Barry V Rolett
Biographic Data
| ID | 263720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry V Rolett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry V |
| FAMILY NAME | Rolett |
| SIGNATURE | ROLETT B V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaii System |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4576-0121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Polynesian settlement of the Marquesas Islands
Hanamiai is a coastal dune site in the Marquesas Islands. The continuous cultural sequence extends from initial Polynesian colonization through European contact. We present a revised site chronology based on 14 new dates and Bayesian modeling of the entire series of 22 age estimates. Our results show that the start boundary for the earliest Hanamiai phase is AD 1160-1266 (95% credible interval). We also compared the Hanamiai chronology with the c…
High-throughput microCT and ZooMS collagen fingerprinting of Scombrid bone from the Marquesas Islands
New evidence for Neolithic rice cultivation and Holocene environmental change in the Fuzhou Basin, southeast China
Ancient East Polynesian voyaging spheres
Modern pollen assemblages from cultivated rice fields and rice pollen morphology
Pollen from a series of surface soil samples collected along a transect spanning southeast China was investigated to better understand palynological signals of ancient agriculture and other human activity. The transect surface samples consist of pairs taken inside and outside rice paddy fields. Pollen assemblages from these samples are valuable as modern analogs of human-altered environments and rice agriculture. Our measurements of Poaceae polle…
Marquesan monumental architecture
Structurally similar but functionally different religious and residential monumental architecture sites pose a central problem in archaeologically‐based investigations of Marquesan chiefdoms. This paper examines the problem by identifying and discussing cultural and environmental traits useful for distinguishing among Marquesan religious and residential sites. The problem is further explored through a case study from Vaitahu Valley on Tahuata in …
Isotope analysis of human and animal diets from the Hanamiai archaeological site (French Polynesia)
We report the first palaeodietary stable isotope study of humans and animals from an East Polynesian archaeological site. The Hanamiai Dune in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia has a long stratigraphy (ca. 1025 AD to 1850 AD). We obtained carbon and nitrogen isotope values for a wide range of terrestrial and marine species from different cultural layers. We also analyzed four human teeth representing four different individuals. Pigs, rats…
Avoiding collapse
Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania
Human settlement of Oceania marked the culmination of a global colonization process that began when humans first left Africa at least 90,000 years ago. The precise origins and dispersal routes of the Austronesian peoples and the associated Lapita culture remain contentious, and numerous disparate models of dispersal (based primarily on linguistic, genetic, and archeological data) have been proposed. Here, through the use of mtDNA from 781 modern …
Geological Sourcing of Volcanic Stone Adzes from Neolithic Sites in Southeast China
This study uses XRF (X-ray fluorescence) and ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) analyses to determine the chemical composition of raw material used in stone tool production. The goal is to identify where stone adzes, which are common in Neolithic sites on the coast of Mainland China, were produced and if they were transported from the production areas to other places. Our study focuses on adzes from three Neolithic sites locate…
Tracking neolithic interactions in southeast China
The authors conducted a sourcing study of stone adzes recently excavated from the Damaoshan site on Dongshan Island, Fujian province, China. They used XRF, ICP‐MS, and petrographic thin‐section techniques for geochemical and petrographic analysis of six stone adzes from the site and three geological samples from Dongshan Island. The chemical data of these samples compared with other lavas in Fujian, Zhejiang, Penghu, and Taiwan suggest that the D…
Early Seafaring in the Taiwan Strait and the Search for Austronesian Origins
The Neolithic cultures of southeast China and Taiwan take on increased significance when considered in light of current debate over Austronesian origins. Austronesian speakers emerged from a homeland in China or Island Southeast Asia around 6000 years ago. Their descendants, including the Polynesians, effected an extraordinary series of migrations that culminated in the systematic discovery and colonization of remote landfalls as far-flung as Eas…
Taiwan, Neolithic seafaring and Austronesian origins
New evidence for the movement of Neolithic basalt adzes across the Taiwan Strait may indicate the beginnings of regular Austronesian voyaging. This seafaring tradition culminated in the Polynesian colonization of the Pacific
Temper Sands in Exotic Marquesan Pottery and the Significance of Their Fijian Origin
Petrographic restudy of quartzose temper sands in potsherds recovered by Suggs and Sinoto from the Ha'atuatua archaeological site on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands confirms a previous tentative inference that they represent wares manufactured on the Rewa Delta of Viti Levu in Fiji. Temper sands in the exotic Ha'atuatua sherds and in prehistoric sherds excavated from the Nasilai site on the Rewa Delta are closely comparable, both qualitatively…
A Chronostratigraphic Analysis of Landbird Extinction on Tahuata, Marquesas Islands
Age Estimation of Prehistoric Pigs (Sus scrofa) by Molar Eruption and Attrition
Marquesan prehistory and the origins of East Polynesian culture
Temporal relationships are established among artifact assemblages from four archaeological sites on different islands in the Marquesas. One of four models of early East Polynesian prehistory may best explain the data available from these sites. The Marquesan archaeological data are analyzed in terms of the four models. These data, as well as those from sites elsewhere in East Polynesia, favor a model of Interaction and cultural continuity. This m…
Age Estimation of Prehistoric Pigs (Sus scrofa) by Molar Eruption and Attrition
Early Seafaring in the Taiwan Strait and the Search for Austronesian Origins
The Neolithic cultures of southeast China and Taiwan take on increased significance when considered in light of current debate over Austronesian origins. Austronesian speakers emerged from a homeland in China or Island Southeast Asia around 6000 years ago. Their descendants, including the Polynesians, effected an extraordinary series of migrations that culminated in the systematic discovery and colonization of remote landfalls as far-flung as Eas…
A Chronostratigraphic Analysis of Landbird Extinction on Tahuata, Marquesas Islands
High-throughput microCT and ZooMS collagen fingerprinting of Scombrid bone from the Marquesas Islands
New evidence for Neolithic rice cultivation and Holocene environmental change in the Fuzhou Basin, southeast China
Marquesan monumental architecture
Structurally similar but functionally different religious and residential monumental architecture sites pose a central problem in archaeologically‐based investigations of Marquesan chiefdoms. This paper examines the problem by identifying and discussing cultural and environmental traits useful for distinguishing among Marquesan religious and residential sites. The problem is further explored through a case study from Vaitahu Valley on Tahuata in …
Taiwan, Neolithic seafaring and Austronesian origins
New evidence for the movement of Neolithic basalt adzes across the Taiwan Strait may indicate the beginnings of regular Austronesian voyaging. This seafaring tradition culminated in the Polynesian colonization of the Pacific
Temper Sands in Exotic Marquesan Pottery and the Significance of Their Fijian Origin
Petrographic restudy of quartzose temper sands in potsherds recovered by Suggs and Sinoto from the Ha'atuatua archaeological site on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands confirms a previous tentative inference that they represent wares manufactured on the Rewa Delta of Viti Levu in Fiji. Temper sands in the exotic Ha'atuatua sherds and in prehistoric sherds excavated from the Nasilai site on the Rewa Delta are closely comparable, both qualitatively…
Modern pollen assemblages from cultivated rice fields and rice pollen morphology
Pollen from a series of surface soil samples collected along a transect spanning southeast China was investigated to better understand palynological signals of ancient agriculture and other human activity. The transect surface samples consist of pairs taken inside and outside rice paddy fields. Pollen assemblages from these samples are valuable as modern analogs of human-altered environments and rice agriculture. Our measurements of Poaceae polle…
Tracking neolithic interactions in southeast China
The authors conducted a sourcing study of stone adzes recently excavated from the Damaoshan site on Dongshan Island, Fujian province, China. They used XRF, ICP‐MS, and petrographic thin‐section techniques for geochemical and petrographic analysis of six stone adzes from the site and three geological samples from Dongshan Island. The chemical data of these samples compared with other lavas in Fujian, Zhejiang, Penghu, and Taiwan suggest that the D…
Marquesan prehistory and the origins of East Polynesian culture
Temporal relationships are established among artifact assemblages from four archaeological sites on different islands in the Marquesas. One of four models of early East Polynesian prehistory may best explain the data available from these sites. The Marquesan archaeological data are analyzed in terms of the four models. These data, as well as those from sites elsewhere in East Polynesia, favor a model of Interaction and cultural continuity. This m…
Age Estimation of Prehistoric Pigs (Sus scrofa) by Molar Eruption and Attrition
A Chronostratigraphic Analysis of Landbird Extinction on Tahuata, Marquesas Islands
Temper Sands in Exotic Marquesan Pottery and the Significance of Their Fijian Origin
Petrographic restudy of quartzose temper sands in potsherds recovered by Suggs and Sinoto from the Ha'atuatua archaeological site on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands confirms a previous tentative inference that they represent wares manufactured on the Rewa Delta of Viti Levu in Fiji. Temper sands in the exotic Ha'atuatua sherds and in prehistoric sherds excavated from the Nasilai site on the Rewa Delta are closely comparable, both qualitatively…
Taiwan, Neolithic seafaring and Austronesian origins
New evidence for the movement of Neolithic basalt adzes across the Taiwan Strait may indicate the beginnings of regular Austronesian voyaging. This seafaring tradition culminated in the Polynesian colonization of the Pacific
Early Seafaring in the Taiwan Strait and the Search for Austronesian Origins
The Neolithic cultures of southeast China and Taiwan take on increased significance when considered in light of current debate over Austronesian origins. Austronesian speakers emerged from a homeland in China or Island Southeast Asia around 6000 years ago. Their descendants, including the Polynesians, effected an extraordinary series of migrations that culminated in the systematic discovery and colonization of remote landfalls as far-flung as Eas…
Tracking neolithic interactions in southeast China
The authors conducted a sourcing study of stone adzes recently excavated from the Damaoshan site on Dongshan Island, Fujian province, China. They used XRF, ICP‐MS, and petrographic thin‐section techniques for geochemical and petrographic analysis of six stone adzes from the site and three geological samples from Dongshan Island. The chemical data of these samples compared with other lavas in Fujian, Zhejiang, Penghu, and Taiwan suggest that the D…
Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania
Human settlement of Oceania marked the culmination of a global colonization process that began when humans first left Africa at least 90,000 years ago. The precise origins and dispersal routes of the Austronesian peoples and the associated Lapita culture remain contentious, and numerous disparate models of dispersal (based primarily on linguistic, genetic, and archeological data) have been proposed. Here, through the use of mtDNA from 781 modern …
Geological Sourcing of Volcanic Stone Adzes from Neolithic Sites in Southeast China
This study uses XRF (X-ray fluorescence) and ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) analyses to determine the chemical composition of raw material used in stone tool production. The goal is to identify where stone adzes, which are common in Neolithic sites on the coast of Mainland China, were produced and if they were transported from the production areas to other places. Our study focuses on adzes from three Neolithic sites locate…
Avoiding collapse
Isotope analysis of human and animal diets from the Hanamiai archaeological site (French Polynesia)
We report the first palaeodietary stable isotope study of humans and animals from an East Polynesian archaeological site. The Hanamiai Dune in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia has a long stratigraphy (ca. 1025 AD to 1850 AD). We obtained carbon and nitrogen isotope values for a wide range of terrestrial and marine species from different cultural layers. We also analyzed four human teeth representing four different individuals. Pigs, rats…
Marquesan monumental architecture
Structurally similar but functionally different religious and residential monumental architecture sites pose a central problem in archaeologically‐based investigations of Marquesan chiefdoms. This paper examines the problem by identifying and discussing cultural and environmental traits useful for distinguishing among Marquesan religious and residential sites. The problem is further explored through a case study from Vaitahu Valley on Tahuata in …
Modern pollen assemblages from cultivated rice fields and rice pollen morphology
Pollen from a series of surface soil samples collected along a transect spanning southeast China was investigated to better understand palynological signals of ancient agriculture and other human activity. The transect surface samples consist of pairs taken inside and outside rice paddy fields. Pollen assemblages from these samples are valuable as modern analogs of human-altered environments and rice agriculture. Our measurements of Poaceae polle…
Ancient East Polynesian voyaging spheres
New evidence for Neolithic rice cultivation and Holocene environmental change in the Fuzhou Basin, southeast China
High-throughput microCT and ZooMS collagen fingerprinting of Scombrid bone from the Marquesas Islands
Polynesian settlement of the Marquesas Islands
Hanamiai is a coastal dune site in the Marquesas Islands. The continuous cultural sequence extends from initial Polynesian colonization through European contact. We present a revised site chronology based on 14 new dates and Bayesian modeling of the entire series of 22 age estimates. Our results show that the start boundary for the earliest Hanamiai phase is AD 1160-1266 (95% credible interval). We also compared the Hanamiai chronology with the c…
Archaeology (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (13 works) · Biology (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 works) · History (6 works) · China (5 works) · Ecology (5 works)