Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Monday, September 30, 2024

Navy: Targeting Ka'ula Island bird refuge weekly with bombs and guns would only result in "incidental" take

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 The Navy’s new proposal to expand bombing and gunnery practice at Ka’ula Island seems insupportable, both morally and as a matter of federa...
Friday, September 13, 2024

Polynesian voyaging driven by resource shortages

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 A lot of the research into Polynesian voyaging looks at how it was accomplished and when, but less work has been done on why. Why would g...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Voyaging: Nailing down when the first canoe pulled up on a Hawaiian beach.

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  Your grandfather might tell you otherwise, but it is increasingly clear that the first humans set foot in Hawai’i in the year AD 1000, g...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Stone adzes traveled widely, perhaps as a lubricant for Polynesian trade networks

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  How valuable was high-quality stone in a stone-age culture? So important that the valuable stone found its way long distances from home....
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Nihoa Island: Conservation crucible protects the last of a genus

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Swimming in the clear, 60-foot waters in the lee of Nihoa’s western cliffs, I came across a floating leafed branch blown off the island in ...
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Sunday, June 23, 2019

Ancient botanical ink between far-flung Polynesian cultures, and why does Pitcairn keep showing up?

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Polynesian voyagers visited nearly every island in the tropical and subtropical Pacific, and they colonized and remained on most of them. ...
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Friday, June 21, 2019

Wauke tracks Polynesian voyaging routes: New genetic studies

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Fiji kapa making.  Credit: Andrea Seelenfreund Genetic studies of one of the key canoe plants, wauke, appear to confirm Polynesian...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Hawaiian poi pounder located in deep space

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A Hawaiian poi pounder roams deep interstellar space, looking for a poi board. Okay, thatʻs over the top, but object MU69, deep in ...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Polynesian tattoos: Out of Tonga, into the world

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Tattooing is not a Polynesian invention, but it clearly developed into a fine art in the Pacific Islands. Ö tzi, the fellow who died in...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Do humans always wipe out the big animals, or can they sometimes coexist? Evidence from Madagascar.

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Scientists generally accept the theory that once humans arrive at an isolated landscape, they quickly destroy the big animals there. ...