The question of when Polynesians first discovered the Hawaiian Islands-the most remote
archipelago in the world-has engaged scholars for two centuries. Abraham Fornander …

There is a rapidly growing number of palaeotsunami sites being reported from the Pacific
region but rarely have researchers looked far beyond their immediate site to find …

Recent archaeological research has fundamentally altered our understanding of the scope
of past human impacts on nondomesticated animal populations. Predictions derived from …

Small island developing states (SIDS) are portrayed as icons of climate change impacts,
with assumed islandness characteristics being used to emphasize vulnerability. Meanwhile …

In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokule'a, a reconstructed
ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied: that their …

Variable regional timing of the mid-Holocene hydro-isostatic highstand in tropical Pacific sea
level is reflected by systematic differences in calibrated radiocarbon ages (n= 226) for …

The Pacific has been thought of as a region in which isolated societies are related to one
another more by descent from the same ancestral traditions than by continuing social …

Situated at the extreme margin of the Indo-West Pacific biotic province, the four islands of the
isolated Pitcairn Group hold interest for biogeographers and archaeologists alike. Human …

Abstract The Tangatatau Rockshelter (site MAN‐44, Mangaia, Cook Islands) has produced
one of Eastern Polynesia's most comprehensive chrono‐stratigraphic sequences of artifacts …

Archaeological investigations of the prehistoric colonization of East Polynesia have focused
on the question: when did this event occur? A relatively late date for the colonization of …