<i>A Koronivalu kei Bua</i>: Hillforts in Bua Province (Fiji), their Chronology, Associations, and Potential Significance

Nunn, Patrick D.; Nakoro, Elia; Tokainavatu, Niko; McKeown, Michelle; Geraghty, Paul; Thomas, Frank R.; Martin, Pierick C M; Hourigan, Brandon J.; Kumar, Roselyn

doi:10.1080/15564894.2019.1582119

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“…The key to demonstrating the plausibility of this model is to show that the sea-level fall preceded, perhaps by a few decades, the establishment across high Pacific Islands of fortified mountaintops-hillforts. My recent collaborative work on three areas of Fiji supports this connection [30][31][32], which I regard as a fine example of environmental determinism-the way in which natural environmental change can determine the course of societal development.…”

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“…Hillforts were linked in the minds of new converts with paganism, with times of shame, and their human history largely forgotten. Yet, recent work interpreting the nature and meaning of Pacific island fortifications has in several instances been significantly illuminated by stories told by local residents [31]. Like many oral traditions in the Pacific region, the current endangerment of oral knowledge will inevitably-as elsewhere-diminish our understanding of human pasts [33,34] 4.…”

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O cei na Vulavula? Insights and Regrets of a Foreign Geoscientist in the Pacific Islands

Nunn

2021

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From over three decades of close contact with Pacific Islands geoscience, the author reflects on key issues (what he wished he had known earlier) about the nature of islands, their landscapes and their peoples. Experience elsewhere in the world rarely prepares you for the Pacific, from its youthful and often tectonically unstable landscapes to the understandings of its inhabitants, which are sometimes time-consuming and difficult to access yet frequently illuminating. Mysteries abound in Pacific geoscience, often in places as difficult to access as they ever were, yet which have the potential to inform global ideas about earth-surface evolution. Geoscience research and enterprise remain largely foreigner-driven in the Pacific Islands, which is often anathemic to sustainability, privileging ideas that are uncritically assumed to be shared by their peoples. An opportunity exists for Pacific peoples to own the geoscientific knowledge and potential of their islands.

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Section: The Significance Of Obscured Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%