Michael T. Carson

Associate Professor of Archaeology

University of Guam

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College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CNAS)

UOG Land Grant | agInnovation Research Center

Department Of Anthropology

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Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC)

University of Guam

Michael T. Carson is currently serving as a College Of Natural And Applied Sciences (Cnas) Associate Professor of Archaeology at University of Guam.

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Michael T. Carson

University of Guam

Associate Professor of Archaeology

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Earliest Evidence of Rice Cultivation in Remote Oceania: Ritual Use by the First Islanders in the Marianas 3500 Years Ago. Science Advances (2025)

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Early Holocene Exploitation of Taro and Yam Among Southern East Asian Hunter-Gatherers. Antiquity (2024)

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Early Peopling in and Around Taiwan. (2024)

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Ritual Tooth Ablation in Ancient Taiwan and the Austronesian Expansion. Archaeological Research in Asia (2024)

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Tracing Negritos and Their Paths in Ancient Taiwan. (2024)

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Archaeology of Pacific Oceania. (2023)

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CORRIGENDUM: Before Rice and the First Rice: Archaeobotanical Study in Ha Long Bay, Northern Vietnam. Frontiers in Earth Science (2022)

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Early Austronesians Cultivated Rice and Millet Together: Tracing Taiwan’s First Neolithic Crops. Frontiers in Plant Science (2022)

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Negritos in Taiwan and the Wider Prehistory of Southeast Asia: New Discovery From the Xiaoma Caves. World Archaeology (2022)

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OCEANIA: Peopling. Elsevier eBooks (2022)