Exchange plays a number of roles within societies, including the provisioning of necessary
and prestige resources. The elucidation of these different roles requires documenting how …

We summarise previous provenance research of Sāmoan lithic and ceramic artefacts, noting
the timing and relative frequency of artefact transfers. Our summary suggests few intra‐and …

Exchange activities, formal or otherwise, serve a variety of purposes and were prominent in
many Pacific Island societies, both during island settlement and in late prehistory. Recent …

Stone tool geochemistry provides hard evidence for post-settlement voyaging and inter-
island contacts in East Polynesia. This offers promising information on inter-community …

Exchange of material between societies has long been a worldwide phenomenon (Ana tasio
1972; Braun J986; Brurnfiel 1987; Carlson 1994; Hatch et al. 1990; Hayden and Schulting …

Chapter 52: Tracking Ancient Routes across Polynesian Seascapes 537 time of year from
different islands, demonstrating that it was impossible to settle all the Pacific islands by …

We apply X-ray fluorescence (XRF) geochemical analysis to a collection of'Opunohu Valley
lithic artifacts from Mo'orea island to investigate the local scale of raw material procurement …

We report recent X‐ray Fluorescence analysis of samples from neighboring basalt adze
production locales situated in western Tutuila, American Samoa. These data allow for the …

(WDXRF) technique for the geochemical characterization of source rocks from the largest
basalt source in the Marquesas Islands—located on Eiao Island—and demmarshall i …

Polynesian adze sourcing studies that rely on geochemical analyses to assign distant
artefacts to a source or quarry have been undertaken for more than three decades …