Publications
Below is the full and unabridged list of publications I have led or contributed to, in no particular order. If you are looking for a copy of a paper, but can’t get past a paywall, please email me for a preprint.
Burke, H., Morrison, M. J., & Smith, C. (2017). The archaeologist's field handbook: The essential guide for beginners and professionals in Australia. Allen & Unwin.
Burke, H., Roberts, A., Morrison, M. J., Sullivan, V., & The River Murray-Mallee Aboriginal Corporation. (2016). The space of conflict: Aboriginal/European interactions and frontier violence on the western Central Murray, South Australia, 1830-41. Aboriginal History, 40, 145–179. https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.40.2016.06
Dardengo, M., Roberts, A., & Morrison, M. J. (2019). An archaeological investigation of local Aboriginal responses to European colonisation in the South Australian Riverland via and assessment of culturally modified trees. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 43, 33–70.
Jones, R., Morrison, M. J., & Roberts, A. (2017). An analysis of Indigenous earth mounds on the Calperum floodplain, Riverland, South Australia. Journal Anthropological Society of South Australia, 41, 18–62.
McNaughton, D., Morrison, M. J., & Schill, C. (2016). 'My Country is like my Mother…': Respect, care, interaction and closeness as principles for undertaking cultural heritage assessments. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 22(6), 415–433. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2016.1165277
Morrison, M. (2012). Indigenous Archaeologies: A Reader on Decolonization, and: Bridging the Divide: Indigenous Communities and Archaeology into the 21st Century (review). Collaborative Anthropologies, 5(1), 147–153. https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2012.0008
Morrison, M. J. (2003a). Old boundaries and new horizons: The Weipa shell mounds reconsidered. Archaeology in Oceania, 38(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/J.1834-4453.2003.TB00516.X
Morrison, M. J. (2003b). Old boundaries and new horizons: The Weipa shell mounds reconsidered. Archaeology in Oceania, 38(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4453.2003.tb00516.x
Morrison, M. J. (2006). Book Review: The archaeology of time by Gavin Lucas. Australian Archaeology, 62, 55–56.
Morrison, M. J. (2013a). From scatter to mound: A new developmental model for shell mound sites at Weipa. Queensland Archaeological Research, 16, 165–184. https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.16.2013.228
Morrison, M. J. (2013b). From scatter to mound: A new developmental model for shell mound sites at Weipa. Queensland Archaeological Research, 16, 165–184. https://doi.org/10.25120/qar.16.2013.228
Morrison, M. J. (2013c). Niche production strategies and shell matrix site variability at Albatross Bay, Cape York Peninsula. Archaeology in Oceania, 48(2), 78–91. https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.5002
Morrison, M. J. (2014). Chronological trends in late Holocene shell mound construction across northern Australia: Insights from Albatross Bay, Cape York Peninsula. Australian Archaeology, 79, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2014.11682014
Morrison, M. J. (2015). Late-Holocene Aboriginal shellfish production strategies in northern Australia: Insights from Prunung (Red Beach), Weipa, Cape York Peninsula. Queensland Archaeological Research, 18, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.18.2015.3498
Morrison, M. J., Della-Sale, A., & McNaughton, D. (2019). War Capitalism and the Expropriation of Country: Spatial Analysis of Indigenous and Settler-Colonial Entanglements in North Eastern Australia, 1864–1939. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 23(1), 204–234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-018-0463-4
Morrison, M. J., McNaughton, D., & Keating, C. (2015). "Their God is their belly": Moravian missionaries at the Weipa Mission (1898-1932), Cape York Peninsula. Archaeology in Oceania, 50(2), 85–104. https://doi.org/10.1002/ARCO.5061
Morrison, M. J., McNaughton, D., & Shiner, J. (2010). Mission-Based Indigenous Production at the Weipa Presbyterian Mission, Western Cape York Peninsula (1932–66). International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 14(1), 86–111. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10761-009-0096-8
Morrison, M. J., & Shepard, E. (2013). The archaeology of culturally modified trees: Indigenous economic diversification within colonial intercultural settings in Cape York Peninsula, northeastern Australia. Journal of Field Archaeology, 38(2), 143–160. https://doi.org/10.1179/0093469013Z.00000000044
Morrison, M. J., Shepard, E., McNaughton, D. A., & Allen, K. (2012a). New approaches to the archaeological investigation of culturally modified trees: A case study from western Cape York Peninsula. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 35, 17–51.
Morrison, M. J., Shepard, E., McNaughton, D. A., & Allen, K. (2012b). New approaches to the archaeological investigation of culturally modified trees: A case study from western Cape York Peninsula. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 35, 17–51.
Morrison, M. J., Wight, C., & Evans, E. (2018). Report on excavation of a shell mound site at Mandjungaar, western Cape York Peninsula. Queensland Archaeological Research, 21(0), 13–26. https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.21.2018.3637
Morrison, M., Roberts, A., McNaughton, D., Westell, C., Jones, R., Napranum Aboriginal Shire Council, & River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation. (2022). Earth oven cookery and cuisines in Aboriginal Australia: Ethnographic and ethnohistoric insights from Western Cape York Peninsula and the Southern Murray Darling Basin. Australian Archaeology, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2022.2089395
Roberts, A., Duivenvoorde, W., Morrison, M. J., Moffat, I., Burke, H., Kowlessar, J., & Naumann, J. (2016). 'They call'im Crowie': An investigation of the Aboriginal significance attributed to a wrecked River Murray barge in South Australia. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 46(1), 132–148. https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12208
Roberts, A., Morton, C., Westell, C., Burke, H., Morrison, M. J., Murray, the R., & Corporation, M. A. (2020). A report on a tektite (australite) artefact from Calperum Station in the western central River Murray region, South Australia. Australian Archaeology, 0(0), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2020.1752432
Ross, D., Morrison, M., Simyrdanis, K., Roberts, A., & Moffat, I. (2019). A geophysical analysis of Aboriginal earth mounds in the Murray River Valley, South Australia. Archaeological Prospection, 26(4), 313–323. https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1746
Shiner, J., & Morrison, M. J. (2009). The contribution of heritage surveys towards understanding the cultural landscape of the Weipa bauxite plateau. Australian Archaeology, 68, 52–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2009.11681890
Smith, C., Burke, H., Ralph, J., Pollard, K., Gorman, A., Wilson, C., Hemming, S., Rigney, D., Wesley, D., Morrison, M. J., McNaughton, D., Domingo, I., Moffat, I., Roberts, A., Koolmatrie, J., Willika, J., Pamkal, B., & Jackson, G. (2019). Pursuing Social Justice Through Collaborative Archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia. Archaeologies, 15(3), 536–569. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-019-09382-7
Stephens, L., Fuller, D., Boivin, N., Rick, T., Gauthier, N., Kay, A., Marwick, B., Geralda, C., Armstrong, D., Barton, C. M., Denham, T., Douglass, K., Driver, J., Janz, L., Roberts, P., Rogers, J. D., Thakar, H., Altaweel, M., Johnson, A. L., … Ellis, E. (2019). Archaeological assessment reveals Earth's early transformation through land use. Science, 365(6456), 897–902. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax1192
Tutchener, D., Claudie, D., & Morrison, M. J. (2019). Results of archaeological surveys of the Pianamu cultural landscape, central Cape York Peninsula, 2014-2016. Queensland Archaeological Research, 22(0), 39–58. https://doi.org/10.25120/qar.22.2019.3699
Westell, C., Roberts, A., Morrison, M. J., Jacobsen, G., Murray, the R., & Corporation, M. A. (2020). Initial results and observations on a radiocarbon dating program in the Riverland region of South Australia. Australian Archaeology, 0(0), 1–16. https://doi.org/10/gg5wx8