Professor Andrew Fairbairn

Senior Lecturer & Professor

School of Social Science

+61 7 336 52780

a.fairbairn@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

I research ancient agriculture, plant use and human environmental impact in Turkey, Italy (Pompeii) and Australasia via the analysis of archaeological plant remains (seeds, fruits leaves etc)

I started my archaeological career in 1988, working on the excavation of Blawearie Cairn in my native Northumberland (UK). I studies at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL (London) gaining BSc Archaeology (1991), MSc Bio and Geoarchaeology (1992) and PhD (2001), specialising in the study of plant macrofossil remains, such as seeds, fruits, leaves and wood, from archaeological sites to reconstruct past environments and economic practices. I also developed a large consulting portfolio, working as an environmental archaeologist for the Museum of London Archaeology Service (1993-1994) and UCL Geoarchaeology Unit (1992-1993) and as an independent contractor (1994-2001). From 1999-2001 I worked as a research assistant for the Catalhoyuk Research Project, based at Cambridge University and during that time moved to Australia. From 2001 - 2004 I worked at The Australian National University in Canberra as a research assistant to the Engendering Roman Spaces Project and then received a research fellowship at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. I moved to UQ in January 2006. My research interests are currently focused on the origins of agriculture in Central Anatolia (Turkey) and the later development of the region's state economies. I also work in Australasia where I have been developing plant macrofossil techniques to disentangle ancient tree-fruit use and the development of food production in Papua New Guinea.

Publications

Book Chapters (13)

Journal Articles (68)

Conference Papers (4)

Book Chapters

Fairbairn, Andrew S. (2021). Agriculture in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age of Asia Minor. A companion to ancient agriculture. (pp. 211-239) edited by David Hollander and Timothy Howe. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118970959.ch11

Summerhayes, Glenn, Szabo, Katherine, Fairbairn, Andrew, Horrocks, Mark, McPherson, Shannon and Crowther, Alison (2019). Early Lapita subsistence: the evidence from Kamgot, Anir Islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Debating Lapita: distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. (pp. 379-402) edited by Stuart Bedford and Matthew Spriggs. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU.

Sobotkova, Adela, Ross, Shawn A., Ballsun-Stanton, Brian, Fairbairn, Andrew, Thompson, Jessica and Van Valkenburgh, Parker (2016). Measure twice, cut once: cooperative deployment of a generalized, archaeology-specific field data collection system. Mobilizing the past for a digital future: the potential of digital archaeology. (pp. 337-371) edited by Erin Walcek Averett, Jody Michael Gordon and Derek B. Counts. Grand Forks, ND United States: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.

Atici, Levent, Kulakoğlu, Fikri, Barjamovic, Gojko and Fairbairn, Andrew (2014). Introduction: integrating current research at Kultepe-Kanesh. Current Research at Kültepe/Kanesh: An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Approach to Trade Networks, Internationalism, and Identity. (pp. 1-4) edited by Levent Atici, Fikri Kulakoğlu, Gojko Barjamovic and Andrew Fairbairn. Atlanta, GA, USA: Lockwood Press.

Fairbairn, Andrew S. (2014). Plant processing technologies in archaeology. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. (pp. 5973-5978) edited by Claire Smith. New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_86

Fairbairn, Andrew (2014). Preliminary archaeobotanical investigations of plant production, consumption, and trade at middle bronze age Kultepe-Kanesh. Current Research at Kültepe/Kanesh: An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Approach to Trade Networks, Internationalism, and Identity. (pp. 177-193) edited by Levent Atici, Fikri Kulakoğlu, Gojko Barjamovic and Andrew Fairbairn. Atlanta, GA, USA: Lockwood Press.

Baird, Douglas, Fairbairn, Andrew, Martin, Louise and Middleton, Caroline (2012). The Boncuklu project: the origins of sedentism, cultivation and herding in central Anatolia. The neolithic in Turkey: new excavations and new research-central Turkey. (pp. 219-244) edited by Mehmet Özdoğan, Nezih Başgelen and Peter Kuniholm. Istanbul, Turkey: Archaeology & Art Publications.

Asouti, Eleni and Fairbairn, Andrew S. (2010). Farmers, gatherers or horticulturalists? Reconstructing landscapes of practice in the Early Neolithic. Landscapes in transition. (pp. 161-172) edited by B. Finlayson and G. Warren. Oxford, U.K.: Oxbow Books.

Fairbairn, Andrew S. (2008). Beyond Economy: Seed Analysis in Landscape Archaeology. Handbook of landscape archaeology. (pp. 442-450) edited by Bruno David and Julian Thomas. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press. doi: 10.4324/9781315427737-57

Fairbairn, A. S. (2006). Seasonality. Çatalhöyük perspectives : reports from the 1995-99 seasons. (pp. 93-108) edited by Ian Hodder. London/ Cambridge, UK: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, British Institute at Ankara.

Fairbairn, Andrew, Near, Julie and Martinoli, Daniele (2005). Macrobotanical investigations of the North, South and KOPAL areas at Catalhoyuk. Inhabiting Catalhoyuk: Reports from the 1995-1999 seasons. (pp. 137-201) edited by Ian Hodder. Cambridge, England, U.K.: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Keeley, H., Allison, E., Branch, N., Cameron, N., Dobinson, S., Ellis, I., Ellison, P., Fairbairn, Andrew S., Green, C., Hunter, R., Lee, J., Locker, A., Lowe, J., Palmer, A., Robinson, E., Stewart, J. and Wilkinson, K. (2004). The environmental evidence. The Dover bronze age boat. (pp. 229-249) edited by Peter Clark. Swindon, U.K.: English Heritage.

Asouti, E. and Fairbairn, Andrew S (2002). Subsistence economy in Central Anatolia during the Neolithic: the archaeobotanical evidence. The Neolithic of Central Anatolia, internal developments and external relations during the 9th-6th millennia cal BC. (pp. x-x) edited by Gerard, Frederic and Thissen, Laurens. İstanbul: Ege Yayınları.

Journal Articles

Miller, Imelda, Youse, Zia, Bickey, Tomasina, Haddow, Eve, Mate, Geraldine, Zubrzycka, Adele, Prangnell, Jonathan, Fairbairn, Andrew, Robinson, Helena, Baumgartl, Thomas and Flexner, James L. (2024). Developing a holistic and collaborative approach for the archaeology of Australian South Sea Islanders in Queensland. Archaeology in Oceania, 59 (3), 435-449. doi: 10.1002/arco.5330

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

Heywood, Sullivan, Spate, Michael, Betts, Alison, Jia, Peter and Fairbairn, Andrew (2024). Late Bronze Age agriculture and the early westward transmission of rice at Luanzagangzi, Northern Xinjiang, China. Holocene, 34 (2), 202-211. doi: 10.1177/09596836231211827

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

Pearson, Jessica, Evans, Jane, Lamb, Angela, Baird, Douglas, Hodder, Ian, Marciniak, Arkadiusz, Larsen, Clark Spencer, Knüsel, Christopher J., Haddow, Scott D., Pilloud, Marin A., Bogaard, Amy, Fairbairn, Andrew, Plug, Jo-Hannah, Mazzucato, Camilla, Mustafaoğlu, Gökhan, Feldman, Michal, Somel, Mehmet and Fernández-Domínguez, Eva (2023). Mobility and kinship in the world's first village societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120 (4) e2209480119, 1-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2209480119

Fairbairn, Andrew S. and Florin, S. Anna (2022). Archaeological identification of fragmented nuts and fruits from key Asia-Pacific economic tree species using anatomical criteria: comparative analysis of Canarium, Pandanus and Terminalia. Archaeology in Oceania, 57 (3), 160-188. doi: 10.1002/arco.5273

Florin, S. Anna, Fairbairn, Andrew S., Nango, May, Djandjomerr, Djaykuk, Hua, Quan, Marwick, Ben, Reutens, David C., Fullagar, Richard, Smith, Mike, Wallis, Lynley A. and Clarkson, Chris (2022). 65,000 years of changing plant food and landscape use at Madjedbebe, Mirarr country, northern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 284 107498, 107498. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107498

Lamb, Lara, Barker, Bryce, Leavesley, Matthew, Aubert, Maxime, Fairbairn, Andrew and Manne, Tiina (2021). Rock engravings and occupation sites in the Mount Bosavi Region, Papua New Guinea: Implications for our understanding of the human presence in the Southern Highlands. Archaeology in Oceania, 56 (3) arco.5247, 304-321. doi: 10.1002/arco.5247

Roberts, Patrick, Buhrich, Alice, Caetano-Andrade, Victor, Cosgrove, Richard, Fairbairn, Andrew, Florin, S. Anna, Vanwezer, Nils, Boivin, Nicole, Hunter, Barry, Mosquito, Desley, Turpin, Gerry and Ferrier, Åsa (2021). Reimagining the relationship between Gondwanan forests and Aboriginal land management in Australia's “Wet Tropics”. iScience, 24 (3) 102190, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102190

Florin, S. Anna, Roberts, Patrick, Marwick, Ben, Patton, Nicholas R., Shulmeister, James, Lovelock, Catherine E., Barry, Linda A., Hua, Quan, Nango, May, Djandjomerr, Djaykuk, Fullagar, Richard, Wallis, Lynley A., Fairbairn, Andrew S. and Clarkson, Chris (2021). Pandanus nutshell generates a palaeoprecipitation record for human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5 (3), 295-303. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-01379-8

Fairbairn, Andrew (2020). We don’t have as much agency as you think. Australian Archaeology, 86 (3), 297-298. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2020.1834183

Fairbairn, Andrew, Jacobsson, Piotr, Baird, Douglas, Jacobsen, Geraldine and Stroud, Elizabeth (2020). Settlement change on the western Konya Plain: refining Neolithic and Chalcolithic chronologies at Canhasan, Turkey. Antiquity, 94 (374), 342-360. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2020.13

Florin, S. Anna, Fairbairn, Andrew S., Nango, May, Djandjomerr, Djaykuk, Marwick, Ben, Fullagar, Richard, Smith, Mike, Wallis, Lynley A. and Clarkson, Chris (2020). The first Australian plant foods at Madjedbebe, 65,000–53,000 years ago. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 924, 1-8. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14723-0

Feldman, Michal, Fernandez-Dominguez, Eva, Reynolds, Luke, Baird, Douglas, Pearson, Jessica, Hershkovitz, Israel, May, Hila, Goring-Morris, Nigel, Benz, Marion, Gresky, Julia, Bianco, Raffaela A., Fairbairn, Andrew, Mustafaoglu, Gokhan, Stockhammer, Philipp W., Posth, Cosimo, Haak, Wolfgang, Jeong, Choongwon and Krause, Johannes (2019). Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia. Nature Communications, 10 (1) 1218, 1218. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7

Fairbairn, Andrew and Nesbitt, Mark (2019). Gordon C. Hillman: 20 July 1943 to 1 July 2018. Anatolian Studies, 69, III-IV. doi: 10.1017/S0066154619000012

Fairbairn, Andrew S., Wright, Nathan J., Weeden, Mark, Barjamovic, Gojko, Matsumura, Kimiyoshi and Rasch, Ron (2018). Ceremonial plant consumption at Middle Bronze Age Büklükale, Kırıkkale Province, central Turkey. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 28 (3), 327-346. doi: 10.1007/s00334-018-0703-x

Eastwood, Warren J., Fairbairn, Andrew, Stroud, Elizabeth, Roberts, Neil, Lamb, Henry, Yiğitbaşıoğlu, Hakan, Şenkul, Çetin, Moss, Andrew, Turner, Rebecca and Boyer, Peter (2018). Comparing pollen and archaeobotanical data for Chalcolithic cereal agriculture at Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 4-18. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.11.012

Muller, Antoine, Clarkson, Chris, Baird, Douglas and Fairbairn, Andrew (2018). Reduction intensity of backed blades: blank consumption, regularity and efficiency at the early Neolithic site of Boncuklu, Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 21, 721-732. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.08.042

Fairbairn, Andrew S. and Bar-Yosef, Ofer (2018). Forager-farmer transitions from East Asia to Sahul: regional and global perspectives. Quaternary International, 489 (Norw. Arch. Rev 17 1984), 1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.07.006

Nitsch, E. K., Lamb, A. L., Heaton, T. H. E., Vaiglova, P., Fraser, R., Hartman, G., Moreno-Jiménez, E., López-Piñeiro, A., Peña-Abades, D., Fairbairn, A., Eriksen, J. and Bogaard, A. (2018). The preservation and interpretation of δ34S values in charred archaeobotanical remains. Archaeometry, 61 (1), 161-178. doi: 10.1111/arcm.12388

Baird, Douglas, Fairbairn, Andrew, Jenkins, Emma, Martin, Louise, Middleton, Caroline, Pearson, Jessica, Asouti, Eleni, Edwards, Yvonne, Kabukcu, Ceren, Mustafaoğlu, Gökhan, Russell, Nerissa, Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Jacobsen, Geraldine, Wu, Xiaohong, Baker, Ambroise and Elliott, Sarah (2018). Agricultural origins on the Anatolian plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115 (14), E3077-E3086. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1800163115

Barjamovic, Gojko and Fairbairn, Andrew (2018). Anatolian wine in the middle bronze age. Die Welt des Orients, 48 (2), 249-284.

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

Bogaard, Amy, Filipovic, Dragana, Fairbairn, Andrew, Green, Laura, Stroud, Elizabeth, Fuller, Dorian and Charles, Michael (2017). Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: the 1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia. Anatolian Studies, 67, 1-28. doi: 10.1017/S0066154617000072

Fletcher, A., Baird, D., Spataro, M. and Fairbairn, A. (2017). Early ceramics in Anatolia: implications for the production and Use of the earliest pottery. The evidence from Boncuklu Höyük. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 27 (2), 1-19. doi: 10.1017/S0959774316000767

Dighton, Anne, Fairbairn, Andrew, Bourke, Stephen, Faith, Tyler and Habgood, Phillip (2016). Bronze Age olive domestication in the north Jordan valley: new morphological evidence for regional complexity in early arboricultural practice from Pella in Jordan. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 26 (4), 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s00334-016-0601-z

Baird, Douglas, Fairbairn, Andrew and Martin, Louise (2016). The animate house, the institutionalization of the household in Neolithic central Anatolia. World Archaeology, 49 (5), 1-24. doi: 10.1080/00438243.2016.1215259

Fenwick, Rhona S. H., Fairbairn, Andrew S., Hua, Quan and Matsumura, Kimiyoshi (2016). Settlement reorganisation and the rebirth of the Ottoman Empire: Bayesian modelling narrows dates for post-medieval occupation at Kaman-Kalehöyük, Kırşehir Province, Turkey. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 21 (2), 1-25. doi: 10.1007/s10761-016-0367-0

Kılınç, Gülşah Merve, Omrak, Ayça, Özer, Füsun, Günther, Torsten, Büyükkarakaya, Ali Metin, Bıçakçı, Erhan, Baird, Douglas, Dönertaş, Handan Melike, Ghalichi, Ayshin, Yaka, Reyhan, Koptekin, Dilek, Açan, Sinan Can, Parvizi, Poorya, Krzewińska, Maja, Daskalaki, Evangelia A., Yüncü, Eren, Dağtaş, Nihan Dilşad, Fairbairn, Andrew, Pearson, Jessica, Mustafaoğlu, Gökhan, Erdal, Yılmaz Selim, Çakan, Yasin Gökhan, Togan, İnci, Somel, Mehmet, Stora, Jan, Jakobsson, Mattias and Götherström, Anders (2016). The demographic development of the first farmers in Anatolia. Current Biology, 26 (19), 2659-2666. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.057

Wright, Nathan J., Fairbairn, Andrew S., Üstünkaya, M. Cemre and Faith, J. Tyler (2015). Explaining changing patterns of wood presence across the Bronze and Iron Age at Kaman-Kalehöyük, central Anatolia. Quaternary International, 431, 90-102. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.121

Wright, Nathan J., Fairbairn, Andrew S., Faith, J. Tyler and Matsumura, Kimiyoshi (2015). Woodland modification in Bronze and Iron Age central Anatolia: an anthracological signature for the Hittite state?. Journal of Archaeological Science, 55, 219-230. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.12.021

Fairbairn. Andrew S., Jenkins, Emma, Baird, Douglas and Jacobsen, Geraldine (2014). 9th millennium plant subsistence in the central Anatolian highlands: new evidence from Pinarbasi, Karaman Province, central Anatolia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 41, 801-812. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.09.024

Baird, Douglas, Asouti, Eleni, Astruc, Laurence, Baysal, Adnan, Baysal, Emma, Carruthers, Denise, Fairbairn, Andrew, Kabukcu, Ceren, Jenkins, Emma, Lorentz, Kirsi, Middleton, Caroline, Pearson, Jessica and Pirie, Anne (2013). Juniper smoke, skulls and wolves' tails. The Epipalaeolithic of the Anatolian plateau in its South-west Asian context; insights from Pinarbaşi. Levant, 45 (2), 175-209. doi: 10.1179/0075891413Z.00000000024

Fairbairn, Andrew, Kulakoğlu, Fikri and Atici, Levent (2013). Archaeobotanical evidence for trade in hazelnut (Corylus sp.) at Middle Bronze Age Kültepe (c. 1950–1830 B.C.), Kayseri Province, Turkey. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 23 (2), 167-174. doi: 10.1007/s00334-013-0403-5

Fairbairn, Andrew, Ross, Annie, Ulm, Sean, Nichols, Stephen and Faulkner, Patrick (2013). Keeping country: A web-based approach to Indigenous outreach in cultural heritage management. Australian Archaeology, 77 (77), 127-134. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2013.11681985

Magyari, Eniko K., Chapman, John, Fairbairn, Andrew S., Francis, Mark and de Guzman, Margarita (2012). Neolithic human impact on the landscapes of North-East Hungary inferred from pollen and settlement records. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 21 (4-5), 279-302. doi: 10.1007/s00334-012-0350-6

David, Bruno, Lamb, Lara, Delannoy, Jean-Jacques, Pivoru, Frank, Rowe, Cassandra, Pivoru, Max, Frank, Tony, Frank, Nick, Fairbairn, Andrew and Pivoru, Ruth (2012). Poromoi Tamu and the case of the drowning village: History, lost places and the stories we tell. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 16 (2), 319-345. doi: 10.1007/s10761-012-0183-0

David, Bruno, Geneste, Jean-Michel, Wear, Ray L., Delannoy, Jean-Jacques, Katherine, Margaret, Gunn, R. G., Clarkson, Christopher, Plisson, Hughes, Lee, Preston, Petchey, Fiona, Rowe, Cassandra, Barker, Bryce, Lamb, Lara, Miller, Wes, Hoerle, Stephane, James, Daniel, Boche, Elisa, Aplin, Ken, McNiven, Ian J., Richards, Thomas, Fairbairn, Andrew and Matthews, Jacqueline (2011). Nawarla Gabarnmang, a 45,180±910 cal BP Site in Jawoyn country, southwest Arnhem Land Plateau. Australian Archaeology, 73 (73), 73-77. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2011.11961928

Baird, Douglas, Carruthers, Denise, Fairbairn, Andrew and Pearson, Jessica (2011). Ritual in the landscape: Evidence from Pinarbasi in the seventh-millennium cal BC Konya Plain. Antiquity, 85 (328), 380-394. doi: 10.1017/s0003598x0006782x

O'Connor, Sue, Barham, Anthony, Aplin, Ken, Dobney, Keith, Fairbairn, Andrew and Richards, Michael (2011). The power of paradigms: Examining the evidential basis for early to mid-Holocene pigs and pottery in Melanesia. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 2 (2), 1-25.

McNiven, Ian J., David, Bruno, Aplin, Ken, Pivoru, Max, Pivoru, William, Sexton, Alex, Brown, Jonathan, Clarkson, Chris, Connell, Kate, Stanisic, John, Weisler, Marshall, Haberle, Simon, Fairbairn, Andrew and Kemp, Noel (2010). Historicising the present: Late Holocene emergence of a rainforest hunting camp, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 71 (71), 41-56. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2010.11689383

Summerhayes, Glenn R., Leavesley, Matthew, Fairbairn, Andrew, Mandui, Herman, Field, Judith, Ford, Anne and Fullagar, Richard (2010). Human adaptation and plant use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 years ago. Science, 330 (6000), 78-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1193130

David, Bruno, Geneste, Jean-Michel, Aplin, Ken, Delannoy, Jean-Jacques, Araho, Nick, Clarkson, Chris, Connell, Kate, Haberle, Simon, Barker, Bryce, Lamb, Lara, Stanisic, John, Fairbairn, Andrew, Skelly, Robert and Rowe, Cassandra (2010). The Emo site (OAC), Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea: Resolving long-standing questions of antiquity and implications for the history of the ancestral Hiri maritime trade. Australian Archaeology, 70 (1), 39-54. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2010.11681910

Fairbairn, Andrew (2010). The origins and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia and Europe. Environmental Archaeology, 15 (1), 99-100. doi: 10.1179/146141010X12640787648810

Summerbayes, G.R., Leavesley, M. and Fairbairn, A. (2009). Impact of human colonization on the landscape: A view from the Western Pacific. Pacific Science, 63 (4), 725-745. doi: 10.2984/049.063.0412

Fairbairn, Andrew (2009). Rethinking agriculture: Archaeological and ethnoarchaeological perspectives. Edited by T. Denham, J. Iriarte and L. Vrydaghs. Archaeology in Oceania, 44 (2), 119-220.

Denham, Tim, Atchison, Jennifer, Austin, Jeremy, Bestel, Sheahan, Bowdery, Doreen, Crowther, Alison, Dolby, Nic, Fairbairn, Andrew, Field, Judith, Kennedy, Amanda, Lentfer, Carol, Matheson, Carney, Nugent, Sue, Parr, Jeff, Prebble, Matiu, Robertson, Gail, Specht, Jim, Torrence, Robin, Barton, Huw, Fullager, Richard, Haberle, Simon, Horrocks, Mark, Lewis, Tara and Matthews, Peter (2009). Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: Practice, potential and prospects. Australian Archaeology, 68 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2009.11681884

Fairbairn, Andrew (2009). The Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic. Rob Swigart. Australian Archaeology, 68, 63-65.

Boggard, A., Charles, M., Twiss, K. C., Fairbairn, A., Yalman, N., Filipovic, D., Demirergi, D. A., Ertug, F., Russell, N. and Nenecke, J. (2009). Private pantries and celebrated surplus: Saving and sharing food at Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Central Anatolia. Antiquity, 83 (321), 649-668. doi: 10.1017/S0003598X00098896

Allison, P., Faulkner, P., Fairbairn, A. S. and Ellis, S. (2008). Procedures for Measuring Women's Influence: Data Translation and Manipulation and Related Problems. Internet archaeology, 24 doi: 10.11141/ia.24.6

Fairbairn, Andrew S., Martinoli, Daniele E., Buttler, Ann and Hillman, Gordon (2007). Wild plant seed storage at Neolithic East, Turke. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 16 (6), 467-479. doi: 10.1007/s00334-006-0069-3

Fairbairn, Andrew (2007). Book Review: The goddess and the bull: Catalhoyuk: An archaeological journey to the dawn of civilization by Michael Balter. Australian Archaeology, 64 (64), 54-56.

Fairbairn, Andrew (2007). Seeds from the slums: archaeobotanical investigations at Mountain Street, Ultimo, Sydney, New South Wales. Australian Archaeology, 64 (64), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2007.11681843

David, B., Fairbairn, A., Aplin, K., Murepe, L., Green, M., Stanisic, J., Weisler, M., Simala, D., Kokents, T., Dop, J. and Muke, J. (2007). OJP, a terminal Pleistocene archaeological site from the Gulf Province lowlands, Papua New Guinea. Archaeology in Oceania, 42 (1), 31-33. doi: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2007.tb00013.x

Fairbairn, AS, Hope, GS and Summerhayes, GR (2006). Pleistocene occupation of New Guinea's highland and subalpine environments. World Archaeology, 38 (3), 371-386. doi: 10.1080/00438240600813293

Fairbairn, Andrew (2005). An archaeobotanical perspective on Holocene plant-use practices in lowland northern New Guinea. World Archaeology, 37 (4), 487-502. doi: 10.1080/00438240500395748

Fairbairn, Andrew (2005). A history of agricultural production at Neolithic Catalhoyuk East, Turkey. World Archaeology, 37 (2), 197-210. doi: 10.1080/00438240500094762

Allison, Penelope M., Fairbairn, Andrew S., Ellis, Stephen J.R. and Blackall, Christopher W. (2005). Extracting the social relevance of artefact distribution within Roman military forts. Internet Archaeology (17) doi: 10.11141/ia.17.4

Fairbairn, Andrew and Omura, Sachihiro (2005). Archaeological Identification and Significance of ÉSAG (Agricultural Storage Pits) at Kaman-Kalehöyük, Central Anatolia. Anatolian Studies, 55, 15-23. doi: 10.1017/S0066154600000636

Fairbairn, Andrew and Swadling, Pamela (2005). Re-dating mid-Holocene betelnut (Areca catechu L.) and other plant use at Dongan, Papua New Guinea. Radiocarbon, 47 (3), 377-382. doi: 10.1017/S0033822200035153

Fairbairn, A. and Asouti, E. (2005). Evidence for olive use and deforestation at Jebel Khalid. Mediterranean Archaeology, 18, 190-191.

Fairbairn, Andrew (2003). Technical Notes on the Preparation of Leaf and Epidermis Specimens for Reference Collections and Archaeobotanical Investigations. Environmental Archaeology, 8 (2), 167-175.

Fairbairn A. (2003). Archaeobotany. Mediterranean Archaeology, 16, 182-183.

Fairbairn, A, Asouti, E, Near, J and Martinoli, D (2002). Macro-botanical evidence for plant use at Neolithic Catalhoyuk, south-central Anatolia, Turkey. Vegetation History And Archaeobotany, 11 (1-2), 41-54. doi: 10.1007/s003340200005

Conference Papers

Donaldson, James, Fairbairn, Andrew and McWilliam, Janette (2021). UQ's RD Milns Antiquities Museum: Current and Future Directions. Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community Conference 2021, Online, 28-30 January 2021.

Fairbairn, Andrew and Wright, Nathan (2017). Grinding burning and trading at Kultepe: Archaebotanical evidence for economic differences between settlements in Anatolia's Middle Bronze Age. Kultepe International Meeting, Kultepe, Turkey, 26-30 July 2015. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.

Fairbairn, Andrew, O'Connor, Sue, Barham, Tony and Alpin, Ken (2008). The archaeobotany of Taora, a mid-Holocene coastal rockshelter, Sandaun Province, PNG. Australian Archaeological Association, Annual Conference, Noosa, Australia, 3-6 December, 2008.

Fairbairn, Andrew, Wright, Nathan, Smith, Stephanie, Mantei, Reiner and Carah, Xavier (2008). The Online Seed Atlas Database. Australian Archaeological Association, Annual Conference, Noosa, Australia, 3-6 December, 2008.

Areas of research

Archaeology

Heritage and Museums