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Torrence, R. 2003. 'Like everywhere you've never been' : archaeological fables from Papua New Guinea, pp. 287-300 in Jeske R. and Charles D. K. (eds), Theory, Method and Practice in Modern Archaeology. Praeger, Westport Connecticut.

Torrence, R., 2002. Obsidian tools, the record of 200 years of museum collecting pp. 73-80 in Kaufmann, C., Kocher Schmid C. and Ohnemus S., (eds), Admiralty Islands: Arts from the South Seas, Museum Rietberg Zurich, Zurich.

White, J.P., Coroneos C., Neall, V., Boyd, W. and Torrence, R., 2002. FEA site, Boduna Island: Further investigations Monograph 25: pp.101-107 in Bedford, S., Burley, D. and Sand, C. (eds), Fifty Years in the Field. New Zealand Archaeological Association.

Torrence, R., 2002. The archaeology of cultural landscapes on Garua Island, PNG. Antiquity 76: 766-776.

Torrence, R. and Grattan, J., 2002. The archaeology of disasters: past and future trends pp. 1-18 in Torrence, R. and Grattan, J. (eds) Natural Disasters and Culture Change, Routledge, London.

Torrence, R., 2002. What makes a disaster? A long-term view of volcanic eruptions and human responses in Papua New Guinea pp.292-312 in R. Torrence and J. Grattan (eds) Natural Disasters and Culture Change. Routledge, London.

Torrence, R., 2002. Thinking big about small tools 12: pp.179-190 in Elston, R. and Kuhn, S. (eds). Thinking Small, Global Perspectives on Microlithization, Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association.

Araho, N., Torrence, R. and White, J. P., 2002. Valuable and useful: Mid-Holocene stemmed obsidian artefacts from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 68: pp. 61-81.

Lentfer, C., Torrence, R. and Therin, M., 2002. Starch grains and environmental reconstruction: a modern test case from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science 29: pp. 687-698.

Torrence, R., 2001. Hunter-gatherer technology viewed at different scales pp. 73-98 in Panter-Brick, C., Layton, R., Rowley-Conwy, P. (eds), Hunter-Gatherers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective,. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Lentfer, C., Boyd, W. and Torrence, R., 2001. Phytolith research relating to the archaeology of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea pp. 213-224 in Meunier J. M. and Colin, F. (eds), Phytoliths: Applications in Earth Sciences and Human History, A.A. Balkema Publishers, Tokyo.

Torrence, R. and White, J.P., 2001. Tattooed faces from Boduna Island, Papua New Guinea 17 pp. 135-140 in Clark, G. R., Anderson, A., and Vunidilo, T. (eds), The Archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania. Terra Australia Pandanus Press, Canberra.

Anderson, A. Bedford, S., Clark, G., Lilley, I., Sand, C., Summerhayes, G., Torrence, R., 2001. An inventory of Lapita sites containing dentate-stamped pottery. The Archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania. Terra Australia 17 pp. 1-14. Pandanus Press, Canberra.

Torrence, R., Pavlides, C., Jackson, P. and Webb, J., 2000. Volcanic disasters and cultural discontinuities 171 pp. 225-244 in the Holocene of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In McGuire, B., Griffiths, D., and Stewart, I. (eds), The Archaeology of Geological Catastrophes. Geological Society, London, Special Publications

Torrence, R. and Clarke, A., 2000. Negotiating difference: practice makes theory for contemporary archaeology pp.1-31 in Oceania in Torrence, R. and Clarke, A. (eds), The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania, Routledge, London.

Torrence, R., 2000. Just another trader? An archaeological perspective on European barter with Admiralty Islanders, Papua New Guinea pp.104-141 in Torrence, R. and Clarke, A. (eds), The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania,. Routledge, London.

Torrence, R. and Stevenson, C., 2000. Beyond the beach: changing Lapita landscapes on Garua Island, PNG pp.324-345 in Anderson, A. and Murray, T. (eds), Australian Archaeologist: Collected papers in honour of Jim Allen. Coombs Press, Canberra.

Therin, M., Fullagar, R. and Torrence, R. 1999. Starch in sediments: a new approach to the study of subsistence and land use in Papua New Guinea pp. 438-462 in Gosden, C. and Hather, J. (eds.), The Prehistory of Food,. Routledge, London.

Kealhofer, L., Torrence, R. and Fullagar, R., 1999. Integrating phytoliths within use-wear/residue studies of stone tools. Journal of Archaeological Science 26: 527-546.

Torrence, R., Bird, R., Bailey, G., and Johnson, P., 1999. Description of the procedures for PIXE-PIGME analysis at ANSTO. International Association for Obsidian Studies Bulletin 23: 22.

Torrence, R., Specht, J., Davies, H., Ainge, P. and White, P. 1999. A Pleistocene landscape in West New Britain. Australian Archaeology 49: pp. 44-45.

Summerhayes, G., Bird, J.R., Fullagar,R., Gosden, C., Specht, J. Torrence, R, 1998. Application of PIXE-PIGME to archaeological analysis of changing patterns of obsidian use in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea pp. 129-158 in M. S. Shackley (ed.), Archaeological Obsidian Studies, Plenum, New York.

Bonetti, R., Cesare, Di, Guglielmetti, P., Malerba, A., Migliorini, F., Oddone, E., Bird, J.R., Torrence, R. and Bultitude, R. J., 1998. Fission track dating of obsidian source samples from the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea and North Queensland and Eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 50: pp. 277-284.

Barton, H, Fullagar, R. and Torrence, R. 1998. Clues to stone tool function re-examined: comparing starch grain frequencies on used and unused obsidian artefacts. Journal of Archaeological Science 25: pp. 1231-1238.

Boyd, W. E., Lentfer, C. J. and Torrence, R., 1998. Phytolith analysis for a wet tropics environment: methodological issues and implications for the archaeology of Garua Island, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Palynology: pp 213-228.

R. Torrence, Dear Wal, 1997. Archaeology in Oceania 32: pp1-3. Bird, J. Torrence, R., Summerhayes, G. and Bailey, G. 1997. New Britain obsidian sources. Archaeology in Oceania 32: pp 54-60.

R. Torrence and Summerhayes, G. 1997. Sociality and the short distance trader: intra-regional obsidian exchange in the Willaumez region. Archaeology in Oceania 32: 74-84.

Boyd, B. and Torrence, R. 1996. Periodic erosion and human land use on Garua Island, PNG: A progress report 6: pp 265-74 in S. Ulm, I. Lilley and An. Ross (eds) Australian Archaeology '95: Proceedings of the 1995 Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Tempus, University of Queensland, St. Lucia.

Torrence, R., Specht. J., Fullagar, R., and Summerhayes, G., 1996. Which obsidian is worth it? pp.211-24 in Davidson, J. M., Irwin G., Leach, B. F., Pawley, A., and Brown, D. (eds), Oceanic Culture History: Essays in Honour of Roger Green, New Zealand Journal of Archaeology Special Publication, Dunedin.

Machida, H., Blong, R. J., Specht, J., Torrence R., H. Moriwaki, Y. Hayakawa, B. Talai, D. Lolok, C. F. Pain, 1996. Holocene explosive eruptions of Witori and Dakataua caldera volcanoes in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Quaternary International 34-36: pp.65-78.

Torrence, R. 1996. Trade, Prehistoric, in B. Fagan (ed.) Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp.718-20.

Torrence, R., 1996. Prehistoric obsidian trade pp.721-2 in B. Fagan (ed.) Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford,

Torrence, R., 1995. Lukluk bek long taim bepo. Past 20: pp. 1-2.

Torrence R. and Victor, K. L. 1995. The relativity of density. Archaeology in Oceania 30: pp.121-31.

Torrence, R. 1994. Strategies for moving on in Lithic studies, in P. Carr (ed.),

The Organization of Technology: North American Prehistoric Chipped Stone Technologies, pp. 123-31. International Monographs in Prehistory. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Torrence, R. 1993. Ethnoarchaeology, museum collections and prehistoric exchange: obsidian-tipped artifacts from the Admiralty Islands. World Archaeology 24: pp.467-81.

Summerhayes, G. Bird, R. Hotchkiss, M. Gosden, C., Specht, J. Torrence, R. and Fullagar, R. 1993. Obsidian sourcing studies in Papua New Guinea using PIXE-PIGME Analysis. Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Nuclear Techniques of Analysis pp.107-110, ANSTO, Lucas Heights,

G. Summerhayes, C. Gosden, R. Fullagar, J. Specht, R. Torrence, J. R. Bird, N. Shagholi, Katsaros A. 1993. West New Britain Obsidian: Production and Consumption Patterns, in B. L. Fankhauser and J. R. Bird (eds), Archaeometry: Current Australasian Research, Occasional Papers in Prehistory 22, pp. 57-68. Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Torrence, R. 1993. Obsidian tools: a study in prehistoric Melanesian trade, in The Encyclopedia of Humankind, volume 2, pp. 160-1. American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Crowe, D. and Torrence, R. 1993. Admiralty Islands spear decorations: a mini-catalogue of pmm patterns. Symmetry: Culture and Science 4: pp. 385-96.

Torrence, R. Specht, J. Fullagar,R. Bird, R. 1992. From Pleistocene to present: obsidian sources in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Records of the Australian Museum 42: pp. 83-98.

Torrence, R. 1992. What is Lapita about obsidian? A view from the Talasea sources, in J-C Galipaud, (ed.), Lapita et Peuplement, pp.111-26. ORSTOM, Noumea.

Torrence, R. The chipped stone pp. 175-195 in Cherry,J. F. J. L. Davis and E. Mantzourani (eds), 1991. Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History, UCLA Press, Los Angeles.

Torrence, R. Catalogue of chipped and ground stone from Kephala and Paoura pp. 196-8 in Cherry, J. F, Davis, J. L. and Mantzourani, E. (eds), 1991. Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History, UCLA Press, Los Angeles,

Torrence, R. and Fullagar, R., 1991. Obsidian exploitation at Umleang, Lou Island No. 20, pp. 113-143 in J. Allen and C. Gosden (eds) Report of the Lapita Homeland Project . Occasional Papers in Prehistory. Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

Specht, J. Fullagar R. and Torrence, R., 1991, 1990. What was the significance of Lapita pottery at Talasea? Volume 2 11: pp. 281-294 in P. Bellwood, (ed.), Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association

Torrence, R. Specht J. and Fullagar R., Pompeiis in the Pacific, 1990. Australian Natural History 23: pp. 457-63.

Torrence, R. Tools as optimal solutions pp. 1-6 in Torrence, R. (ed.), 1989. Time, Energy, and Stone Tools. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Torrence, R. 1989. Re-tooling : towards a behavioral theory of stone tools pp. 57-66. in R. Torrence (ed.), Time, Energy, and Stone Tools. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Torrence R and van der Leeuw S.E., 1989. Introduction: what's new about innovation? pp. 1-15 in S. van der Leeuw and R. Torrence (eds), What's New? A Closer Look at the Process of Innovation. Allen and Unwin, London.

Fullagar, R. Ambrose, W., Bird, R. Specht, J. and Baker, N. 1989. Stocktaking the rocks: obsidian sources in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the Sixth Australian Conference on Nuclear Techniques of Analysis, pp.187-189.

Specht, J. Fullagar, R. Torrence, R., and Baker, N. 1988. Prehistoric obsidian exchange in Melanesia: a perspective from the Talasea sources 27: pp.3-16. Australian Archaeology

Torrence, R., 1986. Chipped stone pp.90-6 in Davis, J. L. 1986. Ayia Irini: Period V. Mainz on Verlag Philipp Von Zabern, Rhine.

Torrence, R., 1986. Ground and polished stone pp.96-7 in Davis, J. L. Ayia Irini: Period V. Verlag Philipp Von Zabern, Mainz on Rhine.

Torrence, R. 1985. The chipped stone pp.469-78 in C. Renfrew, The Archaeology of Cult: The Sanctuary at Phylakopi. Thames and Hudson, London.

Torrence R., 1984. Monopoly or direct access? Industrial organization at the Melos obsidian quarries pp.49-63 in B. Purdy and J. E. Ericson (eds) Quarry Production Analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Torrence, R. 1984. Towards an economic approach to pressure blade technology pp.159-66 in Prehistoire de la Pierre Taillee, 2: Economie du Debitage Laminaire: Technologie et Experimentation. Cercle de Recherches et D'Etudes Prehistoriques, Paris.

Cherry, J. F. and Torrence, R. 1984. The typology and chronology of chipped stone assemblages in the prehistoric Cyclades pp.12-25 in J.A. Macgillivray and R. L. N. Barber (eds), The Prehistoric Cyclades: Contributions to a Workshop on Cycladic Chronology. Department of Classical Archaeology, Edinburgh.

Torrence, R. 1983. Time budgeting and hunter-gatherer technology pp.11-22. in G. Bailey (ed.), Hunter-Gatherer Economy in Prehistory: A European Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Davis, J., Schofield, E., Torrence, R., and Williams, D. 1983. Keos and the Eastern Aegean: the Cretan Connection. Hesperia 52: pp.361-6.

Torrence, R., 1982. Obsidian quarries and their use. In C. Renfrew and J. M. Wagstaff (eds), An Island Polity: The Archaeology of Exploitation in Melos. Cambridge University Press Cambridge, Cambridge, pp.193-221.

Cherry, J. F. and Torrence, R., 1982. The earliest prehistory of Melos pp.24-34. in C. Renfrew and J. M. Wagstaff (eds), An Island Polity: The Archaeology of Exploitation in Melos. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Torrence, R., 1981. Die Obsidiangewinnung und-bearbeitung auf der griechischen Insel Melos-- Ein Beitrag zum Tauschhandel. Der Anschnitt 3: pp.86-103.

Torrence, R., 1979. Macrocore production at the Melos obsidian quarries. Lithic Technology 8: pp.51-60.

Torrence, R., 1979. A technological approach to Cycladic blade industries pp.66-86 in J. L. Davis and J. F. Cherry (ed.), Papers in Cycladic Prehistory (UCLA Institute of Archaeology, Monograph XIV). University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

Cherry, J. F. and Torrence, R. 1979. Quantitative Distributional Data pp.173-80. in C. Renfrew et al., Investigations in Orkney. Thames and Hudson, London.

Torrence, R., 1978. Ports of trade in early Medieval Europe. Norwegian Archaeological Review 11: pp.108-11.

Torrence, R., 1978. Chipping away at some misconceptions about sampling lithic assemblages Series no. 50, pp. 373-98 in J. F. Cherry, C. S. Gamble and S. J. Shennan (eds.), Sampling in Contemporary British Archaeology. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, British.

Torrence, R.,1978. The Melos obsidian quarries: a case study in lithic technology pp.70-3 in F. Engelen (ed.), Third International Conference on Flint. : Netherlands Geologische Vereniging, Maastrict.

Torrence, R., 1975. "Comment" on Sheets' the structure of an industry: a behavioral analysis of Mesoamerican chipped stone. Current Anthropology l6: pp.386.

Cherry, J. F. and Torrence, R. 1973. An archaeological reconnaissance of Victorio Canyon, Hudspeth and Culberson Counties, Texas. In A Natural Areas Survey: Part I, Victorio Canyon. Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, pp.175-230.

Cherry, J. F. and Torrence, R. 1973. A reconnaissance of the archaeological resources of Matagorda Island, Texas. In A Natural Areas Survey: Part 2, Matagorda Island. Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, pp.175-230.

Cherry, J. F. and Torrence, R. 1973. An archaeological survey of Capote Canyon, Texas. In A Natural Areas Survey: Part 3, Capote Canyon. Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, pp.185-220.

Cherry, J. F. and Torrence, R., 1973. The current state of archaeological research in the Davis Mountains, Texas. In A Natural Areas Survey: Part 4, Mount Livermore and Sawtooth Peak. Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, pp.105-20.

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Books

Torrence, R. and Grattan, J. (eds) 2002. Natural Disasters and Culture Change. Routledge, London.

Torrence, R. and Clarke, A. (eds), 2000. The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania. Routledge, London.

Torrence, R. and White, J. P. (eds) 1997. For the Experimental Archaeologist: Papers Presented to Wal Ambrose. 32 (1). 15 chapters. Special issue Archaeology in Oceania

Torrence, R. (ed.), 1989. Time, Energy and Stone Tools. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Van der Leeuw S. E. and Torrence, R. (eds), 1989. What's New? A Closer Look at the Process of Innovation . Allen and Unwin, London.

Torrence, R. 1986. Production and Exchange of Stone Tools: Prehistoric Obsidian in the Aegean. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Torrence, R., and Cherry, J. (eds), Binford, L. R., 1983. In Pursuit of the Past. Thames and Hudson (reprinted University of California Press 2002), London.

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Museum exhibitions

Torrence, R. and Colley, S. Lukluk Bek Long Taim Bepo: Community Archaeology in West New Britain. October 1993-May 1994 at the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney.

Torrence, R. and Colley, S. How do Archaeologists Study the Past? at the National Museum and Art Galley of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby. From June 1995.

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Publications and reports - West New Britain Archaeological Project

(from 1992-2001)

Barton, H., Fullagar, R. and Torrence, R. 1998 Clues to stone tool function re-examined: comparing starch grain frequencies on used and unused obsidian artefacts. Journal of Archaeological Science 25: 1231-1238.

Bird, R., Torrence, R., Summerhayes, G. and Bailey, G. 1997. New Britain obsidian sources. Archaeology in Oceania 32: 61-67.

Bonetti, R., Di Cesare, P., Guglielmetti, A., Malerba, F., Migliorini, E., Oddone, M., Bird, J. R., Torrence, R. and Bultitude, R. J. 1997 Fission track dating of obsidian source samples from the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea and North Queensland and Eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 50: 277-284.

Boyd, W. E.. and R. Torrence 1996 Periodic erosion and human land use on Garua Island, PNG: a progress report. In S. Ulm, I. Lilley and A. Ross (eds.) Australian Archaeology 95. pp. 255-74. St. Lucia, University of Queensland.

Boyd, W. E., Lentfer, C. J. and Torrence, R. 1998 Phytolith analysis for a wet tropics environment: methodological issues and implications for the archaeology of Garua Island, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Palynology 22: 213-228.

Kealhofer, L. Torrence, R. and Fullagar, R. 1999 Integrating phytoliths within use-wear studies of stone tools. Journal of Archaeological Science 26: 527-546.

Lentfer, C. 1995 Ethnobotanical research in West New Britain and the Forestry Research Insitute Hermarium, Lae, PNG. Report to the WNB Provincial Government.

Lentfer, C., Boyd. W. and Torrence, R. 2001 Phytolith research relating to the archaeology of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. J. M. Meunier and F. Colin (eds), Phytoliths: Applications in Earth Sciences and Human History, pp. 213-224. Tokyo: A.A. Balkema Publishers.

Lentfer, C., Therin, M. and Torrence, R. in press Starch grains and environmental reconstruction: a modern test cse from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science.

Parr, J. 1999 The Spatial Patterning of Palaeo-Forest Disturbance at an Archaeological Site on Garua Island, West New Britian, as indicated by Fossil Phytoliths. B. App. Sci. Honours Thesis. School of Resource Science and Management, Southern Cross University.

Summerhayes, G., Bird, J., Fullagar, R., Gosden, C., Specht, J., and Torrence, R. 1998 Application of PIGME-PIXE to archaeological analysis of changing patterns of obsidian use in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In S. Shackley (ed.) Archaeological Obsidian Studies: Method and Theory, pp. 181-204. New York: Plenum Press.

Therin, M. 1994 Subsistence through Starch. B.A. (Hons.) Thesis, Sydney.

Therin, M. 1998 The movement of starch grains in sediments. In A Closer Look: Australian Studies of Stone Tools, 61-72. Sydney: University of Sydney Archaeological Computing Laboratory.

Therin, M., Fullagar, R. and Torrence, R. 1999 Starch in sediments: a new approach to the study of subsistence and land use in Papua New Guinea. In C. Gosden and J. Hather (eds) Food in Prehistory, pp. 438-462. London: Routledge.

Therin, M., Torrence, R. and Fullagar, R. 1997. Australian Museum starch reference collection. Australian Archaeology 44: 52-53.

Torrence, R. 1992 What is Lapita about obsidian: a view from the Talasea sources. In J-C Galipaud (ed.) Poterie Lapita et Peuplement, pp. 111-126. ORSTOM: Noumea.

Torrence, R. 1993 Archaeological research on Garua Island, WNB, PNG. June-July 1992. Report submitted to government agencies in Papua New Guinea.

Torrence, R. 1994 Strategies for moving on in lithic studies. In P. Carr (ed.), The Organization of Technology, pp. 123-31. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.

Torrence, R. 1995 Archaeological and ethnobotanical fieldwork in West New Britain province, PNG. June-July 1995. Report submitted to government agencies in Papua New Guinea.

Torrence, R. 2000 Archaeological fieldwork in West New Britain, PNG. May-June 2000. Report submitted to government agencies in Papua New Guinea.

Torrence, R. 2001 Archaeological Fieldwork in West New Britain, PNG. Report submitted to government agencies in Papua New Guinea

Torrence, R. in press 'Like everywhere you've never been': archaeological fables from Papua New Guinea. In Theory, Method and Practice in Modern Archaeology, R. Jeske and D. Charles (eds). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Torrence, R. in press What makes a disaster? A long-term view of volcanic eruptions and human responses in Papua New Guinea. In Natural Disasters, Catastrophism, and Cultural Change, R. Torrence, and J. Grattan (eds). London: Routledge. Expected June 2002.

Torrence, R. in press The archaeology of cultural landscapes on Garua Island, PNG. Antiquity. Expected June 2002.

Torrence, R. and B. Boyd 1996 Archaeological fieldwork on Garua Island, West New Britain, PNG. June-August 1996. Report submitted to government agencies in Papua New Guinea.

Torrence, R. and B. Boyd 1997 Archaeological fieldwork on Garua Island, West New Britain, PNG. June-August 1996. Report submitted to government agencies in Papua New Guinea.

Torrence, R. and Stevenson, C. 2000. Beyond the beach: changing Lapita landscapes on Garua Island, PNG. In Australian Archaeology. Collected Papers in Honour of Jim Allen, T. Murray, and A. Anderson. (eds) pp. 324-345. Canberra: Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Torrence, R. and White, J. P. 2001 The faces of Lapita. In The Fifth Lapita Conference, A. Anderson, G. Clark (eds). Canberra: Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Torrence, R. and Summerhayes. G. 1997 Sociality and the short distance trader: intro-regional obsidian exchange in the Willaumez region, Papua New Guinea. Archaeology in Oceania 32: 74-84.

Torrence, R. and Victor, K. 1995 The relativity of density. Archaeology in Oceania 30: 121-131.

Torrence, R. and Webb, J. 1992 Report on archaeological research on Garua Island, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, July-August 1992. Report submitted to government agencies in Papua New Guinea

Torrence, R., Specht, J. Fullagar, R. and Summerhayes, G. 1996 Which obsidian is worth it? in J. M. Davidson, G. Irwin, B. F. Leach, A. Pawley, and D. Brown (eds.), Oceanic Culture History: Essays in Honour of Roger Green, pp.211-24. Dunedin: New Zealand Journal of Archaeology Special Publication.

Torrence, R., Specht, J., Davies, H., Ainge, P., White, J. 1999. A Pleistocene landscape in West New Britain. Australian Archaeology 49: 44-45.

Torrence, R. Specht, J. and Boyd, B. 1998 Archaeological fieldwork in West New Britain, September-October. Report submitted to government agencies in Papua New Guinea.

Torrence, R., Specht, J. and Boyd, B. 1999 Archaeological fieldwork on Numundo and Garu Plantations, West New Britain, PNG. Report submitted to government agencies in Papua New Guinea.

Torrence, R., Pavlides, C. Jackson, P & Webb, J. 2000. Volcanic disasters and cultural discontinuities in the Holocene of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In The Archaeology of Geological Catastrophes, McGuire, B. Griffiths, D & Stewart, I (eds), 225-244. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 171. London: Geological Society of London.

White, P, Coroneos, C., Neall, V., Boyd, W. and Torrence, R. in press FEA site, Boduna Island: microcosm of the early Lapita period? In Fifty Years in the Field, S Bedford and C. Sand (eds). Expected July 2002.

White, P. and Torrence, R. 1996 Peeling the past. Paradise 117: 15-18.

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