The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combi...

The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth’s surface and encompasses many thousands of islan...

Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China ...

InHow Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropolog...

Tangatatau Rockshelter on Mangaia Island in the Southern Cook Islands, excavated by a multidiscip...

The Lapita Cultural Complex--first uncovered in the mid-20th century as a widespread archaeologic...

The evolution of complex Oceanic chiefdoms into something very much like classic 'archaic states'...

This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands o...

An anthropological approach to long-term history through detailed reconstruction of the Ancestral...

Follows archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch on a seventeen-year-long research odyssey to rediscove...

Precontact Hawaiian civilization is represented by a rich legacy of archaeological sites, many of...

Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? I...