"I enjoyed reading this volume. It is rare to see such a comprehensive report on hard data published these days, especially one so insightfully contextualised by the editors’ introductory and concluding chapters. These scholars and the others involved in the work really know their stuff, and it shows. The editors connect the preoccupations of Pacific archaeologists with those of their colleagues working in other island regions and on “bi ..."
Prodigious Birds(Updated) Moas and Moa-Hunting in New Zealand by AthollAnderson Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2003 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-54396-5, ISBN: 0-521-54396-7
"Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2003 Pages: 392 Publisher: Camidge. University Press Prodigious Birds ings together the entire field of MOA-related research some 150 years of Enquiry The MOA the WAS CCC a large Flightless bird Hunted into extinction by the Maori tribes of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. Atholl Anderson ings an historical perspective to the development of moa research and its formative debates. analyti ..."
"Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vastly ingenious.' Hence the title of this book on Pacific material culture, past and present, with broad themes of origins, the movement of peoples and the development of their technologies. Bringing together an impressive group of scholars of Pacific archaeology, the editors have designed the ..."
Taking the High Ground The archaeology of Rapa, a fortified island in remote East Polynesia (Terra Australis) (Volume 37) by AthollAnderson, Douglas J. Kennett Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Anu E Press ISBN-13: 978-1-922144-24-9, ISBN: 1-922144-24-X
"This volume brings the remote and little known island of Rapa firmly to the forefront of Polynesian archaeology. Thirteen authors contribute 14 chapters, covering not only the basic archaeology of coastal sites, rock shelters, and fortifications, but faunal remains, agricultural development, and marine exploitation. The results, presented within a chronology framed by Bayesian analysis, are set against a background of ethnohistory and e ..."
Birds of a Feather Osteological and Archaeological Papers from the South Pacific in Honour of R.J. Scarlett (British Archaeological Reports International Series) by AthollAnderson, British Archaeological Reports Paperback, 295 Pages, Published 1979 by British Archaeological Reports ISBN-13: 978-0-86054-062-5, ISBN: 0-86054-062-6
"Te Ao Tawhito : The Old World contemplates Maori origins in the blue continent, the vast Pacific Ocean across which the earliest ancestors travelled to settle these southernmost Pacific islands."
The First Migration Māori Origins 3000BC - AD1450 by AthollAnderson Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 2016 ISBN-13: 978-0-947492-79-3, ISBN: 0-947492-79-8
"Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History this Text weaves together evidence from numerous sources: oral traditions, archaeology, genetics, linguistics, ethnography, historical observations, paleoecology, climate change and more"--Publisher ..."
"Journalist and researcher James Herries Beattie worked with New Zealand's southern Maori for almost 50 years and produced many books of research. With a strong sense that traditional knowledge needed to be recorded, in 1920 with Otago Museum support, he interviewed people from Foveaux Strait to North Canterbury and from Nelson and Westland. He then transcribed notebooks lent to him by his informants, recorded southern names for fauna an ..."
Australian Archaeologist Collected Papers in Hounour of Jim Allen by AthollAnderson, Tim Murray, Jim Allen Paperback, 454 Pages, Published 2001 by Canberra, Act, Australia: Pandanus Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7315-5214-6, ISBN: 0-7315-5214-8
"collected papers in honour of Jim Allen Jim Allen, Atholl Anderson, Tim Murray.
Egloff, B. 1971 Collingwood Bay and the Trobriand Islands in recent prehistory.
Unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific
Studies, The Australian National University. Egloff, B. 1975 Archaeological
investigations in the coastal Madang area and on Eloaue Island of the St
Matthias Group. Records of the Papua New Guinea P ..."
Tangata Whenua a History (Paperback) by Aroha Harris Paperback, Published 2015 by Bridget Williams Books ISBN-13: 978-0-908321-53-7, ISBN: 0-908321-53-8
The Maori and the Moriori (Peoples of South-East Asia & the Pacific, TheThe Peoples of South-EastAsia & the Pacific) by AthollAnderson Paperback, Published by Blackwell Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-631-17434-9, ISBN: 0-631-17434-6
"James Spencer's friend and collaborator, Captain William Stirling, can also be
thought of as the town's founder, or at least ... Marleen Boyd, Librarian at the Bill
Laxon Maritime Library based at the New Zealand Maritime Museum, is unable to
..."
"Over the past six years, working with iwi and across the disciplines of archaeology, museology and visual arts, Alex Monteith has through this project sought to facilitate the research and reappraisal of this collection"--Publisher website."
The First Migration Maori Origins 3000BC - AD1450 by AthollAnderson 164 Pages, Published 2016 by Bridget Williams Books ISBN-13: 978-0-947492-80-9, ISBN: 0-947492-80-1
"Māori Origins 3000BC – AD1450 Atholl Anderson ... traditions are in substantial
agreement across hundreds of different lineages is a clear indication of their
general historical authenticity. ... Showing connections to original migrants, and
amongst families and clans, was a vital part of demonstrating mana, ... Tangata
whenua traced their origins exclusively to places lying east to north-east of New
Zealand."
"Figure 9: Some important whakapapa connections between Ngāti Rāhiri, the
main Ngāpuhi line of descent, and other groups in the Bay of Islands and
adjacent districts. Source: Data from Jeffrey Sissons, Wiremu Wi Hongi and Pat
Hohepa, The Pūriri Trees are Laughing: A Political History of the Ngā Puhi in the
Inland Bay of Islands, Polynesian Society, 1987. Another perspective envisages
a formation process in which people with kinship ..."
"Native Portraits n.19897, installation by Lisa Reihana, 1998. Commissioned for
the Te Papa exhibition Facing It (1998), Native Portraits n.19897 is a multimedia
sound and video installation. The work draws on ideas of history, time, tourism
and technology. It looks at the ethnographic and museum practices of collecting,
cataloguing, and encasing objects, cultures, and individuals, as well as at the
practice of photographic represen ..."
Taking the High Ground The Archaeology of Rapa, a Fortified Island in Remote East Polynesia by AthollAnderson, Douglas J. Kennett 288 Pages, Published 2012 by Anu E Press ISBN-13: 978-1-922144-25-6, ISBN: 1-922144-25-8
"Centre for Archaeological Science, University ofWollongong; Department of
Archaeology and Natural History, The ... Most obviously, this geographical
situation translates to restricted species diversity, with a great many common
tropical taxa not able to ... fauna of marginal Polynesian islands as simply an
impoverished subset of the tropical Indo–West Pacific community. ... subsistence
practices in an environment that is therefore ..."
"Unpublished report, University of Hawaii. Pratt, H.D., Bruner, P.I., and Berrett,
D.G. 1987. A field guide to the birds of Hawaii and the tropical Pacific. Princeton
University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. Pregill, G.K. and Worthy, T.H. 2003. A
new iguanid lizard (Squamata, Iguanidae) from the late Quaternary of Fiji,
Southwest Pacific. Herpetologica 59: 57–67. Rechtman, R.B. 1992. The evolution
of socio-political complexity in th ..."