifying the size of artefact assemblages (2002) (113)
Learning in Lithic Landscapes: A Reconsideration of the Hominid “Toolmaking” Niche (2014) (100)
Experimental evaluation of Kuhn's geometric index of reduction and the flat-flake problem (2005) (87)
The need for a taphonomic perspective in stone artefact analysis (1985) (86)
Blunt and to the Point: Changing Technological Strategies in Holocene Australia (2006) (83)
Early Australian implement variation: a reduction model (2003) (83)
Prehistoric settlement patterns and artefact manufacture at Lawn Hill, Northwest Queensland (1989) (81)
Estimating original flake mass from 3D scans of platform area (2011) (79)
Pattern and Context in the Holocene Proliferation of Backed Artifacts in Australia (2008) (79)
Big debates over little tools: ongoing disputes over microliths on three continents (2011) (76)
Early Holocene backed artefacts from Australia (1998) (74)
Excavations At Parnkupirti, Lake Gregory, Great Sandy Desert: OSL Ages for Occupation before the Last Glacial Maximum (2009) (64)
Multiple uses for Australian backed artefacts (2009) (64)
Looking the other way. A materialist/technological approach to classifying tools and implements, cores and retouched flakes (2000) (62)
Experimental insights into alternative strategies of lithic heat treatment (2008) (62)
Australia's Eastern Regional Sequence Revisited: Technology and change at Capertee 3 (2005) (59)
Bondaian Technology in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales (1993) (58)
Palaeoenvironments and prehistory of Australia's tropical Top End (1992) (57)
Change in the Australian desert culture: a reanalysis of tulas from Puntutjarpa (1991) (57)
Making it small in the Palaeolithic: bipolar stone-working, miniature artefacts and models of core recycling (2015) (57)
Technological change in the Hunter River Valley and the interpretation of Late Holocene change in Australia (1986) (55)
Quina Procurement and Tool Production (2009) (54)
Mobility and technology in the Kakadu coastal wetlands (1996) (54)
Pleistocene settlement of deserts from an Australian perspective (2005) (52)
The changing abundance of backed artefacts in south-eastern Australia: a response to Holocene climate change? (2009) (52)
How old are the artefacts in Malakunanja II (1990) (50)
Are Tulas and Enso Linked In Australia? (2011) (48)
Reduction, recycling and raw material procurement in Western Arnhem land, Australia (2009) (48)
World’s earliest ground-edge axe production coincides with human colonisation of Australia (2016) (47)
Generalization, inference and the quantification of lithic reduction (2010) (46)
Dates and demography: are radiometric dates a robust proxy for long‐term prehistoric demographic change? (2015) (45)
Slippery and Billy: intention, selection and equifinality in lithic artefacts (2004) (44)
A cache of tulas from the Boulia district, western Queensland (1988) (44)
Holocene coastal occupation of Western Arnhem Land (1999) (42)
The end of points (1994) (41)
Retouched Notches at Combe Grenal (France) and the Reduction Hypothesis (2007) (38)
A preliminary report on the stone artefacts from Colless Creek Cave, Northwest Queensland (1984) (37)
Small, Sharp, and Standardized: Global Convergence in Backed-Microlith Technology (2018) (36)
Leang Sakapao 1, a second dated Pleistocene site from South Sulawesi, Indonesia (2004) (33)
Transformations of Upper Palaeolithic implements in the Dabba industry from Haua Fteah (Libya) (1996) (33)
Reduction continuums and tool use (2005) (31)
Comments on the Use of Chipped Stone Artefacts as a Measure of 'Intensity of Site Usage' (1981) (31)
An Australian perspective on modern behaviour and artefact assemblages (2006) (30)
Sizing up prehistory: sample size and composition of artefact assemblages (2001) (30)
Assemblage variability in the Willandra Lakes (2000) (30)
Analysing Australian stone artefacts: An agenda for the twenty first century (2000) (29)
The Moreton Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP) stage II: an outline of objectives and methods (1988) (29)
Morphological and reduction continuums in Eastern Australia: measurement and implications at capertee 3 (2002) (29)
The reality of reduction experiments and the GIUR: reply to Eren and Sampson (2009) (27)
Dating the Dreaming? Creation of Myths and Rituals for Mounds along the Northern Australian Coastline (2006) (24)
A revised sequence of backed artefact production at Capertee 3, New South Wales (2004) (23)
Symbols, Signals, and the Archaeological Record (2014) (21)
Measuring artefact reduction: an examination of Kuhn's Geometric Index of Reduction (2005) (21)
Backed into a corner (1996) (21)
The construction of morphological diversity: a study of Mousterian implement retouching at Combe Grenal (2008) (20)
Arid Paradises or Dangerous Landscapes: A Review of Explanations for Paleolithic Assemblage Change in Arid Australia and Africa (2005) (19)
Dates and demography? The need for caution in using radiometric dates as a robust proxy for prehistoric population change (2016) (19)
Palaeoclimate and human occupation in southeastern arid Australia (2017) (18)
Quantitative exploration of size variation and the extent of reduction in Sydney Basin assemblages: A tale from the Henry Lawson Drive rockshelter (2003) (18)
Backed blades in Northern Australia : evidence from Northwest Queensland (1980) (17)
Global Deserts in Perspective (2005) (17)
Archaeological evidence for environmental change in Darwin Harbour (1997) (17)
Revitalising artefact analysis (1998) (17)
DYNAMICS OF KNAPPING WITH BIPOLAR TECHNIQUES: MODELING TRANSITIONS AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF VARIABILITY (2015) (17)
Birriwilk rockshelter: A mid- to late Holocene site in ManilikarrCountry, southwest Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (2013) (15)
Early Holocene human occupation and environment of the southeast Australian Alps: New evidence from the Yarrangobilly Plateau, New South Wales (2010) (14)
Re-Excavation of Dabangay, a Mid-Holocene Settlement Site on Mabuyag in Western Torres Strait (2013) (14)
Midden variability in the coastal portion of the Kakadu region (1993) (13)
Tapping into the Past: Exploring the Extent of Palaeolithic Retouching Through Experimentation (2008) (13)
The Real Meaning of Edge Angles (1982) (13)
Technological change at Platypus Rockshelter (KB:A70), southeast Queensland (1988) (12)
Settlement patterns in the Kakadu wetlands: Initial data on site size and shape (1992) (12)
Archaeological Investigations at Olympic Dam in Arid Northeast South Australia (2011) (11)
Australia and the Austronesians (2005) (11)
Discovery curves, colonisation and Madjedbebe (2017) (11)
Landform boundary effects on Holocene forager landscape use in arid South Australia (2017) (11)
Evolution of Silcrete Heat Treatment in Australia—a Regional Pattern on the South-East Coast and Its Evolution over the Last 25 ka (2019) (10)
Geographical variation in Australian backed artefacts: Trialling a new index of symmetry (2014) (10)
Interpreting the vertical distribution of stone points within Nauwalabila 1, Arnhem Land (1993) (10)
Beyond the Dreamtime: archaeology and explorations of religious change in Australia (2013) (9)
Changing Perspectives in Australian Archaeology, part VI. Point production at Jimede 2, Western Arnhem Land (2011) (9)
Developing a relative dating system for the Moreton Region: an assessment of prospects for a technological approach (1988) (9)
The New Age of alternative archaeology in Australia (1996) (9)
The Extinction of Rigour: A Comment on 'The Extinction of the Australian Pygmies' by Keith Windschuttle and Tim Gillin (2005) (8)
Australian point and core reduction viewed through refitting (2003) (8)
Prehistoric and World War II Use of Shell Mounds in Darwin Harbour (2001) (8)
Standardised axe manufacture at Mount Isa (2005) (8)
Artefacts on Aru: Evaluating the Technological Sequences (2005) (8)
Stone Tools as Cultural Markers?: The Last Two Decades of Stone Artefact Analysis in Australian Archaeology (1983) (6)
The Perils and Promises of Cognitive Archaeology: An Introduction to the Thematic Issue (2017) (6)
An Update of Target Fabrication Techniques for the Mass Production of Advanced Fast Ignition Cone Targets (2011) (6)
The archaeology of Bindjarran rockshelter in Manilikarr Country, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory (2015) (6)
Cinema, Supernatural Archaeology, and the Hidden Human Past (2012) (6)
HARMONI at ELT: overview of the capabilities and expected performance of the ELT's first light, adaptive optics assisted integral field spectrograph. (2022) (6)
The antiquity of Australian silcrete heat treatment: Lake Mungo and the Willandra Lakes. (2020) (6)
Recycling in the Haua Fteah sequence of North Africa (2015) (6)
7 The human colonization of Australia (2013) (5)
Technological Responses to Risk in Holocene (1994) (5)
Watura Jurnti: A 42000–45000‐year‐long occupation sequence from the north‐eastern Pilbara (2018) (5)
Horizons of Change: Entanglement of Paleoenvironment and Cultural Dynamics in Australian Lithic Technology (2018) (5)
The colonization of Australia (2008) (5)
The archaeology of Ingaanjalwurr rockshelter in Manilikarr Country, western Arnhem Land (2016) (4)
The Peopling of Sahul and Near Oceania (2014) (4)
Archaeology of Northern Australia: Regional Perspectives (1996) (4)
Small Signals: Comprehending the Australian Microlithic as Public Signalling (2021) (4)
Three scales: GIS, GPS and digital site and data recording technology in archaeological salvage at Olympic Dam in arid South Australia (2014) (4)
The conjoin sequence diagram: a method of describing conjoin sets (1986) (4)
Terminological Debate in the Upper Hunter Valley: Indurated Mudstone versus Tuff (2011) (4)
Early silcrete heat treatment in Central Australia: Puritjarra and Kulpi Mara (2020) (4)
Retouch intensity on Quina scrapers at Combe Grenal: a test of the reduction model (2015) (4)
Mysticism and reality in Aboriginal myth: evolution and dynamism in Australian Aboriginal religion (2020) (3)
5 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: archaeology (2013) (3)
Holocene Australia and the Pacific Basin (2009) (3)
A brief history of archaeological work in northwest Queensland (1984) (3)
Platypus Rockshelter (KB:A70), S.E. Queensland: stratigraphy, chronology and site formation (1988) (3)
Technological change at Bushrangers cave (LA:A11), southeast Queensland (1988) (3)
Archaeology threatens the world! Representations of archaeologists in cinema (2009) (2)
Appraisal of archaeological studies at Sandon Point, New South Wales. (2002) (2)
Australian lithic technology (2016) (2)
Lithic utility and risk: Examining mid to late Holocene stone points from Australia with a utility model (2021) (2)
Archaeology at the Northern Territory University: Update May 1993 (1994) (2)
The Pleistocene colonization and occupation of Australasia (2015) (2)
Small unifacial pebble cores from Fraser Island, southeast Queensland (1988) (2)
The archaeology of Australia's deserts (2017) (2)
Residue and use‐wear analysis of non‐backed retouched artefacts from Deep Creek Shelter, Sydney Basin: Implications for the role of backed artefacts (2019) (2)
The concept of cache: a reply to Morwood (1989) (2)
Coming to terms with the Northern Territory Heritage Conservation Act 1991 (1994) (2)
Reflecting on siliceous rocks in central Australia: Using advanced remote sensing to map ancient “tool‐stone” resources (2020) (2)
One method of recording scatters of stone artefacts during site surveys (1983) (2)
Prehistory of Australia [Book Review] (1998) (1)
Fivefold Helically Corrugated Waveguide for High-Power W-Band Gyro-Devices and Pulse Compression (2022) (1)
MORE ABOUT EDGE ANGLES: Reply to ‘A different angle’, W. C. Ferguson, AA 15 (1982) (1)
Film, Archaeology in (2020) (1)
Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood's Portrayals of the Past edited by Julie M. Schablitsky (2008) (1)
From Simple Suggestion to Complex Debate: Reply to 'Chipped Glass Houses', S.J. Hallam, AA 16 (1983) (1)
Axe Quarrying, Production, and Exchange in Australia and New Guinea (2021) (1)
Archaeology At The Northern Territory University: An Introduction (1991) (1)
The Creation of Time (1996) (1)
The evolution of Still Bay points at Sibudu (2021) (1)
Australia and the Pacific Basin during the Holocene (2013) (1)
Reverse knapping in the antipodes: the spatial implications of alternate approaches to knapping (2005) (1)
Measuring Artefact Reduction: An evaluation of Kuhn's Geometric Index of Unifacial Reduction (2005) (1)
Using satellite imagery to evaluate precontact Aboriginal foraging habitats in the Australian Western Desert (2021) (1)
Platypus Rockshelter (KBA:70), S.E. Queensland: chronological changes in site use (1988) (1)
Comment: the Missing Mousterian (2006) (1)
Red Queen in Australia (2023) (1)
Technology and Technological Change in Eastern Australia, the Example of Capertree 3 (2011) (1)
Aboriginal site selection at one outlier on Lawn Hill Station, N.W. Queensland (1984) (1)
Symbols, Signals, and the Archaeological Record (2014) (1)
Coastal cowboys: The development of speculative models of molluscan midden matter in the Darwin region (2005) (1)
Variability in Silcrete Heat Treatment at Klein Kliphuis Shelter, South Africa, and Its Role in Core Reduction (2023) (1)
THE NORTH QUEENSLAND DATA BANK: Comment on ‘It all hinges on stone: establishing a data bank for North Queensland prehistory’, M. Mardaga-Campbell et al., AA 14:67-71 (1982) (1)
Appendix: Radiocarbon dating (2008) (1)
THE NEED FOR A TBPHOROHIC PEBSPECTIVE IN STORE ARTEFACT ANALYSIS (2006) (0)
The Australian Archaeological Association Annual General Meeting 1984 (1985) (0)
Learning in Lithic Landscapes: A Reconsideration of the Hominid “Toolmaking” Niche (2014) (0)
Novel micro-cone target geometries produced for experiments on the Vulcan Petawatt laser (2009) (0)
Mines and quarries: Australian mines (1996) (0)
Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood's Portrayals of the Past [Book Review] (2008) (0)
Social identity and interaction during the Holocene (2008) (0)
Technology in the Holocene (2008) (0)
Early settlement across Australia (2007) (0)
Population growth and mobility (2008) (0)
Ritual and/or Transformation: The Anadara granosa-Dominated Shell Mounds of the Australian Tropics (2017) (0)
Arid zone economies in the Holocene (2008) (0)
BACKED BLADES IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA : EVIDENCE FROM (2016) (0)
Process or planning: depicting and understanding the variability in Australian core reduction (2006) (0)
Investigating hafting and composite tool repair as factors creating variability in backed artefacts: Evidence from Ngungara (Weereewa/Lake George), south‐eastern Australia (2023) (0)
Health and history: papers from a Central Highlands and Wimmera seminar 1985. (1985) (0)
Introduction: Global deserts in perspective (2005) (0)
Prehistoric populations: Australia and the Pacific (2003) (0)
Life in Pleistocene Australia (2008) (0)
The Perils and Promises of Cognitive Archaeology: An Introduction to the Thematic Issue (2017) (0)
Index of Archaelogical Features and Subjects (2005) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
Evolution of technology and tool use in 10,000 years of Aboriginal prehistory (2007) (0)
List of referees 2017 (2017) (0)
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK IN BORTEWEST QWElJSLhaD (1983) (0)
FOREWORD (2020) (0)
Holocene human occupation and environment of the southeast Australian Alps : New evidence from the Yarrangobilly Plateau , New South Wales (2010) (0)
Measuring Artefact Reduction-An E x am ination of K uh n ’ s G eom etric I ndex of Reduction (2005) (0)
Who were the first Australians (2008) (0)
Inland economies in the Holocene (2008) (0)
Aboriginal archaeological sites (1981) (0)
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Evolution of Silcrete Heat Treatment in Australia—a Regional Pattern on the South-East Coast and Its Evolution over the Last 25 ka (2019) (0)
Data grid for the management, reconstruction, analysis and visualisation of archaeological data (2006) (0)
Evolution of Microliths at Batadomba-lena, Sri Lanka (2022) (0)
Digging into the Supernatural World. Cinema's Intrinsically Religious Depiction of Archaeology. (2017) (0)
Correction to: Early silcrete heat treatment in Central Australia: Puritjarra and Kulpi Mara (2022) (0)
The North Queensland Data Bank (1982) (0)
The veil of Antipodean pre-history (2008) (0)
Extinction of Pleistocene fauna (2008) (0)
The ethnographic challenge: Change in the last millennium (2008) (0)
The arrival of humans in Australia (2012) (0)
Lithics as portable art (2018) (0)
Coastal economies in the Holocene (2008) (0)

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