{"title":"From Field to Museum – Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence By Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen. Technical Report of the Australian Museum Online No. 34, 2021. ISSN: 1835-4211. Pp. 258. Open Source Online.","authors":"Jason Kariwiga","doi":"10.1002/arco.5262","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5262","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"57 2","pages":"152-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48275696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania By Patrick Vinton Kirch. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press Monumenta Archaeologica 47. 2021. ISBN: 9781950446179. Pp. 558. US $120.","authors":"STUART BEDFORD","doi":"10.1002/arco.5261","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"57 2","pages":"150-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42365285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gregory Jackmond, Dionne Fonoti, Malama Meleisea, Penelope Schoeffel, Matthew Durling, Matiu Matavai Tautunu, Mohammed Sahib
{"title":"UTU: Sāmoa archaeology and cultural heritage database","authors":"Gregory Jackmond, Dionne Fonoti, Malama Meleisea, Penelope Schoeffel, Matthew Durling, Matiu Matavai Tautunu, Mohammed Sahib","doi":"10.1002/arco.5260","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5260","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Sāmoa Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Database was begun in 2016 as an ongoing means of encouraging and assisting more archaeological research in Sāmoa. It is also building a stronger engagement between the Archaeology and Cultural Heritage research and teaching programme at the Centre for Sāmoan Studies at the National University with government agencies here, and is contributing to the still incomplete processes of preparing heritage protection legislation. Known as “Utu” (meaning “a container for treasures”). The Sāmoa Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Database maps known archaeological sites and previously undocumented sites identified by surveys and analysis of LiDAR images using a global information system (GIS) program. Mapped sites are linked to information about them, including archaeological analysis, historical sources, and oral traditions and any other available information. The work so far has provided new evidence for Sāmoa's prehistory in relation to population size and distribution, settlement patterns and land use.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"57 2","pages":"95-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43034081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Phillipps, Simon Holdaway, Matthew Barrett, Joshua Emmitt
{"title":"Archaeological site types, and assemblage size and diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Rebecca Phillipps, Simon Holdaway, Matthew Barrett, Joshua Emmitt","doi":"10.1002/arco.5259","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5259","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Archaeological settlement models involve the identification of functional site types like base camps and extraction sites based, in part, on differences in the range and frequency of artefact types and fauna. Using reports describing such assemblages from Aotearoa (New Zealand) archaeological sites dating to the first 300 years after initial colonisation, differences in assemblage composition are assessed against total assemblage size. Aotearoa provides a particularly useful test case for the archaeological identification of site types since human colonisation was relatively late in world human history meaning that assemblage accumulation should show functional site types like those identified in the ethnographic record. To test this, SHE (Richness, Heterogeneity, Evenness) diversity analysis is used to examine 18 artefact and ten faunal assemblages dated pre-1500 CE from a variety of Aotearoa locations. Results suggest artefact and faunal diversity measures perform poorly when employed to differentiate functional site types, suggesting that the null hypothesis of assemblage size dependency cannot be rejected. This result allows for comment on the appropriateness of ethnographically derived functional site types for the study of the archaeological record even when this record accumulated over short time periods.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"57 2","pages":"111-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/arco.5259","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45790576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christophe Sand, Kenneth Miamba, Alois Kuaso, Nick Araho, Jim Allen
{"title":"A dentate-stamped Lapita dish from the central south coast of Papua","authors":"Christophe Sand, Kenneth Miamba, Alois Kuaso, Nick Araho, Jim Allen","doi":"10.1002/arco.5258","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5258","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The chance recovery of a large pottery sherd from a flat-bottomed dish with dentate-stamped decoration in Galley Reach, about 50 km northwest of Port Moresby, raises interesting questions concerning interactions between Lapita arrivals and the established Melanesian communities of mainland Papua New Guinea. While the geographical proximity of the find to the Caution Bay Lapita sites would suggest some connection, an analysis of the sherd indicates that it may be older than Lapita at Caution Bay. Comparisons with Island Melanesian Lapita sites indicate that the sherd is mid- to late Lapita in age, both in its form and decoration. As such, it joins the corpus of chance PNG mainland and near mainland Lapita finds of similar age. This developing pattern may have a different genesis to the Lapita dispersal into Remote Oceania and instead reflect trade-based connections between island and mainland communities in the first millennium BC. The data remain ambiguous on this point.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"57 1","pages":"59-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48960749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ARIANA B.J. LAMBRIDES, MARSHALL I. WEISLER, JEFFREY T. CLARK, SETH QUINTUS, TREVOR H. WORTHY, HALLIE BUCKLEY
{"title":"Assessing foraging variability on small islands in Manu‘a (American Samoa) during the first millennium BC","authors":"ARIANA B.J. LAMBRIDES, MARSHALL I. WEISLER, JEFFREY T. CLARK, SETH QUINTUS, TREVOR H. WORTHY, HALLIE BUCKLEY","doi":"10.1002/arco.5257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.5257","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Small islands are important model systems for examining the role of people in shaping novel environments and modifying resources through time. Here we report on the vertebrate faunal assemblages recovered from two sites on Ofu and Olosega islands (American Samoa), which were occupied only a few centuries after the initial settlement of the islands. We assess forager decision-making both locally and regionally as well as changing subsistence regimes. Our results suggest foraging efforts were focused on the marine environment, particularly fish, but with concomitant evidence for interactions with terrestrial habitats (e.g. seabirds) including the introduction of commensal species (i.e. red junglefowl and Pacific rat). Notably we documented a high degree of similarity between the fish species reported archaeologically and those targeted by modern subsistence fishers in the region, which is despite the occurrence of wide scale coastal landscape changes over the past several thousand years. These preliminary outcomes may suggest fish resources have remained stable through initial occupation to the present-day, but future zooarchaeological research is required to comprehensively evaluate the sustainability of the marine fishery over the past several millennia.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"57 1","pages":"39-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137962847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Materialising Ancestral Madang: Pottery Production and Subsistence Trading on the Northeast Coast of New Guinea By Dylan Gaffney. University of Otago Studies in Archaeology. No. 29, 2020. ISSN: 0110–3709 (online only). Pp. 290. Free download.","authors":"JIM SPECHT","doi":"10.1002/arco.5256","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"57 1","pages":"70-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43893705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew Campbell, Lara Shepherd, Melissa Kellett, Robert Brassey
{"title":"A highly fragrant comestible: the cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) in pre-European Māori New Zealand","authors":"Matthew Campbell, Lara Shepherd, Melissa Kellett, Robert Brassey","doi":"10.1002/arco.5248","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5248","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A count of 6235 Chondrichthyes vertebrae was recovered from the 17th to 18th century AD NRD site (R11/859) on the Manukau Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand. These have been identified by aDNA analysis as mostly rig (<i>Mustelus lenticulatus</i>). To provide context for this unusual assemblage we briefly review the archaeological record of Chondrichthyes fishing in Oceania and New Zealand, and more extensively review the 19th and early 20th century ethnography of Māori shark fishing in New Zealand along with the archaeological record. Chondrichthyes were of economic, social and spiritual importance to pre-European Māori. A variety of species were caught by a variety of techniques, including mass harvest, and could be dried for storage. Our initial reading of the ethnographic record led us to expect that the assemblage would be dominated by school shark (<i>Galeorhinus galeus</i>), but a closer analysis of the record showed that Māori sharking practice was diverse. The NRD assemblage encapsulates this variation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"57 1","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41404312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rock art on excavated monolithic statues (moai), Rano Raraku statue quarry, Rapa Nui (Easter Island): context, chronology and the crescent motif","authors":"JO ANNE VAN TILBURG","doi":"10.1002/arco.5253","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5253","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Monolithic statues (<i>moai</i>) of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) are three-dimensional objects and unique to the ancient public art of Eastern Polynesia. The primary purpose here is to summarize the specific landscape and statue production contexts of <i>moai</i> 156 and <i>moai</i> 157 in Rano Raraku, the statue quarry, demonstrating that they are embellished with rock art applied post-production (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries) and after they were upright and partially buried by colluvium in a named quarry chamber. Secondly, motif analysis reveals that crescents are present on <i>moai</i> 156 and 157 and incorporated into other motif types at 'Orongo, Rano Kau. The crescent is the central motif in a diagrammatic schema of Rapa Nui design development. Thirdly, iconographic norms allow controlled comparison with other <i>moai</i> for applied rock art. Although Hoa Hakananai'a differs in material, size, and situation from all others, the motifs on it are within the conventions of the iconographic corpus. Rano Raraku and Rano Kau are validated as ritual places on the dualistic, regionalized Rapa Nui landscape. The internal affinities and overall continuity of Rapanui cultural expression is established within an evolving anthropogenic environment during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"56 3","pages":"239-266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45800538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JOLIE LISTON, RACHEL HOERMAN, MACSTYL O. SASAO, SYLVIA KLOULUBAK
{"title":"A review of the rock art of Palau, Micronesia in local and regional contexts","authors":"JOLIE LISTON, RACHEL HOERMAN, MACSTYL O. SASAO, SYLVIA KLOULUBAK","doi":"10.1002/arco.5254","DOIUrl":"10.1002/arco.5254","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The style and iconography of the ten rock art sites known so far in Palau, Micronesia, including two newly discovered rock painting sites, are described and linked to their geographic locations, archaeological associations, oral traditions and local iconographies. Following a brief review of rock art in Micronesia and parts of Island Southeast Asia and New Guinea, Palau's eight rock painting sites and two rock engraving sites are regionally contextualized. We found no apparent relationships with rock art elsewhere in Micronesia but stylistic similarities with eastern Indonesia and West Papua painting traditions are clear. This may suggest the Palau paintings were created early in the archipelago's cultural sequence. Palau's rock paintings are clearly within the Austronesian painting tradition while the single well-recorded carving site does not conform with the Austronesian engraving style. Palau's rock art is also closely aligned to the Oceanic Rock Art Tradition.</p>","PeriodicalId":46465,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology in Oceania","volume":"56 3","pages":"322-343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/arco.5254","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47972035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}