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View article: Ancient mitogenomes of Lapita pigs confirm continuity of the Pacific Clade in Remote Oceania
Ancient mitogenomes of Lapita pigs confirm continuity of the Pacific Clade in Remote Oceania Open
View article: A Speculative Approach to Civic and Environmental Education
A Speculative Approach to Civic and Environmental Education Open
View article: Do Ecological or Social Factors Generate Internal Variation Amongst Eastern Polynesian Chiefdoms? A Comparison of Human Interactions with Other Species in the Society Islands and Gambier Islands (Mangareva)
Do Ecological or Social Factors Generate Internal Variation Amongst Eastern Polynesian Chiefdoms? A Comparison of Human Interactions with Other Species in the Society Islands and Gambier Islands (Mangareva) Open
View article: Do Ecological or Social Factors Generate Internal Variation Amongst Eastern Polynesian Chiefdoms? A Comparison of Human Interactions with Other Species in the Society Islands and Gambier Islands (Mangareva)
Do Ecological or Social Factors Generate Internal Variation Amongst Eastern Polynesian Chiefdoms? A Comparison of Human Interactions with Other Species in the Society Islands and Gambier Islands (Mangareva) Open
View article: Ancient Mitogenomes of Lapita Pigs Confirm Continuity of the Pacific Clade in Remote Oceania
Ancient Mitogenomes of Lapita Pigs Confirm Continuity of the Pacific Clade in Remote Oceania Open
View article: People of the Sea, or of the Soil? How the Balance of Marine and Terrestrial Resource Availability Informs Maximum Population on Four Polynesian Islands
People of the Sea, or of the Soil? How the Balance of Marine and Terrestrial Resource Availability Informs Maximum Population on Four Polynesian Islands Open
Most studies of the food resource potential of early Polynesian populations focus exclusively on agricultural potential, and specifically starchy staples, despite the importance of marine resources to the Polynesians. To more accurately es…
View article: People of the sea, or of the soil? How the balance of marine and terrestrial resource availability informs maximum population on four Polynesian islands
People of the sea, or of the soil? How the balance of marine and terrestrial resource availability informs maximum population on four Polynesian islands Open
Most studies of the food resource potential of early Polynesian populations focus exclusively on agricultural potential, and specifically starchy staples, despite the importance of the marine world to the Polynesians. In an attempt to more…
View article: Advances in East Polynesian zooarchaeology: Special Issue introduction, review (2016–2024), and assessment
Advances in East Polynesian zooarchaeology: Special Issue introduction, review (2016–2024), and assessment Open
This article both introduces our Special Issue on “Zooarchaeology and Human Ecodynamics in East Polynesia” and reviews recent research from East Polynesia at large. The seven articles and discussion essay derive from a symposium at the 14t…
View article: Tracking shifts in Society Islands marine subsistence through time: Intra‐site analysis of faunal remains and fishing gear
Tracking shifts in Society Islands marine subsistence through time: Intra‐site analysis of faunal remains and fishing gear Open
We discuss new data from Colonization Phase and Early Expansion/Development Phase assemblages in the pre‐contact Society Islands. We focus on analysis of marine faunal remains and fishing gear to infer diachronic shifts in subsistence prac…
View article: Pig and dog use in the pre‐contact Society Island Chiefdoms: integrated ethnohistoric, archaeological and use‐web analyses
Pig and dog use in the pre‐contact Society Island Chiefdoms: integrated ethnohistoric, archaeological and use‐web analyses Open
Pig and dog were highly valued animals in pre‐contact Polynesia. In this paper, I focus on pig and dog use in the resource rich, and hierarchically complex, pre‐contact Society Island chiefdoms. Utilizing ethnohistoric data and human‐centr…
View article: Defining the Scope of the Anthropogenic Niche: Woodland Communities Over a 1000-Year Sequence in the Society Islands (French Polynesia)
Defining the Scope of the Anthropogenic Niche: Woodland Communities Over a 1000-Year Sequence in the Society Islands (French Polynesia) Open
View article: Stories From Islita Libre: Digital Spatial Storytelling as an Expression of Transnational and Immigrant Identities
Stories From Islita Libre: Digital Spatial Storytelling as an Expression of Transnational and Immigrant Identities Open
In this essay, we examine the relationship between students’ spatial literacies of their neighborhoods and communities and their transnational identities, the latter which have complex, broad spatial and temporal dimensions. Over four mont…
View article: Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions
Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions Open
View article: Social and Ecological Factors Affect Long-Term Resilience of Voyaging Canoes in Pre-contact Eastern Polynesia: A Multiproxy Approach From the ArchaeoEcology Project
Social and Ecological Factors Affect Long-Term Resilience of Voyaging Canoes in Pre-contact Eastern Polynesia: A Multiproxy Approach From the ArchaeoEcology Project Open
While Eastern Polynesian archaeologists rarely recover archaeological remains of canoes ( va‘a) , ethnohistoric texts document how such vessels played a central role in the daily lives of commoners and chiefs alike. Here, we refocus discus…
View article: Inter-Island Production Variability and Pre-Contact Population Estimates: A Geospatial Analysis of Taro Farming in Rurutu, French Polynesia
Inter-Island Production Variability and Pre-Contact Population Estimates: A Geospatial Analysis of Taro Farming in Rurutu, French Polynesia Open
View article: Functional Classification of Hawaiian Curved-Edge Adzes and Gouges
Functional Classification of Hawaiian Curved-Edge Adzes and Gouges Open
As part of a project to describe and classify functionally more than 800 Hawaiian stone adzes held in the ethnographic and archaeological collections at Bishop Museum in Honolulu, 24 tools with curved edges were identified and described. T…
View article: Supplementary Material for a Functional Classification of Hawaiian Curved-Edge Adzes and Gouges
Supplementary Material for a Functional Classification of Hawaiian Curved-Edge Adzes and Gouges Open
This document describes 24 Hawaiian adzes from the collection of B.P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. It supplements and partially reproduces an article by the authors entitled ”Functional classification of Hawaiian curved-edge adzes a…
View article: Rethinking Hinterlands in Polynesia
Rethinking Hinterlands in Polynesia Open
Hinterland studies demonstrate the capacity to highlight nuance in regional and temporal variation in the Polynesian past. This Special Issue highlights a group of papers which focus on recent topics and themes drawn from case studies situ…
View article: The Māʻohi Hinterlands
The Māʻohi Hinterlands Open
I draw upon current research highlighting the agentive role that hinterland zones could have on both local and regional dynamics. In my case study on the Society Islands, I consider hinterland variability at multiple scales, that of the lo…
View article: Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use
Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use Open
A synthetic history of human land use Humans began to leave lasting impacts on Earth's surface starting 10,000 to 8000 years ago. Through a synthetic collaboration with archaeologists around the globe, Stephens et al. compiled a comprehens…
View article: Social and Emotional Learning: A Principled Science of Human Development in Context
Social and Emotional Learning: A Principled Science of Human Development in Context Open
Decades of research and practice in social and emotional development have left us with a body of knowledge that tells us that (1) social, emotional, and cognitive development are intertwined in the brain and in behavior and influence schoo…
View article: Youth Data Wrangling and Modeling Family Migration
Youth Data Wrangling and Modeling Family Migration Open
Big data technologies are powerful tools for telling evidence-based narratives about the world.In this paper, we examine the sociotechnical practices of data wrangling -strategies for managing and selecting datasets to produce a model and …
View article: Coastal and Inland Settlement on Raiʻatea (Society Islands) During the Development/Expansion, Classic, and Post-Contact Phases
Coastal and Inland Settlement on Raiʻatea (Society Islands) During the Development/Expansion, Classic, and Post-Contact Phases Open
The Society Islands hold a central place in archaeological models of Central Eastern Polynesia colonization and social complexity, given their spatial importance as a gateway into CEP from the west. Archaeological fieldwork in the Societie…
View article: The Pacific Rat Race to Easter Island: Tracking the Prehistoric Dispersal of Rattus exulans Using Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes
The Pacific Rat Race to Easter Island: Tracking the Prehistoric Dispersal of Rattus exulans Using Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes Open
The location of the immediate eastern Polynesian origin for the settlement of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), remains unclear with conflicting archeological and linguistic evidence. Previous genetic commensal research using the Pacific rat, Ratt…
View article: Refining the Society Islands cultural sequence: colonization phase and developmental phase coastal occupation on Moʻorea Island
Refining the Society Islands cultural sequence: colonization phase and developmental phase coastal occupation on Moʻorea Island Open
The Society Islands are critical to chronology building in East Polynesia, as the archipelago served as a potential first landfall for voyagers moving out of the West Polynesia homeland. Yet determining the particulars of migration sequenc…
View article: The functionality of feasting at late prehistoric residential and ceremonial sites in the Society Islands
The functionality of feasting at late prehistoric residential and ceremonial sites in the Society Islands Open
Much of the research into East Polynesian ceremonial sites focuses on temple-altar (marae-ahu) complexes as sacred sites where varied religious rituals and rites of passage were performed. Yet ethnohistoric documents and the Tahitian lexic…
View article: Monuments and People in the <scp>P</scp>acific Edited by HeleneMartisson‐Wallin and TimothyThomasUppsala University Studies in Global Archaeology 14, Uppsala, 2014. ISBN: 978‐91‐506‐2410‐6. Pp. 374. Free online.
Monuments and People in the <span>P</span>acific Edited by HeleneMartisson‐Wallin and TimothyThomasUppsala University Studies in Global Archaeology 14, Uppsala, 2014. ISBN: 978‐91‐506‐2410‐6. Pp. 374. Free online. Open
View article: Identifying residences of ritual practitioners in the archaeological record as a proxy for social complexity
Identifying residences of ritual practitioners in the archaeological record as a proxy for social complexity Open
View article: A Note on Hawaiian Stone Axes
A Note on Hawaiian Stone Axes Open
As part of a project to describe and classify more than 800 Hawaiian stone adzes held in the ethnographic and archaeological collections at Bishop Museum in Honolulu, 11 finely-finished, double-beveled stone tools, which resemble modern ax…