Luke Gliganic
Innsbruck Quaternary Research Group
Research Interests
Late Pleistocene human occupation in arid regions, particularly Tibet and central Australia.
Quaternary environmental change and associated human and landscape responses.
Behavioural evolution of Homo sapiens.
Developing luminescence-based approaches for dating rock surfaces and archaeological structures.
Using the OSL signal from single grains of quartz to resolve the depositional and post-depositional histories of sediments in a wide range of settings.
Short CV
2016–2018 FWF Lise Meitner Fellow, University of Innsbruck, Austria
2014–2016 Post-doctoral research, University of Innsbruck, Austria
2011–2014 Post-doctoral research, University of Wollongong, Australia
2007–2011 Ph.D. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia,
2003-2007 B.A. Anthropology and Environmental Studies Stony Brook University - State University of New York, USA
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Publications
Oliver, T.S.N., Dougherty, A.J., Gliganic, L.A., Woodroffe, C.D. (2015): A revised chronology of progradation based on optically stimulated luminescence ages for the coastal plain at Moruya, southeastern Australia. The Holocene 25, 536-546.
May, J.-H., Barrett, A., Cohen, T.J., Jones, B.G., Price, D., Gliganic, L.A. (2015): Late Quaternary evolution of a playa margin at Lake Frome, South Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 122, 93–108.
May, J.-H., Preusser, F., Gliganic, L.A. (2015): Refining late Quaternary plunge pool chronologies in Australia’s monsoonal ‘Top End’. Quaternary Geochronology 30, 328–333.
Gliganic, L.A., May, J.-H., Cohen, T.J. (2015). All mixed up: Using single-grain equivalent dose distributions to identify phases of pedogenic mixing on a dryland alluvial fan. Quaternary International 362, 23–33.
Cohen, T.J., Jansen, J.D., Gliganic, L.A., Larsen, J.R., Nanson, G.C., May, J.-H., Jones, B.G., Price, D.M. (2015): Hydrological collapse coincided with megafaunal extinction c. 48,000 years ago. Geology 43, 195–198.
Gliganic, L.A., Cohen, T.J., Slack, M., Feathers, J.K. (2016): Sediment mixing in aeolian sandsheets identified and quantified using single-grain optically stimulated luminescence. - Quaternary Geochronology, 32, 53-66.
Wang, Z., Meyer, M.C., Gliganic, L.A., Hoffmann, D. L., May, J-H. (2017): Timing of fluvial terrace formation and concomitant travertine deposition in the upper Sutlej River (Tirthapuri, southwestern Tibet) and paleoclimatic implications. - Quaternary Science Reviews, 169, 357-377.
Slack, M., Connell, K., Davis, A., Gliganic, L.A., Law, W.B., Meyer, M.C. (2017): Post last glacial maximum settlement of the West Angelas region in the inland Hamersley Plateau, Western Australia. Australian Archaeology 83, 127-142.
Slack, M., Connell, K., Davis, A., Gliganic, L.A., Law, W.B., Meyer, M.C. (2017): Post-last glacial maximum settlement of the West Angelas region in the inland Hamersley Plateau, Western Australia. - Australian Archaeology, 83, 127-142.
Gliganic, L.A., Cohen, T.J., Meyer, M.C., Molenaar, A. (2017): Variations in luminescence properties of quartz and feldspar from modern fluvial sediments in three rivers. - Quaternary Geochronology, 41, 70-82.
Meyer, M.C., Gliganic, L.A., Jain, M., Sohbati, R., Schmidmair, D. (2018): Lithological controls on light penetration into rock surfaces – implications for OSL and IRSL surface exposure dating. Radiation Measurements, 120, 298-304.
Gliganic, L.A., Meyer, M.C., Sohbati, R., Jain, M., Barrett, S. (2018): OSL surface exposure dating of a lithic quarry in Tibet: laboratory validation and application. Quaternary Geochronology, 49, 199-204.
Slack, M., Law, W.B., Gliganic, L.A. (2018): Pleistocene settlement of the eastern Hamersley Plateau: Timing and directionality. Archaeology in Oceania.
Meyer, M.C., Gliganic, L.A., May, J.H., Merchel, S., Rugel, G., Schlütz, F., Aldenderfer, M.S. and Krainer, K., (2020): Landscape dynamics and human-environment interactions in the northern foothills of Cho Oyu and Mount Everest (southern Tibet) during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. - Quaternary Science Reviews, 229, p.106127.
Wilkins, J., Schoville, B.J., Pickering, R., Gliganic, L., Collins, B., Brown, K.S., von der Meden, J., Khumalo, W., Meyer, M.C., Maape, S., 2021. Innovative Homo sapiens behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari. Nature 592, 248-252.
Gliganic, L.A., Meyer, M.C., May, J.-H., M.S., A., Tropper, P., 2021. Direct dating of lithic surface artifacts using luminescence. Scientific Advances 7.