Archaeology in Oceania

Prehistory in a nutshell: a Lapita-age nut-cracking stone from the Arawe Islands, Papua New Guinea

Prehistoric mining at Olympic Dam in arid South Australia

Polynesian chickens in the New World: a detailed application of a commensal approach

Organizing the manufacture of Bondi points at Balmoral Beach, Middle Harbour, Sydney, NSW, Australia

A commanding view of the Pacific: highland land use as viewed from Vainu'u, a multi-component site on Tutuila Island, American Samoa

Molluscan mulching at the margins: investigating the development of a South Island Maori variation on Polynesian hard mulch agronomy

Long-distance connections in Vanuatu: New obsidian characterisations for the Makue site, Aore Island

Irrigated Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: Biological, Social and Historical Perspectives Edited byMatthewSpriggs,DavidAddison andPeter J.Matthews Senri Ethnological Studies 78. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 2012. ISSN 0387-6004

Hawaii's past in a world of Pacific Islands By James M. Bayman and Thomas S. Dye Washington, DC: Society of American Archaeology Press, 2013 ISBN 978-0-932839-54-1. Pp.vi+164. USD24.95.The ancient Hawaiian state: origins of a political society By Rob

From Southeast Asia to the Pacific: Archaeological Perspectives on the Austronesian Expansion and the Lapita Cultural Complex: Edited by S. Chiu and C. Sand

First settlement of Remote Oceania: earliest sites in the Mariana Islands By Mike T. Carson Springer, New York 2014 ISBN 978-3-319-01046-5 (pb); 978-3-319-01047-2 (ebook). Pp. ix + 149. €49.99 (pb), €41.64 (e).

Distribution and extirpation of pigs in Pacific Islands: a case study from Palau