Roger C Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 84665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger C Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger C |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies
Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai‘i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the heart of this new book, which draws together cutting-edge research by archaeologists, ethnographers, and demographe…
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…
Reassessing the radiocarbon chronology of the Maioro Site (R13/1)
As the two previously reported 12-13th century dates for the founding of the Maioro site have been controversial, residual charcoal from three previously dated samples was obtained and identified. Short lived material from one supplied a new AMS date so that there are now a total of five dates for Phases 2 and 3 whose overlapping ranges centre on the 16th century AD. We suggest the two unexpectedly early dates attributed to Phase 1 are unreliable…
From Tongan Meeting House to Samoan Chapel
While evidence for a strong, long-standing, and direct connection between Sāmoa and Tonga before European contact is well known, this paper provides a case study of Sāmoa–Tonga interaction by indigenous agency. It shows that the Samoan fale āfolau (long house) is convincingly interpreted as an historic introduction from Tonga, with Samoan modification, which served as an early Christian chapel design. A Tongan origin for the fale āfolau is an esp…
The reconstructed environment and absolute dating of SE‐SZ‐8 Lapita site on Nendö, Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands
The SE‐SZ‐8 site of Nanggu is a large Lapita site in the Reef/Santa Cruz group of the Southeast Solomon Islands. This paper provides a detailed discussion of its geomorphological and environmental context on Santa Cruz and the within site position of four marine shell dates from it, followed by a Bayesian analysis of the radiocarbon dating of the site. The analysis includes two new marine shell dates on additional species to overcome possible pro…
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia
The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as the particular methods, for such a historical anthropology. Drawing upon and integrating the approaches of archaeology, comparative ethnography, and h…
Integrating historical linguistics with archaeology
Geoarchaeological context of Holocene subsidence at the Ferry Berth Lapita site, Mulifanua, Upolu, Samoa
The 1973 discovery of an underwater archaeological site during dredging for a ferry landing at Mulifanua on Upolu raised important unanswered questions about the prehistory of Samoa, particularly the evolution of Holocene shorelines and relative local sea levels. A cultural horizon yielding Lapita potsherds, the only decorated Lapita assemblage yet found in Samoa and dating to ca. 2.8 ka, lies at a depth of 2.25 m below modern sea level beneath a…
Prehistoric transfers of portable items during the Lapita horizon in Remote Oceania
Taphonomic Analysis of Anasazi Skeletal Remains from Largo-Gallina Sites in Northwestern New Mexico
In 1979 Mackey and Green used the condition of Anasazi skeletal remains from five Largo-Gallina phase sites in northwestern New Mexico to aid in their argument that large masonry towers were primarily defensive structures. As part of an ongoing and long-term study of Southwestern violence and cannibalism, the skeletons from their five sites have been reexamined. Evidence for violence, in the form of perimortem bone damage, most often involving ma…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia
Spatial analysis of the Nenumbo (SE‐RF‐2) Lapita site, Solomon Islands
Data on the spatial distribution of features, pottery, lithic materials, fishbones and shellfish are used to examine spatial organization in the SE‐RF‐2 Lapita site (Reef Islands, Southeast Solomons). It is shown that the site is at most a small hamlet and consisted of a large rectilinear central structure with an adjacent cooking area. It is argued that the distribution of imports (pottery, chert, obsidian) with different transport costs cannot …
History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia [and Comments and Reply]
The proto‐Oceanic language community∗
scattered almost two-thirds of the way round the tropical and subtropical world?was a feat with only one parallel in human history: the expansion of West European peoples after Columbus. In each case advances in sailing methods by maritime peoples, speakers ofa single language family originally living on continents or continental islands, enabled them to undertake long ocean voyages to explore and trade, and led to their rapid colonization of far…
A Study of Prehistoric Social Change
Thermoluminescence Dating of Pacific Island Pottery
General and Theoretical
The Prehistory of Oceania [and Comments and Reply]
The prehistory of Oceania is best approached through the cooperation of a number of disciplines, including archaeology, physical anthropology, linguistics, ethnology, and ethnobotany, to name perhaps the major five. As a result of intensified cooperation over the past decade, it is now possible to write a prehistory of Oceania with which other scholars might agree at least in general terms. This paper is such an attempt, and refers particularly t…
Mendana 1595 and the fate of the lost ‘almiranta’
(1972). Mendana 1595 and the fate of the lost ‘almiranta’: An archaeological investigation. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 73-91
Folklore
Fieldwork Priorities in Oceanic Archeology
Moorean Archaeology
A Pit House of the Gallina Phase
As part of the Gallina project in north central New Mexico, which has been carried on by the University of New Mexico since 1934 under the direction of Frank C. Hibben, a pit house site was excavated in the summer of 1950. Excavations were accomplished with the able assistance of Emily Gray and 4 local workmen. The author was in charge of the field work. This site was selected because the pit house had been the least investigated of Gallina archi…
The Prehistory of Oceania [and Comments and Reply]
The prehistory of Oceania is best approached through the cooperation of a number of disciplines, including archaeology, physical anthropology, linguistics, ethnology, and ethnobotany, to name perhaps the major five. As a result of intensified cooperation over the past decade, it is now possible to write a prehistory of Oceania with which other scholars might agree at least in general terms. This paper is such an attempt, and refers particularly t…
The reconstructed environment and absolute dating of SE‐SZ‐8 Lapita site on Nendö, Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands
The SE‐SZ‐8 site of Nanggu is a large Lapita site in the Reef/Santa Cruz group of the Southeast Solomon Islands. This paper provides a detailed discussion of its geomorphological and environmental context on Santa Cruz and the within site position of four marine shell dates from it, followed by a Bayesian analysis of the radiocarbon dating of the site. The analysis includes two new marine shell dates on additional species to overcome possible pro…
The proto‐Oceanic language community∗
scattered almost two-thirds of the way round the tropical and subtropical world?was a feat with only one parallel in human history: the expansion of West European peoples after Columbus. In each case advances in sailing methods by maritime peoples, speakers ofa single language family originally living on continents or continental islands, enabled them to undertake long ocean voyages to explore and trade, and led to their rapid colonization of far…
Moorean Archaeology
Spatial analysis of the Nenumbo (SE‐RF‐2) Lapita site, Solomon Islands
Data on the spatial distribution of features, pottery, lithic materials, fishbones and shellfish are used to examine spatial organization in the SE‐RF‐2 Lapita site (Reef Islands, Southeast Solomons). It is shown that the site is at most a small hamlet and consisted of a large rectilinear central structure with an adjacent cooking area. It is argued that the distribution of imports (pottery, chert, obsidian) with different transport costs cannot …
Thermoluminescence Dating of Pacific Island Pottery
Taphonomic Analysis of Anasazi Skeletal Remains from Largo-Gallina Sites in Northwestern New Mexico
In 1979 Mackey and Green used the condition of Anasazi skeletal remains from five Largo-Gallina phase sites in northwestern New Mexico to aid in their argument that large masonry towers were primarily defensive structures. As part of an ongoing and long-term study of Southwestern violence and cannibalism, the skeletons from their five sites have been reexamined. Evidence for violence, in the form of perimortem bone damage, most often involving ma…
Mendana 1595 and the fate of the lost ‘almiranta’
(1972). Mendana 1595 and the fate of the lost ‘almiranta’: An archaeological investigation. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 73-91
A Pit House of the Gallina Phase
As part of the Gallina project in north central New Mexico, which has been carried on by the University of New Mexico since 1934 under the direction of Frank C. Hibben, a pit house site was excavated in the summer of 1950. Excavations were accomplished with the able assistance of Emily Gray and 4 local workmen. The author was in charge of the field work. This site was selected because the pit house had been the least investigated of Gallina archi…
Reassessing the radiocarbon chronology of the Maioro Site (R13/1)
As the two previously reported 12-13th century dates for the founding of the Maioro site have been controversial, residual charcoal from three previously dated samples was obtained and identified. Short lived material from one supplied a new AMS date so that there are now a total of five dates for Phases 2 and 3 whose overlapping ranges centre on the 16th century AD. We suggest the two unexpectedly early dates attributed to Phase 1 are unreliable…
From Tongan Meeting House to Samoan Chapel
While evidence for a strong, long-standing, and direct connection between Sāmoa and Tonga before European contact is well known, this paper provides a case study of Sāmoa–Tonga interaction by indigenous agency. It shows that the Samoan fale āfolau (long house) is convincingly interpreted as an historic introduction from Tonga, with Samoan modification, which served as an early Christian chapel design. A Tongan origin for the fale āfolau is an esp…
Fieldwork Priorities in Oceanic Archeology
A Pit House of the Gallina Phase
As part of the Gallina project in north central New Mexico, which has been carried on by the University of New Mexico since 1934 under the direction of Frank C. Hibben, a pit house site was excavated in the summer of 1950. Excavations were accomplished with the able assistance of Emily Gray and 4 local workmen. The author was in charge of the field work. This site was selected because the pit house had been the least investigated of Gallina archi…
Moorean Archaeology
Fieldwork Priorities in Oceanic Archeology
Folklore
Mendana 1595 and the fate of the lost ‘almiranta’
(1972). Mendana 1595 and the fate of the lost ‘almiranta’: An archaeological investigation. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 73-91
The Prehistory of Oceania [and Comments and Reply]
The prehistory of Oceania is best approached through the cooperation of a number of disciplines, including archaeology, physical anthropology, linguistics, ethnology, and ethnobotany, to name perhaps the major five. As a result of intensified cooperation over the past decade, it is now possible to write a prehistory of Oceania with which other scholars might agree at least in general terms. This paper is such an attempt, and refers particularly t…
General and Theoretical
Thermoluminescence Dating of Pacific Island Pottery
A Study of Prehistoric Social Change
The proto‐Oceanic language community∗
scattered almost two-thirds of the way round the tropical and subtropical world?was a feat with only one parallel in human history: the expansion of West European peoples after Columbus. In each case advances in sailing methods by maritime peoples, speakers ofa single language family originally living on continents or continental islands, enabled them to undertake long ocean voyages to explore and trade, and led to their rapid colonization of far…
History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia [and Comments and Reply]
Spatial analysis of the Nenumbo (SE‐RF‐2) Lapita site, Solomon Islands
Data on the spatial distribution of features, pottery, lithic materials, fishbones and shellfish are used to examine spatial organization in the SE‐RF‐2 Lapita site (Reef Islands, Southeast Solomons). It is shown that the site is at most a small hamlet and consisted of a large rectilinear central structure with an adjacent cooking area. It is argued that the distribution of imports (pottery, chert, obsidian) with different transport costs cannot …
History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia
Taphonomic Analysis of Anasazi Skeletal Remains from Largo-Gallina Sites in Northwestern New Mexico
In 1979 Mackey and Green used the condition of Anasazi skeletal remains from five Largo-Gallina phase sites in northwestern New Mexico to aid in their argument that large masonry towers were primarily defensive structures. As part of an ongoing and long-term study of Southwestern violence and cannibalism, the skeletons from their five sites have been reexamined. Evidence for violence, in the form of perimortem bone damage, most often involving ma…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Prehistoric transfers of portable items during the Lapita horizon in Remote Oceania
Geoarchaeological context of Holocene subsidence at the Ferry Berth Lapita site, Mulifanua, Upolu, Samoa
The 1973 discovery of an underwater archaeological site during dredging for a ferry landing at Mulifanua on Upolu raised important unanswered questions about the prehistory of Samoa, particularly the evolution of Holocene shorelines and relative local sea levels. A cultural horizon yielding Lapita potsherds, the only decorated Lapita assemblage yet found in Samoa and dating to ca. 2.8 ka, lies at a depth of 2.25 m below modern sea level beneath a…
Integrating historical linguistics with archaeology
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia
The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as the particular methods, for such a historical anthropology. Drawing upon and integrating the approaches of archaeology, comparative ethnography, and h…
From Tongan Meeting House to Samoan Chapel
While evidence for a strong, long-standing, and direct connection between Sāmoa and Tonga before European contact is well known, this paper provides a case study of Sāmoa–Tonga interaction by indigenous agency. It shows that the Samoan fale āfolau (long house) is convincingly interpreted as an historic introduction from Tonga, with Samoan modification, which served as an early Christian chapel design. A Tongan origin for the fale āfolau is an esp…
The reconstructed environment and absolute dating of SE‐SZ‐8 Lapita site on Nendö, Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands
The SE‐SZ‐8 site of Nanggu is a large Lapita site in the Reef/Santa Cruz group of the Southeast Solomon Islands. This paper provides a detailed discussion of its geomorphological and environmental context on Santa Cruz and the within site position of four marine shell dates from it, followed by a Bayesian analysis of the radiocarbon dating of the site. The analysis includes two new marine shell dates on additional species to overcome possible pro…
Reassessing the radiocarbon chronology of the Maioro Site (R13/1)
As the two previously reported 12-13th century dates for the founding of the Maioro site have been controversial, residual charcoal from three previously dated samples was obtained and identified. Short lived material from one supplied a new AMS date so that there are now a total of five dates for Phases 2 and 3 whose overlapping ranges centre on the 16th century AD. We suggest the two unexpectedly early dates attributed to Phase 1 are unreliable…
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…
The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies
Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai‘i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the heart of this new book, which draws together cutting-edge research by archaeologists, ethnographers, and demographe…
Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (21 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · History (16 works) · Geography (14 works) · History (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Citation (5 works)