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PATRICK VINTON KIRCH
CURRICULUM VITAE
Current address: Department of Anthropology
232 Kroeber Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Email: kirch@berkeley.edu
Website: http://arf.berkeley.edu/projects/oal/index.html
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Yale University, 1975
M. Phil., Yale University, 1973
B.A. (cum laude), University of Pennsylvania, 1971
Punahou Academy (Honolulu), 1968
POSITIONS, CURRENT AND PAST
2014Chancellor's Professor Emeritus & Professor of the Graduate School,
University of California, Berkeley
2006-14 The Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Integrative Biology,
University of California, Berkeley (joint appointment, endowed chair)
1994-2006 The Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology, University of California,
Berkeley (endowed chair)
2002
Professeur Invité, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
1999-02 Director, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley
1989Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
1989Curator of Oceanic Archaeology, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology,
University of California, Berkeley
1998Adjunct Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
1997Distinguished Associate in Research, Bernice P. Bishop Museum
1992-94 Director, Archaeological Research Facility, U. C. Berkeley
1984-97 Research Associate, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu
1992-98 Associate, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University
1984-88 Director, Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, Seattle
1984-88 Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
1987-88 Adjunct Professor, Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington
1982-84 Archaeology Division Head, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu
1975-82 Anthropologist, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu
1979-83 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii (Manoa) (various
semesters)
HONORS AND AWARDS
1990 Elected to the U. S. National Academy of Sciences
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1992
1996
1997
Elected Honorary Member, The Prehistoric Society (Great Britain)
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of
Sciences
1997-98 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
1997 Elected Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
1998 J. I. Staley Prize, School of American Research (best book in Anthropology for
Anahulu)
1998 Elected to the American Philosophical Society
2009 Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London)
2010 Elected Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
2011 The Hebert E. Gregory Medal for Distinguished Service to Science in the Pacific,
Bishop Museum and Pacific Science Association
2013 Society for American Archaeology Book Award (Public Audience Category) for A
Shark Going Inland Is My Chief
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS
Who’s Who in America; Who's Who in the West; Who’s Who in Science and Engineering;
American Men and Women of Science; Contemporary Authors; The Writer's Directory
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association,
Society for American Archaeology, The Polynesian Society (New Zealand), The
Prehistoric Society (United Kingdom), Pacific Science Association, Sigma Xi,
Association for Field Archaeology, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Society for
Hawaiian Archaeology (Founding President 1980-81), New Zealand Archaeological
Association
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Editorial Committee, Bishop Museum Press (1980-84); Editorial Board, Archaeology in
Oceania (1980-present); Editorial Board, New Directions in Archaeology, Cambridge
University Press (1989-92); Editorial Board, World Archaeology (2000-present); Editorial
Board, Anthropological Science (Japan); Associate Editor, Journal of Archaeological
Research (Plenum Press); Section Editor for Archaeology, International Encyclopedia of
the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Elsevier); Editorial Board, Journal of Island and
Coastal Archaeology; Editorial Board, Journal of Pacific Archaeology.
OTHER APPOINTMENTS
2012-14 U. S. National Committee for the Pacific Science Association
2008-12 Committee on Research, American Philosophical Society
2007-13 Trustee, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2009-10 Chair, Committee on Privilege and Tenure, University of California, Berkeley
2007-10 Chair, Advisory Committee, Richard Gump Research Station, Mo’orea
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2004-07 Committee on Budget and Interdepartmental Relations, University of
California, Berkeley (Chair, 2006-07)
2003-06 Trustee, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto
2001-05 Member, Comité Scientifique, Ministère de la Culture, Government of
French Polynesia
2004-06 Chair, Class V (Social Sciences), National Academy of Sciences
2001-04 Secretary, Class V (Social Sciences), National Academy of Sciences
1999-03 Trustee, California Academy of Sciences
1999-02 Trustee, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives
1999-01 Member, Smithsonian Council (advisory to the Secretary of the Smithsonian)
1996-99 Chair, Section 51 (Anthropology), National Academy of Sciences
1997-98 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto
1993-94 Miller Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
1992
American Cultures Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
1989-91 Advisory Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
(Chairman, 1991)
RESEARCH GRANTS
National Science Foundation
2015 Co-Principal Investigator, Developing 230Th/U Dating of Coral Artifacts for
High-Precision Cultural Chronologies in Eastern Polynesia, NSF Archaeometry
Program, $168,983 (lead institution: Berkeley Geochronology Center)
2014 Principal Investigator, Doctoral Dissertation Research: Investigating the Role of
Pig and Rat in Polynesian Socio-ecosystems Via Stable Isotope Analysis, NSF
Archaeology Program, $28,604
2013 Co-Principal Investigator, Collaborative Project: Coupled Natural-Human
Systems Program, Socio-Ecosystem Dynamics of Human-Natural Networks on
Model Islands, ICER-1313830, $1,300,000 (lead institution: Santa Fe Institute)
2013 Principal Investigator, Doctoral Dissertation Research: Transition from Chiefdom
to Archaic State in Kaupo, Maui, Hawaiian Islands, NSF Archaeology program,
$30,188
2010 Principal Investigator, Collaborative Project, Vulnerability and Resilience in
Island Socioecosystems, Archaeology Program, BCS-1030049. $209,874 UCB,
total project $359,431.
2007 Principal Investigator, Households, Specialization, and Social Production in
Society Islands Chiefdoms, Archaeology Program, BCS-0725173, $226,840.
2006 Principal Investigator, Collaborative Project, Long-Term Dynamics of Population
Growth, Agricultural Intensification, and Sociopolitical Change: Hawaii as a
Model System. Human Social Dynamics Program, BCS-0624238, $270,023 UCB,
total project $747,034.
2006 Co-Principal Investigator, A Precise Chronology for Polynesian Monumental
Architecture via Th-230 Coral Dating. Archaeometry Program, BCS-0542222,
$149,658.
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2001 Principal Investigator, Human Ecodynamics in the Hawaiian Ecosystem, 1200 to
200 Years Before the Present, Biocomplexity in the Environment Program, BCS0119819, $1,399,940.
1998 Principal Investigator, The Dynamics of Economic and Sociopolitical Structures
in Late Prehistoric Hawai’i: An Emergent ‘Archaic’ State, Phase II, SBR9805754, $137,135
1997 Senior Research Associate, Landscape-Level Paleoecological Reconstructions for
Kaua’i, Ecology Program, $238,650. (D. Burney, P.I.)
1996 Principal Investigator, The Dynamics of Economic and Sociopolitical Structures
in Late Prehistoric Hawai'i: An Emergent ‘Archaic’ State, SBR-9600693,
$96,711
1991 Principal Investigator, Anthropogenic Environmental Change, Agricultural
Intensification, and Socio-Political Evolution in Polynesia, BNS-9020750,
$116,389
1989 Principal Investigator, Lapita, Island Colonization and Oceanic Cultural Origins,
Phase IIA, BNS-89-96182, $48,200
1988 Principal Investigator, Lapita, Island Colonization, and Oceanic Cultural Origins,
Phase II, BNS-88-03668, $94,663
1987 Principal Investigator, Lapita, Island Colonization, and Oceanic Cultural Origins,
BNS 86-15147, $59,920
1982 Principal Investigator, The Historical Transformation of Hawaiian Society and
Economy, BNS-82-05621, $82,555
1978 Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Prehistory of the
Southeastern Solomon and Santa Cruz Islands, BNS-76-17672, $169,585
1977 Principal Investigator, Specialized Laboratory Studies in Conjunction with West
Polynesian Ethnoarchaeology Project, BNS-76-04782, A01, $14,979
1976 Principal Investigator, Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Prehistoric
Agriculture and Settlement Patterns in West Polynesia, BNS-76-04782, $32,583
1974 Dissertation Improvement Grant, Ethnoarchaeological Investigation of Futuna
and 'Uvea, West Polynesia, GS-40294, $4,900
National Geographic Society
1996 Principal Investigator, Prehistoric Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Southeast
Maui, Hawai'i, Grant 5692-96, $18,765
1989 Principal Investigator, Inter-disciplinary Investigation of Human-Induced
Environmental Change in Central Polynesia, Grant 4001-89, $27,000
1986 Principal Investigator, Archaeological Investigations in the Mussau Islands,
Papua New Guinea, Grant 33046-86, $22,500
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
2004 Principal Investigator, Archaeological Investigations in the Mangareva Islands,
French Polynesia, $24,500
1998 Principal Investigator, Household Archaeology and Prehistoric Social
Transformation in Central Eastern Polynesia, $14,340
1986 Principal Investigator, Development of the Lapita Cultural Complex, $6,211
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Other Agencies
2010 France-Berkeley Fund, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris, Paleo- and NeoEcology of French Polynesia: International Conference, $10,000 (joint with Eric
Conte)
2003 France-Berkeley Fund, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris, Long-term
Demographic Evolution in French Polynesia: An Interdisciplinary Approach,
$10,000 (joint with Jean-Louis Rallu)
2003 Committee on Research. U. C. Berkeley, Archaeological Investigations in the
Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia. $5,000
2001 Ministère de la Culture, Gouvernment de Polynésie Francaise, Tahiti,
Prospections Archeologiques aux îles Gambier (Mangareva) Polynésie
Francaise. CFP 500,000 ($50,000)
1999 France-Berkeley Fund, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris, Prehistoric
Polynesian Voyaging and Island Colonization: New Archaeological Perspectives,
$9,750 (joint with Eric Conte)
1997 Pacific Rim Research Program, University of California (Office of the President),
Human Colonization and Interaction Spheres in Ancient Polynesia: A MultiInstitutional Research Program, $29,800
1996 Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, Stahl Fund, Excavation of Prehistoric
Households in Kahikinui, Maui, Hawaiian Islands, $2,700
1995 Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, Stahl Fund, Prehistoric Settlement
Patterns in Kahikinui District, Maui, $5,000
1992 Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Radiocarbon Calibration of Human-Induced Avian Extinctions in
Central Polynesia, $17,432
1989 Government of American Samoa, Archaeological Investigation of the To'aga Site,
Ofu Island, $21,090
1989 Committee on Research, U C Berkeley, Human-Induced Environmental Change
in Central Polynesia, $4,687
1987 Government of American Samoa, Archaeological Investigations in the Manu'a
Islands, $11,000
1985 Government of American Samoa, Archaeological Survey of the Manu'a Islands,
$9,500
MUSEUM AND OTHER GRANTS
2000 Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Arts, $20,000. Grant No. 004400-6059, Title: Increasing Access to the Latin American Textiles. (Grant to P.
A. Hearst Museum for Rehousing of the Textile Collection)
1999 Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rehousing of the
Textile and Basketry Collections, P. A. Hearst Museum. $700,000
1999 Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Improvement of Storage and
Access to Native American Basket Collection, $155,000 (BCS-9707621)
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1992 Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Undergraduate Laboratory
Instrumentation Program, Undergraduate Archaeological Laboratory
Development, $42,000
1991 National Museum of Prehistory, Republic of China (Taiwan), Conceptual Design
for the Oceanic Gallery, $14,900
1988 Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities, Educational
Programming for the Washington State Centennial Exhibit at the Burke Museum,
$321,000
1988 Principal Investigator, Institute of Museum Services, General Operating Support
for the Burke Museum, Washington, $75,000
1987 Principal Investigator, Washington State Centennial Commission, Centennial
Exhibition on Native Peoples of Washington State, $500,000
1987 Principal Investigator, Institute of Museum Services, General Operating Support
for the Burke Museum, Washington, $75,000
1987 Principal Investigator, M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Visual Image Computer
Information System for the Burke Museum Northwest Coast Ethnographic
Collection, $160,000
1986 Principal Investigator, Washington State Centennial Commission, Conceptual
Design for Centennial Exhibition on Native Peoples of Washington State, $55,500
1986 Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Arts, Publication of Burke
Museum Monograph on Northwest Coast Art, $40,000
1985 Principal Investigator, Institute of Museum Services, General Operating Support
for the Burke Museum, Washington, $75,000
1985 Principal Investigator, Institute of Museum Services, Conservation Assessment of
the Ethnographic Collections, Burke Museum, $2,260
1984 Principal Investigator, Institute of Museum Services, General Operating Support
for the Burke Museum, Washington, $50,000
1982 Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Collection Facility Grant for
Renovation of the Pacific Archaeological Collection, Bernice P. Bishop Museum,
Honolulu, $32,014
1982 Principal Humanities Scholar, Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, Grant in
Support of PBS documentary film, "The Navigators," $35,000
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
1981-82 Chief Consultant, “The Navigators,” 1 hour PBS documentary concerning
prehistoric voyaging and navigation in the Pacific.
1993-94 Consultant, “Voyages of Rediscovery,” 1 hour PBS documentary on Polynesian
archaeology and voyaging.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL (CRM) CONTRACTS
1973-84: Directed 25 cultural resource management (CRM) projects (totaling $960,722)
for archaeological survey and excavations in the Hawaiian Islands and Micronesia,
through the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Projects included major surveys and
salvage excavations at Kalahuipua'a and Waimea-Kawaihae (Hawai'i), and at Kawela
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(Moloka'i). 2007-08, 2010: Consultant for Pacific Legacy, Inc. on CRM survey and
mitigation at Auwahi, Maui.
FIELDWORK
Melanesia
1988 Mussau Islands: Papua New Guinea, 2 mo
1986 Mussau Islands: Papua New Guinea, 2 mo
1985 Mussau Islands: Papua New Guinea, 2 mo
1978 Tikopia and Vanikoro: Eastern Solomon Islands, 6 mo
1977 Tikopia, Vanikoro, Nendö: Eastern Solomon Islands, 5 mo
1971 Anuta, Eastern Solomon Islands; and, Kolombangara, Western Solomons, 4 mo
1968 Loyalty Islands: New Caledonia, 2 mo
Micronesia
1980 Arno Atoll: Marshall Islands, 1 mo
1978 Palau, Yap: Western Micronesia, 1 mo
Polynesia
2014 Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia, 1 month
2013 Kaupō, Maui, Hawai'i, 3 weeks
2012 Maupiti and Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia, 7 weeks
2011 Maui, Hawai'i, 3 weeks
2011 Mo'orea and Maupiti Islands, French Polynesia, 5 weeks
2010 Maui, Hawai‘i: 1 month
2009 Kohala, Hawai’i, 5 weeks
2008 Mo’orea, French Polynesia, 1 mo
2008 Kohala, Hawai’i, 1 mo
2007 Mo’orea, French Polynesia, 2 weeks
2007 Kohala, Hawai’i, 1 mo
2006 Nu’u: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 weeks
2006 French Polynesia (Mo’orea): 2 weeks
2005 Nu’u: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 weeks
2005 Mangareva (Gambier Is.), French Polynesia, 1 mo
2004 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 1 mo
2003 Mangareva (Gambier Is.), French Polynesia, 1 mo
2003 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 mo
2002 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 mo
2001 Mangareva (Gambier Is.), French Polynesia, 1 mo
2001 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 weeks
2001 French Polynesia (Mo’orea), 2 weeks
2000 Kalaupapa: Moloka’i Hawaiian Islands, 3 weeks
2000 French Polynesia (Mo’orea), 2 weeks
1999 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo
1998 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 weeks
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1998
1997
1997
1996
1996
1995
1993
1991
1989
1989
1987
1986
1982
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1970
1969
1967
1966
1965
French Polynesia (Raiatea, Tahiti, Marquesas), 1 mo
Kaua’i, Hawaiian Islands, 1 week
Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2.5 mo
Rapanui (Easter Is.), 2 weeks
Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 mo
Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 1 mo
Hawaiian Islands, 1 mo
Mangaia: Cook Islands, 3 mo
Mangaia: Cook Islands, 1 mo
Ofu, Manu'a Islands: Samoa, 1 mo
Manu'a Islands: Samoa, 1 mo
Manu'a Islands: Samoa, 1 mo
Anahulu Valley: O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands, 4 mo
Niuatoputapu and Vava'u: Tonga, 7 mo
Kalahuipua'a: Hawai'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo
Futuna and 'Uvea: Territoire des îles Wallis et Futuna, 6 mo
Kalahuipua'a: Hawai'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo
South Kohala and North Kona: Hawai'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo
Halawa Valley: Moloka'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo
Halawa Valley: Moloka'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo
Bellows Dune Site, Waimanalo: O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands, 1 mo
Kahikinui District: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo
Ka'u and Kona Districts: Hawai'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
French
Polynesian languages of Tonga and Tikopia
Neo-Melanesian Pidgin (Tok Pisin)
DOCTORAL STUDENTS (Primary Advisor)
Dana Lepofsky
Marshall Weisler
Julie Endicott (Taomia)
Pia Anderson
Sidsel Millerstrom
Scarlett Chiu
Jennifer Kahn
James Coil
Cindy Van Gilder
Lisa Holm
Kathleen Kawelu
Mark McCoy
James Flexner
Alex Baer
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Jillian Swift
Kirsten Vacca
Bibliography of
PATRICK VINTON KIRCH
I. BOOKS
2015 Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Adventures and Explorations of an Island
Archaeologist. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [xix + 371 pp., 71 figs., 8
maps]
2014 Kua'āina Kahiko: Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui. Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press. [xxiv + 310 pp., 77 figs., 3 maps, 6 tables]
2012 A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i.
Berkeley: University of California Press. [xvii + 346 pp., 8 color plates, 17 figs., 4
maps]
2010 How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in
Ancient Hawai‘i. Berkeley: University of California Press. [xii + 273 pp., figs. and
tables]
2002 L’Expédition Archéologique d’Edward W. Gifford et Richard Shutler, Jr. en
Nouvelle-Calédonie au Cours de l’Année 1952. Edward W. Gifford and Richard
Shutler Jr’s Archaeological Expedition to New Caledonia in 1952. (with C. Sand)
Les Cahiers de l’Archéologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie, Volume 13. Noumea:
Service des Musées de du Patrimoine de Nouvelle-Calédonie. [192 pp., 144 figs.;
dual French and English text]
2001 Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology. (with Roger
Green) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [xvii + 375 pp., 35 figs., 40
tables]. Issued in cloth and paper editions.
2000 On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands
Before European Contact. Berkeley: University of California Press [xxii + 424
pp., 15 maps, 162 figs., 13 tables]. Paperback edition published 2002.
1997 The Lapita Peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic World. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers [xxv + 353 pp., 20 plates, 24 figs., 9 maps, 7 tables]. Issued in cloth
and paper editions.
1996 Legacy of the Landscape: An Illustrated Guide to Hawaiian Archaeological
Sites. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press [xiv + 130 pp., 90 duotone plates].
(with Therese Babineau, photographer). Issued in cloth and paper editions.
1994 The Wet and the Dry: Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in
Polynesia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press [xxii + 385 pp., 113 figs., 15
tables].
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1992 Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Volume 2. The
Archaeology of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [xiv + 201 pp.,
113 figs., 22 tables] (Awarded the J. I. Staley Prize in 1998)
1985 Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and
Prehistory. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. [x + 349 pp., 245 figs., 8
tables] First paperback edition, 1997.
1984 The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. [xii + 314 pp., 94 figs., 22 tables]. First paperback edition, 1989; reprinted
1990, 1996.
1975 Cultural Adaptation and Ecology in Western Polynesia: An Ethnoarchaeological
Study. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University. New Haven. (Published on microfilm
by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.)
II. EDITED VOLUMES
2011 Editor. Roots of Conflict: Soils, Agriculture, and Sociopolitical Complexity in
Ancient Hawai‘i. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research. [xix + 199 pp.,
36figs., 16 color plates, 4 tables]
2007 P. V. Kirch and J.-L. Rallu, editors. The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island
Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press. [xvi + 390 pp., 70 figs., tables]
2002 Editor (with E. Conte), Eastern Polynesia, Special Issue of Asian Perspectives,
Vol. 41, No. 2. University of Hawaii Press.
1997 Editor (with T. L. Hunt), Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric
Environmental and Landscape Change. New Haven: Yale University Press. [xv +
331 pp., figs. and tables]
1997 Editor (with M. I. Weisler and E. Casella), Towards a Prehistory of the Koné
Region, New Caledonia: A Reanalysis of the Pioneering Archaeological
Excavations of E. W. Gifford, Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, Vol. 82,
Special Edition. Berkeley. [vi + 153 pp., 11 figs., 60 tables]
1997 Editor, Na Mea Kahiko o Kahikinui: Studies in the Archaeology of Kahikinui,
Maui, Hawaiian Islands. Oceanic Archaeological Laboratory, Special Publication
No. 1. Berkeley: Archaeological Research Facility. (xiv + 81 pp., 38 figs., 7
tables)
1988 Editor (with T. L. Hunt), Archaeology of the Lapita Cultural Complex: A Critical
Review. Burke Museum Research Report No. 5. Seattle. [v + 181 pp., 22 figs.]
1986 Editor, Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and
Transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [x + 96 pp.]
1983 Editor (with J. Clark), Archaeological Investigations of the Mudlane-WaimeaKawaihae Road Corridor, Island of Hawai'i: An Interdisciplinary Study of an
Environmental Transect. Department of Anthropology Report 83-1. Honolulu:
Bernice P. Bishop Museum. [vi + 532 pp.]
III. MONOGRAPHS & MAJOR FIELD REPORTS
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2014 Monumentality and Ritual Materialization in the Society Islands: The
Archaeology of a Major Ceremonial Complex in the ‘Opunohu Valley, Mo‘orea.
Bishop Museum Bulletin in Anthropology 13. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press.
[xiv + 267 pp., 71 figs., 11 tables]
2011 Archaeological Inventory Survey for the Proposed Auwahi Wind Farm Ahupua‘a
of Auwahi, District of Kahikinui, Island of Maui, Hawai‘i. Report Prepared for
Sempra Generation, Inc. (with W. A. Shapiro, P. L. Cleghorn, L. Holm, E.
Kahahane, and J. McIntosh). Pacific Legacy, Kailua, Hawai'i. [xi + 298 pp., 192
figs., 25 tables]
2010 Archaeological Survey and Excavations of Makiloa and Kalala Ahupua'a,
Kohala, Hawai'i Island, 2009. Report Prepared for Ponoholo Ranch Ltd., State of
Hawai'i, and National Science Foundation. (with J. S. Field, K. Kahn, and T.
Ladefoged) [xxiii + 240 pp., 206 figs., 249 tables]
2009 Archaeological Survey and Excavations of Pahinahina, Kalala, Kiholena, and
Makeanehu Ahupu'u, Kohala, Hawai'i Island, 2008. Report Prepared for State of
Hawai'i, Parker Ranch LCC, and National Science Foundation. (with J. S. Field,
T. Ladefoged, R. Connors, and M. Oxley) [xxi + 353 pp., 261 figs., 202 tables]
2008 Archaeological Survey and Excavations of Makiloa and Kalala Ahupua'a,
Kohala, Hawai'i Island, 2007. Report Prepared for State of Hawai'i & National
Science Foundation. (with J. S. Field, K. Kawelu, T. Ladefoged, and R. Connors)
[xvi + 272 pp., 192 figs., 186 tables]
2005 Kirch, P. V., From Chiefdom to Archaic State: Social Evolution in Hawaii. Grace
Elizabeth Schallit Lecture, February 2005. Provo: Brigham Young University. 48
pp.
2004 Editor (with E. Conte). Archaeological Investigations in the Mangareva Islands
(Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia. Archaeological Research Facility,
Contribution No. 62. Berkeley: University of California. [xxix + 172 pp., 86 figs.,
25 tables]
2002 Editor, From the ‘Cliffs of Keolewa’ to the ‘Sea of Papaloa’: An Archaeological
Reconnaissance of Portions of the Kalaupapa National Historical Park, Moloka'i,
Hawaiian Islands. Oceanic Archaeology Laboratory, Special Publication No. 2.
Berkeley: Archaeological Research Facility. [xii + 120 pp., 50 figs., 7 tables]
2001 Editor, Lapita and its Transformations in Near Oceania: Archaeological
Investigations in the Mussau Islands, Papua New Guinea, 1985-88. Volume I,
Introduction, Stratigraphy, Chronology. Archaeological Research Facility
Contribution No. 59. Berkeley: University of California. [xx + 248 pp., 139 figs.,
16 tables]
1993 Editor (with T. L. Hunt), The To’aga Site: Three Millennia of Polynesian
Occupation in the Manu'a Islands, Samoa. Archaeological Research Facility
Contribution No. 51. Berkeley: University of California. [xv + 249 pp., 93 figs.,
71 tables]
1989 Editor, Prehistoric Hawaiian Occupation in the Anahulu Valley, O’ahu Island:
Excavations in Three Inland Rockshelters. Archaeological Research Facility
Contribution No. 47. Berkeley: University of California. [ix + 130 pp., 51 figs., 33
tables]
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1988 Niuatoputapu: The Prehistory of a Polynesian Chiefdom. Burke Museum
Monograph No. 5. Seattle. [ix + 287 pp., 137 figs., 50 tables]
1982 (with D. Yen), Tikopia: The Prehistory and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier.
Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 238. Honolulu. [xviii + 396 pp., 129 figs., 54
tables]
1982 The Archaeological Resources of Kawela, Molokai. Department of Anthropology.
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. (With M. Weisler)
1979 Marine Exploitation in Prehistoric Hawaii: Archaeological Excavations at
Kalahuipua'a, Hawaii Island. Pacific Anthropological Records 29. Honolulu:
Bernice P. Bishop Museum. [xv + 235 pp., 100 figs., 53 tables]
1979 Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Settlement-Subsistence Systems in the
Anahulu Valley, Oahu. Department of Anthropology Report 79-2. Honolulu:
Bernice P. Bishop Museum. [vii + 73 pp., 29 figs., 14 tables]
1979 Archaeological Excavations at Seven Sites, Southeast Maui, Hawaiian Islands.
Department of Anthropology Report 79-1. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
(with P. S. Chapman). [x + 40 pp., 19 figs., 3 tables]
1975 Editor (with M. Kelly), Prehistory and Ecology in a Windward Hawaiian Valley:
Halawa Valley, Moloka'i. Pacific Anthropological Records 24. Honolulu: Bernice
P. Bishop Museum. [xiv + 207 pp., 79 figs.]
1973 Archaeological Excavations at Kahalu'u, North Kona, Island of Hawai'i.
Department of Anthropology Report 73-1. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
[vii + 67 pp., 23 figs., 15 tables]
IV. JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
(* denotes a refereed journal or volume)
in press* (submitted) Ideology, ceremony, and calendar in pre-contact Hawaiʻi:
Astronomical alignment of a stone enclosure on Oʻahu suggests ceremonial use
during Makahiki season. Journal of the Polynesian Society 00:000-000 (with T.
M. Gill, C. Ruggles, and A. Baer)
in press* (submitted) Indigenous Exploitation of Marine Resources in Pre-Contact
Hawaii: Archaeological Evidence from Leeward Kohala, Hawaii Island. Pacific
Science 00:000-000. (with J. S. Field and J. N. Lipphardt)
in press* (accepted) Hawai'i. In T. Hunt and E. Cochrane, eds., Handbook of Oceanic
Prehistory, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2015* Lapita ceramic vessel forms of the Talepakemalai site, Mussau Islands, Papua
New Guinea. In C. Sand, S. Chiu, and N. Hogg, eds., The Lapita Cultural
Complex in Time and Space: Expansion Routes, Chronologies, and Typologies,
pp. 49-61. Taiwan: Academia Sinica.
2015* Soil nutrients and intensive dryland agricultural production in Kaupo, Maui,
Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3:429-436 (with A.
Baer and O. A. Chadwick)
2015* Human ecodynamics in the Mangareva Islands: A stratified sequence from
Nenega-Iti Rockshelter (Site AGA-3, Agakauitai Island). Archaeology in Oceania
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50:23-42. (with G. Molle, C. Nickelsen, P. Mills, E. Dotte-Sarout, J. Swift, A.
Wolfe, and M. Horrocks)
2015* Precise chronology of Polynesian temple construction and use for Southeastern
Maui, Hawaiian Islands determined by 230Th dating of corals. Journal of
Archaeological Science 53:166-77. (with R. Mertz-Kraus and W. D. Sharp)
2015* Mid- to Late Holocene landscape change and anthropogenic transformations on
Mo'orea, Society Islands: A multi-proxy approach. The Holocene 25:333-347.
(with J. Kahn, C. Nickelsen, J. Stephenson, N. Porch, E. Dotte-Sarout, C.
Christensen, L. May, and J. S. Athens)
2014* Polynesia. In C. Renfrew and P. Bahn, eds., The Cambridge World Prehistory.
Volume 1, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, pp. 632-650.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2014* Redating of the Kuli‘ou‘ou Rockshelter, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i: Location of the first
radiocarbon date from the Pacific Islands. Journal of the Polynesian Society
123:67-90. (with J. Kahn, T. Rieth, J. S. Athens, and G. Murakami)
2013* Five Centuries of dryland farming and floodwater irrigation at Hōkūkano Flat,
Auwahi, Maui Island. Hawaiian Archaeology 13:69-102. (with J. Holson, P.
Cleghorn, T. Schneider, and O. Chadwick)
2013* The Pānānā or "Sighting Wall" at Hanamauloa, Kahikinui, Maui:
Archaeological investigation of a possible navigational monument. Journal of the
Polynesian Society 122:45-68 (with C. Ruggles and W. Sharp).
2013* Residential landscapes and house societies of the late prehistoric Society Islands.
Journal of Pacific Archaeology 4:50-72. (with Jennifer Kahn)
2012* Investigating the global dispersal of chickens in prehistory using ancient
mitochondrial DNA signatures. PLos One 7(7):1-11. (A. Story lead author, 18 coauthors)
2012* Inter-polity Exchange of Basalt Tools Facilitated via Elite Control in Hawaiian
Archaic States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 109:10561061. (with P. Mills, S. Lundblad, J. Sinton, and J. Kahn)
2012* Building and testing models of long-term agricultural intensification and
population dynamics: A case study from the Leeward Kohala Field System,
Hawai'i. Ecological Modeling 227:12-28. (with G. Asner, O. Chadwick, J. Field,
T. Ladefoged, C. Puleston, S. Tuljapurkar, and P. Vitousek)
2011* Residential chronology, household subsistence, and the emergence of
socioeconomic territories in Leeward Kohala, Hawai‘i Island. Radiocarbon
53:605-627. (with J. Field, T. Ladefoged, and W. Sharp)
2011* Geospatial modeling of precontact Hawaiian production systems on Moloka‘i
Island, Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Archaeological Science. 38:3662-3674 (with
N. Kurashima)
2011* Monumentality and ritual control in Mo‘orea, Society Islands: Investigations at
the Upper Tupauruuru Complex. Archaeology in Oceania 46:93-104 (with J.
Kahn)
2011* Agricultural potential and actualized development in Hawai'i: An airborne LiDAR
survey of the Leeward Kohala Field System (Hawai'i Island). Journal of
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Archaeological Science 38:3605-3619. (with T. N. Ladefoged, M. D. McCoy, G.
P. Asner, C. O. Puleston, O. A. Chadwick, and P. M. Vitousek)
2011* When did the Polynesians settle Hawai'i? A review of 150 years of scholarly
inquiry and a tentative answer. Hawaiian Archaeology 12:1-26.
2011* Household expansion linked to agricultural intensification during emergence of
Hawaiian archaic states. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.
108:7327-7332. (with J. Field and T. Ladefoged)
2011* Dynamically coupled human and natural systems: Hawai'i as a model system. In
P. V. Kirch, ed., Roots of Conflict: Soils, Agriculture, and Sociopolitical
Complexity in Ancient Hawai'i, pp. 3-30. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research
Press. (with K. S. Zimmerer)
2011* The archaeology of dryland farming systems in southeastern Maui. In P. V. Kirch,
ed., Roots of Conflict: Soils, Agriculture, and Sociopolitical Complexity in
Ancient Hawai'i, pp. 65-88. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.
2010* The peopling of the Pacific: A holistic anthropological perspective. Annual
Review of Anthropology 39:131-148.
2010* Erosion, geological history, and indigenous agriculture: A tale of two valleys.
Ecosystems 13:782-793. (with P. Vitousek, O. A. Chadwick, G. Hilley, and T. E.
Ladefoged)
2010* Dwelling Among the Gods: A Late Pre-Contact Priest’s House in Kahikinui,
Maui, Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Pacific Archaeology 1:144-160. (with S.
Millerstrom, S. Jones, and M. McCoy).
2010* Rapid Evolution of Ritual Architecture in Central Polynesia indicated by precise
230Th/U coral dating. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.
107:13234-13239. (with W. Sharp, J. Kahn, and Christina M. Polito).
2010* The Onemea Site (Taravai Island, Mangareva) and the human colonization of
Southeastern Polynesia. Archaeology in Oceania 45:66-79. (with E. Conte, W.
Sharp, and C. Nickelsen).
2010* Houses and hierarchy: Domestic modes of production in leeward Kohala, Hawai‘i
Island. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 5:52-85. (with J. Field, T. N.
Ladefoged, and K. Kawelu)
2010* Controlled comparison and Polynesian cultural evolution. In J. Diamond and J. A.
Robinson, eds., Natural Experiments of History, pp. 15-52. Cambridge: The
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
2009* Intensive dryland agriculture in Kaupō, Maui, Hawaiian Islands. Asian
Perspectives 48:265-290. (with J. Holson and A. Baer)
2009* Opportunities and constraints for prehistoric intensive agriculture in the Hawaiian
archipelago. Journal of Archaeological Science 36:2374-2383 (with T.
Ladefoged, S. Gon, O. Chadwick, A. Hartshorn, and P. Vitousek)
2009* Combler une lacune dans la préhistoire de la Polynésie orientale : Nouvelle
données sur l’archipel des Gambier (Mangareva). Journal de la Société des
Oceanistes 128 :91-115. (with Eric Conte)
2009* Tool production at the Nu'u Quarry, Maui, Hawaiian Islands: Manufacturing
sequences and energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analyses. New Zealand
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Journal of Archaeology 30 (2008): 135-165. (with J. G. Kahn, P. Mills, S.
Lundblad, J. Holson)
2009* Subfossil land snails from Easter Island, including Hotumatua anakenana, new
genus and species (Pulmonata: Achatinellidae). Pacific Science 63:105-122. (with
C. Christensen and D. Steadman)
2009* Peopling of the Pacific. In R. Gillespie, ed. Encyclopedia of Islands, pp. 720-723.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
2009* Human Impacts, Pre-European. In R. Gillespie, ed., Encyclopedia of Islands, pp.
414-417. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2008* One thousand years of human environmental transformation in Gambier Islands
(French Polynesia). In G. Clark, F. Leach, and S. O’Connor, eds., Islands of
Inquiry: Colonisation, Seafaring, and the Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes,
pp. 253-264. Terra Australis 29. Canberra: Australian National University. (with
E. Conte)
2007* Reconfiguring the Hawaiian cultural sequence: Results of re-dating the Halawa
dune site (MO-A1-3), Moloka’i Island. Journal of the Polynesian Society
116:385-406. (with M. McCoy)
2007* Long-term demographic evolution in the Pacific Islands. In P. V. Kirch and J.-L.
Rallu, eds., The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological
and Demographic Perspectives, pp. 1-14. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
(with J.-L. Rallu)
2007* “Like shoals of fish”: Archaeology and population in pre-contact Hawai’i. In P. V.
Kirch and J.-L. Rallu, eds., The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies:
Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives, pp. 52-69. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press.
2007* Paleodemography in Kahikinui, Maui: An Archaeological Approach. In P. V.
Kirch and J.-L. Rallu, eds., The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies:
Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives, pp. 90-107. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press.
2007* Concluding remarks: Methods, measures, and models in Pacific
paleodemography. In P. V. Kirch and J.-L. Rallu, eds., The Growth and Collapse
of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives, pp.
326-338. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
2007* Indigenous Hawaiian fishing practices in Kahikinui, Maui: A zooarchaeological
approach. Hawaiian Archaeology 11:39-53. (with S. Jones)
2007* Up in smoke: Assumptions of survey visibility and site recovery. Hawaiian
Archaeology 11:83-100. (with L. Holm)
2007* Advances in Polynesian prehistory : A review and assessment of the past decade
(1993-2004). Journal of Archaeological Research 15:191-238. (with J. Kahn)
2007* Three islands and an archipelago: Reciprocal interactions between humans and
island ecosystems in Polynesia. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of
the Royal Society of Edinburgh 98:1-15.
2007* Human ecodynamics in the Hawaiian ecosystem, 1200-200 BP. In T. A. Kohler
and S. E. van der Leeuw, eds., The Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural
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Systems, pp. 121-139. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press. (with O.
Chadwick, S. Tuljapurkar, T. Ladefoged, M. Graves, S. Hotchkiss, P. Vitousek)
Hawaii as a model system for human ecodynamics. American Anthropologist
109:8-26.
Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into Neolithic expansion in
Island Southeast Asia and Oceania. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences U.S.A. 104:4834-4839. (lead author Greger Larson, with 32 co-authors)
Prehistoric agricultural depletion of soil nutrients in Hawai‘i. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 103:11092-11097. (with A. S. Hartshorn, O.
A. Chadwick, P. M. Vitousek)
Agricultural intensification: A Polynesian perspective. In J. Marcus and C.
Stannish, eds., Agricultural Strategies, pp. 191-217. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute
of Archaeology, University of California.
Recherches archéologiques en cours sur les iles de l’archipel des Gambier
(Polynésie francaise). Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie 102:34-38. (with Eric
Conte)
Deux sites de l’archipel des Gambier, Onemea (Taravai) et Nenega-Iti
(Agakauitai). In H. Marchesi, ed., Bilan de la Recherche Archéologique en
Polynésie Française, 2003-2004, pp. 173-184. Dossier d’Archéologie
Polynésienne, No. 4. Tahiti: Service de la Culture de du Patrimoine. (with E.
Conte)
Archaeology and global change: The Holocene record. Annual Review of
Environment and Resources 30:409-440.
An Ipomoean landscape: Archaeology and the sweet potato in Kahikinui, Maui,
Hawaiian Islands. In C. Ballard, P. Brown, R. M. Bourke, and T. Harwood, eds.,
The Sweet Potato in the Pacific: A Reappraisal, pp. 71-84. Oceania Monograph56
and Ethnology Monograph 19. Sydney and Pittsburgh. (With J. Coil)
Intensive dryland farming on the leeward slopes of Haleakala, Maui, Hawaiian
Islands: Archaeological, archaeobotanical, and geochemical perspectives. World
Archaeology 37(2):240-258. (with J. Coil, A. S. Hartshorn, M. Jeraj, P. M.
Vitousek, and O. A. Chadwick)
Petroglyphs of Kahikinui, Maui, Hawaiian Islands: Rock images within a
Polynesian settlement landscape. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 70:107128. (with S. Millerstrom)
Coral 230Th dating of the imposition of a ritual control hierarchy in precontact
Hawaii. Science 307:102-104. (with W. D. Sharp)
Solstice observation in Mangareva, French Polynesia: New perspectives from
Archaeology. Archaeoastronomy 18:1-19.
Ethnographie préhistorique d’une « société a maisons » dans la vallée de
‘Opunohu (Mo’orea, îles de la Société). Journal de la Société des Océanistes
119 :229-256. (with J. Kahn)
Oceanic Islands: Microcosms of “global change.” In C. L. Redman, S. R. James,
P. R. Fish, and J. D. Rogers, eds., The Archaeology of Global Change, pp. 13-27.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books.
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2004* Environment, agriculture, and settlement patterns in a marginal Polynesian
landscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 101:99369941. (with A. Hartshorn, O. Chadwick, P. Vitousek, D. Sherrod, J. Coil, L.
Holm, and W. Sharp)
2004* Soils, agriculture, and society in precontact Hawai‘i. Science 304:1665-1669.
(with P. Vitousek, T. Ladefoged, A. Hartshorn, M. Graves, S. Hotchkiss, S.
Tuljapurkar, and O. Chadwick)
2004* The Kaupikiawa Rockshelter, Kalaupapa Peninsula, Moloka'i: New investigations
and reinterpretation of its significance for Hawaiian prehistory. People and
Culture in Oceania 19:1-27. (with S. O’Day, J. Coil, M. Morgenstein, K. Kawelu,
and S. Millerstrom).
2004* Temple sites in Kahikinui, Maui, Hawaiian Islands: Their orientations decoded.
Antiquity 78:102-114.
2003 Archaeological investigations of the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia, 2001. In
C. Sand, ed., Pacific Archaeology: Assessments and Prospects. Proceedings of the
International Conference for the 50th Anniversary of the First Lapita Excavation,
Koné-Noumea 2002, pp. 343-352. Les Cahiers de l’Archéologie en NouvelleCalédonie, Vol. 15. Noumea. (with A. Anderson, E. Conte, and M. I. Weisler)
2003 The ancient “house society” of the ‘Opunohu Valley, Mo’orea: Overview of an
archaeological project 2000-2002. In H. Marchesi, ed., Bilan de la Recherche
Archéologique en Polynésie Française, 2001-2002, pp. 21-36. Punaauia: Service
de la Culture et du Patrimoine, Polynésie Française. (with J. Kahn)
2003 Recherches archéologiques aux Iles Gambier (2001). In H. Marchesi, ed., Bilan de
la Recherche Archéologique en Polynésie Française, 2001-2002, pp. 137-46.
Punaauia: Service de la Culture et du Patrimoine, Polynésie Française. (with A.
Anderson, E. Conte, and M. Weisler)
2003* Cultural chronology in Mangareva (Gambier Islands), French Polynesia:
Evidence from recent radiocarbon dating. Journal of the Polynesian Society
112:119-140. (with A. Anderson, E. Conte, and M. I. Weisler)
2003* Paleohydrology of arid southeastern, Maui, Hawaiian Islands, and its implications
for prehistoric human settlement. Quaternary Research 59:12-24. (with J. Stock
and J. Coil)
2002* Te kai paka-Anuta: Food in a Polynesian Outlier society. Journal de la Société des
Océanistes 114-115:71-89.
2002 History on stones: A newly discovered petroglyph site at Kahikinui, Maui.
Hawaiian Archaeology 8:3-12. (with S. Millerstrom)
2002* New archaeological insights into food and status: A case study from pre-contact
Hawaii. World Archaeology 34:484-97. (with S. O’Day)
2002* A modified culture history of Anahulu Valley, O’ahu, Hawai’i, and its
significance for Hawaiian prehistory. Journal of the Polynesian Society 111:107126. (with M. Dega)
2002 Old sites, new insights: A reanalysis of the 1952 Gifford and Shutler New
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Early archaeological investigations, 1978-1982. In M. S. Allen, ed., Gardens of
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The history of Polynesian archaeology. In T. Murray, ed., Encyclopedia of
Archaeology. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.
Archaeology of the Pacific Islands. In N. Smelser and P. Baltes, eds., The
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam:
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Ceramics in Archaeology. In N. Smelser and P. Baltes, eds., The International
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Lapita. In P. N. Peregrine and M. Ember, eds., Encyclopedia of Prehistory,
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Polynesian feasting in ethnohistoric, ethnographic, and archaeological contexts: A
comparison of three societies. In M. Dietler and B. Hayden, eds., Feasts:
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Pigs, humans, and trophic competition on small Oceanic islands. In A. Anderson
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Jim Allen, pp. 427-39. Canberra: Australian National University, Centre for
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Ana Manuka: A prehistoric ritualistic site on Mangaia, Cook Islands. Antiquity
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Temples as ‘holy houses’: The transformation of ritual architecture in traditional
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up the House, pp. 103-14. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Hawaiian archaeology: Past, present, and future. Hawaiian Archaeology 7:60-73.
Metric analyses of prehistoric morphological change in cultivated fruits and nuts:
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marginal environments in the Hawaiian Islands. In P. Vargas Casanova, ed.,
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Biogeography and prehistoric exploitation of birds in the Mussau Islands,
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Le voyage du Kon-Tiki et son impact sur l’archéologie. Bulletin de la Société des
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Lapita exchange systems and their Polynesian transformations: Seeking
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Oceania: An Interdisciplinary Approach, pp. 19-37. New Zealand Archaeological
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Resolving the enigmas of New Caledonian and Melanesian prehistory: A review.
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Kahikinui: An introduction. In P. V. Kirch, ed., Na Mea Kahiko o Kahikinui:
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Archaeological Research Facility.
The cultural landscape of Kipapa and Nakaohu ahupua’a: A preliminary report on
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Kahikinui: Studies in the Archaeology of Kahikinui, Maui, Hawaiian Islands, pp.
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Archaeological Research Facility.
Household archaeology in the ahupua’a of Kipapa and Nakaohu. In P. V. Kirch,
ed., Na Mea Kahiko o Kahikinui: Studies in the Archaeology of Kahikinui, Maui,
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Introduction: The environmental history of Oceanic islands. In P. V. Kirch and T.
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Changing landscapes and sociopolitical evolution in Mangaia, Central Polynesia.
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The historical ecology of Ofu Island, American Samoa, 3000 B.P. to the present.
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Epilogue: Islands as microcosms of global change? In P. V. Kirch and T. L. Hunt,
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Stratigraphic and paleobotanical evidence for prehistoric human-induced
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Pre-contact and early historic cultural landscapes in the Kahikinui District, Maui,
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1996* Late Holocene human-induced modifications to a central Polynesian island
ecosystem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 93(11):52965300.
1996* Interisland and interarchipelago transport of stone tools in prehistoric Polynesia.
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1995* The Lapita cultural complex of Western Melanesia in the context of Austronesian
origins and dispersals. In P. J-K. Li, C-H Tsang, Y-K Huang, D-A Ho, and C-y
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Institute of History and Philology, No. 3, pp. 255-294. Taipei: Academia Sinica.
1995* Prehistory and human ecology in Eastern Polynesia: Excavations at Tangatatau
Rockshelter, Mangaia, Cook Islands. Archaeology in Oceania 30:47-65. (with D.
W. Steadman, V. L. Butler, J. Hather, and M. I. Weisler)
1995 Landscapes of history in the Anahulu Valley: Hawaiian Islands. Kroeber
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1994* Archaeology in the Pacific Islands: An appraisal of recent research. Journal of
Archaeological Research 2:285-328. (with M. I. Weisler)
1994* Paleoenvironmental evidence for human colonization of remote Oceanic islands.
Antiquity 68:310-321. (with J. Ellison)
1994* The pre-Christian ritual cycle of Futuna, Western Polynesia. Journal of the
Polynesian Society 103:255-298.
1994* The Mata'are basalt source: implications for prehistoric interaction studies in the
Cook Islands. Journal of the Polynesian Society 103:203-216. (with M. I. Weisler
and J. Endicott)
1993* Polynesian irrigation: archaeological and linguistic evidence for origins and
development. Asian Perspectives 32:183-204. (with D. Lepofsky)
1992 In Memoriam: Kenneth Pike Emory (1897-1992). Asian Perspectives 31:1-8.
1992* Ancient environmental degradation: prehistoric human impacts on an island
ecosystem, Mangaia, Central Polynesia. Research and Exploration 8:166-179
(with D. Steadman, J. Flenley, S. Dawson, and F. Lamont).
1991 Mussau Islands prehistory: results of the 1985-86 excavations. In J. Allen and C.
Gosden, eds., Report of the Lapita Homeland Project, pp. 144-163. Occasional
Papers in Prehistory, No. 20. Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Australian
National University.
1991* A radiocarbon chronology for human-induced environmental change on Mangaia,
Southern Cook Islands, Polynesia. Radiocarbon 33:317-328. (with D. Steadman,
J. Flenley).
1991* Prehistoric exchange in Western Melanesia. Annual Review of Anthropology
20:141-165.
1991 Chiefship and competitive involution: the Marquesas Islands of Eastern Polynesia.
In T. Earle, ed., Chiefdoms: Power, Economy, and Ideology, pp. 119-145.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1991* Prehistoric sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) from Mangaia Island, Central
Polynesia. Antiquity 65:887-893. (with J. Hather).
1991 Polynesian agricultural systems. In P. A. Cox and S. A. Banack, eds., Islands,
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Plants, and Polynesians: An Introduction of Polynesian Ethnobotany, pp. 113133. Portland (Oregon): Dioscorides Press.
Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 87:9605-9609. (with D. Steadman).
Specialization and exchange in the Lapita complex of Oceania (1600-500 B.C.).
Asian Perspectives 29:117-133.
Production, intensification, and the early Hawaiian Kingdom. In D. E. Yen and J.
M. J. Mummery, eds., Pacific Production Systems: Approaches to Economic
Prehistory, pp. 190-209. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 18. Canberra:
Department of Prehistory, Australian National University.
The evolution of socio-political complexity in prehistoric Hawaii: an assessment
of the archaeological evidence. Journal of World Prehistory 4:311-345.
Regional variation and local style: A neglected dimension in Hawaiian prehistory.
Pacific Studies 13:41-53.
An ancestral Polynesian occupation site at To'aga, Ofu Island, American Samoa.
Archaeology in Oceania 25:1-15 (with T. Hunt, L. Nagaoka, J. Tyler).
La colonisation du Pacifique. La Recherche 21(225):1226-1235.
Monumental architecture and power in Polynesian chiefdoms: a comparison of
Tonga and Hawaii. World Archaeology 22:206-222.
Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Anuta and Tikopia,
Solomon Islands. Occasional Papers of the Bishop Museum 30:118-153. (with D.
Steadman and D. S. Pahlavan).
Lapita sites of the Bismarck Archipelago. Antiquity 63:561-586. (with C. Gosden
et al.).
Second millennium B.C. arboriculture in Melanesia: archaeological evidence from
the Mussau Islands. Economic Botany 43:225-240.
Prehistory. In A. Howard and R. Borofsky, eds, Developments in Polynesian
Ethnology, pp. 13-46. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Human skeletal and dental remains from Lapita sites in the Mussau Islands.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 79:63-76. (with D. Swindler and C.
Turner III).
A radiocarbon sequence from the To'aga site, Ofu Island, American Samoa.
Radiocarbon 31:7-13. (with T. L. Hunt and J. Tyler).
The rockshelter excavations. In P. V. Kirch, ed., Prehistoric Hawaiian
Occupation in the Anahulu Valley, O'ahu Island: Excavations in Three Inland
Rockshelters, pp. 9-42. Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility No.
47. Berkeley: University of California.
Faunal assemblages of the Anahulu rockshelter sites. In P. V. Kirch, ed.,
Prehistoric Hawaiian Occupation in the Anahulu Valley, O'ahu Island:
Excavations in Three Inland Rockshelters, pp. 61-72. Contributions of the
Archaeological Research Facility No. 47. Berkeley: University of California.(with
S. Collins).
Non-marine molluscs from the rockshelter sediments. In P. V. Kirch, ed.,
Prehistoric Hawaiian Occupation in the Anahulu Valley, O'ahu Island:
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Excavations in Three Inland Rockshelters, pp. 73-82. Contributions of the
Archaeological Research Facility No. 47. Berkeley: University of California.
The portable artifact assemblages. In P. V. Kirch, ed., Prehistoric Hawaiian
Occupation in the Anahulu Valley, O'ahu Island: Excavations in Three Inland
Rockshelters, pp. 111-124. Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility
No. 47. Berkeley: University of California.
Conclusion. In P. V. Kirch, ed., Prehistoric Hawaiian Occupation in the Anahulu
Valley, O'ahu Island: Excavations in Three Inland Rockshelters, pp. 125-130.
Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility No. 47. Berkeley:
University of California.
Polynesian plainware sherds from Hivaoa and their implications for early
Marquesan prehistory. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology 10:101-107. (with
W. R. Dickinson and T. L. Hunt).
Long-distance exchange and island colonization: the Lapita case. Norwegian
Archaeological Review 21:103-117.
Archaeological survey of the Manu'a Islands, American Samoa. Journal of the
Polynesian Society 97:153-183. (with T. L. Hunt).
Holocene mammal faunas from archaeological sites in island Melanesia.
Archaeology in Oceania 23:89-94. (with T. Flannery, M. Spriggs, and J. Specht).
Radiocarbon dates from the Mussau Islands and the Lapita colonization of the
southwest Pacific. Radiocarbon 30:161-169. (with T. L. Hunt).
The Talepakemalai Lapita site and Oceanic prehistory. National Geographic
Research 4:328-342.
Polynesia's mystery islands. Archaeology 41(3):26-31.
Circumscription and sociopolitical evolution in Polynesia. American Behavioral
Scientist 31:416-427.
A brief history of Lapita archaeology. In P. V. Kirch and T. L. Hunt, eds.,
Archaeology of the Lapita Cultural Complex: A Critical Review, pp. 1-8. Burke
Museum Research Report No. 5. Seattle: University of Washington Burke
Museum.
The spatial and temporal boundaries of Lapita. In P. V. Kirch and T. L. Hunt, eds.,
Archaeology of the Lapita Cultural Complex: A Critical Review, pp. 9-32. Burke
Museum Research Report No. 5. Seattle: University of Washington Burke
Museum. (with T. L. Hunt).
Problems and issues in Lapita archaeology. In P. V. Kirch and T. L. Hunt, eds.,
Archaeology of the Lapita Cultural Complex: A Critical Review, pp. 157-166.
Burke Museum Research Report No. 5. Seattle: University of Washington Burke
Museum.
Is there an early Far Western Lapita province? Sample size effects and new
evidence from Eloaua Island. Archaeology in Oceania 22:123-127. (with M.
Allen, V. Butler, and T. L. Hunt).
History, phylogeny, and evolution in Polynesia. Current Anthropology 28:431456. (with R. C. Green). Reprinted in S. Silverman, ed., 1991, Inquiry and Debate
in the Human Sciences, pp. 161-186. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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1987* Radiocarbon dates from two coastal sites in the Manu'a group, American Samoa.
Radiocarbon 29:417-419. (with T. L. Hunt)
1987* Lapita and Oceanic cultural origins: results of the 1985 Mussau excavations.
Journal of Field Archaeology 14:163-180.
1987* Impact of tourism on archaeological resources in Hawaii. Annals of Tourism
Research 14:145-153. (with D. Kirch).
1986 Exchange systems and inter-island contact in the transformation of an island
society: The Tikopia case. In P. V. Kirch, ed., Island Societies: Archaeological
Approaches to Evolution and Transformation, pp. 33-41. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
1986* Rethinking East Polynesian prehistory. Journal of the Polynesian Society 95:9-40.
1986 Tikopia: tracing the prehistory of a Polynesian culture. Archaeology 39(2):53-59.
1986* Nonmarine mollusks and ecological change at Barbers Point, Oahu, Hawaii.
Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 26:52-80. (with C. Christensen).
1985* On the genetic and cultural relationships of certain Polynesian Outlier
populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 66:381-382.
1985* The structure of settlement space in a Polynesian chiefdom: Kawela, Molokai.
New Zealand Journal of Archaeology 7:129-158. (with M. Weisler)
1985 Intensive agriculture in prehistoric Hawaii: the wet and the dry. In I. Farrington,
ed., Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics, pp. 435-454. British
Archaeological Reports, International Series, No. 232.
1984* The Polynesian Outliers: continuity, change, and replacement. Journal of Pacific
History 19:224-238.
1983* An archaeological exploration of Vanikoro, Santa Cruz Islands, eastern
Melanesia. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology 5:69-113.
1983* Man's role in modifying tropical and subtropical Polynesian ecosystems.
Archaeology in Oceania 18:26-31.
1983 Mangaasi-style ceramics from Tikopia and Vanikoro and their implications for
east Melanesian prehistory. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 3:67-76.
1983* Archaeology and the evolution of socio-political complexity: the Hawaiian case.
Reviews in Anthropology X:17-28. (Review of Cordy, 1981).
1983 Introduction. In J. T. Clark and P. V. Kirch, eds., Archaeological Investigations of
the Mudlane-Waimea-Kawaihae Road Corridor, Island of Hawai'i: An
Interdisciplinary Study of an Environmental Transect, pp. 3-24. Department of
Anthropology, Report 83-1. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
1983 Indigenous artifacts. In J. T. Clark and P. V. Kirch, eds., Archaeological
Investigations of the Mudlane-Waimea-Kawaihae Road Corridor, Island of
Hawai'i: An Interdisciplinary Study of an Environmental Transect, pp. 341-347.
Department of Anthropology, Report 83-1. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
1983 Volcanic glass flaked stone artifacts. In J. T. Clark and P. V. Kirch, eds.,
Archaeological Investigations of the Mudlane-Waimea-Kawaihae Road Corridor,
Island of Hawai'i: An Interdisciplinary Study of an Environmental Transect, pp.
348-370. Department of Anthropology, Report 83-1. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop
Museum. (with R. Schousboe and M. Riford).
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1983 Discussion and summary. In J. T. Clark and P. V. Kirch, eds., Archaeological
Investigations of the Mudlane-Waimea-Kawaihae Road Corridor, Island of
Hawai'i: An Interdisciplinary Study of an Environmental Transect, pp. 527-532..
Department of Anthropology, Report 83-1. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
1982 Transported landscapes. Natural History 12/82.
1982* The ecology of marine exploitation in prehistoric Hawaii. Human Ecology
10:455-476.
1982* The impact of the prehistoric Polynesians on the Hawaiian ecosystem. Pacific
Science 36:1-14.
1982* A revision of the Anuta sequence. Journal of the Polynesian Society 91:245-254.
1982* Advances in Polynesian prehistory: three decades in review. In F. Wendorf and A.
Close, eds., Advances in World Archaeology 1:51-97. New York: Academic
Press.
1982* Ecology and the adaptation of Polynesian agricultural systems. Archaeology in
Oceania 17:1-6.
1981* Lapitoid settlements of Futuna and Alofi, Western Polynesia. Archaeology in
Oceania 16:127-143.
1981* Nonmarine mollusks from archaeological sites on Tikopia, southeastern Solomon
Islands. Pacific Science 35:75-88. (with C. Christensen).
1981 Landsnails and environmental change at Barbers Point, Oahu, Hawaii. Bulletin of
the American Malacological Union, p. 31 (abstract). (with C. Christensen).
1980* The archaeological study of adaptation: theoretical and methodological issues. In
M. Schiffer, ed., Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 3, pp. 101156. New York: Academic Press. (Reprinted in 1980 in M. Schiffer, ed.,
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory: Selections for Students from
Volumes 1 through 4. New York: Academic Press.)
1980* Polynesian prehistory: cultural adaptation in island ecosystems. American
Scientist 68:39-48.
1980* Burial structures and societal ranking in Vava'u, Tonga. Journal of the Polynesian
Society 89:291-308.
1979 Archaeology and the evolution of Polynesian culture. Archaeology 32(5):44-52.
Reprinted 1980 as "L'archeologia e l'evoluzione della cultura Polinesiana," Mondo
Archeologico 46:5-11.
1979* Ethnoarchaeology and the development of Polynesian fishing strategies. Journal
of the Polynesian Society 88:53-76. (with T. Dye).
1979 Subsistence and ecology. In J. Jennings, ed., The Prehistory of Polynesia, pp. 286307. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
1978* The Lapitoid period in West Polynesia: excavations and survey in Niuatoputapu,
Tonga. Journal of Field Archaeology 5:1-12.
1978* Indigenous agriculture on 'Uvea (Western Polynesia). Economic Botany 32:157181.
1978 Ethnoarchaeology and the study of agricultural systems in the humid tropics. In R.
A. Gould, ed., Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology, pp. 103-126. Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press.
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1977* Valley agricultural systems in prehistoric Hawaii: an archaeological consideration.
Asian Perspectives 20:246-280.
1976 Supplemental archaeological resource examination of the Kamo'oali'i Mound Site,
Oahu Island, In P. Rosendahl, ed., Archaeological Investigations in Upland
Kane'ohe, pp. 5:1-8. Department of Anthropology Report 76-1. Honolulu: Bernice
P. Bishop Museum.
1976* Rapport préliminaire sur les recherches éffectuées aux îles Wallis et Futuna
(Polynésie Occidentale). Journal de la Société des Océanistes 32:107-110.
1976* Ethnoarchaeological investigations in Futuna and 'Uvea (Western Polynesia): a
preliminary report. Journal of the Polynesian Society 85:27-69.
1976 Early Anutan settlement and the position of Anuta in the prehistory of the
southwest Pacific. In R. C. Green and M. Cresswell, eds., Southeast Solomon
Islands Cultural History: A Preliminary Survey, pp. 223-244. Royal Society of
New Zealand Bulletin 11. Wellington. (with P. Rosendahl).
1975 Introduction. In P. V. Kirch and M. Kelly, eds., Prehistory and Ecology in a
Windward Hawaiian Valley: Halawa Valley, Molokai, pp. 1-16. Pacific
Anthropological Records 24. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
1975 Excavations at sites Al-3 and Al-4: early settlement and ecology in Halawa
Valley. In P. V. Kirch and M. Kelly, eds., Prehistory and Ecology in a Windward
Hawaiian Valley: Halawa Valley, Molokai, pp. 17-70. Pacific Anthropological
Records 24. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
1975 Radiocarbon and hydration-rind dating of prehistoric sites in Halawa Valley. In P.
V. Kirch and M. Kelly, eds., Prehistory and Ecology in a Windward Hawaiian
Valley: Halawa Valley, Molokai, pp. 161-166. Pacific Anthropological Records
24. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
1975 Halawa Valley in Hawaiian prehistory: discussion and conclusions. In P. V. Kirch
and M. Kelly, eds., Prehistory and Ecology in a Windward Hawaiian Valley:
Halawa Valley, Molokai, pp. 167-184. Pacific Anthropological Records 24.
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
1974* The chronology of early Hawaiian settlement. Archaeology and Physical
Anthropology in Oceania 9:110-119.
1973 Anuta: an introduction. In D. E. Yen and J. Gordon, eds., Anuta: A Polynesian
Outlier in the Solomon Islands, pp. 1-8. Pacific Anthropological Records 21.
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. (with D. Yen and P. Rosendahl).
1973 Archaeological Investigation of Anuta. In D. E. Yen and J. Gordon, eds., Anuta: A
Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands, pp. 25-108. Pacific Anthropological
Records 21. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. (with P. Rosendahl).
1973* A note on carbon dates for pottery-bearing layers on Anuta Island. Journal of the
Polynesian Society 82:206-208. (with P. Rosendahl).
1973* Prehistoric subsistence patterns in the northern Marquesas Islands, French
Polynesia. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania 8:24-40.
1973* Basaltic glass artifacts from Hawaii: their dating and prehistoric uses. Journal of
the Polynesian Society 82:176-187. (with W. Barrera).
1972 Prehistoric agriculture in the upper valley of Makaha, Oahu. In E. Ladd and D. E.
Yen, eds., Makaha Valley Historical Project: Interim Report No. 3, pp. 59-94.
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1972
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1971
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1970
Pacific Anthropological Records 18. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. (with
D. Yen, T. Riley, and P. Rosendahl).
Subfossil non-marine gastropods from Molokai, Hawaiian Islands. Nautilus
86:23.
Five triangular adzes from Maui, Hawaiian Islands. New Zealand Archaeological
Association Newsletter 15:140-143.
Archaeological excavations at Palauea, Southeast Maui, Hawaiian Islands.
Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania 6:62-86.
An early prehistoric site at Bellows Beach, Waimanalo, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.
Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania 6:204-234. (with R. Pearson
and M. Pietrusewsky).
Halawa Valley Project: two field seasons in retrospect. New Zealand
Archaeological Association Newsletter 14:47-61.
Halawa Dune Site (Hawaiian Islands): a preliminary report. Journal of the
Polynesian Society 80:228-236.
Houses on Lifou, Loyalty Islands. Journal of the Polynesian Society 79:43-53.
The Halawa Valley Project: a preliminary report. New Zealand Archaeological
Association Newsletter 13:223-226.
V. REVIEWS, COMMENTS, MISCELLANEOUS
in press Review of K-A. Oliveira, Ancestral Places (Corvallis: Oregon State University
Press). Human Ecology
in press Review of T. L. Hunt and C. Lipo, The Statues that Walked (Free Press, New
York). Archaeology in Oceania
in press Ian Lilley, editor, 2006. Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific
Islands.
in press G. Dening, Beach Crossings. Australian Historical Studies.
in press R. Feinberg, ed., Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands. Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute.
in press A. Anderson, B. Allingham, and Ian Smith, eds., Shag River Mouth: The
Archaeology of an Early Southern Maori Village. Archaeology in New Zealand.
in press D. Stannard, Before the Horror. The Contemporary Pacific.
in press B. Butler, ed., Archaeological Investigations on the North Coast of Rota,
Marianas Islands. American Antiquity.
2014 Comment on Dye, T. S., Wealth in old Hawai‘i: Good-year economics and the
rise of pristine states. Archaeology in Oceania 00:000-000.
2012 Review of T. L. Jones et al. (eds), Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian
Contacts with the New World. California Archaeology 4:269-71.
2012 Review of A. Andersson, A Hero for the Atomic Age, Thor Heyerdahl and the
Kon-Tiki Expedition. Fornvännen, Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research
107:147-149.
2011 Commentary on the special section on Southeast Asia. Antiquity 85:1-2.
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2010 Climate change and the integrity of science. Science 328:689-90. (one of multiple
co-authors)
2010 Review of D. B. Freeman, The Pacific, International Journal of Maritime History
XXII:292-95.
2010 Biography of Roger Curtis Green. In Biographical Memoirs of the National
Academy of Sicences. Washington D.C.
2009 Review of Bedford, S., C. Sand, and S. P. Connaughton, editors, 2007. Oceanic
Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement. Terra Australis 26.
Canberra: ANU E Press. In Australian Archaeology 68:67-69.
2008 Comment on Ladefoged and Graves, “Dryland agriculture in Hawai’i,” Current
Anthropology 49:790-91.
2008 Comment on Atholl Anderson’s ‘Traditionalism, Interaction and Long-Distance
Seafaring in Polynesia.’ Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3(2):0-0.
2008 Review of D. Steadman, Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds.
Conservation Biology.
2007 Straw boats and the proverbial sea: A response to ‘Island Archaeology: In Search
of a New Horizon.” Island Studies Journal 2:229-238. (with S. Fitzpatrick, J.
Erlandson, and A. Anderson)
2006 J. Van Tilburg, Among Stone Giants. Journal of the History of the Behavioral
Sciences 42(2):181-82.
2005 Review of C. Sand, ed., Tiouandé: Archéologie d’un Massif de Karst du Nord-Est
de la Grande Terre. Asian Perspectives 44:406-407.
2005 Review of J. Diamond, Collapse. Current Anthropology 46:S95-96.
2003 Review of The Archaeology of Lapita Dispersal in Oceania (G. R. Clark et al.,
eds.), In Journal of the Polynesian Society 112:405-407.
2002 Eastern Polynesia—Introduction. Asian Perspectives 41:179-81. (with E. Conte)
2002 Review of B. A. Joyce, The Shaping of American Ethnography: The Wilkes
Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. In Journal of Anthropological Research
58:293-94.
2002 Review of Nature, Culture, and History: The “Knowing” of Oceania (K. R.
Howe), Anthropos 97:263-64.
2002 Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Biennial Report: 1999-2001.
Berkeley: P. A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. [20 pp. + illus.]
2000 Foreword, in D. Blundell, ed., Austronesian Taiwan: Linguistics, History,
Ethnology, and Prehistory, pp. xv-xvi. Berkeley: P. A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology.
2000 The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. ICOM News, Issue 3:3.
International Council of Museums.
2000 “Archaeological survey of Kalaupapa, Moloka’i, Initiated.” Berkeley Archaeology
8(1):5.
2000 “The sequence of words.” Review of L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and
Languages. Nature 404:932-33.
2000 Review of Hanamiai: Prehistoric Colonization and Cultural Change in the
Marquesas Islands. (by Barry V. Rolett), Journal of Anthropological Research
56:256-57.
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1999 Comment on H. Leach, “Intensification in the Pacific.” Current Anthropology
40:326-28.
1998 Review of J. Fox and C. Sather, eds., Origins, Ancestry and Alliance. Anthropos
93:606-607.
1998 Review of M. J. T. Spriggs, The Island Melanesians. Journal of Anthropological
Research 54:277-79.
1998 Privatizing archaeology reviews is a mistake. (Op-ed piece) The Honolulu
Advertiser, p. A20, March 20, 1998.
1997 Comment on Terrell, Hunt, and Gosden “The dimensions of social life in the
Pacific”. Current Anthropology 38:181-82.
1995 Comment on Roberts, Moore, and Romney. Current Anthropology 36:779.
1994 Review of D. Frimigacci, Aux Temps de la Terre Noire, Journal of the Polynesian
Society 103:93-95
1994 Review of D. G. Sutton, ed., Origins of the First New Zealanders. Antiquity
68:895-97.
1992 Review of R. L. Hunter-Anderson, ed., Recent Advances in Micronesian
Archaeology: Selected Papers from the Micronesian Archaeology Conference.
Asian Perspectives 31:206-209.
1992 Foreword, In G. Lee, Rock Art of Easter Island, pp. xi-xii. Monumenta
Archaeologica 17. Los Angeles: Institute of Archaeology, University of California
at Los Angeles.
1990 Models, migrations, and the methodology of prehistory. Review article of I.
Rouse, Migrations in Prehistory, and J. Terrell, Prehistory in the Pacific Islands.
Reviews in Anthropology 18:153-160.
1987 Review of A. Anderson. Traditional Fishing in the Pacific. Pacific Studies
11:153-157.
1987 Review of L. Grossman, Peasants, Subsistence Economy, and Development in the
Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Economic Geography 63:184-186.
1987 Review of J. Terrell, Prehistory in the Pacific Islands. Antiquity 61:348-350.
1987 Review of P. Bellwood, The Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago; and
P. Bellwood and Vishnu-Mitre, Recent Advances in Indo-Pacific Prehistory.
American Anthropologist 89:199-200.
1986 Review of E. Larsen, Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands: The
Geoarchaeology of an Ancient Society. American Antiquity 51:189-190.
1985 Review of J. Flood, Archaeology of the Dreamtime. American Anthropologist
87:452.
1984 Review of S. Bowdler, ed., Coastal Archaeology in Eastern Australia. American
Anthropologist 86:452-453.
1984 Review of N. Prickett, The First Thousand Years: Regional Perspectives in New
Zealand Archaeology. Archaeology in Oceania 19:37-39.
1984 Foreword, In R. Schilt, Subsistence and Conflict in Kona, Hawai'i. Department of
Anthropology Report 84-1. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
1981 Review of J. Friedman and M. Rowlands, The Evolution of Social Systems.
American Antiquity 46:956-958.
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1981 Review of R. C. Green, Makaha Before 1880 A.D. Journal of the Polynesian
Society 90:282-284.
1980 A journey into Makaha's past. Hawaii Architect 9:11-15, 24-25.
1976 Review of R. Shutler and E. Shutler, Oceanic Prehistory. American
Anthropologist 78:715.
ABBREVIATED LIST OF SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS
Distinguished and Honorary Lectures:
2013 Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture, University of California, Berkeley
2011 The Morton Lecture, California State University, Northridge
2010 The Jim Allen Lecture, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Grace Elizabeth Shallit Memorial Lecture, Brigham Young University, Provo
2004 Fred Wendorf Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas
2003 Irwin T. Koch Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology, Missouri Archaeological
Society
2002 Peabody Founder’s Lecture, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
Harvard University, Cambridge
2002 Distinguished Lecture to the Senate of Scientists, Smithsonian Institution
2000 Distinguished Lecture, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Annual
Meeting, Vancouver
1995 Distinguished Archaeology Lecture, American Anthropological Association,
Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
1991 Robert L. Stigler Lecture in Archaeology, University of Arkansas
1989 Howard C. Petersen Annual Lecture, The University Museum, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1984 Thomas Burke Memorial Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle
Other Lectures, Symposia, Advanced Seminars, Conferences:
2015 Closing Address, 8th International Lapita Conference, Port Vila, Vanuatu
2015 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco
2014 Symposium presenter, Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, Hilo, Hawai'i
2014 Invited lecture, Anthropology Department, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
2014 Invited lecture, Anthropology Department, University of California San Diego
2013 Invited public lecture, Université de Polynésie Française, Tahiti
2013 Panelist and presenter, Hawai'i Council for the Humanities, Honolulu Book and
Music Festival
2013 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, HI
2012 Symposium presenter, Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, Kailua, HI
2012 Invited speaker, Symposium on Lapita Ceramics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2012 Keynote speaker, International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Santa
Rosa, CA, Easter Island Foundation
2012 Invited lecturer, New York University, Center for the Study of Human Origins
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2011 Workshop co-organizer and presenter, Paleo- and Neo-Ecology in French
Polynesia, Richard Gump Research Station, Mo'orea, French Polynesia
2011 Symposium organizer and presenter, Conference on Evolution of Life on Pacific
Islands and Reefs: Past, Present, and Future, East-West Center, University of
Hawai'i
2011 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA
2011 Symposium presenter, American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Washington, D.C.
2010 Invited lecturer, Musée Quai Branly, Paris, France
2010 Keynote address, Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, Wailua, Kaua’i
2010 Invited lecturer, Annual Science Board Symposium, Santa Fe Institute
2010 Invited lecturer, Sydney University, Australia
2010 Invited lecturer, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
2009 Invited lecturer, Archaeology Group, Stanford University, Palo Alto
2009 Symposium organizer and presenter, Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, Honolulu
2009 Symposium presenter, Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Conference, Palo
Alto
2008 Invited lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
2008 Keynote Address: “Preserving What for Whom: Can We Achieve a State of
Pono?” Workshop on Hawai’i State Historic Preservation Laws, William S.
Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i
2008 Invited lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
2007 Symposium presenter, Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, Kona, Hawai’i
2006 Organizer, Advanced Seminar, School of American Research, “Soils, Dryland
Agriculture, and Social Complexity in Ancient Hawai’i: A Model System for
Human Ecodynamics.”
2006 Keynote address, Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, Kahului, Maui
2006 Invited lecturer, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
2006 Invited lecturer, Geography Department, UCLA
2005 Invited lecturer, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Williamette University
2005 Invited lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
2005 Invited lecturer, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
2005 Invited lecturer, Morrison Institute for Population and Resources, Stanford
University
2004 Symposium chair and presenter, “Hawaii Biocomplexity Project”, Society for
Hawaiian Archaeology, annual meeting, Kona, Hawai’i
2004 Workshop presenter, “Modeling Long-term Cultural Change,” Santa Fe Institute
2004 Plenary speaker, International Association of Vegetation Scientists, Congress,
Kona, Hawai’i
2004 Symposium presenter, “Human ecodynamics in the Hawaiian ecosystem, 1200200 yr BP.” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle.
2003 Invited lecturer, California Polytechnical University
2002 Keynote address, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific
Divisional Meeting (Waimea, Hawaii)
2002 Keynote address, Hawaii Conservation Conference, Honolulu.
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2002 Pacific Prehistory: Assessments and Prospects. International conference in New
Caledonia (1-7 August). Two papers and two public lectures (in French).
2002 Seminar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
2002 Invited lecturer, Université de Paris I, France
2002 Symposium participant, Société des Océanistes, Musée de l’Homme, Paris
2002 Seminar, Centre de la Recherche et du Documentation pour l’Océanie (CREDO),
Université de Provence, Marseilles, France
2002 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meeting,
Denver.
2001 Symposium organizer and presenter, “Archaeology in Kahikinui, Maui,” Society
for Hawaiian Archaeology, annual conference, Kahului, Maui.
2001 Symposium presenter, “Cultural phylogenies and population histories.” HBES
Conference, University College, London.
2000 Co-organizer: International Conference on “Archaeology of Eastern Polynesia:
Retrospect and Prospect.” Gump Research Station, Mo’orea, French Polynesia.
2000 Invited lecturer: Institute of Archaeology, University College, London
1999 Conference participant: “Colonizing New Landscapes,” University of Florida,
Gainesville.
1998 Symposium presenter, “Colonization of the Pacific: relating archaeological to
biological and linguistic perspectives.” American Anthropological Association,
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
1998 Invited lecturer, Environmental Forum, Stanford University
1998 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, Annual Meeting,
Seattle
1998 Symposium presenter, “Human Impacts to Polynesian Ecosystems: The
Geoarchaeological Record,” American Association for the Advancement of
Science, Philadelphia
1998 Conference participant: “Colonizing New Landscapes,” Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral Sciences
1997 Invited lecturer: Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
1997 Keynote Address, "Hawaiian Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future," Annual
Meeting, Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, Lihue, Kauai
1996 Symposium presenter, "Temples as 'Holy Houses'", Annual Meeting, American
Anthropological Association, San Francisco
1996 Invited lecturer: Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
1996 Conference presenter: Second International Congress on Easter Island and East
Polynesian Archaeology, Easter Is., Chile
1996 Conference on The Western Pacific: 5000-2000 B.C. Vanuatu Museum and
Cultural Center, Port Vila, Vanuatu
1996 Co-organizer, Symposium Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Polynesian
Chiefdoms, Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans
1996 Invited Lecturer, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
1995 Symposium presenter, Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, Honolulu
1994 Plenary symposium presenter, The Archaeology of Global Change, Society for
American Archaeology, Anaheim
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1994 Symposium presenter, The Written and the Wrought, Society for Historical
Archaeology, Vancouver B.C.
1994 Lecture on Archaeology and Paleoecology in Central Polynesia, Linnean Society
of London, Burlington House
1993 Symposium organizer and presenter, Holocene Environmental Transformations in
Oceania, Society for American Archaeology, Saint Louis
1993 Anthropology Department Seminar, University of Virginia
1992 Conference on Austronesian Studies Relating to Taiwan, Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan)
1992 Lecturer, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan)
1992 Symposium discussant, Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh
1992 Distinguished lecturer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
1991 Anthropology Department Seminar, Yale University
1991 Symposium organizer and presenter, Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu
1990 Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Congress, Jogyakarta, Indonesia
1989 Symposium presenter, American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1989 Lecturer, School of American Research, Santa Fe
1989 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta
1988 Conference on Lapita Ceramic Design, Australian National University, Canberra
1988 Conference on Plants and Man in Polynesia, Brigham Young University, Laie
(Hawaii)
1988 University of Auckland Foundation Visitor; General discussant for Origins of the
Maori symposium, New Zealand Archaeological Association (Auckland)
1988 Conference on the International Radiocarbon Database, Yale University, New
Haven
1988 Advanced Seminar on Chiefdoms: Their Evolutionary Significance. School of
American Research, Santa Fe.
1988 Anthropology Department Seminar, University of Chicago
1987 Symposium presenter, American Anthropological Association, Chicago
1987 Lecturer, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu
1987 Anthropology Department Seminar, University of Oregon (Eugene)
1987 Anthropology Department Seminar, Harvard University
1987 Anthropology Department Seminar, University of Utah
1987 Anthropology Department Seminar, University of Victoria (British Columbia)
1986 Anthropology Department Seminar, University of Papua New Guinea
1986 Anthropology Department Seminar, University of Auckland (New Zealand)
1986 Lapita Homeland Conference, The Australian Museum (Sydney)
1986 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans
1986 Conference on New Directions in Pacific Archaeology, University of Hawaii
1985 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, Denver
1985 Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles
1984 International Congress on Easter Island and East Polynesia, Easter Island
1984 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, Portland
1983 Symposium organizer and presenter, XIth International Congress of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Vancouver (B.C.)
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1983 Symposium presenter, XV Pacific Science Congress, Dunedin (New Zealand)
1982 Symposium presenter, Australia-New Zealand Association for the Advancement
of Science, Sydney
1981 Discussant, Advanced Seminar on Anasazi Cultural Developments and
Paleoenvironmental Correlates, School of American Research, Santa Fe
1981 Symposium presenter, International Botanical Congress, Sydney (Australia)
1981 Conference on Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics, Australian
National University, Canberra
1981 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, San Diego
1981 Symposium presenter, Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles
1979 Plenary session presenter, American Anthropological Association, Cincinatti
1978 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, Tucson
1975 Symposium presenter, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco
1975 Advanced Seminar on Ethnoarchaeology, School of American Research, Santa Fe
1973 Symposium presenter, Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco
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