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Emeritus Professor Ian Lilley

Emeritus Professor
School of Social Science
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Professor Ian Lilley

Researcher biography

Emeritus Professor Ian Lilley FSA FAHA (BA Hons, MA Qld, PhD ANU) is an international discipline leader whose interests focus on archaeology and heritage in Australasia, the Indo-Pacific and globally.

Ian is an archaeologist in the School of Social Science, to where he moved in 2019 after 25 years leading the academic program in UQ's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit (ATSIS). He also has a continuing visiting appointment as Willem Willems Chair in Contemporary Issues in Archaeological Heritage Management at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Leiden is continental Europe's leading university in archaeology and among the global Top 10 in the discipline. In addition, he is an Advisor to the Centre for Global Heritage and Development (Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam). In Australia, he is an Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, where he provides strategic advice to help build research capacity in the Centre for Heritage and Culture in the Institute for Resilient Regions.

Ian's Honours and Masters research examined the archaeology of Southeast Queensland. Following ground-breaking work in Papua New Guinea  with the Australian Museum, Ian then did his PhD on ancient maritime trading systems which linked the New Guinea mainland and nearby Bismarck Archipelago. He built on that project with a UQ Postdoctoral Fellowship, for which he won National Geographic funding to return to New Guinea. He has since undertaken archaeological and cultural heritage research, consultancies and advisory missions throughout Australia, in Asia and the Pacific Islands and in North and South America. Ian's current heritage research focuses on global issues regarding World Heritage, the World Bank and transnational corporations in the extractive industries sector, particularly in relation to Indigenous people and other descendent communities. Archaeologically he is working with French colleagues on long-term developments in New Caledonia. Ian also manages other projects concerning Indigenous heritage and issues in higher education of concern to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Ian is also an accredited Subject Matter Expert with the US Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). In this capacity, he provides strategic advice to the US Defense Department regarding the recovery of missing service members from WWII to the present and coordinates field missions to locate missing personnel. Archaeologically he is working with French colleagues on long-term developments in New Caledonia, and recently has been invited to participate in a project on mining and archaeological heritage there as well. In Australia, he has a project with Dutch partners including the Netherlands Ministry of Defence and funded by the Netherlands Embassy, concerning the WWII headquarters of the Netherlands East Indies government in exile, which were located at Wacol just outside Brisbane. He supervises PhD and MPhil research projects in many different schools across UQ as well as others at Leiden.

Ian is a Fellow and immediate past Vice President and International Secretary of the Australian Academy of Humanities, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. At UQ, Ian is a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Policy Futures in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and a Research Group Leader in the Centre for Marine Science in the School of Biological Science. He also maintains links with the UQ ATSIS Unit. Externally, Ian a member of Australia ICOMOS, an ICOMOS World Heritage Assessor and Secretary-General of the ICOMOS International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM). In these connections, Ian sits on the Conservation Advisory Committee for the Port Arthur World Heritage site complex. In addition, he is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (member, WCPA Protected Landscapes Specialist Group) and the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (member, Theme on Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas). ICOMOS and IUCN are the statutory Advisory Bodies to UNESCO on cultural and natural heritage respectively. Ian is one of the few people globally who is a member of both bodies. In addition, he is Secretary-General of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, the region's peak professional archaeological body, immediate past Chair of the International Government Affairs Committee of the Society for American Archaeology and Convenor of the International Heritage Group, which he founded while a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Oxford in 2011. Ian's other professional interests are archaeology and social identity, archaeological ethics, and the role of archaeology in contemporary society.

In addition to his research and engagement with industry, Ian is Director of the ATSIS Unit's teaching program and is Convenor of the ATSIS major in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS). He teaches undergraduate courses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and in the Faculty of Science School of Earth and Environmental Studies. He is also Convenor of the Masters in Heritage Studies in the HASS School of Social Science and coordinates a course on World Heritage in that degree. He supervises PhD and MPhil research projects in many different schools across the university. In addition he provides academic and pastoral support for Indigenous students. Ian is also the HASS Indigenous Focal Point, in which role he coordinates the integration of Indigenous perspectives in HASS teaching, research and internal and external engagement. He sits on the HASS Faculty Teaching and Learning and Research committees as well as the HASS Faculty Board and the HASS Faculty Board of Studies and the Board of Studies for UQ's BA. He also serves on UQ's Library Committee and is awaiting finalisation of an appointment to one of the university's new central research ethics committees following many years on the Behavioural and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee.

Research Impacts

Ian's mission is to help create a global paradigm shift that integrates Indigenous perspectives with science and ethics in the study and protection of humanity's heritage. He pursues this goal in Australia and globally through his strong engagement with industry as well as his scholarly research. He focuses on heritage-related philosophies, policies and practices in three overlapping spheres: World Heritage, multilateral development banks and the transnational extractive industries sector. He is also becoming increasing involved with work combatting looting and illegal trade in antiquities and other cultural property. All of Ian's work aims to inject Indigenous concerns and approaches into the centre of ‘mainstream’ agendas at all levels, from the UN down and from the grassroots up. The objective is to promote fundamental structural change to the benefit of Indigenous communities, archaeologists and heritage practitioners across Australia and around the world. In recent years, this work has seen Ian publish widely on these matters as well as play central roles in:

  • the development of Rio Tinto’s global corporate guidance on “why cultural heritage matters”, now an international industry standard,
  • efforts to strengthen cooperation and coordination between ICOMOS and IUCN, the two statutory Advisory Bodies to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and
  • building professional relationships with the World Bank and other multilateral development lenders to improve their approaches to heritage protection and management.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts (Hons), The University of Queensland
  • Master of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • PhD, Australian National University

Publications

Books (4)
Book Chapters (51)
Journal Articles (76)
Conference Papers (13)
Department Technical Report (1)
Reference Entries (3)
Research Reports (3)
Theses (2)

Books

Lilley, Ian (2006). Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1002/9780470773475
Ulm, Sean, Reid, Jill, Westcott, Catherine, Ross, Anne, Lilley, Ian, Kirkwood, Luke and Prangnell, Jon (2001). Barriers, Borders, Boundaries: Program and Abstracts of the 2001 Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference. St Lucia, Qld: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland.
Lampert, Jo and Lilley, Ian (1996). Indigenous Australian Perspectives at the University of Queensland. St Lucia, Brisbane: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland.
Lampert, Jo and Lilley, Ian A. (1996). Indigenous Australian perspectives at the University of Queensland. St Lucia (Qld): University of Queensland.

Book Chapters

Hockings, Marc, Lilley, Ian, Matar, Diane A., Dudley, Nigel and Markham, Robert (2020). Integrating science and local knowledge to strengthen biosphere reserve management. UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: supporting biocultural diversity, sustainability and society. (pp. 241-253) edited by Maureen G. Reed and Martin F. Price. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429428746-19
Lilley, Ian (2019). Lapita: the Australian connection. Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence. (pp. 105-114) edited by Stuart Bedford and Matthew Spriggs. Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/TA52.2019.05
Soderland, Hilary A. and Lilley, Ian A. (2018). The fusion of law and ethics in cultural heritage management: the 21st century confronts archaeology. Relevance and application of heritage in contemporary society. (pp. 160-185) edited by Pei-Lin Yu, Chen Shen and George S. Smith. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203702277-16
Lilley, Ian (2018). Subsistence middlemen traders and pre-colonial globalization in Melanesia. Globalization in prehistory: contact, exchange, and the 'People Without History'. (pp. 308-333) edited by Nicole Boivin and Michael D. Frachetti. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108573276.014
Lilley, Ian, Buckley, Kristal and Kajlich, Helena (2018). World heritage and human rights in Australia: from K'gari/Fraser Island to national processes. World Heritage and Human Rights: Lessons from the Asia-Pacific and Global Arena. (pp. 49-69) edited by Peter Bille Larsen. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis.
Lilley, Ian (2017). Melanesian maritime middlemen and pre-colonial glocalization. The Routledge handbook of archaeology and globalization. (pp. 335-353) edited by Tamar Hodos. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315449005
Lilley, Ian (2017). Globalization thinking in Australasia and Oceania. The Routledge handbook of archaeology and globalization. (pp. 279-282) edited by Tamar Hodos. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315449005
Lafrenz Samuels, Kathryn and Lilley, Ian (2015). Transnationalism and heritage development. Global heritage: a reader. (pp. 217-239) edited by Lynn Meskell. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell.
Feary, Sue, Brown, Steve, Marshall, Duncan, Lilley, Ian, McKinnon, Robert, Verschuuren, Bas and Wild, Robert (2015). Earth's cultural history. Protected area governance and management. (pp. 81-116) edited by Graeme L. Worboys, Michael Lockwood, Ashish Kothari, Sue Feary and Ian Pulsford. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press.
Allen, Jim and Lilley, Ian (2015). Australia and New Guinea, Archaeology of. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition. (pp. 229-233) Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier . doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.13014-4
Lilley, Ian (2015). 'This is not Australia!'. Fernweh: crossing borders and connecting people in archaeological heritage management. (pp. 83-86) edited by Monique H. van den Dries, Sjoerd J. van der Linde and Amy Strecker. Leiden, The Netherlands: Sidestone Press.
Lilley, Ian (2014). Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA). Encyclopedia of global archaeology. (pp. 3846-3847) edited by Claire Smith. New York, USA: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1240
Lilley, Ian (2013). Nature and culture in World Heritage management: a view from the Asia-Pacific (or, never waste a good crisis!). Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage: Views from the Asia-Pacific Region. (pp. 13-22) edited by Sally Brockwell, Sue O’Connor and Denis Byrne. Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press.
Lilley, Ian (2012). Oceania, archaeological practice in. The Oxford Companion To Archaeology. (pp. xx-xx) edited by Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Lilley, Ian and Sand, Christophe (2012). Thematic frameworks for the cultural values of the Pacific.. World heritage in a sea of islands : Pacific 2009 programme. (pp. 22-27) edited by Anita Smith. Paris, France: UNESCO.
Lilley, Ian (2012). Questions in archaeology: one step forward, two steps back (or at least sideways off the track…)?. Taking stock: the humanities in Australian life since 1968. (pp. 223-229) edited by Ian Donaldson and Mark Finnane. Perth, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Press.
Lilley, Ian (2012). Professional organizations. The Oxford Companion To Archaeology. (pp. xx-xx) edited by Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Lilley, Ian (2012). New Guinea. The Oxford Companion To Archaeology. (pp. xx-xx) edited by Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Lilley, Ian (2010). Context for this Thematic Study. Early Human Expansion and Innovation in the Pacific. (pp. 1-12) Paris, France: International Council on Monuments and Sites.
Sand, Christophe, Lilley, Ian, Valentin, Frédérique, Bolé, Jacques, Gony, Bealo and Baret, David (2010). Tiga (Iles Loyaute): Prehistoire et ethno-archeologie d'une ile melanesienne en marge. Hommes, milieux et traditions dans le Pacifique Sud. (pp. 33-46) edited by Frédérique Valentin, Maurice Hardy and Pierre Rouillard. Paris, France: De Boccard.
Lilley, Ian (2010). Archaeology, diaspora and decolonization. Indigenous archaeologies: A reader in decolonization. (pp. 86-91) edited by Margaret M. Bruchac, Siobhan M. Hart and H. Martin Wobst. Walnet Creek, CA, U.S.A.: Left Coast Press.
Lilley, Ian (2010). Near Oceania. Early Human Expansion and Innovation in the Pacific. (pp. 13-46) edited by Ian Lilley. Paris, France: International Council on Monuments and Sites.
Lilley, Ian (2009). Strangers and brothers? Heritage, human rights and a cosmopolitan archaeology in Oceania. Cosmopolitan archaeologies. (pp. 48-67) edited by Lynn Meskell. Durham: Duke University Press.
Sheehan, Norm and Lilley, Ian (2008). Things are not always what they seem: Indigenous knowledge and pattern recognition in archaeological analysis. Collaboration in archaeological practice: Engaging descendant communities. (pp. 87-115) edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and T. J. Ferguson. Lanham, U.S.A.: AltaMira Press.
Lilley, Ian (2008). Migrations: Pacific. Encyclopedia of Archaeology. (pp. 1632-1643) edited by Deborah M. Pearsall. San Diego, Calif.: Elsevier Inc.. doi: 10.1016/B978-012373962-9.00193-X
Carter, Melissa and Lilley, Ian (2008). Between the Australian and Melanesian realms: The archaeology of the Murray Islands and consideration of a settlement model for Torres Strait. Comparative island archaeologies. (pp. 69-84) edited by James Conolly and Matthew Campbell. Oxford, U.K.: Archaeopress.
Lilley, Ian A. (2008). Flights of fancy: Fractal geometry, the Lapita dispersal and punctuated colonisation in the Pacific. Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, Seafaring and the Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes. (pp. 75-86) edited by Clark, G, Leach, F and O'Connor, S. Canberra: ANU E Press.
Lilley, Ian (2008). Archaeology, the World Bank, and postcolonial politics. Archaeology and the postcolonial critique. (pp. 141-164) edited by Matthew Liebmann and Uzma Z. Rizvi. Lanham, USA: AltaMira Press.
Ulm, Sean and Lilley, Ian (2007). Sean Ulm's and Ian Lilley's guide to doing archaeology in Queensland. Digging it up down under: A practical guide to doing archaeology in Australia. (pp. 141-143) edited by Claire Smith and Heather Burke. New York, U.S.: Springer.
Lilley, I. A. (2006). It's Life, Jim, but Not as We Know It. Hot Air: How Nigh's the End?. (pp. 213-224) edited by J. Schultz. Sydney: ABC Books and Griffith University.
Lilley, Ian (2006). Archaeology in Oceania: Themes and Issues. Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 1-28) edited by Ian Lilley. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1002/9780470773475.ch1
Lilley, Ian A. and Williams, Michael J. (2005). Archaeological and Indigenous significance: A view from Australia. Heritage of Value, Archaeology of Renown: Reshaping Archaeological Assessment and Significance. (pp. 227-247) edited by Clay Mathers, Timothy Darvill and Barbara J. Little. Gainsville, FL, USA: University Press of Florida.
Lilley, Ian (2005). Archaeology and the politics of change in a decolonizing Australia. Object lessons: Archaeology and heritage in Australia. (pp. 89-106) edited by J. Lydon and T. Ireland. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Ulm, Sean, Cotter, Stephen, Cotter, Maria, Lilley, Ian, Clarkson, Chris and Reid, Jill (2005). Edge-ground hatchets on the Southern Curtis Coast, Central Queensland: A preliminary Assessment of Technology, Chronology and Provenance. Many Exchanges: Archaeology, History, Community and the Work of Isabel McBryde. (pp. 323-342) edited by Ingereth Macfarlane, Mary-Jane Mountain and Robert Paton. Canberra: Aboriginal History Inc..
Lilley, I. A. (2004). Archaeology in Melanesia. Archaeology from Australia. (pp. 71-84) edited by Murray and T.. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Lilley, I. A. (2004). Diaspora and identity in archaeology: Moving beyond the Black Atlantic. A Companion to Social Archaeology. (pp. 287-312) edited by L Meskell and R. W. Preucel. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1002/9780470693605.ch13
Lilley, I. A. (2002). Lapita and type Y pottery in the KLK site, Siassi, Papua New Guinea. Fifty years in the field: Essays in honour and celebration of Richard Shutler Jr's archaeological career. (pp. 79-90) edited by S. Bedford, C. Sand and D. Burley. Auckland, New Zealand: New Zealand Archaeological Association.
Anderson, A., Bedford, S., Clark, G., Lilley, I., Sand, C., Summerhayes, G. and Torrence, R. (2001). An inventory of Lapita sites containing dentate-stamped pottery. The Archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania: Papers from the Fourth Lapita Conference, June 2000, Canberra, Australia. (pp. 1-13) edited by G.R. Clark, A.J. Anderson and T. Vunidilo. Canberra: Pandanus Books, Australian National University.
Lilley, Ian (2001). Of cowboys and core-tools: Revisionist reflections on Rhys Jones and 'The Great Intensification Debate'. Histories of Old Ages: Essays in Honour of Rhys Jones. (pp. 251-256) edited by A. Anderson, I. Lilley and S. O'Connor. Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU Press.
Lilley, I. A. (2000). Native Title and the transformation of archaeology in the postcolonial world. Native Title and the Transformation of Archaeology in the Postcolonial World. (pp. 1-9) edited by Ian Lilley. Sydney: Oceania Publications, University of Sydney.
Lilley, Ian A. (2000). Jim Allen and the archaeology of coastal Papua New Guinea. Australian archaeologist: Collected papers in hounour of Jim Allen. (pp. 249-267) edited by Atholl Anderson and Tim Murray. Canberra, ACT Australia: Coombs Academic Publishing, ANU.
Lilley, Ian (2000). Native Title and the transformation of archaeology in the postcolonial world. Native Title and the transformation of archaeology in the postcolonial world. (pp. 1-9) edited by Ian Lilley. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Oceania Publications.
Lilley, I. A. (2000). Professional attitudes to indigenous interests in the Native Title era: Settler societies compared. Native title and the transformation of archaeology in the postcolonial world. (pp. 99-119) edited by Ian Lilley. Sydney, NSW Australia: Oceania Publications, University of Sydney.
Lilley, I. A. (2000). Migration and ethnicity in the evolution of Lapita and post-Lapita maritime societies in northwest Melanesia. East of Wallace's line: Studies of past and present maritime cultures of the Indo-Pacific region. (pp. 177-197) edited by S. O'Connor and P. Veth. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema.
Lilley, Ian, Brian, Deborah and Ulm, Sean (1999). The use of foraminifera in the identification and analysis of marine shell middens. Taphonomy: the analysis of processes from phytoliths to megafauna. (pp. 9-16) edited by Mary-Jane Mountain and Doreen Bowdery. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press.
Brian, Deborah, Lilley, Ian and Ulm, Sean (1999). The use of foraminifera in the identification and analysis of marine shell middens: A view from Australia. Taphonomy: The Analysis of Processes from Phytoliths to Megafauna. (pp. 9-16) Canberra: Archaeology and Natural History Publications, Australian National University.
Lilley, I. (1998). East of Irian: Archaeology in Papua New Guinea. Bird's Head approaches : Irian Jaya studies, a programme for interdisciplinary research. (pp. 135-156) edited by Gert-Jan Bartstra. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Brookfield, VT : Balkema.
Lilley, Ian (1998). East of Irian: Papua New Guinea's prehistory. Bird’s Head Approaches. (pp. 135-156) edited by G-J. Barstra. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: A. A. Balkema.
Lilley, Ian and Hall, Jay (1996). Introduction: recent Queensland research. Australian Archaeology 1995: Proceedings of the 17th Australian Archaeological Association Conference. (pp. 191-192) edited by S. Ulm, Ian Lilley and A. Ross. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Queensland.
Lilley, I. (1992). The past: the evidence of archaeology. Human Biology in Papua New Guinea: The Small Cosmos. (pp. 150-171) edited by Robert D. Attenborough and Michael P. Alpers. Oxford, United Kingdom: Clarendon Press.
Lilley, Ian (1991). Lapita sites in the Duke of York Islands. The Report of the Lapita Homeland Project. (pp. 164-169) edited by Jim Allen and Chris Gosden. Canberra, ACT Australia: Department of Prehistory, Australian National University.

Journal Articles

Rabbitt, Sheridan, Lilley, Ian, Albert, Simon, Albert, Joelle and Tibbetts, Ian (2023). The importance of nutrition-sensitive fisheries management: Women's dietary diversity in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 13 (1), 1-17. doi: 10.5304/jafscd.2023.131.004
Lilley, Ian (2022). Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines: Decolonizing Ifugao History. American Antiquity, 88 (2), 274-275. doi: 10.1017/aaq.2022.99
Rabbitt, Sheridan, Tibbetts, Ian R., Albert, Simon and Lilley, Ian (2022). Testing a model to assess women’s inclusion and participation in community-based resource management in Solomon Islands. Maritime Studies, 21 (4), 1-19. doi: 10.1007/s40152-022-00282-1
Rabbitt, Sheridan, Lilley, Ian, Albert, Simon and Tibbetts, Ian R. (2019). What's the catch in who fishes? Fisherwomen's contributions to fisheries an food security in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Marine Policy, 108 103667, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103667
Rabbitt, Sheridan, Lilley, Ian, Albert, Simon and Tibbetts, Ian R. (2019). Fishing for cash – village attitudes towards fish exports in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. Women in Fisheries Information Bulletin, 30-33.
Pocock, Celmara and Lilley, Ian (2018). Who benefits? World Heritage and indigenous people. Heritage and Society, 10 (2), 171-190. doi: 10.1080/2159032X.2018.1503836
Lilley, Ian (2017). UNESCO in Southeast Asia: world heritage sites in comparative perspective. International Journal of Cultural Property, 24 (2), 239-241. doi: 10.1017/S0940739117000066
Lilley, Ian (2017). Indigenous archaeological heritage in Australia: definition and management of sites. American Anthropologist, 119 (1), 131-133. doi: 10.1111/aman.12811
Lilley, Ian (2017). Palaeoecology: agriculture emerges from the calm. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1 (3) 0085, 85. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0085
Lilley, Ian (2017). World Heritage and cultural diversity in Oceania. Claroscuro, 16 (16).
Lilley, Ian (2016). Environmental reviews and case studies: cultural heritage, community engagement, and environmental impact assessment in Australia. Environmental Practice, 18 (3), 205-208. doi: 10.1017/S1466046616000302
Soderland, Hilary A. and Lilley, Ian A. (2015). The fusion of law and ethics in cultural heritage management: the 21st century confronts archaeology. Journal of Field Archaeology, 40 (5), 508-522. doi: 10.1179/2042458215Y.0000000024
Daza, Juan D., Bauer, Aaron M., Sand, Christophe, Lilley, Ian, Wake, Thomas A. and Valentin, Frederique (2015). Reptile remains from Tiga (Tokanod), Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. Pacific Science, 69 (4), 531-557. doi: 10.2984/69.4.8
Lilley, Ian (2015). The Cambridge world prehistory, vol 1, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Antiquity, 89 (345), 761-763. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2015.42
Gillespie, Kirsty and Lilley, Ian (2015). Transformations, transactions and technologies: New directions in Pacific heritage. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 21 (2), 115-116. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2014.968312
Lilley, Ian (2015). What could World Heritage deliver for Indigenous People?. World Heritage Capacity-Building Newsletter (5), 16-17.
Lilley, Ian (2012). The shipping news. Australian Archaeology, 74, 24-25.
Lilley, Ian , Sand, Christophe and Valentin, Frederique (2012). Collaborative research in New Caledonia. Society for American Archaeology Archaeological Bulletin.
Lilley, Ian (2010). Jousting in the lists. Heritage Management, 3 (1), 101-103.
Lilley, Ian (2008). Apocalypse now (and avoid the rush): Human dimensions of climate change in the Indo-Pacific. Archaeology in Oceania, 43 (1), 35-40. doi: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2008.tb00028.x
Lilley, Ian (2007). Reflections on Ethics at Stanford. Archaeologies, 3 (3), 446-448. doi: 10.1007/s11759-007-9033-9
Lilley, I. A. (2007). Archaeological Studies of the Middle and Late Holocene, Papua New Guinea. Part VII. The evolution of Sio pottery: Evidence from three sites in northeastern Papua New Guinea.. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, 20, 227-244.
Lilley, I. A. and Specht, J. (2007). Archaeological Studies of the Middle and Late Holocene, Papua New Guinea. Part VI. Revised dating of Type X pottery, Morobe Province. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, 20, 217-226.
Lilley, Ian (2006). Review of The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society. 1. Material culture. Archaeology In Oceania, 41 (1), 45-46.
Lilley, I (2006). Archaeology, diaspora and decolonization. Journal of Social Archaeology, 6 (1), 28-47. doi: 10.1177/1469605306060560
Lilley, I A (2006). Whatever happens, we'll manage. The Australian (17 May), 44-45.
Memmott, P., Evans, N., Robins, R. I. and Lilley, I. (2006). Understanding Isolation and Change in Island Human Populations through a study of Indigenous Cultural Patterns in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 130 (1), 29-47. doi: 10.1080/3721426.2006.10887046
Lilley, I. A. (2006). Review of After Captain Cook: The Archaeology of the Recent Indigenous Past in Australia edited by R. Harrison and C. Williamson. Asian Perspectives, 45 (1), 112-115.
Specht, J, Lilley, I A and Dickinson, R. (2006). Type X pottery, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea: Petrography and possible Micronesian relationships. Asian Perspectives, 45 (1), 24-47. doi: 10.1353/asi.2006.0015
Lilley, I A (2006). Archaeology and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at the University of Queensland. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit Research Report Series, 7, 47-58.
Lilley, I. A. (2004). Trade and culture history across the Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea: The emerging post-Lapita coastal sequence. Records of the Australian Museum: A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht, 29 (Supplement 29), 89-96. doi: 10.3853/j.0812-7387.29.2004.1405
Lilley, I. A. (2003). Editorial. World Archaeological Bulletin, 17, 2-4.
Lilley, I. (2003). Editorial. World Archaeological Bulletin, 18 (2-5).
Lilley, I. (2003). Editor's report. World Archaeological Bulletin, 18 (17-18).
Lilley, I. A. (2002). Editorial. World Archaeological Bulletin, 16, 3-6.
Lilley, I. A. (2002). Editorial. World Archaeological Bulletin, 15, 2-4.
Lilley, I. (2001). Editorial. World Archaeological Bulletin, 14 (2-3).
Lilley, I. (2001). Editorial. World Archaeological Bulletin, 13 (April-May), 2-6.
Lilley, I. A. (2000). Editorial. World Archaeological Bulletin, 12, 2-3.
Lilley, I. A. (2000). So near and yet so far: Reflections on archaeology in Australia and Papua New Guinea, intensification and culture contact. Australian Archaeology, 50 (50), 36-44. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2000.11681664
Lilley, I. A. (2000). Editorial. World Archaeological Bulletin, 11, 2-2.
Lilley, Ian (2000). Them dry bones: archaeology and nation making in Papua New Guinea. World Archaeological Bulletin.
Lilley, I. A. (2000). Them dry bones: Archaeology and nation making in Papua New Guinea. World Archaeological Bulletin, 12, 14-41.
Carter, Melissa, Lilley, Ian, Ulm, Sean and Brian, Deborah (1999). Mort Creek site complex, Curtis Coast: site report. Queensland Archaeological Research, 11, 85-104. doi: 10.25120/qar.11.1999.88
Westcott, Catherine, Lilley, Ian and Ulm, Sean (1999). The Archaeology of Cania Gorge: An Overview. Queensland Archaeological Research, 11, 15-28. doi: 10.25120/qar.11.1999.84
Lilley, I. A. (1999). Comment on 'Environmental imperatives reconsidered' by Jones et al.. Current Anthropology, 40 (2), 161-162. doi: 10.1086/200002
Lilley, Ian (1999). Too good to be true? Post-Lapita scenarios for language and archaeology in West New Britain-North New Guinea. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 18, 25-34. doi: 10.7152/bippa.v18i0.11696
Lilley, Ian (1999). "Prehistoric Long-Distance Interaction in Oceania: An Interdisciplinary Approach." M. Weisler, ed. Asian Perspectives, 38 (1), 111-112.
Lilley, Ian and Ulm, Sean (1999). The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project: Preliminary Results of Archaeological Research, 1993-1997. Queensland Archaeological Research, 11, 1-14. doi: 10.25120/qar.11.1999.83
Westcott, Catherine, Lilley, Ian and Ulm, Sean (1999). The Archaeology of Cania Gorge: An Overview. Queensland Archaeological Research, 11, 15-28.
Eales, Tony, Westcott, Catherine, Lilley, Ian, Ulm, Sean, Brian, Deborah and Clarkson, Chris (1999). Roof Fall Cave, Cania Gorge: Site report. Queensland Archaeological Research, 11, 29-42.
Ulm, Sean and Lilley, Ian (1999). The archaeology of the southern Curtis Coast: An overview. Queensland Archaeological Research, 11, 59-84. doi: 10.25120/qar.11.1999.87
Lilley, I. A. (1999). Too good to be true?: Post-Lapita scenarios for language and archaeology in West New Britain-north New Guinea. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 18, 25-34.
Carter, Melissa, Lilley, Ian, Ulm, Sean and Brian, Deborah (1999). Mort Creek Site Complex, Curtis Coast: Site Report. Queensland Archaeological Research, 11, 85-104.
Westcott, Catherine, Lilley, Ian, Ulm, Sean, Clarkson, Chris and Brian, Deborah (1999). Big Foot Art Site, Cania Gorge: Site report. Queensland Archaeological Research, 11, 43-58. doi: 10.25120/qar.11.1999.86
Ulm, Sean, Carter, Melissa, Reid, Jill and Lilley, Ian (1999). Eurimbula Site 1, Curtis Coast: Site Report. Queensland Archaeological Research, 11, 105-122. doi: 10.25120/qar.11.1999.89
Lilley, Ian, Brian, Deborah, Clarkson, Chris and Ulm, Sean (1998). Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation at Cania Gorge, Central Queensland: preliminary results of fieldwork. Archaeology in Oceania, 33 (1), 28-31. doi: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.1998.tb00397.x
Christensen, Peter and Lilley, Ian (1997). The Road Forward? Alternative Assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students at the Tertiary Level. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 25 (2), 43-46. doi: 10.1017/S1326011100002775
Brian, Deborah, Lilley, Ian and Ulm, Sean (1996). The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project: First radiocarbon determinations. Australian Archaeology, 43 (1), 38-40. doi: 10.1080/03122417.1996.11681579
Ulm, Sean, Barker, Bryce, Border, Andrew, Hall, Jay, Lilley, Ian, McNiven, Ian, Neal, Robert and Rowland, Mike (1995). Pre-European coastal settlement and use of the sea: A view from Queensland. Australian Archaeology, 41 (1), 24-26. doi: 10.1080/03122417.1995.11681555
Lilley, Ian and Ulm, Sean (1995). The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project: Some proposed directions and preliminary results of the archaeological program. Australian Archaeology, 41 (1), 11-15. doi: 10.1080/03122417.1995.11681552
Ulm, Sean and Lilley, Ian (1995). The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project and repatriation of the Burnett River Engravings. World Archaeological Congress Newsletter, 4.
Lilley, Ian (1994). Australian archaeologists in the Pacific 1974-1994: a guide for non-specialists. Australian Archaeology, 39 (1), 46-54. doi: 10.1080/03122417.1994.11681527
Lilley, Ian (1993). Recent Research In Southwestern Western Australia: A Summary Of Initial Findings. Australian Archaeology, 36 (1), 34-41. doi: 10.1080/03122417.1993.11681480
Lilley, Ian (1991). [DIVERSITY, CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO] Lapita and post-Lapita developments in the Vitiaz Straits-West New Britain area. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 11, 313-322. doi: 10.7152/bippa.v11i0.11395
Gosden, C. , Allen, J. , Ambrose, W. , Anson, D. , Golson, J. , Green, R. , Kirch, P. , Lilley, Ian , Specht, J. and Spriggs, M. (1989). Lapita sites of the Bismarck Archipelago. Antiquity, 63 (240), 561-586. doi: 10.1017/s0003598x00076559
Lilley, Ian A. (1988). Prehistoric exchange across the Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea. Current Anthropology, 29 (3), 513-516. doi: 10.1086/203669
Lilley, Ian (1988). Type X: description and discussion of a prehistoric ceramic from northeastern Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 8, 90-100. doi: 10.7152/bippa.v8i0.11270
Hall, Jay and Lilley, Ian (1987). Evidence for early mid-Holocene coastal occupation in Moreton Bay, S.E Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research, 4, 54-79. doi: 10.25120/qar.4.1987.172
Lilley, Ian (1987). Archaeological investigation in the Vitiaz Strait region, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 7, 51-74. doi: 10.7152/bippa.v7i0.11254
Lilley, Ian (1986). An open site survey of Koolburra Plateau, Cape York Peninsula. Queensland Archaeological Research, 3, 65-71.
Lilley, Ian (1985). Chiefs without chiefdoms? Comments on prehistoric sociopolitical organization in western Melanesia. Archaeology in Oceania, 20 (2), 60-65. doi: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.1985.tb00104.x
Lilley, Ian (1985). An experiment in statistical locational analysis in subcoastal southeast Queensland. Australian Archaeology, 21, 91-112.
Lilley, Ian (1984). Late Holocene subsistence and settlement in subcoastal southeast Queensland. Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research, 1, 8-32. doi: 10.25120/qar.1.1984.205
Specht, Jim , Lilley, Ian and Normu, John (1983). More radiocarbon dates from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 16, 92-95.
Specht, Jim , Lilley, Ian and Normu, John (1981). Radiocarbon dates for West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology, 13-15.

Conference Papers

Welch, John R. and Lilley, Ian A. (2013). Beyond the Equator (Principles): a forum on community benefit sharing in relation to major land alteration projects and associated intellectual property issues in cultural heritage Held at the Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, 5 A. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/S0940739113000258
Lilley, Ian (2012). Nature and culture in World Heritage management: a view from the Asia-Pacific. 1st International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archaeology, Menorca, Spain, 9-13 April 2012. Madrid, Spain: Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Ulm, S., Evans, N., Memmott, P., Rosendahl, D., Robins, R., Lilley, I. and Stock, E. (2008). Exploring isolation and change in island environments: preliminary results from the Southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Working Papers in Archaeology Seminar Series, St Lucia, QLD Australia, 8 August 2008. St Lucia, QLD Australia: AERC. The University of Queensland.
Ulm, S., Evans, N., Memmott, P., Rosendahl, D., Robins, R., Lilley, I. and Stock, E. (2008). Exploring Isolation and Change in Island Environments: Preliminary results from the Southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. 6th World Archaeological Congress (WAC-6), Dublin, Ireland, 29 June - 4 July 2008. World Archaeological Congress.
Ulm, Sean, Evans, Nicholas, Memmott, Paul, Rosendahl, Daniel, Robins, Richard, Lilley, Ian and Stock, Errol (2008). Palaeoenvironmental and Cultural Change across the Wellesley Archipelago: Preliminary results from the Southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Noosa, Queensland, 3-6 December 2008. Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
Memmott, Paul, Lilley, Ian and Dalley, Cameo (2006). Connection to Place, Migration and the Transformation of Tradition in the Wellesley Islands. "Hypertraditions" The Tenth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Bangkok, Thailand, 15 -18 December 2006. Berkeley, California, USA: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments.
Rosendahl, Daniel, Memmott, P., Ulm, S., Lilley, Ian, Robins, Richard, Stock, Errol, Dalley, Cameo and Hain, Emma (2006). Understanding Isolation and Change in Island Environments: A Perspective from the Southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Beechworth, Vic., Australia, 7-10 December, 2006. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Archaeological Association.
Ulm, Sean, Westcott, Catherine, Reid, Jill, Ross, Anne, Lilley, Ian, Prangnell, Jonathan and Kirkwood, Luke (2002). Preface: Barriers, Borders, Boundaries. 2001 Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Hervey Bay, QLD, 6-8 December 2001. Brisbane, Australia: Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland.
Anderson, Atholl, Bedford, Stuart, Clark, Geoffrey, Lilley, Ian , Sand, Christophe, Summerhayes, Glenn and Torrence, Robin (2001). An inventory of Lapita sites containing dentate-stamped pottery.. Fourth Lapita Conference, Canberra, Australia, June 2000. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Pandanus Books.
Lilley, Ian (2000). Migration and ethnicity in the evolution of Lapita and post-Lapita maritime societies in northwest Melanesia. Symposium on East of Wallace's Line, Magnetic Isl, Australia, 1997. Leiden, Netherlands: A A Balkema.
Ulm, S. and Lilley, I. (1999). The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project and repatriation of the Burnett River Engravings. WAC4 - World Archaeological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 10-14 January 1999.
Lilley, Ian (1999). Lapita as politics. 3rd Lapita Conference, Port Vila Vanuatu, July 31- August 3 1996. Paris, France: I R D EDITIONS.
Lilley, I. and Hall, J. (1996). Introduction: recent Queensland research. The 17th Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Gatton Campus, Australia, 6-9 December, 1995. St Lucia, Qld: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Queensland.

Department Technical Report

Lilley, Ian (2009). Report on evaluation of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Report on UNESCO World Heritage nomination for the International Committee on Monuments and Sites,

Reference Entries

Lilley, Ian A. (2014). Translation and indigenization.
Lilley, Ian (2014). International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM) (Cultural Heritage Management).
Lilley, Ian Ashley (2008). Intra-regional studies: Migrations, Pacific.

Research Reports

Bradshaw, Elizabeth, Bryant, Katie, Cohen, Tamar, Brereton, David, Kim, Julie, Gillespie, Kirsty and Lilley, Ian (2011). Why cultural heritage matters - A resource guide for integrating cultural heritage management into communities work at Rio Tinto. Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Rio Tinto.
Lilley, Ian (2010). Early human expansion and innovation in the Pacific: ICOMOS thematic study. Paris, France: International Council on Monuments and Sites.
Christensen, Paul and Lilley, Ian (1997). The road forward? Alternative assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at the tertiary level [EIP 97/8]. Canberra, ACT: Higher Education Division, Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education and Youth Affairs.

Theses

Lilley, Ian A. (1982). A finger on the pulse : analysis of site location patterns in subcoastal southeast Queensland. M.A. Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.414
Lilley, Ian A (1978). Prehistoric subsistence and settlement in the subcoastal zone of the Moreton region, southeast Queensland. Honours Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.687