Browsing National University of Samoa by Author "Addison, David J"

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Assessing the role of climate change and human predation on marine resources at the Fatu-ma-Futi site, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: an agent based model

Morrison, Alex E; Addison, David J (_Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2008)

In the tropical Pacific, climate change has been implicated as a causal variable in the development of a variety of social processes, including resource scarcity, cultural diversification, changes in spatial organization, ...
Assessing the role of climate change and human prédation on marine resources at the Fatu-ma-Futi site, I\ituila Island, American Samoa: an agent based model

Morrison, Alex E.; Addison, David J (AEM: Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Manoa,, 2008)

In the tropical Pacific, climate change has been implicated as a causal variable in the development of a variety of social processes, including resource scarcity, cultural diversification, changes in spatial organization, ...
Ceramic deposit below fifth to sixth century AD volcanic ash fall at Pava'ia'i, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: preliminary results from site AS-31-171

Addison, David J; Tago, Tuipuavai; Toloa, Jeffery; Pearthree, Erik (American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) Archaeology Program, 2005)

A Polynesian Plainware-bearing cultural deposit underlying a volcanic ash deposit is described for Pava'ia'i, Tutuila Island. The cultural deposit dates to c. cal AD 240-640. Volcanic activity on Tutuila is inferred to ...
How dark are they? The Sāmoan dark ages, ~1500–1000 BP

Rieth, Timothy; Addison, David J (Department of Anthropology & Archaeology; University of Otago, 2008)

The period from ~1500-1000 cal BP has been noted as a Dark Age in our understanding of Samoan prehistory. Research agendas have focused on earlier pottery bearing deposits and investigations of later monumental architecture. ...
Late-Holocene Volcanics on Tutuila Island, American Samoa: an Archaeological Perspective on Their Chronological and Spatial Distribution

Addison, David J (2014-09-24)

Data on 28 radiocarbon dates and volcanic stratigraphy from 23 archaeological excavations located on the Leone Volcanics to understand the temporal and spatial distribution of late-Holocene eruptive events on Tutuila Island, ...
Late-Holocene volcanics on Tutuila Island, American Samoa: an archaeological perspective on their chronological and spatial distribution

Addison, David J (Addison, 2014-09-24)

Data on 28 radiocarbon dates and volcanic stratigraphy from 23 archaeological excavations located on the Leone Volcanics to understand the temporal and spatial distribution of late-Holocene eruptive events on Tutuila Island, ...
Rethinking Polynesians origins: a West-Polynesia Triple-I Model

Addison, David J; Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth (2010)

the last twenty years has seen an apparent consensus that the immediate origins of Polynesian language, culture and biology lie solely with the lapita peoples and cultures that settled Samoa and tonga by 2700 years ago. ...
Samoan plain ware ceramics of Tutuila Island, American Samoa: some thoughts on their spatial and chronological distribution

Addison, David J; Toloa, Jeffrey; Tago, Tuipuavai; Vaueli, Siaki (2008)

The last decade has seen big changes in understandings of the amount and distribution of plainware ceramic sites on Tutuila. This paper reviews this new evidence and discusses the spatial and temporal distribution of sites. ...
Stability in the South Pacific surface marine 14C reservoir over the last 750 years. Evidence from American Samoa, the southern Cook Islands and the Marquesas

Petchey, Fiona; Allen, Melinda S; Addison, David J; Anderson, Atholl (Elsevier Ltd, 2009)

Although minor climatic and sea-level changes have been documented for the South Pacific during the late Holocene, our understanding of the consequent impact of these changes on the marine 14C reservoir, and therefore the ...
The Temporal and Spatial patterning of the initial settlement of Samoa

Rieth, Timothy M; Morrison, Alex E; Addison, David J (Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2008)

Among the Lapita-bearing island groups of the Pacific, Samoa is unusual for having a relatively large land area but only one cultural deposit containing Lapita ceramics. Although it has been proposed that additional Lapita ...

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