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Geographically, my field of research encompasses the Pacific Islands, with particular concentrations in Melanesia and Polynesia. Substantively and theoretically, I am interested in the origins and diversification of the cultures and peoples of the Pacific, in the evolution of complex sociopolitical formations (especially "chiefdoms"), in prehistoric as well as ethnographic subsistence systems (especially those involving some form of intensification), and in the reciprocal interactions between indigenous peoples and the island ecosystems of the Pacific. Much of my recent and on-going research is based on the concept of "islands as model systems."
A continuing focus of my research has been on the Lapita Cultural Complex of the western Pacific, which is widely regarded as the "foundation" culture underlying the later diversity of island Melanesian and Polynesian cultures. Since 1994 I have also directed a long-term field program in the Kahikinui district on the island of Maui, involving both graduate and undergraduate student participation, which focuses on protohistoric transformations in environmentally marginal landscapes. This project has been supported by a major grant from the National Science Foundation's Biocomplexity in the Environment program. My continuing research on the evolution of island socio-ecosystems has expanded more recently to several islands of French Polynesia, including Mo'orea and Mangareva,and involves inter-disciplinary collaboration with ecologists, soil scientists, paleobotanists, and quantitative modelers. The Mangareva work is being carried out in collaboration with the Universite de Polynesie Francaise. Ongoing research projects in Oceanic archaeology and pre-history are coordinated through the Oceanic Archaeology Laboratory.
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Archaeology in Oceaniano. 2 (2022): 127-145
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