Subpolar settlement in South Polynesia
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Archaeological research in the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand, has disclosed earth ovens, middens and flaked stone tools dating to the thirteenth–fourteenth centuries AD. This is the first site of prehistoric settlement in the outlying islands of the Subantarctic. Polynesians and their dogs survived on seals and seabirds for at least one summer. The new data complete a survey of colonisation in the outlying archipelagos of South Polynesia and show that it occurred contemporaneously, rapidly and in all directions from mainland New Zealand.
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- Authors
- Anderson, A.
- Affiliations
- Australian National University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Anderson, Atholl
- ORCID
- Anderson, Atholl
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2005-12
- Volume
- 79
- Issue
- 306
- Pages
- 791-800
- ISSN
- 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1744
- OpenAlex
- W2132358311
- Cited by
- 47
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 6 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 26.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Antiquity (publishedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Keywords
- Polynesian settlement, subantarctic islands, Auckland Islands, earth ovens, midden, flaked stone tools, sealing, colonization, prehistoric settlement, New Zealand
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