Marshall I Weisler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 164151 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marshall I Weisler |
| NOMBRES | Marshall I |
| APELLIDO | Weisler |
| FIRMA | WEISLER M I |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Determining the benefits and limitations of legacy ichthyoarchaeological collections
Legacy faunal collections remain an indispensable yet untested resource for Pacific Island ichthyoarchaeology. We analyse fish remains from nine late pre-contact (AD1400-1795) sites on leeward Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands, excavated in 1952, augmented by a controlled 1 m 2 excavation at one rock shelter (Mo1) in 2019 to evaluate benefits and limitations of legacy assemblages. Taxa were quantified by NISP and compared using diversity indices, chord …
Sacred offerings and secular foods on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, East Polynesia
In 1976, Yosihiko H. Sinoto conducted extensive archaeological survey and excavations on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago as part of a Japanese, multi‐disciplinary expedition led by Prof. Sachiko Hatanaka. Primarily excavating three marae and four habitation sites totalling ∼180 m 2 , more than 25000 vertebrate remains were recovered. We report the jidentification and analysis of the fauna and contrast the inventories from secular and sacred conte…
Polynesian quarrying at the bottom of the world – Raw material procurement and adze production in Bluff Harbour, South Island, New Zealand
The archaeological documentation and geochemistry of the Rua Tokitoki adze quarry and the Poike fine‐grain basalt source on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Rapa Nui is famous for itsmoai(statues) andahu(platforms), yet research into the island's many basalt quarries, sources and workshops is limited. These geological and archaeological sites provided the raw materials for tools such astoki(adzes and picks), which facilitated the manufacture of Easter Island's iconic stonework. Other basaltic tools such ashoe(knives),ohio(axes) andmangai mā‘ea(stone fishhooks) served for subsistence practices. Howeve…
Colonisation and Late Period Faunal Assemblages from Ofu Island, American Samoa
The identification and analysis of 1583 bones from colonisation (~2700 cal BP) to late period (post-800 cal BP) cultural layers from archaeological site AS-13-41 on Ofu Island, American Samoa are reported. The assemblage is dominated by fish (~91 per cent; NISP = 1435, MNI = 162) with bones of human, Green Sea Turtle, sea birds (shearwaters and petrels) and a terrestrial bird (Buff-Banded Rail), as well as the commensals Pacific Rat, chicken (Red…
Geoarchaeology
A Prehistoric Quarry/Habitation Site on Moloka‘i and a Discussion of an Anomalous Early Date on the Polynesian Introduced Candlenut (kukui, Aleurites moluccana)
According to studies in the early 1990s, quarry/habitation site (MO-B6-161) on leeward Moloka‘i may have been occupied about a century earlier than regional settlement models imply. In the first instance, we dated nut shell fragments from the Polynesian introduced candlenut (kukui, Aleurites moluccana), from the original radiocarbon sample collection curated at the Bishop Museum, producing a calibrated age (at 2 σ) of AD 690-895 (Beta-336756). Ou…
Geochemistry and Technology of Basaltic Glass Artefacts from an Embedded Source and Two High-altitude Base Camps in the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry Complex, Hawai‘i
Located at the base of an escarpment at ~3720 m elevation, in the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry Complex, Hawai‘i Island, is a small outcrop of basaltic glass that was utilised by adze makers for at least several hundred years as a source of toolstone for the manufacture of small, expedient flake tools. A test excavation of this previously unknown source/quarry was undertaken in 1976 to obtain a sample of artefacts to compare with what appeared to be lith…
Applications of vertebral morphometrics inPacificIsland archaeological fishing studies
Significant differences between fish bone identification protocols inPacificIsland archaeology and other regions (e.g.Europe andNorthAmerica) have influenced the use of vertebral morphometrics for the reconstruction of fish length and weight. Fish vertebral morphometrics using vertebrae identified to taxon and type (e.g. caudal, thoracic) are routinely reported in the archaeological literature outside of thePacificIslands. Conversely, inPacificIs…
Mangareva Fishing Strategies in Regional Context
In 1959, Roger Green conducted pioneering excavations in Mangareva (or Gambier Islands), French Polynesia, at five rockshelters on three islands (Kamaka, Aukena and Mangareva) totalling ~86 m2 (~99 m3). We report the analysis of 11,340 fish bones yielding 1738 number of identified specimens (NISP) and 421 minimal numbers of individual fish (MNI) dominated by inshore species including parrotfishes (Scaridae), groupers and rockcods (Serranidae), wr…
Thorium dating of toolstone procurement strategies, production scale and ritual practices at the Mauna Kea adze quarry complex, Hawai'i
230 Thorium dates on unweathered pieces of branch coral from the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry Complex suggest that a significant part of this quarry, the largest in the Hawaiian Islands, was in use by the mid-14th to mid-15th centuries AD. The dates also point to the high probability of labor intensive mining of subsurface toolstone by this date, in addition to the much easier strategy of procuring toolstone from the surface. While there is abundant evi…
Prehistoric fishing strategies on themakateaisland of Rurutu
Recent observations of fishing, the ethnohistoric literature, the archaeological fishing tool kit, marine environments adjacent to the site, and the fish bone assemblage were considered to understand fishing strategies on themakateaisland of Rurutu, Austral Islands, French Polynesia. Excavations totalling 53.5 m2at the Peva dune site (ON1) were conducted in 2003. The sandy, calcareous deposits from Area 2 (33 m2) were dry sieved through 3.2 mm me…
Th dates for dedicatory corals from a remote alpine desert adze quarry on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i
The authors show how sites in upland Hawai'i may be dated using uranium series radiogenic measurements on coral. The sites lie in a quarry, inland and at high altitude, with little carboniferous material around, and radiocarbon dating is anyway problematic here for the first millennium. Freshly broken coral had been transported to these sites, remote from the sea - no doubt for ritual purposes. Giving a date in the fifteenth century with an error…
The Prehistoric Archaeology of Norfolk Island, Southwest Pacific (review)
Reviewed by: The Prehistoric Archaeology of Norfolk Island, Southwest Pacific Marshall I. Weisler The Prehistoric Archaeology of Norfolk Island, Southwest Pacific. Atholl Anderson and Peter White, eds. Sydney: Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 27, 2001. 142 pp., illustrations, maps, photographs, tables, bibliography. Softcover. AU$55.00. ISBN 0-7347-2305-9. From our first days as students of Pacific prehistory we are told that the Neoli…
Prehistoric introduction and extinction of animals in Mangareva, Southeast Polynesia
Despite images of paradise, eastern Polynesian islands were devoid of most economically‐useful animals and cultigens when colonised by humans about 1500 years ago; other views on chronology are more conservative. We analyse the faunal material from the 1959 excavations by Green in Mangareva, southeast Polynesia where 13,598 bones (NISP) were identified to nearest taxon. We discuss the significance of the purposely introduced chicken or Pacific Ju…
Pacific 2000
Life on the edge
The prehistoric settlement pattern and economy of Utrōk Atoll, situated near the northern limit of permanently‐inhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands, is described and interpreted from a complete intensive survey and excavations totalling 64 m2 (70.45 m3). Sites range from the most expansive, 25 hectare habitation and horticultural system on the largest islet, to smaller, temporarily‐occupied habitations situated on diminutive islets. A suite o…
Precarious landscapes
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The antiquity of aroid pit agriculture and significance of buried A horizons on Pacific atolls
The cultivation of aroids (herbaceous plants with starchy corms) is the foundation of Oceanic societies, yet the study of prehistoric atoll agriculture (utilizing Cyrtosperma chamissonis) has been almost totally neglected. Aroid pit agricultural features, some measuring up to 100 m long and 20 m wide, excavated in the Marshall Islands (center ca. 8°N latitude, 170°E longitude) provide the first chronometric dates (1910 ± 70 B.P., Beta-79576) for …
Geochemical Tools Track Polynesian Prehistory
Hard Evidence for Prehistoric Interaction in Polynesia
Prehistory and human ecology in Eastern Polynesia
The Tangatatau Rockshelter (site MAN‐44, Mangaia, Cook Islands) has produced one of Eastern Polynesia's most comprehensive chrono‐stratigraphic sequences of artifacts, vertebrate and invertebrate fauna, and botanical materials. Two seasons of excavation exposed 29 m 2 out of an estimated total floor area of 225 m 2 . A suite of 30 radiocarbon age determinations indicates that human use of the shelter spanned the period from ca. 1000 to 1700 cal A…
The Settlement of Marginal Polynesia
The settlement of Polynesia was rapid and extensive, implying purposeful exploration and successful colonization strategies. By A.c. 1000, most inhabitable islands were occupied and inter-island voyaging was a vital link sustaining small populations on ecologically-marginal landfalls—islands that pushed the capabilities of Polynesian colonization to their limits. Several islands throughout Polynesia evidence prehistoric occupation yet were not in…
Pacific island avian extinctions
We propose a strategy for evaluating the contribution of human predation to the depletion of endemic birds on Pacific islands. Humans reduced avian populations indirectly through habitat alteration, for which there is much archaeological evidence. However, direct evidence of human predation and its role in avian extinctions has seldom been critically evaluated. Because many archaeological sites containing bird bones occur in nesting locales such …
Life on the edge
The prehistoric settlement pattern and economy of Utrōk Atoll, situated near the northern limit of permanently‐inhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands, is described and interpreted from a complete intensive survey and excavations totalling 64 m2 (70.45 m3). Sites range from the most expansive, 25 hectare habitation and horticultural system on the largest islet, to smaller, temporarily‐occupied habitations situated on diminutive islets. A suite o…
Applications of vertebral morphometrics inPacificIsland archaeological fishing studies
Significant differences between fish bone identification protocols inPacificIsland archaeology and other regions (e.g.Europe andNorthAmerica) have influenced the use of vertebral morphometrics for the reconstruction of fish length and weight. Fish vertebral morphometrics using vertebrae identified to taxon and type (e.g. caudal, thoracic) are routinely reported in the archaeological literature outside of thePacificIslands. Conversely, inPacificIs…
Pacific island avian extinctions
We propose a strategy for evaluating the contribution of human predation to the depletion of endemic birds on Pacific islands. Humans reduced avian populations indirectly through habitat alteration, for which there is much archaeological evidence. However, direct evidence of human predation and its role in avian extinctions has seldom been critically evaluated. Because many archaeological sites containing bird bones occur in nesting locales such …
Prehistoric fishing strategies on themakateaisland of Rurutu
Recent observations of fishing, the ethnohistoric literature, the archaeological fishing tool kit, marine environments adjacent to the site, and the fish bone assemblage were considered to understand fishing strategies on themakateaisland of Rurutu, Austral Islands, French Polynesia. Excavations totalling 53.5 m2at the Peva dune site (ON1) were conducted in 2003. The sandy, calcareous deposits from Area 2 (33 m2) were dry sieved through 3.2 mm me…
Th dates for dedicatory corals from a remote alpine desert adze quarry on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i
The authors show how sites in upland Hawai'i may be dated using uranium series radiogenic measurements on coral. The sites lie in a quarry, inland and at high altitude, with little carboniferous material around, and radiocarbon dating is anyway problematic here for the first millennium. Freshly broken coral had been transported to these sites, remote from the sea - no doubt for ritual purposes. Giving a date in the fifteenth century with an error…
Precarious landscapes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Thorium dating of toolstone procurement strategies, production scale and ritual practices at the Mauna Kea adze quarry complex, Hawai'i
230 Thorium dates on unweathered pieces of branch coral from the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry Complex suggest that a significant part of this quarry, the largest in the Hawaiian Islands, was in use by the mid-14th to mid-15th centuries AD. The dates also point to the high probability of labor intensive mining of subsurface toolstone by this date, in addition to the much easier strategy of procuring toolstone from the surface. While there is abundant evi…
The archaeological documentation and geochemistry of the Rua Tokitoki adze quarry and the Poike fine‐grain basalt source on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Rapa Nui is famous for itsmoai(statues) andahu(platforms), yet research into the island's many basalt quarries, sources and workshops is limited. These geological and archaeological sites provided the raw materials for tools such astoki(adzes and picks), which facilitated the manufacture of Easter Island's iconic stonework. Other basaltic tools such ashoe(knives),ohio(axes) andmangai mā‘ea(stone fishhooks) served for subsistence practices. Howeve…
Pacific island avian extinctions
We propose a strategy for evaluating the contribution of human predation to the depletion of endemic birds on Pacific islands. Humans reduced avian populations indirectly through habitat alteration, for which there is much archaeological evidence. However, direct evidence of human predation and its role in avian extinctions has seldom been critically evaluated. Because many archaeological sites containing bird bones occur in nesting locales such …
The Settlement of Marginal Polynesia
The settlement of Polynesia was rapid and extensive, implying purposeful exploration and successful colonization strategies. By A.c. 1000, most inhabitable islands were occupied and inter-island voyaging was a vital link sustaining small populations on ecologically-marginal landfalls—islands that pushed the capabilities of Polynesian colonization to their limits. Several islands throughout Polynesia evidence prehistoric occupation yet were not in…
Prehistory and human ecology in Eastern Polynesia
The Tangatatau Rockshelter (site MAN‐44, Mangaia, Cook Islands) has produced one of Eastern Polynesia's most comprehensive chrono‐stratigraphic sequences of artifacts, vertebrate and invertebrate fauna, and botanical materials. Two seasons of excavation exposed 29 m 2 out of an estimated total floor area of 225 m 2 . A suite of 30 radiocarbon age determinations indicates that human use of the shelter spanned the period from ca. 1000 to 1700 cal A…
Geochemical Tools Track Polynesian Prehistory
Hard Evidence for Prehistoric Interaction in Polynesia
The antiquity of aroid pit agriculture and significance of buried A horizons on Pacific atolls
The cultivation of aroids (herbaceous plants with starchy corms) is the foundation of Oceanic societies, yet the study of prehistoric atoll agriculture (utilizing Cyrtosperma chamissonis) has been almost totally neglected. Aroid pit agricultural features, some measuring up to 100 m long and 20 m wide, excavated in the Marshall Islands (center ca. 8°N latitude, 170°E longitude) provide the first chronometric dates (1910 ± 70 B.P., Beta-79576) for …
Life on the edge
The prehistoric settlement pattern and economy of Utrōk Atoll, situated near the northern limit of permanently‐inhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands, is described and interpreted from a complete intensive survey and excavations totalling 64 m2 (70.45 m3). Sites range from the most expansive, 25 hectare habitation and horticultural system on the largest islet, to smaller, temporarily‐occupied habitations situated on diminutive islets. A suite o…
Precarious landscapes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Prehistoric introduction and extinction of animals in Mangareva, Southeast Polynesia
Despite images of paradise, eastern Polynesian islands were devoid of most economically‐useful animals and cultigens when colonised by humans about 1500 years ago; other views on chronology are more conservative. We analyse the faunal material from the 1959 excavations by Green in Mangareva, southeast Polynesia where 13,598 bones (NISP) were identified to nearest taxon. We discuss the significance of the purposely introduced chicken or Pacific Ju…
Pacific 2000
The Prehistoric Archaeology of Norfolk Island, Southwest Pacific (review)
Reviewed by: The Prehistoric Archaeology of Norfolk Island, Southwest Pacific Marshall I. Weisler The Prehistoric Archaeology of Norfolk Island, Southwest Pacific. Atholl Anderson and Peter White, eds. Sydney: Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 27, 2001. 142 pp., illustrations, maps, photographs, tables, bibliography. Softcover. AU$55.00. ISBN 0-7347-2305-9. From our first days as students of Pacific prehistory we are told that the Neoli…
Th dates for dedicatory corals from a remote alpine desert adze quarry on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i
The authors show how sites in upland Hawai'i may be dated using uranium series radiogenic measurements on coral. The sites lie in a quarry, inland and at high altitude, with little carboniferous material around, and radiocarbon dating is anyway problematic here for the first millennium. Freshly broken coral had been transported to these sites, remote from the sea - no doubt for ritual purposes. Giving a date in the fifteenth century with an error…
Prehistoric fishing strategies on themakateaisland of Rurutu
Recent observations of fishing, the ethnohistoric literature, the archaeological fishing tool kit, marine environments adjacent to the site, and the fish bone assemblage were considered to understand fishing strategies on themakateaisland of Rurutu, Austral Islands, French Polynesia. Excavations totalling 53.5 m2at the Peva dune site (ON1) were conducted in 2003. The sandy, calcareous deposits from Area 2 (33 m2) were dry sieved through 3.2 mm me…
Thorium dating of toolstone procurement strategies, production scale and ritual practices at the Mauna Kea adze quarry complex, Hawai'i
230 Thorium dates on unweathered pieces of branch coral from the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry Complex suggest that a significant part of this quarry, the largest in the Hawaiian Islands, was in use by the mid-14th to mid-15th centuries AD. The dates also point to the high probability of labor intensive mining of subsurface toolstone by this date, in addition to the much easier strategy of procuring toolstone from the surface. While there is abundant evi…
Mangareva Fishing Strategies in Regional Context
In 1959, Roger Green conducted pioneering excavations in Mangareva (or Gambier Islands), French Polynesia, at five rockshelters on three islands (Kamaka, Aukena and Mangareva) totalling ~86 m2 (~99 m3). We report the analysis of 11,340 fish bones yielding 1738 number of identified specimens (NISP) and 421 minimal numbers of individual fish (MNI) dominated by inshore species including parrotfishes (Scaridae), groupers and rockcods (Serranidae), wr…
Geoarchaeology
A Prehistoric Quarry/Habitation Site on Moloka‘i and a Discussion of an Anomalous Early Date on the Polynesian Introduced Candlenut (kukui, Aleurites moluccana)
According to studies in the early 1990s, quarry/habitation site (MO-B6-161) on leeward Moloka‘i may have been occupied about a century earlier than regional settlement models imply. In the first instance, we dated nut shell fragments from the Polynesian introduced candlenut (kukui, Aleurites moluccana), from the original radiocarbon sample collection curated at the Bishop Museum, producing a calibrated age (at 2 σ) of AD 690-895 (Beta-336756). Ou…
Geochemistry and Technology of Basaltic Glass Artefacts from an Embedded Source and Two High-altitude Base Camps in the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry Complex, Hawai‘i
Located at the base of an escarpment at ~3720 m elevation, in the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry Complex, Hawai‘i Island, is a small outcrop of basaltic glass that was utilised by adze makers for at least several hundred years as a source of toolstone for the manufacture of small, expedient flake tools. A test excavation of this previously unknown source/quarry was undertaken in 1976 to obtain a sample of artefacts to compare with what appeared to be lith…
Applications of vertebral morphometrics inPacificIsland archaeological fishing studies
Significant differences between fish bone identification protocols inPacificIsland archaeology and other regions (e.g.Europe andNorthAmerica) have influenced the use of vertebral morphometrics for the reconstruction of fish length and weight. Fish vertebral morphometrics using vertebrae identified to taxon and type (e.g. caudal, thoracic) are routinely reported in the archaeological literature outside of thePacificIslands. Conversely, inPacificIs…
Colonisation and Late Period Faunal Assemblages from Ofu Island, American Samoa
The identification and analysis of 1583 bones from colonisation (~2700 cal BP) to late period (post-800 cal BP) cultural layers from archaeological site AS-13-41 on Ofu Island, American Samoa are reported. The assemblage is dominated by fish (~91 per cent; NISP = 1435, MNI = 162) with bones of human, Green Sea Turtle, sea birds (shearwaters and petrels) and a terrestrial bird (Buff-Banded Rail), as well as the commensals Pacific Rat, chicken (Red…
The archaeological documentation and geochemistry of the Rua Tokitoki adze quarry and the Poike fine‐grain basalt source on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Rapa Nui is famous for itsmoai(statues) andahu(platforms), yet research into the island's many basalt quarries, sources and workshops is limited. These geological and archaeological sites provided the raw materials for tools such astoki(adzes and picks), which facilitated the manufacture of Easter Island's iconic stonework. Other basaltic tools such ashoe(knives),ohio(axes) andmangai mā‘ea(stone fishhooks) served for subsistence practices. Howeve…
Polynesian quarrying at the bottom of the world – Raw material procurement and adze production in Bluff Harbour, South Island, New Zealand
Sacred offerings and secular foods on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, East Polynesia
In 1976, Yosihiko H. Sinoto conducted extensive archaeological survey and excavations on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago as part of a Japanese, multi‐disciplinary expedition led by Prof. Sachiko Hatanaka. Primarily excavating three marae and four habitation sites totalling ∼180 m 2 , more than 25000 vertebrate remains were recovered. We report the jidentification and analysis of the fauna and contrast the inventories from secular and sacred conte…
Determining the benefits and limitations of legacy ichthyoarchaeological collections
Legacy faunal collections remain an indispensable yet untested resource for Pacific Island ichthyoarchaeology. We analyse fish remains from nine late pre-contact (AD1400-1795) sites on leeward Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands, excavated in 1952, augmented by a controlled 1 m 2 excavation at one rock shelter (Mo1) in 2019 to evaluate benefits and limitations of legacy assemblages. Taxa were quantified by NISP and compared using diversity indices, chord …
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