Now in paper This immensely readable book, full of drama and humor as well as
scholarship, is a watershed in the writing of New Zealand history. In making many new …

Polynesian basalt adze material is the most widely distributed commodity for tracking
prehistoric social interaction across space and through time. Since data bases are rapidly …

An analysis of the obsidian and chert flaked stone assemblages from three Reefs/Santa
Cruz Lapita sites (SE‐SZ‐8, SE‐RF‐2, SE‐RF‐6) is presented. Data on extraction, transport …

New Zealand has some of the most active areas of rhyolitic volcanism in the world and this
has produced numerous obsidian sources in the northern half of the North Island. In total …

In the landmark book Māori Warfare, Vayda (1960) used oral traditions and historical
documents to characterize conflict in New Zealand as a cycle of fights over prime agricultural …

The present paper describes obsidian sources and compositional analysis performed on
obsidian recovered from natural flows in the upper Maule River basin (central Chile). We …

Archaeological evidence of people's choices regarding how they supply themselves with
obsidian through direct access and different types of exchanges gives us insight in to …

Abstract The Pacific Islands or Oceania, typically subdivided into Melanesia, Micronesia,
and Polynesia, have witnessed a virtual explosion of archaeological research, as indicated …

Circumscription theory, originally proposed to explain the rise of state society, is appealing
in that it gives us an elegant, straightforward way to account for warfare among farming …

While our ability to match lithic artefacts to geological source continues to improve, few
explicit techniques exist for the spatial analysis and interpretation of sourced assemblages …