The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many
thousands of islands, which are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among …

The tempo plot, a statistical graphic designed for the archaeological study of rhythms of the
long term that embodies a theory of archaeological evidence for the occurrence of events, is …

Archaeologists commonly use the onset of the construction of large burial monuments as a
material indicator of a fundamental shift in authority in prehistoric human societies during the …

Heiau,'Āina, Lani is a collaborative study of 78 temple sites in the ancient moku of Kahikinui
and Kaupō in southeastern Maui, undertaken using a novel approach that combines …

ABSTRACT The Pacific Islands offer a variety of marine environments providing peoples in
the present and past with abundant coral materials, a “stone from the sea”. Archaeologists …

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 …

We analyzed limpets ('opihi, Cellana spp.) deposited at a shrine and two habitation
structures from a late prehistoric (post ad 1500) contemporaneous residential complex on …

As lidar becomes a regular part of surveying, ground-based platforms (handheld, mobile,
and terrestrial lidar) and airborne platforms (piloted aircraft) are being joined by unpiloted …

New research indicates that the royal tomb Paepaeotelea was built c. AD 1300–1400, more
than 200 years earlier than its traditional association with Uluakimata I, who ruled when the …

Dedicated ritual specialists often had indispensable roles in ancient religions and significant
impacts on political histories. Few studies have developed methodologies for recovering …