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Palau, Micronesia
Dr Scott M. Fitzpatrick is an archaeologist from North Carolina State University, USA. He is also one of the world’s luckiest archaeologists: his work focuses on the Caribbean and Micronesia. Here, he...
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Migration period Lapita settlement found in Fiji
Though huge distances separate the islands of the Pacific from the nearest continents, archaeologists have discovered that Lapita people made the 3,000km-plus journey eastward from Papua New Guinea to...
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Tasmanian Prehistory
What is being claimed as ‘the world’s southernmost site of early human life’, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, has been found as a result of an archaeological survey carried out ahead of...
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The secrets of Easter Island’s fallen idols
Fieldwork led by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the University of Manchester has shown that stone figures lying on their backs and faces beside the roads of Easter Island (Rapanui)...
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Australian rock art
Australian academics and members of the Aboriginal community working together to record and protect rock art in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land, have discovered evidence of Southeast Asian sailing...
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Govett’s Leap
I clearly remember the day in October 1957, when news swept through the Institute of Archaeology in London that Gordon Childe had died in distant Australia. I was in my first term, and Childe had only...
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Australia’s rock art threatened
Half of Australia’s rock art could disappear in the next 50 years, according to the country’s archaeologists. They have mounted a campaign to raise awareness of the outstanding quality of the nation’s...
View ArticleSW Pacific: Erromango
Within hours of stepping ashore, the 19th-century missionaries were dead, their bodies cut up and eaten by local chiefs. Undeterred – or perhaps inspired – more followed. They met a similar fate. James...
View ArticleFiling down dates
Polynesia was among the last places to be settled by humans, with the Lapita people arriving around 3,000 years ago (CWA 53). Now, according to a report published in PLOS ONE, the start of this...
View ArticleEaster Island imaging
Cutting-edge computer technology has shed new light on one of the enigmatic Easter Island statues, revealing new details of the cult images decorating its back. Hoa Hakananai’a – a stone head brought...
View ArticleEaster Island: where to build a monument
A new study proposes links between the locations of Easter Island’s famous ahu and moai and freshwater sources. Robert J DiNapoli discusses the results and their implications. Easter Island, called...
View ArticleRuins on Rapa Nui
On the south coast of the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a dozen or more fallen statues (moai) lie slumped across the rectangular stone platforms (ahu) on which they once proudly stood....
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