Professor
Archaeology
Contact Information
Denny Hall, 230 (not on mezzanine level)
Office Hours
Make an appointment at https://calendly.com/bmarwick
Biography
Ph.D., Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University, 2008
M.A., Archaeology, University of Western Australia, 2002
My main research activity is using models from evolutionary ecology to analyse past human behaviour in mainland Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Australia. My technical specialisations in stone artefact technology and geoarchaeology provides me with wide scope in time periods and geography. My specific interests include the hominin colonisation of mainland Southeast Asia, and East Asia, forager technologies and ecology in Australia and mainland Southeast Asia, and transitions to agriculture in mainland Southeast Asia. Please see my personal website for interviews, my public and professional writing, and more about my teaching and research: http://faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/
Research
Selected Research
- Marwick, B. (2025). Is archaeology a science? Insights and imperatives from 10,000 articles and a year of reproducibility reviews. Journal of Archaeological Science, 180, 106281. Download PDF
- Ruan, Q., H. Li, P. Xiao, B. Li, H. Monod, A. Sumner, K. Zhao, J. Liu, Z. Jia, C. Wang, A. Fan, M. Moncel, B. Marwick, M. Peresani, Y. Wang, F. Chen, & D. Delpiano (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 122 (14) e2418029122 Download PDF
- DiCiro, A., N. Mitchell, and B. Marwick (2024). Everything is a Deposit: An interview with pioneering geoarchaeologist Julie K. Stein. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-697 Download PDF
- Matzig, D. N.; Marwick, B.; Riede, F.; Warnock, R. C. M. (2024). "A macroevolutionary analysis of European Late Upper Palaeolithic stone tool shape using a Bayesian phylodynamic framework". Royal Society Open Science. 11 (8). 240321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240321 Download PDF
- Yichun Chen & Ben Marwick (2023) Women in the Lab, Men in the Field? Correlations between Gender and Research Topics at Three Major Archaeology Conferences, Journal of Field Archaeology, DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2261083 Download PDF
- Yichun Chen & Ben Marwick (2023) Women in the Lab, Men in the Field? Correlations between Gender and Research Topics at Three Major Archaeology Conferences, Journal of Field Archaeology, DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2261083 Download PDF
- Hu, Y., Marwick, B., Lu, H., Hou, Y., Huang, W., & Li, B. (2023). Evidence of Levallois strategies on cores at Guanyindong cave, Southwest China during the Late Middle Pleistocene. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 47, 103727 Download PDF
- Riede, F., Araujo, A., & Marwick, B. (2022). Robert C. Dunnell's Systematics in prehistory at 50. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, E16. doi:10.1017/ehs.2022.18 Download PDF
- Park, G., Wang, L., & Marwick, B. (2022). How do archaeologists write about racism? Computational text analysis of 41 years of Society for American Archaeology annual meeting abstracts. Antiquity, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.181 Download PDF
- Dosseto, Anthony, and Ben Marwick (2022). UThwigl — An R Package for Closed- and Open-System Uranium–Thorium Dating. Quaternary Geochronology 67: 101235 Download PDF
- Conrad, Cyler, Rasmi Shoocongdej, Ben Marwick, et al. (2021). Re-Evaluating Pleistocene–Holocene Occupation of Cave Sites in North-West Thailand: New Radiocarbon and Luminescence Dating. Antiquity Download PDF
- Marwick, B., & Smith, P. (2021). World Heritage sites on Wikipedia: Cultural heritage activism in a context of constrained agency. Big Data & Society, 8(1), 20539517211017304. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211017304 Download PDF
- Hayes, E. H., Field, J. H., Coster, A. C. F., Fullagar, R., Matheson, C., Florin, S. A., Nango, M., Djandjomerr, D., Marwick, B., Wallis, L. A., Smith, M. A., & Clarkson, C. (2021). Holocene grinding stones at Madjedbebe reveal the processing of starchy plant taxa and animal tissue. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 35, 102754 Download PDF
- Marwick, B., Pham Thanh Son, May Su Ko 2020 Over research and ethics dumping in international archaeology. SPAFA Journal Vol 4 (2020) Download PDF
- Marwick, B. 2020. Open access to publications to expand participation in archaeology. Norwegian Archaeological Review https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1837233 Download PDF
- Wang, L. Y., & Marwick, B. (2020). Trade ornaments as indicators of social changes resulting from indirect effects of colonialism in northeastern Taiwan. Archaeological Research in Asia, 100226. Download PDF
- Wang, L. Y., & Marwick, B. (2020). Standardization of ceramic shape: A case study of Iron Age pottery from northeastern Taiwan. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 33, 102554. Download PDF
- Florin, S. Anna, Andrew S. Fairbairn, May Nango, Djaykuk Djandjomerr, Ben Marwick, Richard Fullagar, Mike Smith, Lynley A. Wallis & Chris Clarkson (2020). The first Australian plant foods at Madjedbebe, 65,000–53,000 years ago. Nature Communications 11, 924 Download PDF
- Schmidt, S.C. and Marwick, B., (2020). Tool-Driven Revolutions in Archaeological Science. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 3(1), pp.18–32. Download PDF
- Marwick, B. (2019). Galisonian logic devices and data availability: Revitalising Upper Palaeolithic cultural taxonomies. Antiquity, 93(371), 1365-1367 Download PDF
- Marwick, B., Wang, L.-Y., Robinson, R., & Loiselle, H. (2019) How to Use Replication Assignments for Teaching Integrity in Empirical Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 1–9 Download PDF
- Bulbeck, D., O’Connor, S., Fakhri, Fenner, J. N., Marwick, B., Suryatman, Wibowo, U. P. (2019). Patterned and plain baked clay from pre-pottery contexts in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Antiquity, 93(371), 1284-1302 Download PDF
- Stephens, L., Fuller, D., Boivin, N., Rick, T., Gauthier, N., Kay, A., Marwick, B., […] Ellis, E. (2019). Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science, 365(6456), 897–902. Download PDF
- Schaarschmidt, M., Fu, X., Li, B., Marwick, B., Khaing, K., Douka, K., & Roberts, R. G. 2019 pIRIR and IR-RF dating of archaeological deposits at Badahlin and Gu Myaung Caves–First luminescence ages for Myanmar. Quaternary Geochronology 49, 262-270 Download PDF
- Hu, Y., Marwick, B., Zhang, J.-F., Rui, X., Hou, Y.-M., Yue, J.-P., … Li, B. (2018). Late Middle Pleistocene Levallois stone-tool technology in southwest China. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0710-1
- Clarkson, C., Roberts, R. G., Jacobs, Z., Marwick, B., Fullagar, R., Arnold, L. J., & Hua, Q. (2018). Reply to comments on Clarkson et al.(2017)‘Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’. Australian Archaeology, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2018.1462884 Download PDF
- Marwick, B., & Birch, S. 2018 A Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Archaeological Data as an Incentive to Data Sharing. Advances in Archaeological Practice 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2018.3 Download PDF
- Marwick, B. 2018 The Hoabinhian of Southeast Asia and its Relationship to Regional Pleistocene Lithic Technologies. In Robinson, Erick, Sellet, Frederic (Eds.) Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change Springer. pp. 63-78
- Clarkson, Chris, Zenobia Jacobs , Ben Marwick , Richard Fullagar , Lynley Wallis , Mike Smith , Richard Roberts , Elspeth Hayes , Kelsey Lowe , Xavier Carah , S. Anna Florin , Jessica McNeil , Lee Arnold , Quan Hua , Jillian Huntley , Helen Brand , Andrew Fairbairn , Kate Connell , Kasih Norman , Tiina Manne , James Shulmeister , Tessa Murphy , Lindsey Lyle , Makiah Salinas , Gayoung Park , Mara Page , Colin Pardoe 2017 Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago. Nature 547(7663), 306.
- Marwick, B., Hiscock, P., Sullivan, M., & Hughes, P. 2017 Landform boundary effects on Holocene forager landscape use in arid South Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.07.004
- Marwick, B., Boettiger, C., & Mullen, L. 2017 Packaging data analytical work reproducibly using R (and friends). The American Statistician. DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2017.1375986
Research Advised
- Park, G. (2023). Applying cultural evolutionary theory to the technological transition during the Late Pleistocene in Korea. PhD Thesis. Department of Anthropology. University of Washington.
- Wang, Li-Ying and Ben Marwick (2021). A Bayesian networks approach to infer social changes in burials in northeastern Taiwan during the European colonization period. Journal of Archaeological Science 134: 105471
- Wang, Liying. Change in Prehistoric Social Organization in Northeastern Taiwan during the European Colonization Period. Diss. U of Washington. 2021.
- Madsen, Mark. Measuring cultural transmission at archaeological scales: How can we improve empirical sufficiency? Diss. U of Washington, 2020
- Wopschall, Kayla P. Akrotiri Aetokremnos and the Cypriot Pygmy Hippopotamus: An Interdisciplinary Look at a Late Pleistocene Large Mammal Extinction. Diss. U of Washington, 2015.
- Kwak, Seungki. Long-term Chronology of Subsistence and the Role of Intensive Agriculture in the Central Part of the Korean Peninsula during the Late Holocene. Diss. U of Washington, 2015.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Summer 2024
Spring 2024
Autumn 2023
Summer 2023
Spring 2023
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Affiliations
Home Department
Professional Affiliations
Quaternary Research Center, eScience Institute