David Addison
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 703300 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Addison |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Addison |
| FIRMA | ADDISON D |
| AFILIACIONES | American Samoa Community College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2469-7933 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Visions of the Desert in Atlantic Iberia
The apophthegmata patrum or “sayings of the desert fathers” were an essential resource for Late Antique monastics. Compiled in Greek, they quickly circulated in an array of languages, including Coptic, Syriac and Latin, connecting people across the Christian world to the imaginaire of the Egyptian desert. The sixth century saw the production of at least four Latin translations, in locations as diverse as Ostrogothic Rome and Suevic Gallaecia. Thi…
The ‘Innumerable’ of Zaragoza
The study of late antique and early medieval urban religion in the Iberian Peninsula suffers from a dearth of datable and localizable source material. Martyr passions abound, as do liturgical texts, but these almost always survive only in later manuscripts, filtered through monastic libraries and scriptoria. How far these copies preserve the genuine texts performed in earlier cult remains an open question. This article intervenes in this discussi…
Shortland-Jones Award
A population history of Tokelau – genetic variation and change in atoll populations
Tokelau is a remote archipelago of atolls in western Polynesia, located approximately 500 km north of Samoa. It is thought to have been settled as part of the Austronesian expansion(s). However, its exact role in this population dispersal is not completely understood. Here we describe the results of complete mitochondrial genome sequencing for both the current inhabitants and ancient individuals from the archipelago in addition to an assessment o…
Property and ‘publicness’
Accounts of how the church fits into broader narratives of socio‐economic change have been confused by two different issues: an unsystematic application of the terms ‘public’ and ‘private’ to various phenomena, and a separate tendency to elide the ‘public’ with the state. Visigothic thought on lay‐founded churches shows that the legal regime around ecclesiastical properties did not aim at simply enhancing episcopal power. Laypeople had important …
Politics, Patronage, and the State in British Avant-Garde Music, c.1959–c.1974
Avant-garde British music was a niche art-form with a small listenership. Yet in the ‘long sixties’ it acquired a wide significance to a varied group of people and institutions. To those frustrated with British cultural parochialism it was a way into the world of the cosmopolitan vanguard, or an invitation to new artistic freedoms. To those who sought to articulate a socialist politics in music it offered a radical alternative to socialist realis…
Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions (Terra Australis 39)
Although historic sources provide information on recent centuries, archaeology can contribute longer term understandings of pre-industrial marine exploitation in the Indo-Pacific region, providing valuable baseline data for evaluating contemporary ecological trends. This volume contains eleven papers which constitute a diverse but coherent collection on past and present marine
Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions
This volume contains a total of eleven papers which constitute a diverse but generally coherent collection on past and present marine resource use in the Indo-Pacific region, within a humanecological perspective.The geographical focus extends from Eastern Asia, mainly Japan and Insular Southeast Asia (especially the Philippines) to the tropical Pacific (Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia) with geographically outlying papers on sites in coastal …
An Analysis of the Last 1000 Years Human Diet on Tutuila (American Samoa) Using Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Data
This paper reports the first set of isotopic data relating to human diet from the Samoan Archipelago. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data measured on bone collagen were used to assess dietary patterns of prehistoric communities on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. We examined 14 human bones from three sites dated to three distinct periods: ~1,000 years ago (N = 5); -500 years ago (N = 8) and -150 years ago (N = 1). The isotopie data suggest tha…
Rethinking Polynesians origins
The last twenty years has seen an apparent consensus that the immediate origins of Polynesian language, culture and biology lie solely with the Lapita peoples and cultures that settled Samoa and Tonga by 2700 years ago. We suggest that there is increasing evidence that does not sit well with this generally accepted view of Polynesian origins and thus we put forward an alternative model for consideration. Building on Green's suggestion of over 20 …
Re-interpreting Old Dates
A re-evaluation of available archaeological radiocarbon dates from the Tokelau Islands in West Polynesia demonstrates that careful assessment is essential when developing chronologies from previously published radiocarbon data. The new calibration results point to concurrent and continual human occupation of Fakaofo and Atafu from at least 750-550 years ago up until European contact in AD 1765
Examining Causes and Trends in Marine Trophic Level Change
Excavations at Fatu-ma-Futi, Tutuila Island, American Sāmoa reveal a rich cultural deposit spanning approximately 1500 years (1620–150 cal BP). Abundant cultural material was recovered, including a large assemblage of fish remains. We present our analysis of a sample of the fish remains, including a trophic level analysis applied to the assemblage to document patterns in fish community structure and composition. Results indicate relative stabilit…
Stability in the South Pacific surface marine 14C reservoir over the last 750 years. Evidence from American Samoa, the southern Cook Islands and the Marquesas
The Temporal and Spatial Patterning of the Initial Settlement of Sāmoa
Among the Lapita-bearing island groups of the Pacific, Sāmoa is unusual for having a relatively large land area but only one cultural deposit containing Lapita ceramics. Although it has been proposed that additional Lapita settlements may have been distributed along the coasts of much of the archipelago, investigations have not located these deposits nor reliably dated early Polynesian Plainware deposits older than ∼2500 cal BP. We combine a chro…
Assessing the role of climate change and human predation on marine resources at the Fatu‐ma‐Futi site, Tutuila Island, American Samoa
In the tropical Pacific, climate change has been implicated as a causal variable in the development of a variety of social processes, including resource scarcity, cultural diversification, changes in spatial organization, and conflict. Hypotheses concerning the effects of climatic variability on cultural change can be better evaluated once links between environmental processes and subsistence patterns are established. Here we present data on appr…
The Changing Role of Irrigated Colocasia esculenta (taro) on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands
This paper proposes that, on the Marquesan island of Nuku Hiva, wet cultivation of Colocasia taro was important in initial colonization because it was the most energyefficient and fastest-producing crop. In later periods its caloric contribution was eclipsed by breadfruit, but irrigated taro played an important risk-reduction role
Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile
Two issues long debated among Pacific and American prehistorians are ( i ) whether there was a pre-Columbian introduction of chicken ( Gallus gallus ) to the Americas and ( ii ) whether Polynesian contact with South America might be identified archaeologically, through the recovery of remains of unquestionable Polynesian origin. We present a radiocarbon date and an ancient DNA sequence from a single chicken bone recovered from the archaeological …
Ateliers of Basalt. Basalt Industries of Tafuna (As‐31–150) and Pava'ia'i (As‐31–170), Tutuila Island, American Samoa
We examine two basalt industry sites, one at Tafuna and one at Pava'ia'i, located on a Holocene lava and pyroclastic plain, several kilometers from potential adze‐quality‐basalt quarries. Statistical analyses of flakes from two discrete ‘workshops’ are used to reconstruct the adze production process at each site. The results show that while the Pava'ia'i site was a production site for adzes, the Tafuna site was both a production and reproduction …
Autosomal STR Variation in Five Austronesian Populations
Human population characteristics at the genetic level are integral to both forensic biology and population genetics. This study evaluates biparental microsatellite markers in five Austronesian-speaking groups to characterize their intra- and interpopulation differences. Genetic diversity was analyzed using 15 short tandem repeat (STR) loci from 338 unrelated individuals from 5 Pacific islands populations, including the aboriginal Ami and Atayal g…
Prehistoric Settlement at Anaho Bay, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands
Anaho Bay on the northwest coast of Nuku Hiva Island, Marquesas is a deep well‐protected bay that is distinguished by its sizeable coral reef. A small number of test excavations were carried out at two localities. We identified an extensive buried cultural layer along the northern shore at Teavau'ua (AHO‐1), dated to ca. the mid‐15th century AD. Activities here included production of pearlshell fishhooks and basalt adzes, as well as more generali…
Models and methods for inferring the prehistoric colonization of Hawai'i
The Polynesian settlement of the Hawaiian Archipelago
Archaeological investigations of the prehistoric colonization of East Polynesia have focused on the question: when did this event occur? A relatively late date for the colonization of Hawai'i is held by some archaeologists; an alternative view suggests that there is considerably more antiquity to the settlement of Hawai'i. This paper separates the settlement process into three components: discovery, colonization and establishment. Four settlement…
Servants of God, Slaves of the Church
It was not uncommon for a pious Christian to imagine their devotion as enslavement to God. Countless epitaphs attest to the desire of Christians to be remembered as ‘slaves of God’, while Gregory t
Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind
Assessing the role of climate change and human predation on marine resources at the Fatu‐ma‐Futi site, Tutuila Island, American Samoa
In the tropical Pacific, climate change has been implicated as a causal variable in the development of a variety of social processes, including resource scarcity, cultural diversification, changes in spatial organization, and conflict. Hypotheses concerning the effects of climatic variability on cultural change can be better evaluated once links between environmental processes and subsistence patterns are established. Here we present data on appr…
Stability in the South Pacific surface marine 14C reservoir over the last 750 years. Evidence from American Samoa, the southern Cook Islands and the Marquesas
Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions
This volume contains a total of eleven papers which constitute a diverse but generally coherent collection on past and present marine resource use in the Indo-Pacific region, within a humanecological perspective.The geographical focus extends from Eastern Asia, mainly Japan and Insular Southeast Asia (especially the Philippines) to the tropical Pacific (Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia) with geographically outlying papers on sites in coastal …
The Changing Role of Irrigated Colocasia esculenta (taro) on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands
This paper proposes that, on the Marquesan island of Nuku Hiva, wet cultivation of Colocasia taro was important in initial colonization because it was the most energyefficient and fastest-producing crop. In later periods its caloric contribution was eclipsed by breadfruit, but irrigated taro played an important risk-reduction role
The Temporal and Spatial Patterning of the Initial Settlement of Sāmoa
Among the Lapita-bearing island groups of the Pacific, Sāmoa is unusual for having a relatively large land area but only one cultural deposit containing Lapita ceramics. Although it has been proposed that additional Lapita settlements may have been distributed along the coasts of much of the archipelago, investigations have not located these deposits nor reliably dated early Polynesian Plainware deposits older than ∼2500 cal BP. We combine a chro…
Examining Causes and Trends in Marine Trophic Level Change
Excavations at Fatu-ma-Futi, Tutuila Island, American Sāmoa reveal a rich cultural deposit spanning approximately 1500 years (1620–150 cal BP). Abundant cultural material was recovered, including a large assemblage of fish remains. We present our analysis of a sample of the fish remains, including a trophic level analysis applied to the assemblage to document patterns in fish community structure and composition. Results indicate relative stabilit…
An Analysis of the Last 1000 Years Human Diet on Tutuila (American Samoa) Using Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Data
This paper reports the first set of isotopic data relating to human diet from the Samoan Archipelago. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data measured on bone collagen were used to assess dietary patterns of prehistoric communities on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. We examined 14 human bones from three sites dated to three distinct periods: ~1,000 years ago (N = 5); -500 years ago (N = 8) and -150 years ago (N = 1). The isotopie data suggest tha…
Autosomal STR Variation in Five Austronesian Populations
Human population characteristics at the genetic level are integral to both forensic biology and population genetics. This study evaluates biparental microsatellite markers in five Austronesian-speaking groups to characterize their intra- and interpopulation differences. Genetic diversity was analyzed using 15 short tandem repeat (STR) loci from 338 unrelated individuals from 5 Pacific islands populations, including the aboriginal Ami and Atayal g…
Prehistoric Settlement at Anaho Bay, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands
Anaho Bay on the northwest coast of Nuku Hiva Island, Marquesas is a deep well‐protected bay that is distinguished by its sizeable coral reef. A small number of test excavations were carried out at two localities. We identified an extensive buried cultural layer along the northern shore at Teavau'ua (AHO‐1), dated to ca. the mid‐15th century AD. Activities here included production of pearlshell fishhooks and basalt adzes, as well as more generali…
The Polynesian settlement of the Hawaiian Archipelago
Archaeological investigations of the prehistoric colonization of East Polynesia have focused on the question: when did this event occur? A relatively late date for the colonization of Hawai'i is held by some archaeologists; an alternative view suggests that there is considerably more antiquity to the settlement of Hawai'i. This paper separates the settlement process into three components: discovery, colonization and establishment. Four settlement…
Models and methods for inferring the prehistoric colonization of Hawai'i
Prehistoric Settlement at Anaho Bay, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands
Anaho Bay on the northwest coast of Nuku Hiva Island, Marquesas is a deep well‐protected bay that is distinguished by its sizeable coral reef. A small number of test excavations were carried out at two localities. We identified an extensive buried cultural layer along the northern shore at Teavau'ua (AHO‐1), dated to ca. the mid‐15th century AD. Activities here included production of pearlshell fishhooks and basalt adzes, as well as more generali…
Autosomal STR Variation in Five Austronesian Populations
Human population characteristics at the genetic level are integral to both forensic biology and population genetics. This study evaluates biparental microsatellite markers in five Austronesian-speaking groups to characterize their intra- and interpopulation differences. Genetic diversity was analyzed using 15 short tandem repeat (STR) loci from 338 unrelated individuals from 5 Pacific islands populations, including the aboriginal Ami and Atayal g…
Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile
Two issues long debated among Pacific and American prehistorians are ( i ) whether there was a pre-Columbian introduction of chicken ( Gallus gallus ) to the Americas and ( ii ) whether Polynesian contact with South America might be identified archaeologically, through the recovery of remains of unquestionable Polynesian origin. We present a radiocarbon date and an ancient DNA sequence from a single chicken bone recovered from the archaeological …
Ateliers of Basalt. Basalt Industries of Tafuna (As‐31–150) and Pava'ia'i (As‐31–170), Tutuila Island, American Samoa
We examine two basalt industry sites, one at Tafuna and one at Pava'ia'i, located on a Holocene lava and pyroclastic plain, several kilometers from potential adze‐quality‐basalt quarries. Statistical analyses of flakes from two discrete ‘workshops’ are used to reconstruct the adze production process at each site. The results show that while the Pava'ia'i site was a production site for adzes, the Tafuna site was both a production and reproduction …
The Temporal and Spatial Patterning of the Initial Settlement of Sāmoa
Among the Lapita-bearing island groups of the Pacific, Sāmoa is unusual for having a relatively large land area but only one cultural deposit containing Lapita ceramics. Although it has been proposed that additional Lapita settlements may have been distributed along the coasts of much of the archipelago, investigations have not located these deposits nor reliably dated early Polynesian Plainware deposits older than ∼2500 cal BP. We combine a chro…
Assessing the role of climate change and human predation on marine resources at the Fatu‐ma‐Futi site, Tutuila Island, American Samoa
In the tropical Pacific, climate change has been implicated as a causal variable in the development of a variety of social processes, including resource scarcity, cultural diversification, changes in spatial organization, and conflict. Hypotheses concerning the effects of climatic variability on cultural change can be better evaluated once links between environmental processes and subsistence patterns are established. Here we present data on appr…
The Changing Role of Irrigated Colocasia esculenta (taro) on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands
This paper proposes that, on the Marquesan island of Nuku Hiva, wet cultivation of Colocasia taro was important in initial colonization because it was the most energyefficient and fastest-producing crop. In later periods its caloric contribution was eclipsed by breadfruit, but irrigated taro played an important risk-reduction role
Examining Causes and Trends in Marine Trophic Level Change
Excavations at Fatu-ma-Futi, Tutuila Island, American Sāmoa reveal a rich cultural deposit spanning approximately 1500 years (1620–150 cal BP). Abundant cultural material was recovered, including a large assemblage of fish remains. We present our analysis of a sample of the fish remains, including a trophic level analysis applied to the assemblage to document patterns in fish community structure and composition. Results indicate relative stabilit…
Stability in the South Pacific surface marine 14C reservoir over the last 750 years. Evidence from American Samoa, the southern Cook Islands and the Marquesas
Rethinking Polynesians origins
The last twenty years has seen an apparent consensus that the immediate origins of Polynesian language, culture and biology lie solely with the Lapita peoples and cultures that settled Samoa and Tonga by 2700 years ago. We suggest that there is increasing evidence that does not sit well with this generally accepted view of Polynesian origins and thus we put forward an alternative model for consideration. Building on Green's suggestion of over 20 …
Re-interpreting Old Dates
A re-evaluation of available archaeological radiocarbon dates from the Tokelau Islands in West Polynesia demonstrates that careful assessment is essential when developing chronologies from previously published radiocarbon data. The new calibration results point to concurrent and continual human occupation of Fakaofo and Atafu from at least 750-550 years ago up until European contact in AD 1765
An Analysis of the Last 1000 Years Human Diet on Tutuila (American Samoa) Using Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Data
This paper reports the first set of isotopic data relating to human diet from the Samoan Archipelago. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data measured on bone collagen were used to assess dietary patterns of prehistoric communities on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. We examined 14 human bones from three sites dated to three distinct periods: ~1,000 years ago (N = 5); -500 years ago (N = 8) and -150 years ago (N = 1). The isotopie data suggest tha…
Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions (Terra Australis 39)
Although historic sources provide information on recent centuries, archaeology can contribute longer term understandings of pre-industrial marine exploitation in the Indo-Pacific region, providing valuable baseline data for evaluating contemporary ecological trends. This volume contains eleven papers which constitute a diverse but coherent collection on past and present marine
Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions
This volume contains a total of eleven papers which constitute a diverse but generally coherent collection on past and present marine resource use in the Indo-Pacific region, within a humanecological perspective.The geographical focus extends from Eastern Asia, mainly Japan and Insular Southeast Asia (especially the Philippines) to the tropical Pacific (Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia) with geographically outlying papers on sites in coastal …
Politics, Patronage, and the State in British Avant-Garde Music, c.1959–c.1974
Avant-garde British music was a niche art-form with a small listenership. Yet in the ‘long sixties’ it acquired a wide significance to a varied group of people and institutions. To those frustrated with British cultural parochialism it was a way into the world of the cosmopolitan vanguard, or an invitation to new artistic freedoms. To those who sought to articulate a socialist politics in music it offered a radical alternative to socialist realis…
Property and ‘publicness’
Accounts of how the church fits into broader narratives of socio‐economic change have been confused by two different issues: an unsystematic application of the terms ‘public’ and ‘private’ to various phenomena, and a separate tendency to elide the ‘public’ with the state. Visigothic thought on lay‐founded churches shows that the legal regime around ecclesiastical properties did not aim at simply enhancing episcopal power. Laypeople had important …
A population history of Tokelau – genetic variation and change in atoll populations
Tokelau is a remote archipelago of atolls in western Polynesia, located approximately 500 km north of Samoa. It is thought to have been settled as part of the Austronesian expansion(s). However, its exact role in this population dispersal is not completely understood. Here we describe the results of complete mitochondrial genome sequencing for both the current inhabitants and ancient individuals from the archipelago in addition to an assessment o…
Servants of God, Slaves of the Church
It was not uncommon for a pious Christian to imagine their devotion as enslavement to God. Countless epitaphs attest to the desire of Christians to be remembered as ‘slaves of God’, while Gregory t
Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind
Visions of the Desert in Atlantic Iberia
The apophthegmata patrum or “sayings of the desert fathers” were an essential resource for Late Antique monastics. Compiled in Greek, they quickly circulated in an array of languages, including Coptic, Syriac and Latin, connecting people across the Christian world to the imaginaire of the Egyptian desert. The sixth century saw the production of at least four Latin translations, in locations as diverse as Ostrogothic Rome and Suevic Gallaecia. Thi…
The ‘Innumerable’ of Zaragoza
The study of late antique and early medieval urban religion in the Iberian Peninsula suffers from a dearth of datable and localizable source material. Martyr passions abound, as do liturgical texts, but these almost always survive only in later manuscripts, filtered through monastic libraries and scriptoria. How far these copies preserve the genuine texts performed in earlier cult remains an open question. This article intervenes in this discussi…
Shortland-Jones Award
Archaeology (16 obras) · Geography (16 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (16 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 obras) · Isotope Analysis in Ecology (10 obras) · Biology (9 obras) · Geology (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Ecology (6 obras) · Oceanography (5 obras)