Fergus Clunie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1262874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fergus Clunie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fergus |
| FAMILY NAME | Clunie |
| SIGNATURE | CLUNIE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tongiaki to Kalia
This article draws upon a wide ranging combination of historical traditions, documentary history and archaeology to demonstrate that Tangaloan-rigged Tongan tongiaki and hamatefua voyaging canoes were of mixed autochthonous Melanesian and intrusive Tangaloan descent, and that the Micronesian-rigged drua/kalia and camakau/hamatefua voyaging canoes which succeeded them in Fiji and Western Polynesia were developed from them as an outcome of Tongan a…
Tapua
This paper investigates the tapua, close relative of the Fijian tabua, secretively sequestered supreme form of godly embodiment in Tonga and argues that the tapua is ancestral of the tabua. The symmetrically crescentic form of tapua is a more salient feature of the objects than the material used to make them. Strong links between tapua and gods receiving the first-fruits demonstrate the likelihood that the object originated as a token plantain pr…
Sea level changes and pacific prehistory
'The archaeology states clearly to me that ancestral Polynesians journeyed quite quickly from eastern Indonesia through to Polynesia in the second millennium B.C. The linguistic evidence suggests that the Polynesian languages have an ancestry dating from about 3000 B.C. in Melanesia. There is obvious conflict here, and it will hopefully be resolved in the near future'?P. S. Bellwood, Man's Conquest of the Pacific (London 1978)
Tapua
This paper investigates the tapua, close relative of the Fijian tabua, secretively sequestered supreme form of godly embodiment in Tonga and argues that the tapua is ancestral of the tabua. The symmetrically crescentic form of tapua is a more salient feature of the objects than the material used to make them. Strong links between tapua and gods receiving the first-fruits demonstrate the likelihood that the object originated as a token plantain pr…
Sea level changes and pacific prehistory
'The archaeology states clearly to me that ancestral Polynesians journeyed quite quickly from eastern Indonesia through to Polynesia in the second millennium B.C. The linguistic evidence suggests that the Polynesian languages have an ancestry dating from about 3000 B.C. in Melanesia. There is obvious conflict here, and it will hopefully be resolved in the near future'?P. S. Bellwood, Man's Conquest of the Pacific (London 1978)
Tongiaki to Kalia
This article draws upon a wide ranging combination of historical traditions, documentary history and archaeology to demonstrate that Tangaloan-rigged Tongan tongiaki and hamatefua voyaging canoes were of mixed autochthonous Melanesian and intrusive Tangaloan descent, and that the Micronesian-rigged drua/kalia and camakau/hamatefua voyaging canoes which succeeded them in Fiji and Western Polynesia were developed from them as an outcome of Tongan a…
Sea level changes and pacific prehistory
'The archaeology states clearly to me that ancestral Polynesians journeyed quite quickly from eastern Indonesia through to Polynesia in the second millennium B.C. The linguistic evidence suggests that the Polynesian languages have an ancestry dating from about 3000 B.C. in Melanesia. There is obvious conflict here, and it will hopefully be resolved in the near future'?P. S. Bellwood, Man's Conquest of the Pacific (London 1978)
Tapua
This paper investigates the tapua, close relative of the Fijian tabua, secretively sequestered supreme form of godly embodiment in Tonga and argues that the tapua is ancestral of the tabua. The symmetrically crescentic form of tapua is a more salient feature of the objects than the material used to make them. Strong links between tapua and gods receiving the first-fruits demonstrate the likelihood that the object originated as a token plantain pr…
Tongiaki to Kalia
This article draws upon a wide ranging combination of historical traditions, documentary history and archaeology to demonstrate that Tangaloan-rigged Tongan tongiaki and hamatefua voyaging canoes were of mixed autochthonous Melanesian and intrusive Tangaloan descent, and that the Micronesian-rigged drua/kalia and camakau/hamatefua voyaging canoes which succeeded them in Fiji and Western Polynesia were developed from them as an outcome of Tongan a…
Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)