RESEARCH


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Research outputs


Kelly, Piers. 2020. “Australian message sticks: Old questions, new directions.”  Journal of Material Culture 25 (2):133-152. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183519858375.

Kelly, Piers, Junran Lei, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, and Lorina Barker. 2024. “AMSD: The Australian Message Stick Database.”  PLoS ONE 19 (e0299712). doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299712.

Kelly, Piers. 2024. “Comparing Australian message sticks and sequentially marked objects (SMOs) of the Upper Palaeolithic: Problems and opportunities.” Topics in Cognitive Science [Preprint]. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12762.

Online seminars

“The linguistics of message sticks”, University of Melbourne, 4–5pm, Friday 5 November 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KaF3XiC43s&list=PLO18-k5QWdmi_blaFuj8kAsrd4heAk3B7&index=5