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Redécouverte, confirmation et datation d’un profil stratigraphique décrit par Gustave Glaumont sur l’île d’Ambae en 1909
No full textThe authors were first alerted to the presence of cultural material in the creek shores by Paul Vuhu, Ambae West fieldworker at the Vanuatu Cultural Center (VCC). Bedford carried out work on Ambae in 2005 in collaboration with Paul Vuhu, James Garae, then Ambae Eastern Fieldworker at the Vanuatu Cultural Center (VCC) and Andrew Hoffman at the Vanuatu Cultural Center (VCC), Port Vila. Claude Vusi guided us to the initial site and showed us a collection of shards. In 2007, Spriggs and Bedford collaborated with the new fieldworkers in the region, David Boe, Claude Vusi, Lonni Vusi, Ferno Vusi, Oscar Leo and Erickson Mala. We thank landowners Dickinson Vusi and Matthew Tari for allowing us to excavate their land. This research is part of a project funded by the Australian National Research Council (ARC, DP 0556874) focused on studying cultural transformation in northern Vanuatu. Shane Cronin, University of Auckland, provided valuable references and information on Ambae tephrostratigraphy
Spriggs, Matthew, Vegetable kingdoms, taro irrigation and Pacific Prehistory
No full textBonnemaison Joël. Spriggs, Matthew, Vegetable kingdoms, taro irrigation and Pacific Prehistory. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, n°70-71, tome 37, 1981. pp. 126-129
Ratu Rabici Logavatu and Aubrey Parke: Two archaeological pioneers of the Fijian Administration
No full textDegei's descendants : spirits, place and people in pre-cession Fiji
No full textDr Parke’s monograph examines how Fijians, especially in western areas of Fiji, currently understand and explain the origins and development of the social and political divisions of late pre-colonial traditional Fijian society. It assesses the reasoning, consistency and, where possible, the historical accuracy of such understandings. The oral history research which forms the backbone of the study was conducted in either standard Fijian or one or other of the western Fijian dialects with which Dr Parke was familiar.
The period on which the monograph concentrates is the two centuries or so immediately prior to the Deed of Cession on 10 October 1874. A number of the major chiefs of Fiji had offered to cede Fiji to Queen Victoria; and after the offer had been accepted, Fiji became a British Crown Colony on that day. The volume will be of interest to all archaeologists, anthropologists and historians with an interest in Fiji. It will also be of wider interest to Pacific Studies scholars and those of British colonial history as well as historians with a wider interest in indigenous traditional histories and their role in governance today
Matthew Spriggs and Roger Blench with "Archaeology and Language" a new publication
No full textANU Reporter Photos - CCE Art Classes, Careers & Employment Centre Opening, etc. - Prof. Arend Lijphart, Matthew Spriggs, Roger Blench, John Richards, Colleen Cunningham & other
European interests and ideas on the diversity of human cultures in the Pacific (1500s – 1870s)
No full textArchaeology [A Short History of the School of Archaeology and Anthropology Celebrating the First 50 Years 1974–2024]
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