The appearance of people associated with the Lapita culture in the South Pacific around
3,000 years ago marked the beginning of the last major human dispersal to unpopulated …

The phylogenetic origin of the dingo (Canis dingo) is an enigma. Introduced to Australia
during the Holocene, debate continues regarding the exact timing of its introduction and …

Historical linguistics has long dabbled in computational and quantitative approaches. More
recently, new Bayesian phylogenetic methods from evolutionary biology–which do not share …

In the face of environmental uncertainty due to anthropogenic climate change, islands are at
the front lines of global change, threatened by sea level rise, habitat alteration, extinctions …

The time is ripe to address the issue of ecological novelty in the archaeological record from
a multispecies perspective. Pivotal research topics in archaeology have long simplified …

Abstract Analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of global island colonization allows us
to frame the extent of insular human cultural diversity, model the impact of common …

Beginning~ 3,500 to 3,300 y BP, humans voyaged into Remote Oceania. Radiocarbon-
dated archaeological evidence coupled with cultural, linguistic, and genetic traits indicates …

Since the investigations of Spoehr in the 1950s, most researchers have accepted a date of∼
3500 BP/1500 BC for the initial human settlement of the Mariana Islands in the western …

The use of islands as 'model systems' has become particularly relevant for examining a host
of important issues in archaeology and other disciplines. As papers in this special issue of …

'This volume is the most comprehensive review of Lapita research to date, tackling many of
the lingering questions regarding origin and dispersal. Multidisciplinary in nature with a …