Recent studies have shown that coastal and shelf cephalopod populations have increased
globally over the last six decades. Although cephalopod landings are dominated by the …

Cultural, linguistic, and phenotypic differences between Fijian and West Polynesian peoples
demarcate the historically defined Melanesian/Polynesian divide. As both regions are …

Although significant advances in our understanding of variation in the Pacific marine 14C
reservoir have been made over the last ten years, our ability to obtain accurate calibrated …

Previous archaeological studies in the village of Nukuleka, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga
proposed it as a founder colony for Polynesia. Additional excavation and survey were …

The first significant Neolithic migration of people into the Pacific was the dispersal of Lapita
culture at 3200–2850 cal BP that involved the colonization of previously uninhabited and …

The article presents results of an obsidian sourcing study on artifacts from Tonga and Fiji.
New LA-ICPMS data on obsidian source locations on Tafahi in northern Tonga are …

Archaeologists are synonymous with artifacts. With artifacts we construct stories concerning
past lives and livelihoods, yet we rarely write of deeply personal encounters or of the way …

This paper describes a well-preserved and burned human bone assemblage containing at
least four individuals dating to ca. 2400-2600 years ago from Tongatapu Island in the …

Lapita ceramics have been found on islands across a vast stretch of the western Pacific
Ocean, spanning some 4500 km from the Bismarck Archipelago in the west to Tonga and …

Recent excavations at the archaeological site of Nukuleka on Tongatapu in the Tongan
Archipelago have yielded the largest Lapita collection of perforated Ark (Anadara) shells …