This study describes the processes of cultural adaptation to environmental conditions through an examination of ceramic technology. The case study involved eight months fieldwork in the Yap Islands, Western Caroline Islands, ...

This thesis is an historical/analytical account of the ways in which the pelvis has been studied. The starting point is Turner's 1885 study in which the pelvis was used as a 'thing' to demonstrate racial progressionism. ...

Are non-traditional women marginal to their society? This study purports to examine correlations between theories of liminality and marginality and the small group process within the New Zealand Women's Liberation Movement. ...

This study is an archaeological examination of the prehistoric hunting of moa, a family (Dinornithidae) of now extinct large flightless birds that inhabited New Zealand. The analysis employs a detailed butchering pattern ...

This thesis is primarily based on a study of North Otago and South Canterbury rock drawings and has, as its main objective, an analysis· of stylistic variation between these areas. Following a review of previous research ...

It is only in the last decade that much archaeological research has been carried out in Micronesia and that studies of prehistoric human remains have emerged in any quantity. In this study human skeletal material from eight ...

A series of functional experiments are carried out with standardised obsidian tools cut to specific dimensions, on prepared shafts of wood. The wear patterns obtained are photographed at prescribed stages of use. The results ...

Amongst the thousands who swarmed into New Zealand last century in quest of gold were some 10,000 Chinese. Although they were relatively 'late arrivals', within a few years they constituted one of the largest, and certainly ...

Food preparations, culinary-related Proto-Polynesian and Proto-Nuclear-Polynesian words and material culture associated with cookery processes from West and East Polynesia provided the data base. This study looks at the ...