Ariana Lambrides
- ariana.lambrides@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-448X- Senior Lecturer, Archaeology
- Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Projects
5
Publications
23
Awards
1
Biography
Ariana's research focuses on the human palaeoecology of island and coastal settings through the study of archaeological fish remains. Her priorities have been the development of methods to improve data quality in zooarchaeological research, examining the dynamics of Indigenous fisheries across millennia, and assessing the role of people in shaping biodiversity and landscapes through time. She has been involved in field- and/or laboratory-based projects across the Pacific, including: American Samoa, Hawaiʻi, Henderson Island, Marquesas Islands, Marshall Islands, the Tuamotus, and most recently, I have extended my research interests to Australia, particularly the Queensland coast and Great Barrier Reef. Ariana received her PhD from The University of Queensland in 2017.
Currently she is an ARC DECRA Fellow. As part of this project she is investigating Holocene Indigenous fisheries, specifically the dialogue between people and the local environment and how this shaped culture, landscape dynamics, and biodiversity over millennia. This research aims to provide a deep time perspective relevant to contemporary fisheries management within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
Research
Research Interests
Historical ecology
Ichthyoarchaeology
Zooarchaeology
Island and coastal archaeology
Archaeology of Pacific Islands
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology
Archaeology of the Great Barrier Reef
Projects
10,000 years of Indigenous fisheries informs future Great Barrier Reef (Old ID 26940)
19 Mar 2021 - 18 Mar 2024
Teaching
Teaching Interests
Research-led teaching
Blended learning
Archaeological method and theory
Research Advisor Accreditation
Advisor Type
Primary
Research Advisor Accreditation
Role
Chair; Independent Academic
Taught Modules
2024
2025
[AR2304] From Stonehenge to the Colosseum: Archaeology of EuropeCoordinator, Lecturer
2025
[AR3008] Boats and Beaches: The Archaeology of Coasts and IslandsCoordinator, Lecturer
2025
Current JCU Research Students
Millenial-scale Variability in Lizard Island Group Mollusc Exploitation: Studying Mollusc remains to understand Past Aboriginal Shellfishing practices and Reef Resource use for Future Reef Conservation
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)
Constructed Seascapes: Understanding Fishtrap Construction, Use, Condition and Futures in the Wellesley Islands Region, Gulf of Carpentaria
Doctor of Philosophy (Society and Culture)
Completed Honours and External Research Students
Investigating people-reef interactions across the Mid-to-Late Holocene using morphometric analysis of top shell (Rochia nilotica), Jiigurru (Lizard Island Group), northeast Australia
HONOURS
Deep time sea urchin us e and engagement on Jiigurru (Lizard Island Group, Great Barrier Reef): An examination of archaeological quantification and taxonomic identification protocols
HONOURS
Activities
Other Activities
Editor-In-Chief, Australian Archaeology Journal
2022 - 2024
Associate Editor, Australian Archaeology Journal
2020 - 2021
Awards
Associations
Employment
Sessional Lecturer, The University of Queensland
2015 - 2018
PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
2012 - 2017
Output
Kneppers, Michael C.; Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Ulm, Sean; Mcniven, Ian J.; Litster, Mirani; Nguurruumungu Indigenous Corporation; Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC (2026) 'An archaeomalacological synthesis of people-mollusc engagement across the Coral Sea Cultural Interaction Sphere, Southwestern Pacific Ocean'. Quaternary Science Reviews, 372 . [DOI]
Great Barrier Reef Indigenous archaeology and occupation of associated reef and continental islands
2025
Rowland, Michael J.; Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Mcniven, Ian J.; Ulm, Sean (2025) 'Great Barrier Reef Indigenous archaeology and occupation of associated reef and continental islands'. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 32 (1):22-45. [DOI]
Weisbecker, Vera; Fusco, Diana; Ingleby, Sandy; Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Manne, Tiina; Maguire, Keith; O'Connor, Sue; Peachey, Thomas J.; Samper Carro, Sofia C.; Stemmer, David; Ristevski, Jorgo; van Zoelen, Jacob D.; Viacava, Pietro; Yates, Adam M.; Mein, Erin (2025) 'Ozboneviz: an Australian precedent in FAIR 3D imagery and extended biodiversity collections'. BioScience, 75 (9):747-756. [DOI]
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; McDowell, Matthew C.; Potter, Martin; Connelly, Benjamin; Little, Chris; Jackson, Scott; McCarthy, John; Nothdurft, Luke D.; Zhao, Jian-xin; Bird, Michael I.; Felgate, Matthew W.; Cobus, Brian; Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC (2024) 'Early Aboriginal pottery production and offshore island occupation on Jiigurru (Lizard Island group), Great Barrier Reef, Australia'. Quaternary Science Reviews, 333 . [DOI]
Kneppers, Michael C.; Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Litster, Mirani; Ulm, Sean; Mcniven, Ian J.; Harris, Matthew; Maclaurin, Cailey; Nguurruumungu Indigenous Corporation; Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC (2024) 'Beyond hinges and spires: A critical examination of archaeomalacological quantification methodologies using coral reef molluscan assemblages from Jiigurru (Lizard Island Group), northern Great Barrier Reef'. Australian Archaeology, 90 (3):299-318. [DOI]
Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Ristevski, Jorgo; Mein, Erin; van Zoelen, Jacob D.; Mcniven, Ian J.; Leavesley, Matthew; David, Bruno; Ulm, Sean; Weisbecker, Vera (2024) 'Fishboneviz: Enhancing the availability of zooarchaeological fish reference collections through an open access 3D database'. Australian Archaeology, 90 (2):236-248. [DOI]
Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Weisler, Marshall I.; Clark, Jeffrey T.; Quintus, Seth; Worthy, Trevor H.; Buckley, Hallie (2022) 'Assessing foraging variability on small islands in Manu‘a (American Samoa) during the first millennium BC'. Archaeology in Oceania, 57 (1):39-58. [DOI]
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; 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]
Ulm, Sean; McNiven, Ian J; Aird, Samantha J.; Lambrides, Ariana B. J. (2019) 'Sustainable harvesting of Conomurex luhuanus and Rochia nilotica by Indigenous Australians on the Great Barrier Reef over the past 2000 years'. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 28 . [DOI]
Lambrides, Ariana B. J.; McNiven, Ian J.; Ulm, Sean (2019) 'Meta-analysis of Queensland’s coastal Indigenous fisheries: examining the archaeological evidence for geographic and temporal patterning'. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 28 . [DOI]
Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Weisler, Marshall I. (2018) 'Late Holocene Marshall Islands archaeological tuna records provide proxy evidence for ENSO variability in the western and central Pacific Ocean'. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 13 (4):531-562. [DOI]
Lambrides, Ariana; Weisler, Marshall; Charleux, Michel (2018) 'New taxonomic records and regional trends for the Marquesan prehistoric marine fishery, Eiao Island, Polynesia'. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 9 (1):44-62.
Giovas, Christina M.; Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Fitzpatrick, Scott M.; Kataoka, Osamu (2017) 'Reconstructing prehistoric fishing zones in Palau, Micronesia using fish remains: a blind test of inter-analyst correspondence'. Archaeology in Oceania, 52 (1):45-61. [DOI]
Harris, Matthew; Lambrides, Ariana B. J.; Weisler, Marshall I. (2016) 'Windward vs. leeward: inter-site variation in marine resource exploitation on Ebon Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands'. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6 :221-229. [DOI]
Weisler, Marshall I.; Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Quintus, Seth; Clark, Jeffrey; Worthy, Trevor (2016) 'Colonisation and late period faunal assemblages from Ofu Island, American Samoa'. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 7 (2):1-19.
Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Weisler, Marshall I. (2016) 'Pacific Islands ichthyoarchaeology: implications for the development of prehistoric fishing studies and global sustainability'. Journal of Archaeological Research, 24 (3):275-324. [DOI]
Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Weisler, Marshall I. (2015) 'Applications of vertebral morphometrics in Pacific Island archaeological fishing studies'. Archaeology in Oceania, 50 (2):53-70. [DOI]
Lambrides, A.B.J.; Weisler, M.I. (2015) 'Assessing protocols for identifying Pacific island archaeological fish remains: the contribution of vertebrae'. International Journal of Osteoarcheology, 25 (6):838-848. [DOI]
Ross, Annie; Lambrides, Ariana; Ulm, Sean (2024) '‘Up to you … and your facile pens’: 50 years of Australian Archaeology' Australian Archaeology, 90 (1) :1-2. [DOI]
Ulm, Sean; Behrendt, Larissa; Fletcher, Michael-Shawn; Benjamin, Jonathan; McDonald, Jo; Bradshaw, Corey; McLean, Kenneth; Mcniven, Ian; Lambrides, Ariana (2023) The First Inventors: Behind the Scenes. Wollongong, NSW: [Recorded Work]
Creative Works
ResearchOnline@JCU
Disspain, Morgan C.F.; Manne, Tiina; Lambrides, Ariana (2025) 'There were plenty of fish in the sea: the archaeology of fish consumption in Australia' In: Disspain, Morgan C.F., Manne, Tiina, and Lambrides, Ariana (2025) There were plenty of fish in the sea: the archaeology of fish consumption in Australia. In: Shanahan, Madeline, (ed.) Archaeologies of Food in Australia. Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology . Sydney University Press, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 81-108(Eds.). Archaeologies of Food in Australia. Sydney, NSW, Australia : Sydney University Press.
Book Chapter
ResearchOnline@JCU
Lambrides, Ariana B.J.; Ditchfield, Kane; Ulm, Sean; Veth, Peter (2024) 'A Moving Feast: Australia’s Coastal and Island Archaeological Record' In: Lambrides, Ariana B.J., Ditchfield, Kane, Ulm, Sean, and Veth, Peter (2024) A Moving Feast: Australia’s Coastal and Island Archaeological Record. In: Fitzpatrick, Scott M., and Erlandson, Jon M., (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Island and Coastal Archaeology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK(Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Island and Coastal Archaeology. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. [DOI]
McNiven, Ian J.; Lambrides, Ariana B.J. (2021) 'Stone-walled fish traps of Australia and New Guinea as expressions of enhanced sociality' In: McNiven, Ian J., and Lambrides, Ariana B.J. (2021) Stone-walled fish traps of Australia and New Guinea as expressions of enhanced sociality. In: David, Bruno, and McNiven, Ian J., (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, VIC, Australia(Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea. Melbourne, VIC, Australia : Oxford University Press. [DOI]
Book Chapter
ResearchOnline@JCU