The 13th century polynesian colonization of Hawai’i Island

Rieth, Timothy M.; Hunt, Terry L.; Lipo, Carl P.; Wilmshurst, Janet M.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.06.017

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“…Some recent reviews of 14 C data have ignored shell altogether (e.g. Wilmshurst et al 2010;Rieth et al 2011), while others have overlooked the inherent regional variability by the application of a single R (e.g. Specht and Summerhayes 2007:55;White 2007:5;Summerhayes 2010).…”

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Marine Reservoir Variation in the Bismarck Region: An Evaluation of Spatial and Temporal Change in ΔR andROver the Last 3000 Years

Petchey

Ulm

2012

Radiocarbon

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ABSTRACT. Interactions between islands, ocean currents, and winds cause large-scale eddies and upwelling in the lee of islands that can result in spatial variation in the marine radiocarbon reservoir. For waters around New Ireland and the Bismarck Sea, R values ranging from 365 to -320 14 C yr have been reported (Kirch 2001;Petchey et al. 2004). Petchey et al. (2004) proposed that some of this variation was caused by seasonal reversals in the South Equatorial Current and North Equatorial Counter Current system, combined with Ekman upwelling from the Equator. McGregor et al. (2008) suggested additional complexity within this region caused by a change in the reservoir value over time in response to changing climatic conditions. We present a series of 14 new and extant published R and R values on historic shells, combined with 8 values from archaeological terrestrial/marine pairs and U-Th dated coral, that support observations of localized variability caused by a complex interplay between seasonal currents, riverine input, and ocean eddies. On the basis of these values and oceanographic data, we divide the Bismarck Sea surface marine 14 C reservoir into 6 tentative subregions. In particular, our results support significant variation within channels at the southwest and southeast ends of New Britain and towards the equatorial boundary of the sea. Our results indicate that within the Bismarck Sea geographical variation appears to be more extreme than temporal over the last 3000 yr.

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Marine Reservoir Variation in the Bismarck Region: An Evaluation of Spatial and Temporal Change in ΔR andROver the Last 3000 Years

Petchey

Ulm

2012

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“…Recent research has generally supported a short and rapid colonization of eastern Polynesia in the early second millennium A.D (after 950 B.P. ; Hunt and Lipo, 2006;Petchey et al, 2010;Molle and Conte, 2011;Rieth et al, 2011;Wilmshurst et al, 2011;Kahn, 2012;Mulrooney, 2013;Commendador et al, 2014;Kahn et al, 2015;Kahn and Sinoto, 2017). A two-phase sequence of settlement has been proposed-establishment in the Society Islands ∼925-830 B.P.…”

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The Pacific Rat Race to Easter Island: Tracking the Prehistoric Dispersal of Rattus exulans Using Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

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The location of the immediate eastern Polynesian origin for the settlement of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), remains unclear with conflicting archeological and linguistic evidence. Previous genetic commensal research using the Pacific rat, Rattus exulans; a species transported by humans across Remote Oceania and throughout the Polynesian Triangle, has identified broad interaction spheres across the region. However, there has been limited success in distinguishing finer-scale movements between Remote Oceanic islands as the same mitochondrial control region haplotype has been identified in the majority of ancient rat specimens. To improve molecular resolution and identify a pattern of prehistoric dispersal to Easter Island, we sequenced complete mitochondrial genomes from ancient Pacific rat specimens obtained from early archeological contexts across West and East Polynesia. Ancient Polynesian rat haplotypes are closely related and reflect the widely supported scenario of a central East Polynesian homeland region from which eastern expansion occurred. An Easter Island and Tubuai (Austral Islands) grouping of related haplotypes suggests that both islands were established by the same colonization wave, proposed to have originated in the central homeland region before dispersing through the south-eastern corridor of East Polynesia.

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“…An island-wide 14 C review confirms this same pattern (Rieth et al 2011), but most of these dates were obtained from inland areas, rocky terrain, and dry leeward zones. The best opportunities for finding earliest occupation layers are in preserved deep beach sites (Carson 2004).…”

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Re-Examining Anomalous Early Dates of Settlement in Leeward Hawai'i Island

Carson

2012

Radiocarbon

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ABSTRACT. Anomalous dates prior to 1000 yr BP have been reported for near-surface site deposits at Puapua'a in the dry and rocky zone of leeward (west) Hawai'i Island, compared to archipelago-wide earliest cultural layers generally in buried contexts 1000-800 yr BP. Redating and closer examination cannot validate these early dates in cultural association. In the thin sedimentary deposits, preserved cultural materials mostly postdate 600-400 yr BP, but some older materials were incorporated into the layer matrix. The results suggest a much shorter extant chronology of human settlement of this particular zone, whereas earliest sites most likely are preserved in different settings of the Hawaiian Islands.

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The 13th century polynesian colonization of Hawai’i Island

Cited by 54 publications

References 39 publications

Marine Reservoir Variation in the Bismarck Region: An Evaluation of Spatial and Temporal Change in ΔR andROver the Last 3000 Years

Marine Reservoir Variation in the Bismarck Region: An Evaluation of Spatial and Temporal Change in ΔR andROver the Last 3000 Years

The Pacific Rat Race to Easter Island: Tracking the Prehistoric Dispersal of Rattus exulans Using Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

Re-Examining Anomalous Early Dates of Settlement in Leeward Hawai'i Island

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