RADIOCARBON DATING LABORATORY PUBLICATIONS (1995-2009)

In press:

• Petchey F., D. Addison, A. McAlister. Re-interpreting old dates: Radiocarbon determinations from the Tokelau Islands (South Pacific). Journal of Pacific Archaeology 1(2): in press.
• Frédérique V., E. Herrscher, F. Petchey, D.J. Addison. An analysis of the last 1000 years human diet on Tutuila (American Samoa) using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data. American Antiquity.
• Petchey F, and G. Clark. A ∆R for the Palau Islands: An evaluation of extant and new ∆R values and their application to archaeological deposits at Ulong. Journal of Island Archaeology. In press.

2010:

• Clark G, F. Petchey, O. Winter, M. Carson, P. O'Day. New radiocarbon dates from the Bapot-1 site in Saipan and Neolithic dispersal by stratified diffusion. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 1(1):21-35.
• Anderson A., C. Sand, F. Petchey, T.H. Worthy. Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: Initial results of new research at the Pindai Caves. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 1(1):89-109.
• Ulm S., N. Evans, D. Rosendahl, P. Memmott, F. Petchey. Radiocarbon and linguistic dates for occupation of the South Wellesley Islands, Northern Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 45:39-43.
• Law W.B., D.N. Cropper, F. Petchey. Djadjiling rockshelter: 35,000 years of Aboriginal occupation in the Pibara, Western Australia. Australian Archaeology, 70:68-71.

2009:

• Petchey, F. Dating marine shell in Oceania: Issues and prospects. In: Fairbairn A., S. O'Connor and B. Marwick (eds), New Directions in Archaeological Science. Terra Australis, 28:157-172
• Gillespie, R., D. Fink, F. Petchey G. Jacobsen, 2009. Are the Mungo shells lying about their age ? Part I: reservoir effect. Archaeology in Oceania, 44:107-111.
• Addison, D., B. Bass, C. Christensen, J. Kalolo, S. Lundbald, P. Mills, F. Petchey, A. Thompson, 2009. Archaeology of Atafu, Tokelau: some initial results from 2008. Rapa Nui Journal, 23(1):5-9.
• Petchey, F, MS Allen, D Addison, A Anderson, 2009. Stability in the South Pacific surface marine 14C reservoir over the last 750 years. Evidence from American Samoa, the southern Cook Islands and the Marquesas. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36:2234-2243.
• S Ulm, F. Petchey, A. Ross. Marine reservoir corrections for Morton Bay. Archaeology in Oceania, 43:160-168.

2008:

• Petchey F., A. Anderson, A. Hogg, A. Zondervan, 2008. The marine reservoir effect in the Southern Ocean: an evaluation of extant and new ∆R values and their application to archaeological chronologies. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 38(4): 243-262.
• Petchey F., A. Anderson, A. Zondervan, S. Ulm, A. Hogg. New Marine ∆R values for the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre Region. Radiocarbon 50(3):373-397.
• Furey, L, F. Petchey, B. Sewell, and R. Green. 2008. New observations on the stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates at the Cross Creek site, Opito,Coromandel Peninsula, Archaeology in New Zealand, 51(1):46-64.
• Petchey, F. and D. Addison, 2008. Radiocarbon dating marine shell in Samoa - A review. Recent Advances in the Archaeology of the Fiji/West-Polynesia Region. Otago Anthropology Monograph Series. Eds D.J. Addison, T.S. Asaua, C. Sand. Dunedin: Otago University. Volume available here.
• D'Costa D.M., J. Palmer, A.Hogg, C. Turney, and J. Ogden, 2008. Stratigraphy, pollen and 14C dating of Johnston's Gum Hole, a late Quaternary fossil kauri (Agathis australis) site, Northland, New Zealand. Journal of Quaternary Science (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI:10/1002/jqs.1179.
• Carvalho, A.F., R.M. Dean, N.F. Bicho, I.Figueiral, F. Petchey, S.J.M. Davis, D. Lubell, M. Jackes, A. Morales, E. Roselló, R. Beukens. 2008. O lNeolítico antigo de Vale Boi (Algarve, Portugal): primeiros resultados. In: M.S.P. Hernández, J.A.S. Díaz, J.A.L. Padilla (eds.), IV Congreso del Neolítico en la Península Ibérica. Alicante, 27-30 November 2006: Museo de Arqueología de Alicante, Vol .

2007:

• Jones, M., F. Petchey, R. Green, P. Sheppard, M. Phelan. 2007. The Marine ∆R for Nenumbo: A case study in calculating reservoir offsets from paired sample data. Radiocarbon, 49(1):95-102.
• Turney, C.S.M., L.K. Fifield, J.G. Palmer, A.G. Hogg, M.G.L. Baillie, R. Galbraith, J. Ogden, A. Lorrey, and S.G. Tims, 2007. Towards a radiocarbon calibration for Oxgen Isotope Stage 3 using New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis). Radiocarbon, 49(2):447-457.
• Hogg, A.G., L.K. Fifield, J.G. Palmer, C.S.M. Turney and R. Galbraith, 2007. Robust radiocarbon dating of wood samples by high-sensitivity liquid scintillation spectroscopy in the 50-70kyr age range. Radiocarbon, 49(2):379-391.

2006:

• Hofstee, E., M. Balks, F.Petchey and D. Campbell. Soils of Seabee Hook, Cape Hallett, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, Antarctic Science, 18(4):14.
• Palmer, J. A. Lorrey A. C.S.M. Turney, A.Hogg and J. Ogden, 2006. Extension of New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) tree-ring chronologies into Oxygen Isotope Stage (OIS)-3. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21:779-787.
• Hogg, A.G., L.K. Fifield, C.S.M. Turney, J.G. Palmer, R. Galbraith and M.G.K. Baillie, 2006. Dating ancient wood by high sensitivity liquid scintillation counting and accelerator mass spectrometry - Pushing the boundaries. Quaternary Geochronology, 1:241-248.
• Van der Plicht, J, and A.G. Hogg, 2006. A note of reporting radiocarbon. Quaternary Geochronology, 1(4):237--240.

2005:

• Petchey, F. & Green R, 2005. Use of three isotopes to calibrate human bone radiocarbon determinations from Kainapirina (SAC), Watom Island, Papua New Guinea. Radiocarbon, 47(2):181-192
• Petchey F., Green R., Jones M. and Phelan M. 2005.A Local Marine Reservoir Correction Value (∆R) for Watom Island, Papua New Guinea. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology, (26):29-40.
• Vanedergoes, M., R.M. Newnham, F. Preusser, C.H. Hendy, T. Lowell, S. Fitzsimons, A.G. Hogg, H.U. Kasper, C. Schluchter, 2005. Regional insolation forcing of late Quaternary climate change in the Southern Hemisphere. Nature, 436:242-245.

2004:

• Higham, T.F.G., Bronk Ramsey, C., Petchey, F.J., Tompkins, C. and Taylor, M. 2004. New AMS radiocarbon determinations from Kokohuia, New Zealand. ¹⁴C and Archaeology, Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium, Oxford 2002 (eds. T. Higham, C. Bronk Ramsey, C. Owen). Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 62, Oxbow Books, Pp:135-51.
• Alloway, B., Pribadi, A., Westgate, J., Bird, M., Hogg, A.G., and Smith, I. 2004. Correspondence between glass-FT and AMS ¹⁴C ages of silicic pyroclastic density current (PDC) deposits sourced from Maninjau caldera, west-central Sumatra. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, V227, 121-133.
• Petchey, F., Phelan, M., White, P. 2004. New ∆R values for the southwest Pacific Ocean. Radiocarbon, 46(2):1005-1014.
• Hogg, A. 2004. Towards achieving low background levels in routine dating by liquid scintillation spectrometry. Radiocarbon, 46(1):123-132.
• Reimer, P.J., Baillie, M.G.L., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Beck, J.W., Bertrand, C.J.H., Blackwell, P.G., Buck, C.E., Burr, G.S., Cutler, K.B., Damon, P.E., Edwards, R.L., Fairbanks, R.G., Friedrich, M., Guilderson, T.P., Hogg, A.G., Hughen, K.A., Kromer, B., McCormac, G., Manning, S., Bronk Ramsey, C., Reimer, R.W., Remmele, S., Southon, J.R., Stuiver, M., Talamo, S., Taylor, F.W., van der Plicht, J., Weyhenmeyer, C.E., 2004. IntCal04 Terrestrial Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 0 - 26 ka cal BP. Radiocarbon, 46(3):1029-1058.
• Hughen, K.A., Baillie, M.G.L., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Beck, J.W., Bertrand, C.J.H., Blackwell, P.G., Buck, C.E., Burr, G.S., Cutler, K.B., Damon, P.E., Edwards, R.L., Fairbanks, R.G., Friedrich, M., Guilderson, T.P., Hogg, A.G., Kromer, B., McCormac, G., Manning, S., Bronk Ramsey, C., Reimer, P.J., Reimer, R.W., Remmele, S., Southon, J.R., Stuiver, M., Talamo, S., Taylor, F.W., van der Plicht, J., Weyhenmeyer, C.E., 2004. Marine04 Marine Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 0 - 26 ka cal BP, Radiocarbon 46(3):1059-1086.
• McCormac, F.G, Hogg, A.G., Blackwell, P.G., Buck, C.E., Higham, T.F.G., Reimer, P.J. SHCal04 Southern Hemisphere calibration, 0 – 26 ka cal BP. Radiocarbon 46 (3):1087–1092.

2003:

• Hogg, A.G., Higham, T.F.G, Lowe, D.J. Palmer, J.G., Reimer, P.J, and Newnham, R.M. 2003. A wiggle-match date for Polynesian settlement of New Zealand. Antiquity, 77(295):116-125.

2002:

• Cook, E.R., Palmer, J.G., Cook, B.I., Hogg, A.G., D'Arrigo, R.D. 2002. A multi-millennial palaeoclimatic resource from Lagarostrobos colensoi tree-rings at Oroko Swamp, New Zealand. Global and Planetary Change, 33:209-220.
• Hogg, A. G., McCormac, F. G., Higham, T. F. G., Reimer, P. J., Baille, M. G. L., and Palmer, J. G., 2002, High-precision radiocarbon measurements of contemporaneous tree-ring dated wood from the British Isles and New Zealand: AD 1850-950, Radiocarbon, 44 (3) 633-640.
• McCormac, F. G., Reimer, P. J., Hogg, A. G., Higham, T. F. G., Baille, M. G. L., Palmer, J. and Stuiver, M., 2002, Calibration of the radiocarbon time scale for the southern hemisphere: AD 1850-950, Radiocarbon, 44 (3) 641-651.

2001:

• Petchey, F., 2001. Radiocarbon Determinations from the Mulifanua Lapita site, Upolu, Western Samoa. Radiocarbon, 43(1):63-68.
• Higham, T.F.G and Petchey, F.J. 2001. Response to Holdaway and Worthy. Forum: Publication of supplementary data for 14C AMS ages. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 31(2): 453-456.
• Petchey, F. 2001. Notes and News: Appointment at Oxford University for Tom Higham. Archaeology in New Zealand 44(2):88-89

2000:

• Anderson, Conte, E. Clark, G. Sinoto, Y. and Petchey F. 2000. Renewed Excavations at Motu Paeao, Maupiti Island, French Polynesia: Preliminary Results.New Zealand Journal of Archaeology, 21 (1999):47-66.
• Higham, T.F.G and Petchey, F.J. 2000. On the reliability of rat bone for dating in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 30(4): 399-409.
• Lowe, D.J, Newnham. R.M, McFadgen, B.G and Higham, T.F.G. 2000. Tephras and Archaeology in New Zealand. Journal of Archaeological Science 27:859-870.
• Petchey, F.J and Higham, T.F.G. 2000. Bone diagenesis and radiocarbon dating of fish bone at the Shag River Mouth site, New Zealand. Journal of Archaeological Science 27, 135-150.
• Higham, T.F.G and Horn, P.L. 2000. Seasonal dating using fish otoliths: Results from the Shag River Mouth site, New Zealand. Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 439-448.
• Petchey, F. 2000. Radiocarbon Dating Fish Bone from the Houhora Archaeological Site, New Zealand. Archaeology in Oceania, 35:104-15.
• Higham, T.F.G. 2000. Maori Settlement of New Zealand. In, The Atlas of World Archaeology. (Ed) P. Bahn. Time-Life Books, Andromeda Oxford Limited, London. Pp-194-5.
• Higham, T.F.G. and Petchey, F.J. 2000. Radiocarbon dating in archaeology: methods and applications. In, Radiation in Art and Archaeometry. (eds) D. C Creagh and D.A Bradley. Elsevier Science B.V. Pp 255-84.
• McFadgen, B.G., Higham, T.F.G. and Sparks, R.J. 2000. New Zealand Radiocarbon database for Archaeology. Archaeology in New Zealand 43(4): 297-300.

Pre 2000:

• Higham, T.F.G, Anderson, A.J and Jacomb, C. 1999. Dating the first New Zealanders: the chronology of Wairau Bar. Antiquity 73:420-27.
• Petchey, F.J. 1999. New Zealand Bone dating revisited: A radiocarbon discard protocol for bone. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology 19 (1997), 81-124.
• Phelan, M. 1999. A DR Correction Value for Samoa from Known-Age Marine Shells. Radiocarbon 41(1): 99-101.
• Higham, T.F.G. 1999. Radiocarbon dating New Zealand archaeology: Abstracts from dissertations at the Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, University of Waikato, 1993-1999. Archaeology in New Zealand 42(2):151-159.
• Higham, T.F.G., McGovern-Wilson, R.J and Hogg, A.G. 1998. Chemical pretreatment and radiocarbon dating of samples from the prehistoric site of Killermont #2, Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology 18: 75-90.
• McCormac F.G, Hogg A.G, Higham, T.F.G, Lynch-Steiglitz, J., Broecker, W.S, Baillie, M.G.L, Palmer, J.G, L. Xiong, Pilcher, J.R, Brown, D and Hoper, S.T. 1998. Temporal variation in the interhemispheric 14C offset. Geophysical Research Letters 25(9):1321-4.
• Lowe, D.J and Higham, T.F.G. 1998. Hit-or-Myth? Linking a 1259 AD acid spike with an Okataina eruption. Antiquity 72: 427-31.
• Lowe, D.J., McFadgen, B.G., Higham, T.F.G., Hogg, A.G., Froggatt, P.C. and Nairn, I. A. 1998. Radiocarbon age of the Kaharoa tephra, a key marker for late Holocene stratigraphy and archaeology in New Zealand. The Holocene 8: 499-507.
• Hogg, A.G., Higham, T.F.G and Dahm, J. 1998. Radiocarbon dating of modern marine and estuarine shellish. Radiocarbon 40: 975-84.
• Higham, T.F.G and Lowe, D.J. 1998. Significance of an early date for a tree stump in Northland. Archaeology in New Zealand 212-219.
• Hoper, S.T., McCormac, F.G., Hogg, A.G., Higham, T.F.G and Head, M.J. 1998. Evaluation of wood pre-treatments on Oak and Cedar. Radiocarbon40: 45-50.
• Higham, T.F.G. and Hogg A.G. 1998. The Radiocarbon Chronology. In, The Excavation of Nong Nor. A Prehistoric Site in Central Thailand (C.F.W. Higham and R. Thosarat Eds.). Anthropology Department, University of Otago and Oxbow Books, Oxford. 1998. Pp 23-6.
• Schmidt, M.D and Higham, T.F.G. 1998. Origins of New Zealand’s Archaic East Polynesian culture revisited: The chronology of the Tairua archaeological site. Journal of the Polynesian Society 107(4): 395-403.
• McCormac F.G, Hogg A.G, Higham, T.F.G, Baillie, M.G.L, Palmer, J.G, L. Xiong, Pilcher, J.R, Brown, D and Hoper, S.T. 1998. Variations of Radiocarbon in Tree-Rings: Southern Hemisphere Offset Preliminary Results. Radiocarbon 40: 1153-1159.
• Taylor, J.E and Higham, T.F.G. 1998. Problems of Qumran's Chronology and the Radiocarbon Dating of Palm Log Samples in Locus 86. The Qumran Chronicle 8, no. 1/2; 83-94.
• Higham, T.F.G and Hogg, A.G. 1997. Evidence for late Polynesian colonisation of New Zealand: University of Waikato Radiocarbon Measurements. Radiocarbon 39(2): 149-192.
• Higham, T.F.G. 1997. Radiocarbon update: Internet Resources. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin January-June 12-13.
• Higham, C.F.W., Higham, T.F.G., Hogg, A.G and Thosorat, R. 1997. The excavation of Nong Nor, Central Thailand, 1991-93. In, R. Ciarla and F. Rispoli (eds) South-east Asian archaeology 1992. Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Rome, October 1992. Pp 175-189.
• Newnham, R.M., Lowe, D.J., McGlone, M.S, Wilmshurst, J.M and Higham, T.F.G. 1997. The Kaharoa Tephra as a critical datum for earliest human impact in northern New Zealand. Journal of Archaeological Science, 25(6): 533-44.
• Carroll, L.D., Gamble, J.A., Houghton, B.F., Thordarson, T and Higham, T.F.G. 1997. A radiocarbon age determination for Mount Edgecumbe (Patauaki) volcano, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 40:559-62.
• Higham, T.F.G. and Johnson, L. 1996. The prehistoric chronology of Raoul Island, the Kermadec Group. Archaeology in Oceania 31: 207-213.
• Higham, T.F.G. 1996. "Shellfish and Seasonality". In: Shag River Mouth: The archaeology of an early southern Maori village. (eds) Anderson, A.J., Allingham, B.J & Smith, I.W.G. Australian National University Research Papers in Archaeology and Natural History 27. ANH Publications, RSPAS, Canberra. Pp 245-254.
• Anderson, A.J., Smith, I.W.G and Higham, T.F.G. 1996."Radiocarbon Chronology". In: Shag River Mouth: The archaeology of an early southern Maori village. (eds) Anderson, A.J., Allingham, B.J & Smith, I.W.G. Australian National University Research Papers in Archaeology and Natural History 27. ANH Publications, RSPAS, Canberra. Pp 60-70.
• Hogg, A.G. and Higham, T.F.G. 1996. Elucidating climatic variation, 950-1950 AD. Wallac Worldwide (Spring 1996): 9-11.
• Higham, T.F.G. and Hogg, A.G. 1995. Radiocarbon dating of prehistoric shell from New Zealand and calculation of the DR value using fish otoliths. Radiocarbon 37(2):409-416.
• Lowe, D.J.; Hogg, A.G. 1995. Age of the Rotoehu Ash. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 38: 399-402.
• Hogg, A., Higham, T., Beukens, R., Kankainen, T., McCormac, G., van der Plicht, J., Stuiver, M and Robertson, S. 1995. Radiocarbon age assessment of a new IAEA Quality Assurance material. Radiocarbon 37(2): 797-803.
• Higham, T.F.G. 1995. Radiocarbon dating New Zealand prehistory with moa eggshell: Some preliminary results". Quaternary Geochronology (Quaternary Science Reviews), Vol. 13: 163-169.
• Hogg, A.G. 1993. Performance and design of 0.3 ML to 10 ML synthetic silica liquid scintillation vials for low-level ¹⁴C determination. International Conference on Advances in Liquid Scintillation Spectrometry 1992. J.E Noakes, F. Schonhofer and H. A Polach (eds). Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Hogg, A.G. 1992. Assessment of 0.3 ML minivials for radiocarbon dating by Liquid Scintillation counting of benzene. Radiocarbon 34(3):389-393.
• Hogg, A.G. and Noakes, J. 1992. Evaluation of high-purity synthetic silica vials in active and passive vial holders for Liquid Scintillation counting of benzene. Radiocarbon 34(3):394-401.
• Ogden, J., Wilson, A., Hendy, C., Hogg, A., and Newnham, R. 1992. The late Quaternary history of kauri (Agathis australis) in New Zealand, and its climatic significance. Journal of Biogeography. 19 : 611-622.
• Lowe, D.J. and Hogg, A.G., 1992. Application of new technology liquid scintillation spectrometry to radiocarbon dating of tephra deposits, New Zealand. Quaternary International 13/14:135-142.
• Lowe, D.J. and Hogg, A.G., 1992. Provisional chronology of a late Quaternary core from Lake Waikare, North Island, New Zealand. International Project on Paleolimnology and Late Cenozoic Climate 6:160-168
• Hogg, A.G., Polach, H., Robertson, S., and Noakes, J. 1989. Application of high purity synthetic quartz vials to liquid scintillation low-level 14C counting of benzene. In:Liquid scintillation counting and organic scintillators. (eds) Ross, H., Noakes, J.E., and Spaulding, J.D. Lewis Publishers. Pp123-131.
• Polach, H, Calf, G., Harkness, D., Hogg, A.G., Kaihola, L., and Robertson, S. 1988. Performance of new technology liquid scintillation counters for ¹⁴C dating. Nuclear Geophysics, 2:75-79.
• Clayton-Green, J.M., Hendy, C.H. and Hogg, A.G., 1988. The chronology of a Wisconsin aged proglacial lake in the Miers Valley, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 31:19-26.
• Hogg, A.G., Lowe, D.J. and Hendy, C. 1987. Waikato date list 1. Radiocarbon 29(2):263-301.
• Lowe, D.H, and Hogg, A.G.. 1986. Tephrostratigraphy and chronology of the Kaipo Lagoon, an 11,500 year-old montane peat bog in Urewera National Park, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 16:25-41.
• Hogg, A.G., and McCraw, J.D. 1983. Late Quaternary tephras of Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand: a mixed peralkine and calcalkine tephra sequence. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics 26.
• Lowe, D.H, Hogg, A.G., Green J.D., and Boubee, J.A.T. 1980. Stratigraphy and chronology of late Quaternary tephras in lake Maratoto, Hamilton, New Zealand. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics 23:481-485.

Conference presentations

• Valentin F. E. Herrscher, F. Petchey, D. Addison, 2007. Human diet in prehistoric Tutuila, American Samoa: Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence. The 7th International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific: Migration, Identity and Cultural Heritage. Gotland University, Sweden, Aug. 2007.
• Petchey, F., A J. Anderson, A.G. Hogg, A. Zondervan, 2007. Improving the shell chronology. New Zealand Archaeological Association Conference, Hanmer Springs, New Zealand, Jun 2007.
• Ulm, S. A.J. Barham, B. David, G. Jacobsen, I.J. NcNiven, F. Petchey, M.J. Rowland, 2007. Marine Carbon Reservoir variability in Torres Strait: Preliminary results of AMS dating of live-collected shell speciments. Abstracts from the IVII INQUA Congress Cairns, Australia Jul. 2007.
• Petchey F. A.J. Anderson and A.G. Hogg, 2006. The last migration: improving the shell chronology. 19th International Radiocarbon Conference, Oxford, England, 3-7th April..
• Petchey, F., 2006. Re-dating Kainapirina (SAC), Watom Island. 19th International Radiocarbon Conference, Oxford, England, 3-7th April.
• Carvalho, A.F., R.M. Dean, N.F. Bicho, I.Figueiral, F. Petchey, S.J.M. Davis, D. Lubell, M. Jackes, A. Morales, E. Roselló, R. Beukens, 2006. O lNeolítico antigo de Vale Boi (Algarve, Portugal): primeiros resultados. Congress on the Neolithic of Iberian Peninsula Alicante, Spain 27-30th Nov.
• Petchey, F., 2005. Marine reservoir variation in the South Pacific: Current and future research. Australian Archaeometry Conference, ANU, Canberra, 12-15th December.
• Anderson A., C. Sand, F. Petchey, T. Worthy, 2005. Archaeology, palaeontology and faunal extinctions in New Caledonia: A perspective from the Pindai Caves. Lapita Conference, Nuku'alofa, Tonga 1-7th August.
• Petchey, F. and R. Green, 2005. New human bone radiocarbon determinations from Kainapirina (SAC) Watom Island. Papua New Guinea. Lapita Conference, Nuku'alofa, Tonga 1-7th August.
• Higham T.F.G. C. Ramsey, F.Petchey, C. Tompkins and M. Taylor, 2004. AMS radiocarbon dating of Rattus exulans bone from the Kokohuia site (New Zealand). Radiocarbon and Archaeology Fourth International Symposium, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 9-14th April.
• Petchey, F. Hogg, A., Anderson, A., Ulm, S., A., 2004. Oceania Marine Shell Dating Project. Paper presented at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the New Zealand Archaeological Association, New Plymouth, New Zealand, Nov 30-5 Dec, 2004.
• Petchey, F.J., White, P. and Phelan, M. 2003. New DR values for the South West Pacifc. Paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Jindabyne, Dec 4-7 2003.
• Hogg, A., 2003. Paper presented at the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference, Wellinton, New Zealand, Sept 1-5, 2003.
• Petchey, F., White, P, and Phelan, M., 2003. New DR values for the Southwest Pacific. Paper presented at the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference, Wellinton, New Zealand, Sept 1-5, 2003.
• Petchey, F.J., White, P. Green, R., and Phelan, M. 2003. DR values for the South West Pacifc. Paper presented at the NZAA Conference, Alexandra, April 24-26 2003.
• Hendy, C.H., Almond, P. Fitzsimons, P.G., Hogg, A.G, Lowell, T., Newnham, R.M., Preusser, F., and Vandergoes, M. 2002. The Okarito Pakihi - The 'Grande Pile' of the South Pacific: A record of abrupt climate change over the past 160,000 years. Paper presented at the Second New Zealand Palaeoclimate Workshop, Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington 22 Feb 2002.
• Petchey, F.J. 2001. Problems and prospects of radiocarbon dating archaeological fish bones. Paper presented at Fish Remains Working Group, International Council for Archaeozoology Conference, Paihia, October 8-15, 2001.
• Petchey, F.J. 2001. The influence of diet and degradation on human bone radiocarbon determinations from New Zealand. Paper presented at the NZAA Conference, Akaroa, May 30-June 4, 2001.
• Gillies, K., Higham, T., Johns, D., Jones, M.D., Sutton, D.G and Wallace, R.D. 2001. Radiocarbon age for a canoe prove from site D49/28, Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand. Australasian Archaeometry Conference 2001. Australasian Connections and New Directions, Auckland, February 5-9, 2001.
• Higham, T.F.G., Hogg, A.G., Lowe, D.J., Palmer, J., Reimer, P. and Nairn, I. 2001. Precise age for the c. 650 Kaharoa Tephra using "Wiggle-match" dating. Australasian Archaeometry Conference 2001. Australasian Connections and New Directions, Auckland, February 5-9.
• Petchey, F.J. 2001. Radiocarbon dating human bone in the Pacific: Quantifying the influence of diet and degradation on radiocarbon dates from New Zealand. Australasian Archaeometry Conference 2001. Australasian Connections and New Directions, Auckland, February 5-9.
• Phelan, M.B. 2001. The identification of recrystallisation in marine shell samples for radiocarbon dating: An evaluation of techniques.Australasian Archaeometry Conference 2001. Australasian Connections and New Directions, Auckland, February 5-9, 2001.
• Barber, I.G and Petchey, F.J. 2001. Direct dating and assessment of environmental relations in short archaeological sequences: Two case studies from Golden Bay, South Island, New Zealand. Australasian Connections and New Directions, Auckland, February 5-9, 2001.
• Hendy, C.H, Adams, T.A., Almond, P., Anderson, B., Denton, G., Hogg, A.G., Lowell, T, Newnham, R.M, Preusser, F., Schlucter, C., and Vandergoes, M. 2001. Dating the wrinkles - fixing a timescale to the glacial geomorphology of South Island, New Zealand. Paper presented at the Geological Society of New Zealand Annual Conference, 27-29 November 2001.
• Hogg, A.G., Higham, T.F.G., Lowe, D.J., Palmer, J., Reimer, P. and Nairn, I. 2000. Precise wiggle-match dating of the Kaharoa Tephra. Geological Society of New Zealand, New Zealand Geophysical Society Joint Conference, Wellington, 2000
• Anderson, E. Conte, G. Clark, Y. Sinoto, and F. Petchey. Renewed Excavations at Motu Paeao, Maupiti Island, French Polynesia. Paper presented at Pacific 2000: Fifth International Conference on Easter Island the Pacific, Kamuela, Hawaii, August 7-12th, 2000.
• Petchey, F.. 2000. Radiocarbon dating bone at Waikato: Identifying problem samples. Paper given at the 2000 NZAA Conference, March 4-5th Wellington.
• Higham, T.F.G. and Petchey, F.J. 2000. Not all bones are equal: radiocarbon dating of bone at the Shag River Mouth site, New Zealand. Paper presented at the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference, Judean Hills, Israel, June 18-23, 2000.
• Hogg A.G., McCormac, F.G., Reimer, P.J., Higham, T.F.G., Baillie, M.G.L., Pilcher, J., Palmer, J.G., L. Xiong, Brown, D. and Hoper, S.T. 2000. Centennial scale cyclicity of the 14C interhemispheric offset in tree rings. Paper presented at the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference, Judean Hills, Israel, June 18-23, 2000.
• Hogg, A.G., Higham, T.F.G., McCormac, F.G., Reimer, P.J., Baillie, M.G.L., Pilcher, J.R., Palmer, J.G., Xiong, L., Brown, D and Hoper, S.T. 2000. Centennial scale cyclicity in the interhemispheric offset in tree-rings. Palaeoclimate Meeting, Wellington March 10, 2000.
• Petchey, F.J and Higham, T.F.G. 1999. Evaluation of sample type issues in the radiocarbon dating of Shag River Mouth. Paper presented at the NZAA Conference, Auckland, March 29-April 1, 1999.
• Petchey, F.J and Higham, T.F.G. 1999. Radiocarbon dating of fish bone at Shag River Mouth. Paper presented at the NZAA Conference, Auckland, March 29-April 1, 1999.
• Higham, T.F.G., Anderson, A.J and Jacomb, C. 1999. The chronology of Wairau Bar: New high precision radiocarbon determinations. Paper presented at the NZAA Conference, Auckland, March 29-April 1, 1999.
• Lowe, D.J, Newnham. R.M, McFadgen, B.G and Higham, T.F.G. 1999. Tephras and Archaeology in New Zealand and the timing of earliest Polynesian settlement. Paper presented at the NZAA Conference, Auckland, March 29-April 1, 1999.
• Higham, T.F.G. 1999. When did the first humans arrive in New Zealand? Keynote address presented at the ChemEd '99 Conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton, 30 June, 1999.
• Higham, T.F.G. 1998. Radiocarbon dating the earliest evidence for the prehistoric colonisation of New Zealand. 3rd International Symposium 14C and Archaeology, Lyon, France, 6-10 April 1998.
• Higham, T.F.G. and Anderson, A.J. 1998. Radiocarbon dating the earliest evidence for the prehistoric colonisation of New Zealand. 16^th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July 1998.
• Lowe, D.J., McFadgen, B.G., Higham, T.F.G, Hogg, A.G, Froggatt, P.C and Nairn, I.A. 1998. Radiocarbon Age of the Kaharoa Tephra, a key marker for Late Holocene stratigraphy and archaeology, New Zealand. Symposium Inter-INQUA et Inter-UISPP Tephrochronologie et Coexistence Homme-Volcans. Le Puy, France, 24-29 August.
• Newnham, R.M., Lowe, D.J., McGlone, M.S, Wilmshurst, J.M and Higham, T.F.G. 1998. The Kaharoa Tephra as a critical datum for earliest human impact in northern New Zealand. Symposium Inter-INQUA et Inter-UISPP Tephrochronologie et Coexistence Homme-Volcans. Le Puy, France, 24-29 August.
• Lowe, D.J, Newnham. R.M, McFadgen, B.G and Higham, T.F.G. 1998. Tephras and Archaeology in New Zealand and the timing of earliest Polynesian settlement. Symposium Inter-INQUA et Inter-UISPP Tephrochronologie et Coexistence Homme-Volcans. Le Puy, France, 24-29 August.
• Higham, T.F.G, Hogg, A.G, McCormac, F.G, Baillie M.G.L, Palmer J.G, L. Xiong and Brown, D. 1997. "Spatial and temporal variation of radiocarbon in tree rings - some preliminary results". 6th Australasian Archaeometry Conference, Sydney Australia, Feb 10-13, 1997.
• Higham, T.F.G and Horn, P. 1997. "The seasonal factor at the prehistoric site of Shag River Mouth, New Zealand". 6th Australasian Archaeometry Conference, Sydney Australia, Feb 10-13, 1997.
• Higham, T.F.G and Anderson, A.J. 1997. "Radiocarbon dates from Wairau Bar and their implications for the prehistoric colonisation of New Zealand". 6th Australasian Archaeometry Conference, Sydney Australia, Feb 10-13, 1997.
• Higham, T.F.G, Hogg A.G, McCormac F.G, Baillie M.G.L, Palmer J.G, L. Xiong and Brown, D. 1997. "Progress in building the Southern Hemisphere calibration curve; 1950 -950 AD". 1997 NZAA Conference Gisborne, April 1-5.
• McCormac F.G, Hogg A.G, Higham, T.F.G, Baillie, M.G.L, Palmer, J.G, L. Xiong and Brown, D. 1997. "Spatial and temporal variation of radiocarbon in tree rings: preliminary results for 1725 to 1945 AD". 1997 International Radiocarbon Conference Groningen, Netherlands, June 16-20.
• Hoper, S.T, McCormac F.G, Hogg A.G, Higham, T.F.G and Head, M.J. 1997. Chemical analysis of extracts from oak and cedar. 1997 International Radiocarbon Conference Groningen, Netherlands, June 16-20.
• Higham, T.F.G. "The seasonal factor at Shag Mouth". 1996. N.Z.A.A Conference, Whakatane, New Zealand. April 9-14.
• Higham, T.F.G. "The Prehistoric Chronology of Wairau Bar". 1996. N.Z.A.A Conference, Whakatane, New Zealand. April 9-14.

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