Browsing Journal Articles by Subject "Radiocarbon"

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A Commanding view of the Pacific: highland land use as viewed from Vainu'u, a multi-component site on Tutuila Island, American Samoa.

Eckert, Suzanne L; Welch, Daniel R (Oceania Publications, 2013)

We discuss recent findings from Vainu’u (AS-32-016), a multi-component highland site on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. Vainu’u is of interest for at least three reasons. First, as the earliest recorded highland site in ...
A Radiocarbon chronology for Samoan prehistory

Rieth, Timothy M; Hunt, Terry L (Elsevier, 2008)

The corpus of radiocarbon dates for Samoan archaeology has grown exponentially since the pioneering work of Green and Davidson in the 1960s, enabling us to re-analyze the archipelago’s cultural chronology. A reliable and ...
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 ...

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