Book Chapters
Kerkhove, Ray C., Silcock, Jennifer L., Williams, Douglas, Kotarba-Morley, Ania, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Wright, Nathan J., Morley, Mike W., Gorringe, Joshua, Scholz, Glen, Lowe, Kelsey M., Cemre Üstünkaya, M., Stephens, Samantha, Moss, Patrick T. and Westaway, Michael C. (2024). Fish Traps, Seed-Grinding and Food Stores : Reconstructing Complex Mithaka Indigenous Economic and Water Management Technologies. The Oxford Handbook of Global Indigenous Archaeologies. (pp. 1-69) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197607695.013.60
Lowe, Kelsey M. and Moffat, Ian (2024). Has Anything Changed? The Current Roleof Archaeo-geophysics in Australian Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Management. One World Archaeology. (pp. 3-24) Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-57900-4_1
Journal Articles
Adams, Shaun, Norman, Kasih, Kemp, Justine, Jacobs, Zenobia, Costelloe, Michael, Fairbairn, Andrew, Robins, Richard, Stock, Errol, Moss, Patrick, Smith, Tam, Love, Serena, Manne, Tiina, Lowe, Kelsey M., Logan, India, Manoel, Michael, McFadden, Karen, Burns, Darren, Dooley, Thomas, Falkiner, Zac and Clarkson, Chris (2024). Correction to: Early human occupation of Australia’s eastern seaboard (Scientific Reports, (2024), 14, 1, (2579), 10.1038/s41598-024-52000-y). Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 14309. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-65370-0
Ulm, Sean, McNiven, Ian J., Summerhayes, Glenn R., Wu, Pei-hua, Bunbury, Magdalena M.E., Petchey, Fiona, Hua, Quan, Skelly, Robert, Lambrides, Ariana B.J., Rowe, Cassandra, Lowe, Kelsey M., Reepmeyer, Christian H., Maclaurin, Cailey, Woo, Katherine G.P., Harris, Matthew, Morgan, Sarah B., Turner-Kose, Kayla L., Slater, Sarah A., Connelly, Joshua D., Kneppers, Michael C., Szabó, Katherine, Fairbairn, Andrew, Haberle, Simon G., Hopf, Felicitas, Bultitude, Robert, Ash, Jeremy, Lewis, Stephen E., Beaman, Robin J., Leon, Javier Xavier ... Cobus, Brian (2024). Early Aboriginal pottery production and offshore island occupation on Jiigurru (Lizard Island group), Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 333 108624. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108624
Kraan, Cluadia T., Kappers, Michiel, Lowe, Kelsey M., Maezumi, S. Yoshi and Giovas, Christina M. (2024). Radiocarbon dates from Curaçao’s oldest Archaic site extend earliest island settlement to ca. 5700 cal BP. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 19 (4), 871-878. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2024.2321575
Adams, Shaun, Norman, Kasih, Kemp, Justine, Jacobs, Zenobia, Costelloe, Michael, Fairbairn, Andrew, Robins, Richard, Stock, Errol, Moss, Patrick, Smith, Tam, Love, Serena, Manne, Tiina, Lowe, Kelsey M., Logan, India, Manoel, Michael, McFadden, Karen, Burns, Darren, Falkiner, Zac and Clarkson, Chris (2024). Early human occupation of Australia’s eastern seaboard. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 2579. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-52000-y
Barker, Bryce, Lamb, Lara, Leavesley, Matthew, Manne, Tiina, Fairbairn, Andrew, Coe, Andrew, Lowe, Kelsey M., Beni, Teppsy, Neanda, Betty and Aubert, Maxime (2023). A Holocene sequence from Walufeni Cave, Southern Highlands Province, and its implications for the settlement of the Great Papuan Plateau, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 89 (1), 47-65. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2023.2175960
Lowe, Kelsey M., Williams, Doug, Wright, Nathan, Gorringe, Shawnee, Gorringe, Josh, Andrews, Ian, Ustunkaya, Meltem Cemre, Gorringe, Betty and Westaway, Michael C. (2023). Ula Thirra: a case study in the geomagnetic detection of combustion features in Channel Country of far south-western Queensland. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15 (3) 30, 1-17. doi: 10.1007/s12520-023-01722-7
Lowe, Kelsey M. and Law, Eric (2022). Location of historic mass graves from the 1919 Spanish Influenza in the Aboriginal community of Cherbourg using geophysics. Queensland Archaeological Research, 25, 67-81. doi: 10.25120/qar.25.2022.3890
Westaway, Michael C., Williams, Douglas, Lowe, Kelsey, Wright, Nathan J., Kerkhove, Ray, Silcock, Jennifer, Gorringe, Joshua, Miszkiewicz, Justina, Wood, Rachel, Adams, Richard, Manne, Tiina, Adams, Shaun, Miscamble, Tony, Stout, Justin, Wrobel, Gabriel D., Kemp, Justine, Hendry, Brooke, Gorringe, Max, Gorringe, Betty, Lander, Keiron, Gorringe, Shawnee, Andrews, Ian and Collard, Mark (2021). Hidden in plain sight: the archaeological landscape of Mithaka Country, south-west Queensland. Antiquity, 95 (382) PII S0003598X21000314, 1-18. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2021.31
Lambrides, Ariana B.J., McNiven, Ian J., Aird, Samantha J., Lowe, Kelsey A., Moss, Patrick, Rowe, Cassandra, Harris, Clair, Maclaurin, Cailey, Slater, Sarah A., Carroll, Kylie, Cedar, Malia H., Petchey, Fiona, Reepmeyer, Christian, Harris, Matthew, Charlie, Johnny, McGreen, Elaine, Baru, Phillip and Ulm, Sean (2020). Changing use of Lizard Island over the past 4000 years and implications for understanding Indigenous offshore island use on the Great Barrier Reef. Queensland Archaeological Research, 23, 43-109. doi: 10.25120/qar.23.2020.3778
Barker, Bryce, Wallis, Lynley A., Burke, Heather, Cole, Noelene, Lowe, Kelsey, Artym, Ursula, Pagels, Anthony, Bateman, Leanne, Hatte, Elizabeth, De Leiuen, Cherrie, Davidson, Iain and Zimmerman, Larry (2020). The archaeology of the ‘Secret War’: the material evidence of conflict on the Queensland frontier, 1849–1901. Queensland Archaeological Research, 23, 25-41. doi: 10.25120/qar.23.2020.3720
Lowe, Kelsey M. and Wallis, Lynley A. (2020). Exploring ground-penetrating radar and sediment magnetic susceptibility analyses in a sandstone rockshelter in northern Australia. Australian Archaeology, 86 (1), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2020.1764172
Lowe, Kelsey M., Arthure, Susan, Wallis, Lynley A. and Feinberg, Josh (2020). Geophysical and archaeological investigations of Baker’s Flat, a nineteenth century historic Irish site in South Australia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12 (1) 33, 33. doi: 10.1007/s12520-019-01003-2
Giovas, Christina M., Kappers, Michiel, Lowe, Kelsey M. and Termes, Laura (2019). The Carriacou ecodynamics archaeology project: first results of geophysical survey and landscape archaeology at the Sabazan site, The Grenadines. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 15 (3), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/15564894.2019.1642969
Cuenca-Garcia, Carmen, Armstrong, Kayt, Aidona, Elina, De Smedt, Philippe, Rosveare, Anne, Rosveare, Martin, Schneidhofer, Petra, Wilson, Clare, Faßbinder, Jörg, Moffat, Ian, Sarris, Apostolos, Scheiblecker, Marion, Jrad, Abir, van Leusen, Martijn and Lowe, Kelsey (2018). The soil science & archaeo-geophysics alliance (SAGA): going beyond prospection. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 4. doi: 10.3897/rio.4.e31648
Burke, Heather, Barker, Bryce, Cole, Noelene, Wallis, Lynley A., Hatte, Elizabeth, Davidson, Iain and Lowe, Kelsey (2018). The Queensland Native Police and strategies of recruitment on the Queensland frontier, 1849–1901. Journal of Australian Studies, 42 (3), 297-313. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2018.1474942
Lowe, Kelsey M., Cole, Noelene, Burke, Heather, Wallis, Lynley A., Barker, Bryce and Hatte, Elizabeth (2018). The archaeological signature of ‘ant bed’ mound floors in the northern tropics of Australia: case study on the Lower Laura (Boralga) Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape York Peninsula. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 19, 686-700. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.008
Kenady, Selene L., Lowe, Kelsey M., Ridd, Peter V. and Ulm, Sean (2018). Creating volume estimates for buried shell deposits: a comparative experimental case study using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity under varying soil conditions. Archaeological Prospection, 25 (2), 121-136. doi: 10.1002/arp.1594
Kenady, Selene L., Lowe, Kelsey M. and Ulm, Sean (2017). Determining the boundaries, structure and volume of buried shell matrix deposits using ground-penetrating radar: A case study from northern Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 17, 538-549. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.12.015
Clarkson, Chris, Jacobs, Zenobia, Marwick, Ben, Fullagar, Richard, Wallis, Lynley, Smith, Mike, Roberts, Richard G., Hayes, Elspeth, Lowe, Kelsey, Carah, Xavier, Florin, S. Anna, McNeil, Jessica, Cox, Delyth, Arnold, Lee J., Hua, Quan, Huntley, Jillian, Brand, Helen E. A., Manne, Tiina, Fairbairn, Andrew, Shulmeister, James, Lyle, Lindsey, Salinas, Makiah, Page, Mara, Connell, Kate, Park, Gayoung, Norman, Kasih, Murphy, Tessa and Pardoe, Colin (2017). Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago. Nature, 547 (7663), 306-310. doi: 10.1038/nature22968
Twaddle, Robin W. , Sloss, Craig R. , Lowe, Kelsey M. , Moss, Patrick , Mackenzie, Lydia L. and Ulm, Sean (2017). Short-term late Holocene dry season occupation and sandy-mud flat focused foraging at Murdumurdu, Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria. Queensland Archaeological Research, 20, 9-46. doi: 10.25120/qar.20.2017.3588
Lowe, Kelsey M., Fogel, Aaron and Sneddon, Andrew (2017). Archaeological geophysical survey of a Prehistoric Bronze Age site in Cyprus (Alambra Mouttes)—applications and limitations. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 10 (8), 1-19. doi: 10.1007/s12520-017-0508-3
Burke, Heather, Wallis, Lynley A., Barker, Bryce, Tutty, Megan, Cole, Noelene, Davidson, Iain, Hatte, Elizabeth and Lowe, Kelsey (2017). The homestead as fortress: fact or folklore?. Aboriginal History, 41, 151-176. doi: 10.22459/AH.41.2017.07
Wallis, Lynley A., Davidson, Iain, Burke, Heather, Mitchell, Scott, Barker, Bryce, Hatte, Elizabeth, Cole, Noelene and Lowe, Kelsey (2017). Aboriginal stone huts along the Georgina River, southwest Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research, 20, 1-8. doi: 10.25120/qar.20.2017.3584
Lowe, Kelsey, Mentzer, Susan M., Wallis, Lynley A. and Shulmeister, James (2016). A multi-proxy study of anthropogenic sedimentation and human occupation of Gledswood Shelter 1: exploring an interior sandstone rockshelter in Northern Australia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 10 (2), 279-304. doi: 10.1007/s12520-016-0354-8
Lowe, Kelsey M., Shulmeister, James, Feinberg, Joshua M., Manne, Tiina, Wallis, Lynley A. and Welsh, Kevin (2016). Using soil magnetic properties to determine the onset of Pleistocene human settlement at Gledswood Shelter 1, Northern Australia. Geoarchaeology, 31 (3), 211-228. doi: 10.1002/gea.21544
Clarkson, Chris, Smith, Mike, Marwick, Ben, Fullagar, Richard, Wallis, Lynley, A., Faulkner, Patrick, Manne, Tiina, Hayes, Elspeth, Roberts, Richard, G., Jacobs, Zenobia, Carah, Xavier, Lowe, Kelsey M., Matthews, Jacqueline and Florin, S. Anna (2015). The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation. Journal of Human Evolution, 83, 46-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.03.014
Lowe, Kelsey M., Wallis, Lynley A., Pardoe, Colin, Marwick, Ben, Clarkson, Chris, Manne, Tiina, Smith, Mike A. and Fullagar, Richard (2014). Ground-penetrating radar and burial practices in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Archaeology in Oceania, 49 (3), 148-157. doi: 10.1002/arco.5039
Rosendahl, Daniel, Lowe, Kelsey M., Wallis, Lynley A. and Ulm, Sean (2014). Integrating geoarchaeology and magnetic susceptibility at three shell mounds: a pilot study from Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 49 (1), 21-32. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.04.017
Lowe, Kelsey M. (2012). Review of geophysical applications in Australian archaeology. Australian Archaeology, 74 (74), 71-84. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2012.11681936
Mehta, Jayur Madhusudan, Lowe, Kelsey M., Stout-Evans, Rachel and Connaway, John (2012). Moving earth and building monuments at the Carson Mounds Site, Coahoma County, Mississippi. Journal of Anthropology, 2012, 192923.1-192923.21. doi: 10.1155/2012/192923
Lowe, Kelsey M. and Fogel, Aaron S. (2010). Understanding Northeastern Plains Village sites through archaeological geophysics. Archaeological Prospection, 17 (4), 247-257. doi: 10.1002/arp.394
Conyers, Lawrence B., Ernenwein, Eileen G., Grealy, Michael and Lowe, Kelsey M. (2008). Electromagnetic conductivity mapping for site prediction in meandering river floodplains. Archaeological Prospection, 15 (2), 81-91. doi: 10.1002/arp.326
Lowe, Kelsey, Fuller, Richard S. and Blank Maher, Anne Marie (2008). Moving forward: post-Katrina archaeological investigations at the Oak Grove site (22HR502). Mississippi Archaeology, 43 (2), 142-166.
Conference Paper
Lowe, Kelsey, Tom, Enid, Westaway, Michael C., Swift, Jaime and Lau, Annie (2023). Unearthed burial from rising sea levels: a collaborative community approach for tackling climate change in the Torres Strait Islands, Australia. Society of American Archaeologists, Portland, OR United States, 30 March - 1 April 2023.
Thesis
Lowe, Kelsey M. (2014). Understanding Australia’s cultural history through archaeological geophysics. PhD Thesis, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2014.616