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Returning to the hypothesis of Amerindian settlement on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Atholl Anderson
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When margins are centres: de-ranging Pitcairn Island’s place in Pacific scholarship Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Adrian Young,Maria Amoamo,Martin Gibbs,Alexander Mawyer,Joshua Nash,Tillman W. Nechtman,Pauline Reynolds
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Lū sipi: a marker of Tongan distinction Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Lindsay Neill,Elizabeth Toloke
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Robert Carl Suggs and the transformation of Pacific archaeology: a retrospective view Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Patrick V. Kirch
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Making medicine cultural in Rapa Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Allan Hanson
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A case for Handy and Puku‘i’s ethnographic reconstruction of the Polynesian family system in Hawai‘i Family System in Hawai‘i Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Thomas S. Dye
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Towards Indigenous policy and practice: a Tuvaluan framework for wellbeing, Ola Lei Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Tufoua Panapa,Julie Park,Judith Littleton,Anne Chambers,Keith Chambers
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Carved komari (vulva) stones from Rapa Nui: museum objects, legacy data and contemporary local history Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Adrienne L. Kaeppler,Jo Anne Van Tilburg
The authors examine selected stone objects in the J.L. Young Collection, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Two were named by Young “Maea Momoa” (ma‘ea momoa; lit. ‘stone for chickens’). One of the ma‘ea momoa is a “pillow stone” (ŋarua) or basaltic beach cobble incised with komari (vulva motifs). The other is a “Bar of stone” lavishly embellished with similar motifs. Six other objects are said to
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Hawaiian seascapes and landscapes: reconstructing elements of a Polynesian ecological knowledge system Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Lex A.J. Thomson,Paul A. Geraghty,William H. Wilson
Kaute and its derivatives koute, ʻoute and ʻaute are Polynesian names for a red-flowered Hibiscus. Since its first botanical collection on Tahiti by Banks and Solander (1769), this hibiscus has been referred to as H. rosa-sinensis L. and assumed to have been introduced by the bearers of the archaeological culture known as Lapita. Lapita people settled West Polynesia around 2800 BP and spoke a language
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The transfer of kūmara (Ipomoea batatas) from East to South Polynesia and its dispersal in New Zealand Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Atholl Anderson,Fiona Petchey
Whether kūmara ‘sweet potato’ (Ipomoea batatas) arrived in South Polynesia with initial colonisation or later is discussed in the light of recent evidence from East Polynesia and by examination and statistical modelling of radiocarbon ages associated with kūmara arrival and dispersal in New Zealand. Largely unresolved difficulties in radiocarbon dating of horticultural sites preclude reaching a secure
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http://www.thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/482 Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 James Flexner,Brianna Muir,Stuart Bedford,Frédérique Valentin,Denise Elena,David Samoria
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Authenticity in analogy between past and present: towards an anthropology of cultural change Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Toon van Meijl
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Coconuts and rosaries: materiality in the Catholic Christianisation of the Tuamotu archipelago (French Polynesia) Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Émilie Nolet
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The Role of Checkers (Jekab) in the Marshall Islands Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Alex de Voogt
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Authenticity in analogy between past and present: towards an anthropology of cultural change Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Toon van Meijl
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Foreign objects in colonial-era Hawaiian sites: change and continuity in nineteenth-century Nu‘alolo Kai, Kaua‘i Island Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Summer Moore
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Variation and process: the history, current practice and future potential of mortuary archaeology in Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Beatrice Hudson
Mortuary archaeology in New Zealand is a tapu 'sacred, prohibited' subject due to the special place that koiwi tangata 'human skeletal remains' hold in Maori culture. Recognition of Maori rights over ancestral remains led to a near cessation of published studies in recent decades. But koiwi tangata are frequently uncovered accidentally by development or erosion and, in collaboration with Maori, recorded
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The past before us: a brief history of Tongan kava Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Arcia Tecun, Robert Reeves, Marlena Wolfgramm
This article examines deep and contemporary history through analysis of the Tongan kava origin story, a kava chant, the rise of the kalapu 'kava club' in the twentieth century and the growing expansion of contemporary kava. It is argued that a key function of past and present kava practices is a ritual liminality of noa 'neutralisation of protective restrictions' that results from mediating mana 'potency
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A large trolling lure shank from Ahuahu Great Mercury Island, New Zealand Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Louise Furey,Rebecca Phillipps,Joshua Emmitt,Andrew McAllister,Simon Holdaway
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The curious idea that Māori once counted by elevens, and the insights it still holds for cross-cultural numerical research Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Karenleigh Overmann
The idea the New Zealand Māori once counted by elevens has been viewed as a cultural misunderstanding originating with a mid-nineteenth-century dictionary of their language. Yet this “remarkable singularity” had an earlier, Continental origin, the details of which have been lost over a century of transmission in the literature. The affair is traced to a pair of scientific explorers, René-Primevère
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Panpipes and clubs: early images of Tanna Islanders Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Lamont Lindstrom
William Hodges, James Cook's artist on his second voyage, produced notably popular and influential drawings and paintings. These included several illustrations of Tanna Islanders (Vanuatu) that shaped European visions of the island from the 1770s through the 1830s, after which they were supplanted by Christian missionary depictions. Influenced by neoclassicist artistic convention, Hodges's engravings
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The archaeology of Māori settlement and pā on Pōnui Island, Inner Hauraki Gulf, AD 1400–1800 Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Geoffrey Irwin
This paper describes previously unreported archaeological work on Ponui Island, New Zealand. Coastal sites date from the end of the fourteenth century AD, and one, S11/20, has evidence for surface structures, cooking, and tool manufacture and use. The harvesting of marine resources and horticulture were involved from the beginning. Earthwork defenses were built at 23 sites between AD 1500 and 1800
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Missionaries and other emissaries of colonialism in Tuvalu Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Michael Goldsmith
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Rejecting and Remembering ancestors: a Christian centenary in the Solomon Islands Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Debra McDougall
Conversion narratives all around Oceania focus on heroic ancestors who transformed their own societies. These local heroes are often both the missionary and a local chief who welcomed him ashore. Yet, these narratives require anti-heroes as well as heroes, the warriors or priests who resisted the gospel message. This paper focuses on a 2016 celebration of 100 years of Christianity in the Kubokota region
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Rescuing Honiara, rescuing Gwou’ulu: negotiating frictional village–town relations and politico-religious (dis)unity in Solomon Islands Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Stephanie Hobbis
Speaking to debates about the management of difference in and between towns and villages as well as secondary conversions and breakaway movements in Melanesia, this article examines the efforts of an Anglican village church to maintain social cohesion through politico-religious unity in Gwou’ulu, a multi-clan village in North Malaita, Solomon Islands, and its urban enclaves in Honiara. It focuses on
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Melanesia burning: religious revolution in the western Pacific Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Fraser Macdonald
In the history of Pacific Christianity, the explosion of revival activity within Melanesia during the 1970s remains an untold story. Within this regional spiritual upheaval, ecstatic Pentecostalist phenomena spread with unprecedented rapidity, intensity and geographical scope. As a result of these movements, Christianity assumed an importance in Melanesia in a way it never had before, as local congregations
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Letters to a Māori prophet: living with Atua in mid-Nineteenth-Century Taranaki (New Zealand) Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Jeffrey Sissons
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Life and death of an egg hunter: proposal for a reinterpretation of a Rapa Nui (Easter Island) string figure chant Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Mary de Laat
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Hawaiian seascapes and landscapes: reconstructing elements of a Polynesian ecological knowledge system Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Brien A. Meilleur
Early western appreciations of the Hawaiian way of life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries suggested the pre-contact presence of highly structured regional chiefdoms and well-developed political economies founded upon elaborate knowledge of maritime and terrestrial environments. These first brief reports were substantiated and amplified in the mid- and late nineteenth-century published
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Eyes towards the horizon: structure-from-motion photogrammetry enhances understanding of ship petroglyphs from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Annette Kühlem, Christian Hartl-Reiter, Neka Atan Hey, Singa Pakarati
In this paper we present two petroglyphs of western sailing ships that were recently discovered on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The far-reaching social ramifications of the arrival of the first Europeans have been discussed in a number of papers, but these newly found images allow for further insight into the effect their arrival had on the Rapanui population. Using structure-from-motion (SfM) macro photogrammetry
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Hau: giving voices to the ancestors Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Amber Nicholson
Gift exchange within Maori society, underpinned by the notion of hau, is a favoured topic for anthropological research. Hau has become an international phenomenon due to its potential relevance to understanding gift economies in many non-monetary societies worldwide. However, the desire in anthropological and socioeconomic analyses to constantly redefine the concept of hau within the narrow context
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Ōhāua te Rangi and reconciliation in Te Urewera, 1913–1983 Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Steven Webster
This essay is an ethnohistorical reconstruction of Tuhoe Maori cognatic descent groups ('hapu') in their struggle to maintain control over ancestral lands centred around the community of Ohaua te Rangi deep in the Urewera mountains of New Zealand. The famous social anthropologist Raymond Firth happened to visit this community when it was in the middle of these struggles in 1924, documenting one hapu
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Did Sāmoa have intensive agriculture in the past? New findings from LiDAR Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Gregory Jackmond, Dionne Fonotī, Matiu Matāvai Tautunu
During recent field survey work in Aleipata on the southeast coast of the Independent State of Samoa several new archaeological features have been discovered by a LiDAR-guided ground survey. The survey confirmed evidence from LiDAR images of a dense habitation zone from the coast to several kilometres inland with an extensive drainage system. We suggest that prior to the nineteenth century, when Samoan
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The ethnohistory of freshwater use on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Sean W. Hixon, Robert J. DiNapoli, Carl P. Lipo, Terry L. Hunt
Sources of drinking water on islands often present critical constraints to human habitation. On Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile), there is remarkably little surface fresh water due to the nature of the island's volcanic geology. While several lakes exist in volcanic craters, most rainwater quickly passes into the subsurface and emerges at coastal springs. Nevertheless, the island sustained a relatively
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Te Poari Whakapapa: the origins, operation and tribal networks of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research 1923–1935 Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Conal McCarthy,Paul Tapsell
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“Images still live and are very much alive”: whakapapa and the 1923 Dominion Museum Ethnological Expedition Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Natalie Robertson
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Spiralling histories: reflections on the 1923 Dominion Museum East Coast Ethnological Expedition and other multimedia experiments Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Anne Salmond,Billie Lythberg
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Comparing relations: whakapapa and genealogical method Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Amiria J. M. Salmond
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The terminology of Whakapapa Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Apirana Ngata, Wayne Ngata
In the late 1920s and early 1930s Apirana Ngata wrote several texts based on his long-standing and extensive research into tribal genealogies or Maori whakapapa which, with the encouragement of Te Rangihiroa, were intended for a doctoral thesis on Maori social organisation. Although the doctorate was never completed, the fascinating fragments exploring the terminology of whakapapa brought together
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Introduction: transforming worlds: kinship as practical ontology Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Billie Lythberg, Conal McCarthy, Amiria J.M. Salmond
The papers in this issue trace a particular set of Māori interventions in anthropology, arts, museums and heritage in the early twentieth century and consider their implications for iwi ‘tribal communities’, development and environmental management today. They follow Apirana Ngata, Te Rangihīroa (Peter Buck) and some of their Māori and Pākehā (European New Zealander) allies at the Polynesian Society
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The Northern Outliers–East Polynesian Hypothesis expanded Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 William H. Wilson
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What does Hine-nui-te-pō look like? A case study of oral tradition, myth and literature in Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Simon Perris
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“Ko te hau tēnā o tō taonga…”: The words of Ranapiri on the spirit of gift exchange and economy Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Mānuka Hēnare
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Uneapa Island society in the 19th century: A reconstruction Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Jennifer Blythe
Although chiefs are frequently associated with Polynesia and big-men with Melanesia, ascription and achievement are relevant to leadership in both regions. Hierarchical societies with ascribed leaders occur throughout Melanesia and, based on archaeological and ethnographic evidence, were more common in the past. In recent centuries, external influences have provided opportunities for achieved leadership
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Repatriation, reconciliation and the inversion of patriarchy Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Peter N. Meihana, Cecil R. Bradley
During the 1940s and 1950s koiwi tangata (human remains) were excavated at the Wairau Bar and taken to the Canterbury Museum. The excavations provided the scientific community with an abundance of data about the Polynesian settlement of New Zealand. For the Rangitane community of the Wairau the excavations have been a cause of distress. At the time of the excavations, tribal elder Peter MacDonald protested
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Voices on the wind, traces in the earth: Integrating oral narrative and archaeology in Polynesian history Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Patrick V. Kirch
Polynesian societies have long been noted for encoding their histories in the form of oral narratives. While some narratives are clearly cosmogonic or mythological in nature, others purportedly recount the affairs of real persons, chronologically indexed to chiefly and family genealogies. Late 19th- and early 20th-century scholars such as Abraham Fornander and Te Rangi Hiroa relied upon such oral narratives
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Moving through the ancient cultural landscape of Mangaia (Cook Islands) Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-09-01 Michael Reilly
A cultural landscape is pregnant with memories of the past that are remembered and retold through oral traditions. These memories include the movements of the ancestors through their natural world: how they orientated themselves within their landscape, the paths they took to travel from one place to another and the many kinds of journeys they embarked upon, such as ritual and mourning processions,
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Performing cultural heritage with tīfaifai, Tahitian “quilts” Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Joyce D. Hammond
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Oral tradition and the canoe on Takū Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Richard Moyle
The article examines how Takū position the canoe in their understanding of the past and exploit it to achieve temporary individual prominence within an otherwise egalitarian society. The canoe on Takū exists in two spheres of reference: in the collective memory of two bygone eras preserved largely in fragmented mythology and ancient song lyrics, and as the item of contemporary material culture crucially
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The “Black Pacific” and decolonisation in Melanesia: Performing négritude and indigènitude Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Camellia Webb-Gannon, Michael Webb, Gabriel Solis
In the 19th century Melanesians were pejoratively labelled black by European maritime explorers (mela = black; nesia = islands). Emerging scholarship on the Black Pacific focuses on historical and contemporary identifications and articulations between Oceanian and African diasporic peoples, cultures and politics based upon shared Otherness to colonial occupiers. This essay contributes to such scholarship
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The contributions of Jeffrey T. Clark to Sāmoan archaeology Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Seth Quintus,David J. Herdrich
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The Sāmoa Archaeological Geospatial Database: Initial description and application to settlement pattern studies in the Sāmoan Islands Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Alex E. Morrison,Timothy M. Rieth,Robert J. DiNapoli,Ethan E. Cochrane
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Row as one! A history of the development and use of the Sāmoan fautasi Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Hans K. Van Tilburg, David J. Herdrich, Michaela E. Howells, Va‘amua Henry Sesepasara, Telei‘ai Christian Ausage, Michael D. Coszalter
The racing of 'fautasi' (30-metre, 45-seater, oared Samoan longboats) remains a central cultural competition that unifies contemporary American Samoa and the two Samoan states more generally. However, the 'fautasi's' emergence and transition into this role has been dismissed as a vestige of colonialism and has been understudied by scholars. This paper examines the origin, development and use of the
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Sāmoan settlement pattern and star mounds of Manono Island Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Christophe Sand, David Baret, Jacques Bolé, André-John Ouetcho, Mohammed Sahib
The small island of Manono, positioned between 'Upolu and Savai'i in the Samoan Archipelago, is known in oral traditions of West Polynesia as having had an important political role during the immediate pre-Christian period. An archaeological programme carried out between 2012 and 2015 has mainly concentrated on the mapping of parts of the northern half of the island, around Salua Village. This has
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Using unsupervised classification techniques and the hypsometric index to identify anthropogenic landscapes throughout American Samoa Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Stephanie S. Day
Aerial LiDAR data offers a valuable tool in locating ancient anthropogenic landscapes around the world. This technology is particularly ideal in places where thick vegetation obscures the ground surface, reducing the utility of satellite imagery. On the islands of American Samoa, many interior anthropogenic landscapes remain unsurveyed, largely because the terrain makes it difficult and there is only
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Sāmoa’s hidden past: LiDAR confirms inland settlement and suggests larger populations in pre-contact Sāmoa Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Gregory Jackmond, Dionne Fonoti, Matiu Matavai Tautunu
This communication presents results from LiDAR-guided field research in 2017 which revealed the existence of continuous indigenous population zones stretching from the coast to three or more kilometres inland across the district of Palauli East, Savai'i. The findings amplify archaeological evidence of a small number of inland settlements (recorded in the 1970s and earlier) on the main islands of 'Upolu
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Exploring the intersection of settlement, subsistence and population in Manuʻa Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Seth Quintus
The archaeology of Sāmoa has been structured around the investigation of settlement patterns and systems since the 1960s, and such investigations have been variously used to explore questions of temporal change relating to, among other things, political structure and subsistence. This same intellectual structure is applied here to the evaluation of variation between the geographically close islands
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On the “margins” of empire? Toward a history of Hawaiian labour and settlement in the Pacific Northwest Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Naomi Calnitsky
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Te Laa o Lata of Taumako: Gauging the performance of an ancient Polynesian sail Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Marianne George
Voyaging canoes were the vehicles of ancient Pacific exploration, settlement and interactions. However, we know little about the ocean-going performance of those vessels. This account of Taumako (Duff Islands) voyaging technology draws on 20 years of collaborative research initiated by Koloso Kaveia, the late paramount chief of Taumako, during which a new generation learned to build and sail voyaging
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What’s in a name?: Reconstructing nomenclature of prestige and persuasion in late 18th-century Tongan material culture Journal of the Polynesian Society (IF 1.063) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Phyllis Herda, Billie Lythberg, Andy Mills, Melenaite Taumoefolau
This paper is a study in the productivity of working across the disciplinary boundaries of material culture studies, historical linguistics and museology to restore the significance of historic names and terminological classifications for prestigious Tongan objects within the wider context of Western Polynesia. The authors trace the nomenclature of radial feather headdresses (palā tavake) both within