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41:2 Table of Contents - Asian Perspectives

(University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2002)
Current Research on the Island of Ua Huka, Marquesas Archipelago, French Polynesia

Conte, Eric (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2002)

Since 1991, an ethnoarchaeological research program has been carried out on the island of Ua Huka (Marquesas Archipelago, French Polynesia). The program included test excavations of early sites, the examination of dwelling ...
Dryland Horticulture in Maupiti: An Ethnoarchaeological Study

Cauchois, Mickaelle-Hinanui (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2002)

Maupiti (Society Islands, French Polynesia) is a small high island where dry and nonmechanized horticulture is still practiced. These practices can be seen in small orchard-gardens on the coastal plain and on mountainsides. ...
Eastern Polynesia - Introduction

Kirch, Patrick V; Conte, Eric (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2002)
The Mangarevan Sequence and Dating of the Geographic Expansion into Southeast Polynesia

Green, Roger C; Weisler, Marshall I (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2002)

A recently published archaeological sequence supported by information from six sites excavated in the Mangarevan group in 1959 is summarized in the context of additional data and current interpretations of the prehistory ...
Melanesian Tribes vs. Polynesian Chiefdoms: Recent Archaeological Assessment of a Classic Model of Sociopolitical Types in Oceania

Sand, Christophe (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2002)

The late prehistoric period is crucial to the study of anthropology, as the area of Island Melanesia has provided the world with one of its great anthropological stereotypes, the "Big Man" society. This was developed by ...
New Radiocarbon Ages of Colonization Sites in East Polynesia

Anderson, Atholl; Sinoto, Yosihiko (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2002)

The archaeological chronology of initial human colonization in East Polynesia has relied substantially upon radiocarbon dating results from a small number of sites in the central region, notably Motu Paeao cemetery (Maupiti) ...
Resolving Long-Term Change in Polynesia Marine Fisheries

Allen, Melinda S (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2002)

There is growing evidence that patterns of marine fisheries on some Pacific islands underwent significant changes over the period of human occupation. One such island is Aitutaki in the Southern Cook Islands. Over the ...
Review of Waihou Journeys, The Archaeology of 400 Years of Maori Settlement, by Caroline Phillips; Gardens of Lono: Archaeological Investigation at the Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Gardens, Kealakekua, Hawai'I, by Melinda S. Allen (ed.); Sigatoka: The Shifting Sands of Fijian Prehistory, by Yvonne Marshall, Andrew Crosby, Sepeti Matararaba, and Shannon Wood; Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island, by Eric Kjellgren.

Sand, Christophe; Wozniak, Joan; Clark, Jeffrey T; Lee, Georgia (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2002)
Voyaging and Interaction in Ancient East Polynesia

Rolett, Barry V (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2002)

The origins of East Polynesian culture are traced to a regional homeland that was centered on the Society Islands but which also included neighboring archipelagoes. Archaeological evidence suggests a fall-off through time ...