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Abstract Investigations on small Polynesian outliers have illustrated how difficult it can be to identify archaeological evidence of intrusion, or to interpret the effect of any intrusion on the resident [...]

ABSTRACT In 2003 the authors discovered and excavated a Lapita site at Naitabale close to the southern end of Moturiki Island (central Fiji). Today the site is 350 m inland [...]

Information provided by an experimental kumara garden on the subsistence economics in the Cook Strakit area in pre-European times is discussed. The relative roles of protein, fat and carbohydrate foods in the area provided the focus of the research.

Fishing was an important aspect of subsistence of many Pacific communities. Ethnographic accounts however, have tended to give an incomplete picture of fishing behavior, often overemphasizing dangerous or exciting aspects [...]

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. By Kathleen M. Barry (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. 304 pp.). Kathleen M. Barry's monograph on flight attendants explores the history of [...]

John Cameron Yaldwyn, former director of the National Museum and a foundation member of the Association, died recently in Wellington after a long illness. He was a zoologist by profession, highly regarded around the world for his work on crustaceans, but was also a polymath and had a long involvement with archaeology.

The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company in the Civil War. By James C. Burke. (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland and Company, 2013. Pp. x, 262. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-7154-6.) The [...]

Ingereth Macfarlane with Mary-Jane Mountain and Robert Paton (eds) Aboriginal History, Canberra (Monograph 11), 2005, xxxv+412pp, ISBN 0958563772 As one who maintains only a cursory interest in Australian archaeology, I [...]

Polynesia in Early Historic Times. By Douglas Oliver. Honolulu: Bess Press. 2002. Pp. xiv + 305. Price: US$29.95 (paper) Oliver describes his intention in writing this book as an attempt [...]