Ronika Power - Selected Publications#
1. M.M. Lahr, F. Rivera*, R.K. Power*, A. Mounier, B. Copsey, F. Crivellaro, J.E. Edung, J.M. Maillo Fernandez, C. Kiarie, J. Lawrence, A. Leakey, E. Mbua, H. Miller, A. Muigai, D.M. Mukhongo, A. van Baelen, R. Wood, J.-L. Schwenninger, R. Grün, H. Achyuthan, A. Wilshaw & R.A. Foley (21st January 2016) “Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya”, Nature 529: 394-398; doi:10.1038/nature16477 (*equal second authors; N.B. This article was featured on the cover of this edition of Nature).
2. Power, R.K., B.B. Miles, A. Peruzzi & A. Voerman (2011) “Building Bridges: a practical guide to developing and implementing a subject specific peer-to-peer academic mentoring program for first-year higher education students”, Asian Journal of Social Sciences 7 (11): 75-80 Special Edition, Closing the Loop.
3. Power, R.K. & Y. Tristant (2016) “From Refuse to Rebirth: Repositioning the ‘Pot Burial’ in Ancient Egypt”, Antiquity 90: 1474-1488; doi:10.15184/aqy.2016.176.
4. Malone, C., N. Cutajar, T.R. McLaughlin, B. Mercieca-Spiteri, A. Pace, R.K. Power, S. Stoddart, S. Sultana, C. Bronk Ramsey, E. Dunbar, A. Bayliss, F. Healy & A. Whittle (2019) “Island questions: the chronology of the Brochtorff Circle at Xagħra, Gozo, and its significance for the Neolithic sequence on Malta”, Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences 11 (8): 4251-4306 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00790-y
. 5. Thompson, J., D. Martin-Vega, R. Power, S. Stoddart & C. Malone (2018) “Identification of dermestid beetle modification on Neolithic Maltese human bone: Implications for funerary practices at the Xemxija Tombs”, Journal of Archaeological Science – Reports 22: 123-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.09.016
. 6. Power, R.K. (2012) From the Cradle to the Grave: Child, Infant and Foetal Burials in the Egyptian Archaeological Record from the Early Dynastic Period to the Middle Kingdom (ca. 3300–1650 BC). PhD Thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney.
7. Raymond, C., J. Bevitt, Y. Tristant, R. Power, A. Lanati, C. Davey, J. Magnussen & S. Clark (2019) “Recycled Blessings: An investigative case study of a re-wrapped Egyptian votive mummy using novel and established 3D imaging techniques”, Archaeometry https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12477
. 8. Power, R.K., E. Nikita, D. Mattingly, M. Mirazón Lahr & T.C. O’Connell (2019) “Human Mobility and Identity: Variation, Diet and Migration in Relation to the Garamantes of Fazzan”, in M.C. Gatto, D.J. Mattingly, N. Ray & M. Sterry (eds) Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond. Trans-Saharan Archaeology Volume II. Series editor D.J. Mattingly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and The Society for Libyan Studies; ISBN10: 110847408X; ISBN13: 9781108474085; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108634311
. 9. Thompson, J., E.W. Parkinson, T.R. McLaughlin, R.P. Barratt, R.K. Power, B. Mercieca- Spiteri, S. Stoddart & C. Malone (2020) “Placing and remembering the dead in late Neolithic Malta: a bioarchaeological and spatial analysis on the Xaghra Circle Hypogeum, Gozo”, World Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2019.1745680
. 10. Multari, D.H, P. Ravishankar, R.K. Power, C. Lord, J. Fraser & P.A. Haynes (2022) “Development of a novel minimally invasive sampling and analysis technique for bioarchaeological proteomics”, Journal of Archaeological Science 139, 105548 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105548
.11. Stoddart, S., R.K. Power, J.E. Thompson, B. Mercieca-Spiteri, T.R. McLaughlin, E.W. Parkinson, A. Pace, & C. Malone (eds)(2022) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. ISBN 978-1-913344-08-5. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91914
.12. Power, R.K., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Thompson, J.E., Carruthers, J., Massingham, S., Buck, L.T., Saers, J., Pardey, M., Stock, J.T., & Magnussen, J.S. (2022) “Dental Pathology in the Circle: Oral Health, Activity and Intervention in Neolithic Malta”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 63-126; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91928
. 13. Power, R.K., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Thompson, J.E., Carruthers, J., Buck, L.T., Saers, J., Pardey, M., Stock, J.T., & Magnussen, J.S. (2022) “Dental Modification in the Circle: Shaping Bodies, Shaping Culture in Neolithic Malta”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 127-172; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91929
.14. Power, R.K., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., Stock, J.T., & Irish, J.D. (2022) “Dental Anthropology from the Circle: Non-metric Traits of the Posterior Dentition and Population Relationships in the Neolithic Mediterranean”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 173-182; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91930
.15. Power, R.K., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Thompson, J.E., Carruthers, J., Vogel, H., Buck, L.T., Saers, J., Pardey, M., Stock, J.T., & Magnussen, J.S. (2022) “General Pathology in the Circle: Biocultural Insights into Population Health, Trauma and Care in Neolithic Malta”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 195-286; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91932
.16. Mercieca-Spiteri, B., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Parkinson, E.W., Stock, J.T., O’Connell, T.C., & Stoddart, S. (2022) “New approaches to the bioarchaeology of complex multiple interments”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 27-38; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91926
.17. Parkinson, E.W., McLaughlin, T.R., Barratt, R., Boyle, S., Meneely, J., Power, R.K., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., Thompson, J.E., Stoddart, S. & Malone, C. (2022) “The chronology, structure and stratigraphy of the Circle”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 39-61; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91927
.18. Nafplioti, A., McLaughlin, T.R., Lightfoot, E., Power, R.K., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., Kneale, C.J., O’Connell, T.C., Stoddart, S., & Malone, C. (2022) “An isotopic study of provenance and residential mobility at the Circle and the Xemxija tombs”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 287-294; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91915
.19. McLaughlin, T.R., Power, R.K., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., Parkinson, E.W., Lightfoot, E., Varalli, A., Thompson, J.E., Kneale, C.J., O’Connell, T.C., Reimer, P.J., Stoddart, S., & Malone, C. (2022) “An isotopic study of palaeodiet at the Circle and the Xemxija tombs”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 295-302; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91933
.20. Ariano, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Power, R.K., Stock, J.T., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., Stoddart, S., Malone, C., Mattiangeli, V., & Bradley, D. (2022) “aDNA: An investigation of uniparental genetic heritage in Neolithic Malta”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 303-310; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91919
.21. Thompson, J.E., Power, R.K., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Robb, J., Stoddart, S., & Malone, C. (2022) “Reconstructing deathways at the Circle and the Xemxija tombs through funerary taphonomy”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca- Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 311-332; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91920
.22. Stoddart, S., Malone, C., Power, R.K., McLaughlin, T.R., & Thompson, J.E. (2022) “Conclusion: Current Inferences from the Study of Death in Prehistoric Malta”; in Stoddart, S., Power, R.K., Thompson, J.E., Mercieca-Spiteri, B., McLaughlin, T.R., Parkinson, E.W., Pace, A., & C. Malone (eds) Temple People: Bioarchaeology, Resilience and Culture in Prehistoric Malta. Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: 355-364; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.91922
.23. Power, R.K., (2021) “Child, infant and foetal burials in the Egyptian archaeological record: Exploring cultural capacities from the Predynastic to Middle Kingdom Periods (ca. 4400- 1650 BC)”, in L.A. Beaumont, M. Dillon & N. Harrington (eds) Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean. Routledge, London & New York: 415-429.
24. Power, R.K., E. Nikita, D. Mattingly, M. Mirazón Lahr & T.C. O’Connell, (2019) “Human Mobility and Identity: Variation, Diet and Migration in Relation to the Garamantes of Fazzan”, in M.C. Gatto, D.J. Mattingly, N. Ray & M. Sterry (eds) Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond. Trans-Saharan Archaeology Volume II. Series editor D.J. Mattingly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and The Society for Libyan Studies; ISBN10: 110847408X; ISBN13: 9781108474085; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108634311
.25. Power, R.K. & A. Haour, (2018) “The Human Skeletal Material”, in A. Haour (ed) Birnin Lafiya: 2000 Years in a Dendi Village, Frankfurt, Brill: Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series; ISBN: 978-90-04-37669-4: 254-279; https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376694.
26. C. Malone, R. McLaughlin, B. Mercieca-Spiteri, E. Parkinson, R. Power, J. Stock, S. Stoddart & J. Thompson, “The social implications of death in prehistoric Malta”, in Gathered in Death: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives on Collective Burial and Social Organisation, ISBN-13: 978-2-87558-699-5; Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 128-142.
27. Vogel, H. & R.K. Power, (2023) “Recognising Inequality: Ableism in Egyptological Approaches to Disability and Bodily Differences”, World Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2023.2170911
.28. Multari, D.H., G.J. Sullivan, M. Hartley, R.K. Power & P.A. Haynes, (2023) “Species identification of early colonial bone artefacts excavated from Pyrmont, Australia, by mass spectrometric identification of collagen peptides”, Journal of Archaeological Science – Reports 47: 103740 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103740
.29. Ariano, B., V. Mattiangeli, E. Breslin, E. Parkinson, T.R. McLaughlin, J.E. Thompson, R.K. Power, J. Stock, B. Mercieca-Spiteri, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. Stoddart, C. Malone, L. Cassidy & D.G. Bradley, (2022) “Ancient Maltese genomes and the genetic geography of Neolithic Europe”, Current Biology 32 (12): P2668-2680.E6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.069
.30. Massingham, S. & R.K. Power, (2022) “Interventive Dental Therapy in Ancient Egypt (ca. 2686 BC – AD 323): A Critical Review”, International Journal of Paleopathology 38: 64-75 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.06.003
.31. Multari, D.H., P. Ravishankar, G.J. Sullivan, R.K. Power, C. Lord, J.A. Fraser & P.A. Haynes, (2022) "Proteomics dataset from 26th Dynasty Egyptian mummified remains sampled using minimally invasive skin sampling tape strips", Data In Brief 45: 108562 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108562
. 32. Miles, B.B, J. Carruthers, C. Miller, J. Binet, H. Vogel & R.K. Power (2022) “ePortfolio Assessments as Academic Activism in Archaeology: Design Justice through Disruption, Diversity, and Student Self-Determination”, Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning ePortfolio Review 6(1): 51-66 https://aaeebl.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/AePR_v6n1_FallWinter_2022.pdf
.33. Thompson, J.E., R.K. Power, B. Mercieca-Spiteri, J.S. Magnussen, M. Pardey, L. Buck, J.T. Stock, T.R. McLaughlin, S. Stoddart & C. Malone, (2021) “Analysis of periosteal lesions from commingled human remains at the Xagħra Circle hypogeum reveals the first case of probable scurvy from Neolithic Malta”, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3040
.34. Whitford, M., D.B. Gore, M.T. Johnsson, A.A. Bilgin, R.K. Power, C. Richards, & M.J. Withford, (2021) “A complementary validation of Egyptian faience jewellery reconstruction using elemental and statistical analyses”, Journal of Archaeological Science – Reports 38: 103087 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103087
.35. Sowada, K., R.K. Power, G. Jacobsen, T. Murphy, A. McClymont, F. Bertuch, A. Jenkinson, J. Carruthers, J. & J.S. Magnussen, (2021) “Multidisciplinary discovery of ancient restoration using a rare mud carapace on a mummified individual from late New Kingdom Egypt”, PLoS ONE 16 (2): e0245247 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245247
.36. Whitford, M., S. Wyatt-Spratt, D.B. Gore, M.T. Johnsson, R.K. Power, M. Rampe, C. Richards, & M.J. Withford, (2020) “Assessing the standardisation of Egyptian shabti manufacture via morphology and elemental analyses”, Journal of Archaeological Science - Reports 33: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102541
.37. Multari, D., P. Ravishankar, R.K. Power & P.A. Haynes, (2022) “Identifying proteins in human remains”, in J. Fraser, C. Lord & J. Magnussen (Eds) Speak My Name: Investigating Egyptian Mummies. Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney University Press: 139-140.
