Agricultural development is intimately tied to the environment and cultural practices, specifically socio-political change. Nowhere are these relationships more clear than on Polynesian islands. Many sequences of ...

A long standing research approach in island Oceania is the examination of community and regional level patterning archaeological remains. However, These efforts are impeded by heavy vegetation and rugged terrain, which ...

Most pre-European Polynesian societies were supported by intensive and elaborate cultivation systems. These systems were at the core of human adaptation and political maneuvering, being intimately tied to both the physical ...