Lidar datasets have been crucial for documenting the scale and nature of human ecosystem
engineering and land use. Automated analysis methods, which have been rising in …

In this research we identify the processes leading to hierarchical society in a region of
Sāmoa, the often-labelled ʻbirthplace'of the Polynesian chiefdoms. Our analyses in the …

The islands of Polynesia are often seen as “natural laboratories” where population size and
growth are core components of models which examine the development of Oceanic …

Polynesian societies have long framed discussions of chiefdoms. Often, these discussions
treat Polynesia as a relatively homogenous region. Despite this, substantial variability in …

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 …

This dissertation is about why agricultural practices change and why they do so in certain
ways. Given the immeasurable diversity of crops, tools, inputs, labor regimes, and landscape …