Dr Duncan Keenan-Jones
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Publications
Book Chapters
Kerkhove, Ray C., Silcock, Jennifer L., Williams, Douglas, Kotarba-Morley, Ania, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Wright, Nathan J., Morley, Mike W., Gorringe, Joshua, Scholz, Glen, Lowe, Kelsey M., Cemre Üstünkaya, M., Stephens, Samantha, Moss, Patrick T. and Westaway, Michael C. (2024). Fish Traps, Seed-Grinding and Food Stores : Reconstructing Complex Mithaka Indigenous Economic and Water Management Technologies. The Oxford Handbook of Global Indigenous Archaeologies. (pp. 1-69) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197607695.013.60
Sivaguru, Mayandi, Fouke, Kyle W., Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Motta, Davide, Garcia, Marcelo H. and Fouke, Bruce W. (2022). Depositional and diagenetic history of travertine deposited within the Anio Novus aqueduct of ancient Rome. From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean microplates to the Mexican killer asteroid: honoring the career of Walter Alvarez. (pp. 541-569) edited by Christian Koeberl, Philippe Claeys and Alessandro Montanari. Boulder, CO, United States: The Geological Society of America. doi: 10.1130/2022.2557(26)
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2015). Water. The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. (pp. 1-2) Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah25071
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2013). Large-Scale Water Management Projects in Roman Central-Southern Italy. The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History. (pp. 233-256) Leiden, Germany: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004254053_011
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2012). Sale of a Horse. New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 10: Greek and Other Inscriptions and Papyri Published 1988-1992. (pp. 123-125) edited by Llewelyn, S.R., Harrison, J. and Theophilus, M.. Grand Rapids, MI United States: Wm B Eerdmans Publishing.
Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Hellstrom, John C. and Drysdale, Russell N. (2011). Lead contamination in the drinking water of Pompeii. Pompeii: Art, Industry and Infrastructure. (pp. 131-148) edited by Poehler, Eric E., Flohr, Miko and Cole, Kevin. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxbow.
Journal Articles
Keenan-Jones, Duncan C., Serra-Llobet, Anna, He, Hongming and Kondolf, G. Mathias (2023). Urban development and long-term flood risk and resilience: experiences over time and across cultures. Cases from Asia, North America, Europe and Australia. Urban Studies, 62 (3), 469-486. doi: 10.1177/00420980231212077
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2023). New and multidisciplinary methods investigating Roman water management: aqueducts and castella in Rome and Pompeii. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 36 (2), 604-612. doi: 10.1017/s1047759423000326
Martin, Sarah, Chanson, Hubert, Bates, Badger, Keenan‐Jones, Duncan and Westaway, Michael C. (2022). Indigenous fish traps and fish weirs on the Darling (Baaka) River, south‐eastern Australia, and their influence on the ecology and morphology of the river and floodplains. Archaeology in Oceania, 58 (1), 91-114. doi: 10.1002/arco.5279
Seymour, Linda M., Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Zanzi, Gian Luca, Weaver, James C. and Masic, Admir (2022). Reactive ceramic aggregates in mortars from ancient water infrastructure serving Rome and Pompeii. Cell Reports Physical Science, 3 (9) 101024, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.101024
Serra‐Llobet, Anna, Kondolf, George Mathias, Magdaleno, Fernando and Keenan‐Jones, Duncan (2022). Flood diversions and bypasses: benefits and challenges. WIREs Water, 9 (1) e1562. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1562
Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Motta, Davide, Garcia, Marcelo H., Sivaguru, Mayandi, Perillo, Mauricio, Shosted, Ryan K. and Fouke, Bruce W. (2022). Travertine crystal growth ripples record the hydraulic history of ancient Rome’s Anio Novus aqueduct. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 1239. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-05158-2
Crapper, Martin, Motta, Davide, Keenan-Jones, Duncan and Monteleone, Maria (2021). Hydraulic engineering analysis of Roman water infrastructure: a review of practice and possibilities. Water History, 14 (1), 5-19. doi: 10.1007/s12685-021-00285-5
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2021). Wasserwesen zur Zeit des Frontinus: Bauwerke, Technik, Kultur: Tagungsband des internationalen Frontinus-Symposiums Trier, 25.-29. Mai 2016 . Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021.03.36.
Seymour, Linda M., Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Zanzi, Gian Luca and Masic, Admir (2021). Reactive Synthetic Pozzolans in Mortars from Ancient Water Infrastructure Serving Rome and Pompeii. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3885241
Comas-Bru, Laia, Harrison, Sandy P., Werner, Martin, Rehfeld, Kira, Scroxton, Nick, Veiga-Pires, Cristina and SISAL working group (2019). Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial. Climate of the Past, 15 (4), 1557-1579. doi: 10.5194/cp-15-1557-2019
Keenan-Jones, Duncan and Hebblewhite, Mark (2019). The pitfalls of using ancient population, army and casualty data without expert curation: a review of oka et al. 2017. Cliodynamics, 10 (1), 54-66. doi: 10.21237/C7clio10142345
Atsawawaranunt, Kamolphat, Comas-Bru, Laia, Amirnezhad Mozhdehi, Sahar, Deininger, Michael, Harrison, Sandy P., Baker, Andy, Boyd, Meighan, Kaushal, Nikita, Ahmad, Syed Masood, Ait Brahim, Yassine, Arienzo, Monica, Bajo, Petra, Braun, Kirsten, Burstyn, Yuval, Chawchai, Sakonvan, Duhan, Wuhui, Hatvani, István Gábor, Hu, Jun, Kern, Zoltán, Labuhn, Inga, Lachniet, Matthew, Lechleiter, Franziska A., Lorrey, Andrew, Pérez-Mejías, Carlos, Pickering, Robyn, Scroxton, Nick, SISAL Working Group Members and Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2018). The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems. Earth System Science Data, 10 (3), 1687-1713. doi: 10.5194/essd-10-1687-2018
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2018). Book Review of The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems, by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow. American Journal of Archaeology, 122 (1). doi: 10.3764/ajaonline1221.keenan-jones
Delile, Hugo, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Blichert-Toft, Janne, Goiran, Jean-Philippe, Arnaud-Godet, Florent and Albarède, Francis (2017). Rome’s urban history inferred from Pb-contaminated waters trapped in its ancient harbor basins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114 (38), 10059-10064. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706334114
Motta, D., Keenan-Jones, D., Garcia, M. H. and Fouke, B. W. (2017). Hydraulic evaluation of the design and operation of ancient Rome's Anio Novus aqueduct: hydraulic evaluation of ancient Rome's Anio Novus aqueduct. Archaeometry, 59 (6), 1150-1174. doi: 10.1111/arcm.12303
Keenan-Jones, D. C. (2016). Fountains, lead pipes and water systems in Pompeii, Rome and the Roman West. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 29, 778-785. doi: 10.1017/s1047759400072755
Delile, Hugo, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Blichert-Toft, Janne, Goiran, Jean-Philippe, Arnaud-Godet, Florent, Romano, Paola and Albarède, Francis (2016). A lead isotope perspective on urban development in ancient Naples. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (22), 6148-6153. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1600893113
Jones, Duncan Keenan, Motta, Davide, Garcia, Marcelo H. and Fouke, Bruce W. (2015). Travertine-based estimates of the amount of water supplied by ancient Rome's Anio Novus aqueduct. Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports, 3, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.05.006
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2015). Somma-Vesuvian ground movements and the water supply of Pompeii and the bay of Naples. American Journal of Archaeology, 119 (2), 191-215. doi: 10.3764/aja.119.2.0191
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2014). (B.) Campbell Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome. Pp. xx + 585, ills, maps. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Cased, US$70. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3480-0. The Classical Review, 64 (01), 238-241. doi: 10.1017/s0009840x13003181
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2012). Water, society and environment in ancient Rome and its hinterland. Papers of the British School At Rome, 80, 354-354. doi: 10.1017/S0068246212000414
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2010). Macquarie University Gale Scholarship: The Aqua Augusta. Regional water supply in Roman and late antique Campania: An historical and archaeometrical study. Papers of the British School at Rome, 78, 308-309. doi: 10.1017/S0068246200000994
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2005). Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal in Ancient Herculaneum: An Overview. Ancient History: Resources for Teachers, 35, 65-89.
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2004). Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal in Pompeii: An Overview. Ancient History: Resources for Teachers, 34, 149-158.
Conference Papers
Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Foubert, Anneleen, Motta, Davide, Fried, Glenn, Sivaguru, Mayandi, Perillo, Mauricio, Waldsmith, Julia, Wang, Hong, Garcia, Marcelo H. and Fouke, Bruce W. (2014). Hierarchical Stratigraphy of Travertine Deposition in Ancient Roman Aqueducts. Tenth Meeting of Studies on Lazio and Sabina, Rome, Italy, 4 - 6 June 2013. Rome, Italy: Edizioni Quasar.
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2010). The Aqua Augusta and control of water resources in the Bay of Naples. Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference 31, Perth, WA Australia, 2010. Perth, WA Australia: Australasian Society of Classical Studies.
Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Hellstrom, John and Drysdale, Russell (2008). Trace Element and Other Analyses of Tufa from Ancient Water Systems in Campania and Petra. 13th International Conference on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region, Amman, Jordan, 31 March – 9 April 2007. Siegburg, Germany: Deutschen Wasserhistorischen Gesellschaft (DWhG) e.V..
Research Report
Yarnold, Jennifer , Marston, Greg , Mackey, Brendan , McVeigh, John , Rolfe, John , Dale, Allan , Babacan, Hurriyet , Lyons, Ben , Deane, Felicity , Molyneaux, Lynette , Plint, Neville , Newlands, Maxine , Keenan-Jones, Duncan , Quiggin, John , Lovelock, Catherine , Birch, Jacob , Ashford, Graham , Maguire, Rowena , Butler, Don and Doran-Browne, Natalie (2022). Decarbonising Queensland: Four pillars toward a resilient and inclusive low-carbon economy. Policy Futures Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Newspaper Article
Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2021, 01 01). What were the Spartans like? Note to Lego Masters: they didn’t build city walls The Conversation
Creative Works
McWilliam, Janette, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Pounds, Pauline, Donaldson, James, Mann, Charlotte and Boden, Marie (2022). Wondrous Machines: Hero of Alexandria's Ancient Automata. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.
McWilliam, Janette and Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2022). Wondrous Machines: VIP Preview and Curator Talk. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.