Oceanic Prehistory
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When people first inhabited the Remote Oceanic region of the world at 1500 B.C., they generated archaeological sites attesting to their practical coastal adaptations in tandem with their ceremonial traditions, wherein water figured... more
An archaeological reconnaissance of Vanikoro Island, in the Santa Cruz group of eastern Melanesia, was carried out in 1977 and 1978 as one part of the Southeast Solomons Culture History Programme. During site survey, a total of 24 sites... more
In this chapter l consider the developmental aspect of kinship systems by focusing on a single region in which we can identify time-based structural changes in the formal aspects of kinship terminologies for the populations in that... more
Archaeometry is at the borders of archaeology, epistemologically related to physics, chemistry, geology and other ‘hard’ sciences. This has led to situations where ‘archaeometrists’ are often involved in the development of new tools and... more
The methods and results of a recent characterization study of New Zealand obsidians are reported. The investigation was designed with the intention that it should enable students of New Zealand archaeology to source artefacts from other... more