Palaeotsunami research in the Sino-Pacific region has increased markedly following the
2011 Tōhoku-oki tsunami. Recent studies encompass a variety of potential sources and …

Tongans, the native people of the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific, are a highly
mobile indigenous group. Like their seafaring ancestors, they are constantly on the move …

The pace of archaeological research in Polynesia has intensified in recent years, resulting in
more than 500 new literature citations over the past decade. Fieldwork has continued in …

Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the
West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai 'i, Tahiti, or …

Tonga was unique in the prehistoric Pacific for developing a maritime state that integrated
the archipelago under a centralized authority and for undertaking long-distance economic …

The rise of stratified societies fundamentally influences the interactions between status,
movement, and food. Using isotopic analyses, we assess differences in diet and mobility of …

Nations have recently committed to protecting 20–30% of the ocean at various global
summits; however, marine protected areas currently cover< 3% of the ocean. Large‐scale …

Voltaire. But her account—foregrounding the clergy and their recorded comments—jumps
from the early 1760s to the 1770s and thus misses the telling moment in 1768 when a …

Using ethnohistorical, ethnographical, historical, and archaeological evidence, this article
reconstructs the development of exchange systems in Roviana, Solomon Islands, and …

On Tongatapu the central place of the rising kingdom of Tonga developed in the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries AD. Marked out as a monumental area with a rock-cut water-carrying …