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Dr Robin Torrence's archaeological research focuses on the roles of ancient material culture, especially stone tools, in peoples’ daily lives, social strategies, and exchange systems. Dr Torrence has been especially interested in how the manufacture, design and exchange of tools can help people minimise risks. Throughout her career, Dr Torrence has collaborated in the development of new methods for studying trade, stone tool use, and subsistence patterns. Dr Torrence has been fortunate to have participated in fieldwork in many parts of the world, but her major projects have been in Greece, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Russia.
Robin's current research aims to understand social change in western Pacific societies over the past c. 50,000 years, since earliest colonization of the region. Robin is particularly interested in finding out how people coped with the highly active volcanic environment in West New Britain province, Papua New Guinea. Robin's research utilizes multiple interdisciplinary methods to reconstruct social landscapes, with particular emphasis placed on studying the production and exchange of obsidian artifacts, changes in land-use practices, and patterns of recolonisation following the relatively frequent disastrous volcanic events that occurred.
Another major research interest is the study of how indigenous groups used objects now commonly found in ethnographic museum collections to negotiate social relationships with outsiders. In collaboration with scholars from the University of Sydney and independent curators and researchers, Robin is studying changes in manufacture, style, and form of the artefacts actively used to structure social relations between local groups and European explorers, traders and government officials during the late nineteenth century in British New Guinea.
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Forty Years in the South Seas: Archaeological Perspectives on the Human History of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific Regionpp.203-229, (2024)
Forty Years in the South Seas Archaeological Perspectives on the Human History of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific Regionpp.153-176, (2024)
Berghahn Bookspp.134-161, (2022)
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Culture (2022): 309-326
Deleted Journal (2022): 247-286
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theoryno. 3 (2021): 962-988
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