Oceania (Geographic Keyword)
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The Origins and Distribution of Oceanic Agricultural Techniques Revealed through Comparative Phylogenetic Analysis (2015)
Agricultural innovation fuelled the development of Oceanic societies. Techniques such as pond-fields and lithic mulching increased yields and made marginal landscapes habitable. Unfortunately, our knowledge of the evolution of techniques, including ancestral states, homologies, and independent inventions has been largely speculative. Here I present a phylogenetic analysis of ethnohistorically and archaeologically documented agricultural techniques across Oceanic societies. The analysis combines...
"An Out-Of-The-Way Little Place"? Global And Local (Dis)Connections At St Lawrence, Queensland, Australia. (2015)
This paper explores the complex and diverse connections between people, places and material culture in the past through a case study from Queensland, Australia. Established in c.1860 as part of the development of pastoral and mining industries in Central Queensland, today the former thriving port settlement of St Lawrence is a small, little-known town. Historical, material and spatial evidence from distinct but interconnected archaeological sites within the settlement are integrated to explore...
Overpaid, Over-Sexed and Over Here: O'Connell in Australia (2015)
Jim O'Connell arrived in Australia in 1973 to take up a five year research fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra. Although he returned to the US in 1978, O'Connell has not only maintained diverse interests in Australia and its archaeological record but has also returned there perhaps 25 times to carry out fieldwork, present papers at conferences and to interact with colleagues. It is clear that some of O'Connell's major contributions to world anthropology have been...
Pacific 2000: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific (2001)
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Palaeoeconomies in the East Alligator River Region, Australia (2017)
The East Alligator River Region has undergone considerable environmental change throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene, with changing sea levels dramatically altering the ecosystems of this region. Current archaeological models for this region indicate that people adapted their economic activities to successfully exploit these shifting environments. Molluscs have played an important role in the economic activities of these groups and often comprise large portions of the regional assemblages,...
Paleo-sea levels, Bill Dickinson, and Interpretive Modeling for the Lapita Settlement of Fanga ‘Uta Lagoon, Kingdom of Tonga (2015)
In the 1990s and subsequently Bill Dickinson carried out widespread survey of paleo-shoreline indicators throughout the Kingdom of Tonga, these providing context for initial Lapita settlement of the archipelago. His research on Fanga ‘Uta lagoon on the island of Tongatapu has proven essential to interpretations of a 3000 BP landscape considerably different than the mangrove fringed shoreline existing today. Recent archaeological studies support and refine Dickinson’s model, providing additional...
Paleoclimate data and behavioral change in the highlands of Papua New Guinea (2017)
Climate variability generates both opportunities and limitations for subsistence strategies, as well as related settlement patterns and technologies. While not the only driver of behavioral change, climate is a critical force in shaping patterns of past behavior. This paper presents the results of lithic analysis of three sites from the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea that span 20,000 years of occupation. Additionally, the findings from a summed probability distribution analysis of...
Patterns through space: a spatial analysis of Murujuga rock art, Northwest Australia. (2015)
Spatial analysis is a methodology that has been widely used for researching rock art. It has had a wide-ranging focus, varying from informed methods (using ethnographic information), to formal, and experiential methods. Spatial analyses undertaken on Murujuga, the Burrup Peninsula in northwest Australia, have primarily focused on establishing chronologies, the clustering of rock art motifs at a broad landscape scale, and the relationship with resource foci. My research has focused on formal...
The Peopling of the Pacific (1980)
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The Perplexing Complexity of Some New Guinea Communities (2017)
At contact, a number of New Guinea communities boasted considerable ‘horizontal’ complexity – very large populations (up to 2,500 people) and ceremonial arenas that engaged even more. Many also constructed monumental architectures of organic material and staggering size. These communities included complex fisher-foragers and Big-man horticulturalists, organizations that are commonly identified as only minimally hierarchical. Certainly, their hierarchical institutions were insufficiently...
Petrographic and geochemical evidence reveals the local focus of interaction throughout Samoa’s prehistory (2015)
Bill Dickinson’s extensive and unequaled ceramic petrographic research has identified spatial patterns of artefact production and population interaction across the Pacific Islands. In Samoa his work on ceramic collections suggests a largely local focus of production and distribution. We combine Dickinson’s ceramic petrography with all available geochemical analyses of ceramics, basalt and obsidian artefacts, and demonstrate local-scale production and movement for all of these artefact classes....
Planning Voyages: Cargo, Culture, and Concepts. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Seacountries of Northern Australia and Island Neighbours", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From Norse sagas to Polynesian origin tales, to Bugis songs of Macassan voyages to Marege narratives of mapping, exploring, discovering, settling, trading, and returning are told across many maritime cultures. A close reading of these sources shows even the most mythic of stories can contain surprisingly specific...
Pleistocene maritime economies of northwest Australia (2015)
This paper will critically assess new evidence for the antiquity of maritime economies from North West Australia. Northwest Australia has evidence for hunter-gatherer occupation from 50,000 years ago from sites now located in the interior. The evidence for antiquity of coastal resource use extends back to over 41,000 cal BP, however this is soon expected to approach the earliest dates from these interior sites. Recent research on continental islands of the Northwest Shelf illustrates rich...
Pohnpei and Eastern Micronesian Sociopolitical Elaboration (1986)
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Ponapean Prestiage Economy. in Cultures of the Pacific: Selected Readings (1970)
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Populations expansion as a replacement or merging of peoples: insights from the rock art of Doria Gudaluk (Beswick Creek Cave), Northern Territory Australia (2017)
The rock art of Doria Gudaluk (Beswick Creek Cave) in the Northern Territory of Australia provided a valuable lesson in the difficulties of interpretation without local knowledge. Now, newly recorded motifs at the site—some only visible through digital enhancement—highlight the dangers of relating stylistic changes to population replacement. When considered in the context of local history, developments in the rock art of Doria Gudaluk during the second half of the twentieth century can be...
Potential Diver Impacts on Underwater Cultural Heritage: Case Studies from Asia-Pacific (2013)
Underwater cultural heritage sites, particularly ship and aircraft wrecks, are becoming increasingly popular and important attractions for recreational scuba divers. However, use of these sites by divers can result in a range of adverse impacts such as boat anchor damage, disturbance to and removal of artefacts, deliberate and accidental contacts with wrecks and artefacts, as well as exhaled air bubbles. Whilst these impacts may not present a major threat in comparison to other human impacts,...
Prehistoric Diet on Rapa Nui via Stable Isotope Analyses of Bone Collagen and Carbonate (2015)
Previous analyses of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in dentin collagen from prehistoric individuals on Rapa Nui suggested a predominately terrestrial diet in the early phase of occupation, followed by a slight expansion into marine-based subsistence post-AD 1650. This was unexpected as the documented pattern across Polynesia is a marine-dominated strategy in the early phases of occupation with terrestrial resources incorporated later, as agricultural systems supplant foraging behaviors. To...
Prehistoric Fishing Declines at Chelechol ra Orrak, Palau: Resolving Issues of Anthropogenic Impacts and Long-Term Resource Sustainability (2015)
Previous research at Chelechol ra Orrak in the Rock Islands of Palau has revealed several critical shifts in marine resource exploitation between ca. 3000/1700 – 0 BP. These changes include a decline in fishing, increased reliance on molluscs, particularly Mactra clams, and statistically significant size increases in one of the most heavily exploited gastropod species, Gibberulus (Strombus) gibberulus. Commonly invoked explanatory mechanisms, such as broad scale climate change and anthropogenic...
Prehistoric Long - Distance Interaction in Oceania: An Interdisciplinary Approach (1997)
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Prehistoric Mobility and Population Movements in Palau: New Data from aDNA and Stable Isotope (Sr, Pb) Analysis (2015)
Ongoing research at the Chelechol ra Orrak rockshelter in Palau, Micronesia, has revealed the presence of one of the oldest (ca. 3000-1700 BP) and most demographically diverse cemeteries in the Pacific. Archaeological excavation of only a small portion of the site indicates that dozens of individuals were buried here for more than a millennia. Subsequent osteological analysis coupled with recent attempts to extract ancient DNA and stable isotopes (Sr and Pb) have shed new light on genetic...
The Prehistory of Oceania (1975)
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Preliminary Investigations at Raiatea, Society Islands, French Polynesia (2017)
The Society Islands are of primary importance for understanding human impacts on island ecologies and the dispersal of pre-contact voyaging populations in East Polynesia. Raiatea, the largest island of the Leeward Group, is recognized through Polynesian oral traditions as a locus of regional interaction and a departure point for migrations that colonized the distant islands of Hawaii and Aotearoa (New Zealand) in the second millennium AD. Here we present results from our first season of...
Preparing Now For Those Who Are Coming (2018)
Por Gubau Gizu ya Sagulal (All Wind Directions dance team) are dancers from Kubin Village, Mua Island, Torres Strait. New dances and songs are being created every day. In this performance, we express our history through dances and songs that have been passed to us from our ancestors and which we pass on to our children.