R C Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 3578455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R C Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | R C |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 261 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Sites with Lapita Pottery
An Economic Interpretation of Taniwha Pa, Lower Waikato, New Zealand (N52/1)
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 Islands
Working with Wal
From the perspective of ‘working with Wal’ on problems of obsidian sourcing and dating, I provide a personal assessment of Ambrose's contributions to Australasian archaeometry and Pacific archaeology over the past 35 years
Predicting Similarity in Material Culture among New Guinea Villages from Propinquity and Language
[Diversity, Continuity and Change in the History of the Bismarck Archipelago] the Lapita Cultural Complex
Prehistory in the Pacific Islands
The Force of Ethnology
Sprigg's the Lapita cultural complex’
Towards the Recognition of Convergent Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone [with Comments and Replies]
In their more optimistic papers, Oceanic prehistorians have contended that that area, with its hundreds of islands, diversity of physical environments, and short period of human occupation, offers "laboratory conditions" for the study of culture change. This paper reports an attempt to take advantage of those conditions. The prehistory of the isolated and temperate Chatham Islands is outlined, and causes of the "devolutionary" culture change whic…
Oceanic Tooth-Size Variation as a Reflection of Biological and Cultural Mixing [and Comments and Reply]
Tooth size in Oceania varies from a minimum equivalent to the figure for the pre-Chinese inhabitants of Taiwan to a maximum equivalent to the figure for large-toothed Australian Aborigines. The minimum figure is found among the easternmost and weternmost inhabitants, and the maximum figure occurs in the highlands of New Guinea. Elsewhere, intermediate figures are evident, and it is apparent that the populations in which they can be observed displ…
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Largo-Gallina Towers
Excavation in Largo-Gallina phase sites supports the interpretation that towers were primarily defensive structures. There is some evidence that towers also had a storage use. It is interesting to note that the use of defensive and specialized, village-wide storage structures coincides temporally with a period of environmental deterioration in the American Southwest
Other Views of Cultural Resource Management
International Book Distribution
The conquest of the conquistadors
A chronological and descriptive narrative of the Mendaña expedition to colonize the Solomon Islands in 1595 is presented. This furnished a historical frame of reference for the interpretation of a hilltop settlement with Spanish pottery at Pamua, San Cristobal. The points stressed are those of interest to the archaeological investigator, especially those bearing on the fate of the missing Almiranta. It is suggested that survivors from this vessel…
Studies in Oceanic culture history
Archaeology in Western Samoa I
The Force of Ethnology
Studies in Oceanic culture history
Oceanic Tooth-Size Variation as a Reflection of Biological and Cultural Mixing [and Comments and Reply]
Tooth size in Oceania varies from a minimum equivalent to the figure for the pre-Chinese inhabitants of Taiwan to a maximum equivalent to the figure for large-toothed Australian Aborigines. The minimum figure is found among the easternmost and weternmost inhabitants, and the maximum figure occurs in the highlands of New Guinea. Elsewhere, intermediate figures are evident, and it is apparent that the populations in which they can be observed displ…
[Diversity, Continuity and Change in the History of the Bismarck Archipelago] the Lapita Cultural Complex
Archaeology in Western Samoa I
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Largo-Gallina Towers
Excavation in Largo-Gallina phase sites supports the interpretation that towers were primarily defensive structures. There is some evidence that towers also had a storage use. It is interesting to note that the use of defensive and specialized, village-wide storage structures coincides temporally with a period of environmental deterioration in the American Southwest
Predicting Similarity in Material Culture among New Guinea Villages from Propinquity and Language
Towards the Recognition of Convergent Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone [with Comments and Replies]
In their more optimistic papers, Oceanic prehistorians have contended that that area, with its hundreds of islands, diversity of physical environments, and short period of human occupation, offers "laboratory conditions" for the study of culture change. This paper reports an attempt to take advantage of those conditions. The prehistory of the isolated and temperate Chatham Islands is outlined, and causes of the "devolutionary" culture change whic…
The conquest of the conquistadors
A chronological and descriptive narrative of the Mendaña expedition to colonize the Solomon Islands in 1595 is presented. This furnished a historical frame of reference for the interpretation of a hilltop settlement with Spanish pottery at Pamua, San Cristobal. The points stressed are those of interest to the archaeological investigator, especially those bearing on the fate of the missing Almiranta. It is suggested that survivors from this vessel…
Sites with Lapita Pottery
Sprigg's the Lapita cultural complex’
An Economic Interpretation of Taniwha Pa, Lower Waikato, New Zealand (N52/1)
Working with Wal
From the perspective of ‘working with Wal’ on problems of obsidian sourcing and dating, I provide a personal assessment of Ambrose's contributions to Australasian archaeometry and Pacific archaeology over the past 35 years
Prehistory in the Pacific Islands
Studies in Oceanic culture history
Archaeology in Western Samoa I
The conquest of the conquistadors
A chronological and descriptive narrative of the Mendaña expedition to colonize the Solomon Islands in 1595 is presented. This furnished a historical frame of reference for the interpretation of a hilltop settlement with Spanish pottery at Pamua, San Cristobal. The points stressed are those of interest to the archaeological investigator, especially those bearing on the fate of the missing Almiranta. It is suggested that survivors from this vessel…
International Book Distribution
Largo-Gallina Towers
Excavation in Largo-Gallina phase sites supports the interpretation that towers were primarily defensive structures. There is some evidence that towers also had a storage use. It is interesting to note that the use of defensive and specialized, village-wide storage structures coincides temporally with a period of environmental deterioration in the American Southwest
Other Views of Cultural Resource Management
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Oceanic Tooth-Size Variation as a Reflection of Biological and Cultural Mixing [and Comments and Reply]
Tooth size in Oceania varies from a minimum equivalent to the figure for the pre-Chinese inhabitants of Taiwan to a maximum equivalent to the figure for large-toothed Australian Aborigines. The minimum figure is found among the easternmost and weternmost inhabitants, and the maximum figure occurs in the highlands of New Guinea. Elsewhere, intermediate figures are evident, and it is apparent that the populations in which they can be observed displ…
Towards the Recognition of Convergent Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone [with Comments and Replies]
In their more optimistic papers, Oceanic prehistorians have contended that that area, with its hundreds of islands, diversity of physical environments, and short period of human occupation, offers "laboratory conditions" for the study of culture change. This paper reports an attempt to take advantage of those conditions. The prehistory of the isolated and temperate Chatham Islands is outlined, and causes of the "devolutionary" culture change whic…
Sprigg's the Lapita cultural complex’
Prehistory in the Pacific Islands
The Force of Ethnology
[Diversity, Continuity and Change in the History of the Bismarck Archipelago] the Lapita Cultural Complex
Predicting Similarity in Material Culture among New Guinea Villages from Propinquity and Language
Working with Wal
From the perspective of ‘working with Wal’ on problems of obsidian sourcing and dating, I provide a personal assessment of Ambrose's contributions to Australasian archaeometry and Pacific archaeology over the past 35 years
Pacific Islands
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…
An Economic Interpretation of Taniwha Pa, Lower Waikato, New Zealand (N52/1)
Sites with Lapita Pottery
Archaeology (14 works) · History (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (11 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Biology (4 works)