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A 3000-Year Culture Sequence from Palau, Western Micronesia

Clark, Geoffrey R (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2005)

In western Micronesia archaeological sites containing material-culture remains spanning millennia are rare. This paper reports one from Ulong Island in Palau, which is radiocarbon dated to 3000 cal. B.P. The pottery sequence ...
The Changing Role of Irrigated Colocasia esculenta (Taro) on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands: From an Essential Element of Colonization to an Important Risk-Reduction Strategy

Addison, David J (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2008)

This paper proposes that, on the Marquesan island of Nuku Hiva, wet cultivation of Colocasia taro was important in initial colonization because it was the most energy efficient and fastest-producing crop. In later periods ...
Craft Production and Social Change in Mumun Pottery Period Korea

Bale, Martin T; Ko, Min-jung (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2006)

This paper addresses the development of craft production in the Mumun Pottery Period (c. 1500 to 300 B.C.) of south-central Korea. Specialized craft production of greenstone ornaments, groundstone daggers, red-burnished ...
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 ...
An Examination of Chronology, Ethnic Group, and Social Ranking Based on Mortuary Data from Central Korea

Kang, Bong Won (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2010)

Archaeological excavations conducted in 1997–1998 at the Hageori site in central Korea uncovered a total of 63 burials. The range of dates for the burials varies widely. Mortuary analysis was conducted on 24 burials thought ...
Excavations at the Kipapa Rockshelter, Kahikinui, Maui, Hawai'i

Jones O'Day, Sharyn (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2001)

Test excavations of a late precontact to early contact rockshelter site in the traditional district of Kahikinui, Maui, Hawai'i, are discussed. The excavated cultural deposits primarily consist of three combustion features, ...
The Fishermen of Anapua Rock Shelter, Ua Pou, Marquesas Islands

Leach, Foss; Davidson, Janet; Horwood, Michelle; Ottino, Pierre (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 1997)

Analysis of fish bone from Anapua indicates that the fishermen who used this rock shelter over a long period were unusual among Pacific island fishermen. Their catch initially contained a high proportion of tuna. Although ...
From the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in Thailand: Applying the Heterarchical Approach

O'Reilly, Dougald J W (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2000)

The archaeological evidence of social groups in Thailand has long been noted for not conforming to the standard paradigms of social organization. This paper investigates the concept of heterarchy before turning to consider ...
Illuminating Southeast Asian Prehistory: New Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Frontiers for Luminescence Dating

Roberts, Richard G; Morwood, M J; Westaway, Kira E (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2005)

Since the explorations of Alfred Russel Wallace and Eugene Dubois in the nineteenth century, Southeast Asia has been one of the world's focal points for studies of biogeography and biodiversity, human evolution and dispersal, ...
The Origins of Bagan: New Dates and Old Inhabitants

Hudson, Bob; Lwin, Nyein; Maung, Win (Tanpawady) (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2001)

Bagan is a major early urban center in Myanmar (Burma). Hundreds of Buddhist monuments were built there between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries A.D. The dating of activities earlier than this has until recently not ...
Pre-Contact Arboriculture and Vegetation in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia: Charcoal Identification and Radiocarbon Dates from Hatiheu Valley, Nuku Hiva

Millerstrom, Sidsel; Coil, James H (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2008)

In order to address long-standing questions in the field of Pacific Island archaeology regarding the extent, timing, and causes of human-induced environmental change, as well as the deep history of the development of ...
Radiocarbon Ages for Two Sites on Ua Huka, Marquesas

Conte, Eric; Anderson, Atholl (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2003)

Radiocarbon dates are presented and discussed for two sites with deep stratigraphy on Va Huka Island, Marquesas. The lowest layer at the Hokatu site dates to the eleventh to thirteenth centuries A.D. At Hatuana, earlier ...
Recasting the Foundations: New Approaches to Regional Understandings of South Asian Archaeology and the Problem of Culture History

Johansen, Peter G (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2003)

The archaeological record of South Asia's rich and diverse past has been largely dominated by interpretational frameworks, which have the construction of culture histories as their core, if not their end. Normative and ...
Representing the Indus Body: Sex, Gender, Sexuality, and the Anthropomorphic Terracotta Figurines from Harappa

Clark, Sharri R (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2003)

Despite significant theoretical advances, there is still no universally accepted paradigm for the investigation of sex and gender and little critical research on the subject in South Asian archaeology. Without deciphered ...
The Royal University of Fine Arts, East-West Center, and University of Hawai'i Program in the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Kingdom of Cambodia, 1994-1998

Griffin, P Bion; Ledgerwood, Judy; Phoeurn, Chuch (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 1999)

The East-West Center and the University of Hawai'i in 1994 joined the Royal University of Fine Arts, a division of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, Kingdom of Cambodia, in a program to train graduates of the Royal ...
Who Invented the Bronze Drum? Nationalism, Politics, and a Sino-Vietnamese Archaeological Debate of the 1970s and 1980s

Han, Xiaorong (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2004)

This paper reviews the Sino-Vietnamese archaeological debate of the 1970s and 1980s pertaining to the origins of the bronze drum, specifically analyzing how nationalism and international politics had an impact on both the ...