Peter J Sheppard
Biographic Data
| ID | 96636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter J Sheppard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheppard |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPPARD P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology University of Auckland New Zealand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 293 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Southeast Solomon Islands in regional perspective: Settlement history, interaction spheres, Polynesian outliers and eastward dispersals
This paper reviews the prehistory of the greater southeast Solomons region in the light of the 46 years of research which has been conducted since Green and Yen published the preliminary results of their Southeast Solomons Culture History Project in 1976. Green saw the region as key to investigating some of the major questions relating to Oceanic culture history, and as subsequent archaeological, linguistic and genetic research has shown, this ha…
Ethan E. Cochrane & Terry L. Hunt. 2018. The Oxford handbook of prehistoric Oceania. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-992507-0 £97
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Re-dating Lapita Movement into Remote Oceania
Understanding the nature and process of initial Pacific settlement by people carrying the Lapita culture is ultimately founded upon accurate knowledge of the timing and speed of settlement. This paper reports on re-dating of one of the earliest Lapita sites (SE-SZ-8) from Santa Cruz in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands on the western margin of Remote Oceania. Our results indicate this site is considerably younger than previously believed…
The identification of a Marquesan adze in the Cook Islands
We report on the provenance of an adze from the Cook Islands that was previously geochemically analysed by Sheppard, Walter and Parker (1997) but could not be assigned a source at that time because of the paucity of reference data. Drawing on basalt characterisation studies from the last two decades, we can now demonstrate that the adze most likely derives from the Marquesan island of Eiao, over 2500 km to the east. This find extends the western …
Tongan and Samoan volcanic glass: PXRF analysis and implications for constructs of ancestral Polynesian society
Lapita Colonization across the Near/Remote Oceania Boundary
The Lapita colonization of Remote Oceania involved rapid expansion from New Guinea across onetenth of the circumference of the earth. Implicit in most discussions of this phenomenon is a standard wave-of-advance model founded on demographic growth and the economic advantage provided by food production. The Lapita movement is also routinely embedded within a much larger narrative of the expansion of Austronesian languages and peoples out of Southe…
The Early Prehistory of Fiji - Clark, G. and Anderson, A
Characterization of New Zealand obsidian using PXRF
Characterisation of cherts from sites in southwest Tasmania
This paper reports on the characterisation, using thin section petrography and Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, of cherts recovered from Pleistocene sites (Bone Cave, Warreen, Pulawa Trounta and Nunamira) located in the interior of Southwest Tasmania. The results indicate use of one major chert source area and fit a simple distance fall‐off model. These results are congruent with palaeo‐ecological models previously developed for Southwes…
Technological change in the Earlier and Middle Stone Age of Kalambo Falls (Zambia)
The Ngati Tiare Adze Cache: Further evidence of prehistoric contact between West Polynesia and the Southern Cook Islands
Both morphology and ethnohistory suggest that the adzes in the Ngati Tiare cache (Rarotonga, Southern Cook Islands) are derived from Samoa. If true, this is further documentation of post‐colonisation contact between West and East Polynesia, regions which were generally throught to have remined isolated from one another following human settlement. The results of geochemical analysis and thin section petrography indicate a very high probability tha…
GIS-Based Image Enhancement of Conductivity and Magnetic Susceptibility Data from Ureturituri Pa and Fort Resolution, New Zealand
Two geographic information system (GIS) techniques for displaying, analyzing, and interpreting geophysical data were recently applied at two archaeological sites in northern New Zealand; a pre-European Maori pa (fortification), and a late nineteenth-century European fortification. A GIS was used to stretch and filter the conductivity data from the pa to accentuate subtle contrasts and clearly delineate boundaries between areas with contrasting co…
The Rise and Fall of Seasonal Mobility among Hunter-Gatherers: The Case of the Southern Levant [and Comments and Replies]
Lapita lithics: Trade/exchange and technology. A view from the Reefs/Santa Cruz
An analysis of the obsidian and chert flaked stone assemblages from three Reefs/Santa Cruz Lapita sites (SE‐SZ‐8, SE‐RF‐2, SE‐RF‐6) is presented. Data on extraction, transport, core reduction, tool use and deposition are examined to see how well they fit a resource maximization model. It is concluded that factors other than utilitarian resource maximization are significant for an understanding of the use and distribution of lithic raw materials a…
Weathering of archaeological cherts: A case study from the Solomon Islands
Weathering of chert artifacts from three Lapita sites (ca. 3000–2000 B.P.) in the Southeast Solomons is examined. It is shown that the rate of weathering is strongly influenced by soil pH, mineralogy, and prehistoric burning of the material. The concentrations of some major elements (Na, Cl, K, Al) are shown to have been altered during the weathering process. Implications of this work for the sourcing and dating of cherts are discussed
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 …
African Archaeology
The Rise and Fall of Seasonal Mobility among Hunter-Gatherers: The Case of the Southern Levant [and Comments and Replies]
Lapita lithics: Trade/exchange and technology. A view from the Reefs/Santa Cruz
An analysis of the obsidian and chert flaked stone assemblages from three Reefs/Santa Cruz Lapita sites (SE‐SZ‐8, SE‐RF‐2, SE‐RF‐6) is presented. Data on extraction, transport, core reduction, tool use and deposition are examined to see how well they fit a resource maximization model. It is concluded that factors other than utilitarian resource maximization are significant for an understanding of the use and distribution of lithic raw materials a…
Technological change in the Earlier and Middle Stone Age of Kalambo Falls (Zambia)
Lapita Colonization across the Near/Remote Oceania Boundary
The Lapita colonization of Remote Oceania involved rapid expansion from New Guinea across onetenth of the circumference of the earth. Implicit in most discussions of this phenomenon is a standard wave-of-advance model founded on demographic growth and the economic advantage provided by food production. The Lapita movement is also routinely embedded within a much larger narrative of the expansion of Austronesian languages and peoples out of Southe…
Characterization of New Zealand obsidian using PXRF
The Ngati Tiare Adze Cache: Further evidence of prehistoric contact between West Polynesia and the Southern Cook Islands
Both morphology and ethnohistory suggest that the adzes in the Ngati Tiare cache (Rarotonga, Southern Cook Islands) are derived from Samoa. If true, this is further documentation of post‐colonisation contact between West and East Polynesia, regions which were generally throught to have remined isolated from one another following human settlement. The results of geochemical analysis and thin section petrography indicate a very high probability tha…
The identification of a Marquesan adze in the Cook Islands
We report on the provenance of an adze from the Cook Islands that was previously geochemically analysed by Sheppard, Walter and Parker (1997) but could not be assigned a source at that time because of the paucity of reference data. Drawing on basalt characterisation studies from the last two decades, we can now demonstrate that the adze most likely derives from the Marquesan island of Eiao, over 2500 km to the east. This find extends the western …
Tongan and Samoan volcanic glass: PXRF analysis and implications for constructs of ancestral Polynesian society
Weathering of archaeological cherts: A case study from the Solomon Islands
Weathering of chert artifacts from three Lapita sites (ca. 3000–2000 B.P.) in the Southeast Solomons is examined. It is shown that the rate of weathering is strongly influenced by soil pH, mineralogy, and prehistoric burning of the material. The concentrations of some major elements (Na, Cl, K, Al) are shown to have been altered during the weathering process. Implications of this work for the sourcing and dating of cherts are discussed
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 …
Characterisation of cherts from sites in southwest Tasmania
This paper reports on the characterisation, using thin section petrography and Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, of cherts recovered from Pleistocene sites (Bone Cave, Warreen, Pulawa Trounta and Nunamira) located in the interior of Southwest Tasmania. The results indicate use of one major chert source area and fit a simple distance fall‐off model. These results are congruent with palaeo‐ecological models previously developed for Southwes…
African 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 …
Weathering of archaeological cherts: A case study from the Solomon Islands
Weathering of chert artifacts from three Lapita sites (ca. 3000–2000 B.P.) in the Southeast Solomons is examined. It is shown that the rate of weathering is strongly influenced by soil pH, mineralogy, and prehistoric burning of the material. The concentrations of some major elements (Na, Cl, K, Al) are shown to have been altered during the weathering process. Implications of this work for the sourcing and dating of cherts are discussed
The Rise and Fall of Seasonal Mobility among Hunter-Gatherers: The Case of the Southern Levant [and Comments and Replies]
Lapita lithics: Trade/exchange and technology. A view from the Reefs/Santa Cruz
An analysis of the obsidian and chert flaked stone assemblages from three Reefs/Santa Cruz Lapita sites (SE‐SZ‐8, SE‐RF‐2, SE‐RF‐6) is presented. Data on extraction, transport, core reduction, tool use and deposition are examined to see how well they fit a resource maximization model. It is concluded that factors other than utilitarian resource maximization are significant for an understanding of the use and distribution of lithic raw materials a…
GIS-Based Image Enhancement of Conductivity and Magnetic Susceptibility Data from Ureturituri Pa and Fort Resolution, New Zealand
Two geographic information system (GIS) techniques for displaying, analyzing, and interpreting geophysical data were recently applied at two archaeological sites in northern New Zealand; a pre-European Maori pa (fortification), and a late nineteenth-century European fortification. A GIS was used to stretch and filter the conductivity data from the pa to accentuate subtle contrasts and clearly delineate boundaries between areas with contrasting co…
Technological change in the Earlier and Middle Stone Age of Kalambo Falls (Zambia)
The Ngati Tiare Adze Cache: Further evidence of prehistoric contact between West Polynesia and the Southern Cook Islands
Both morphology and ethnohistory suggest that the adzes in the Ngati Tiare cache (Rarotonga, Southern Cook Islands) are derived from Samoa. If true, this is further documentation of post‐colonisation contact between West and East Polynesia, regions which were generally throught to have remined isolated from one another following human settlement. The results of geochemical analysis and thin section petrography indicate a very high probability tha…
Characterisation of cherts from sites in southwest Tasmania
This paper reports on the characterisation, using thin section petrography and Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, of cherts recovered from Pleistocene sites (Bone Cave, Warreen, Pulawa Trounta and Nunamira) located in the interior of Southwest Tasmania. The results indicate use of one major chert source area and fit a simple distance fall‐off model. These results are congruent with palaeo‐ecological models previously developed for Southwes…
The Early Prehistory of Fiji - Clark, G. and Anderson, A
Characterization of New Zealand obsidian using PXRF
Tongan and Samoan volcanic glass: PXRF analysis and implications for constructs of ancestral Polynesian society
Lapita Colonization across the Near/Remote Oceania Boundary
The Lapita colonization of Remote Oceania involved rapid expansion from New Guinea across onetenth of the circumference of the earth. Implicit in most discussions of this phenomenon is a standard wave-of-advance model founded on demographic growth and the economic advantage provided by food production. The Lapita movement is also routinely embedded within a much larger narrative of the expansion of Austronesian languages and peoples out of Southe…
The identification of a Marquesan adze in the Cook Islands
We report on the provenance of an adze from the Cook Islands that was previously geochemically analysed by Sheppard, Walter and Parker (1997) but could not be assigned a source at that time because of the paucity of reference data. Drawing on basalt characterisation studies from the last two decades, we can now demonstrate that the adze most likely derives from the Marquesan island of Eiao, over 2500 km to the east. This find extends the western …
Re-dating Lapita Movement into Remote Oceania
Understanding the nature and process of initial Pacific settlement by people carrying the Lapita culture is ultimately founded upon accurate knowledge of the timing and speed of settlement. This paper reports on re-dating of one of the earliest Lapita sites (SE-SZ-8) from Santa Cruz in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands on the western margin of Remote Oceania. Our results indicate this site is considerably younger than previously believed…
Ethan E. Cochrane & Terry L. Hunt. 2018. The Oxford handbook of prehistoric Oceania. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-992507-0 £97
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Southeast Solomon Islands in regional perspective: Settlement history, interaction spheres, Polynesian outliers and eastward dispersals
This paper reviews the prehistory of the greater southeast Solomons region in the light of the 46 years of research which has been conducted since Green and Yen published the preliminary results of their Southeast Solomons Culture History Project in 1976. Green saw the region as key to investigating some of the major questions relating to Oceanic culture history, and as subsequent archaeological, linguistic and genetic research has shown, this ha…
Archaeology (17 works) · Geography (15 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Geology (11 works) · History (6 works) · Prehistory (6 works) · Paleontology (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (4 works)