Mid- to Late Prehistoric Landscape Change, Settlement Histories, and Agricultural Practices on Maupiti, Society Islands (Central Eastern Polynesia)

Kahn, Jennifer G.; Dotte-Sarout, Émilie; Molle, Guillaume; Conte, E.

doi:10.1080/15564894.2014.1001922

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“…It has long been argued that geomorphological conditions in the Societies, notably subsidence, have been a major hindrance to the recovery of coastal sites (Bellwood 1970;Kirch 1986). Extensive excavations of the last few years along the coasts of Moʻorea and Maupiti have likewise illustrated how major erosional deposits have masked the evidence of early settlement in the Societies (Kahn et al 2015a(Kahn et al , 2015b. Settlements on old beach ridges are now covered with 2 to 3 m of alluvial sedimentation.…”

Section: A Revised Society Island Chronologymentioning

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“…Following this, we decided to re-date archived charcoal samples originally excavated from sites M3, M5, ScMf-2 and ScMf-5 in the 1960s. These re-dating efforts are part of larger goals of refining the 1,000-year settlement history of the Society Islands (Anderson et al 2000;Anderson and Sinoto 2002;Kahn 2006Kahn , 2010Kahn , 2011 and for outlining the substantial geomorphological changes wrought upon its coastal shores, which leave its early settlement sites so difficult to discover (Kahn et al 2015a(Kahn et al , 2015b.…”

Section: Society Islands Archaeology In the 1960smentioning

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Refining the Society Islands cultural sequence: colonization phase and developmental phase coastal occupation on Moʻorea Island

Kahn

Sinoto

2017

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Section: Society Islands Archaeology In the 1960smentioning

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Refining the Society Islands cultural sequence: colonization phase and developmental phase coastal occupation on Moʻorea Island

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Sinoto

2017

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“…Before human colonization, all these islands were covered by wet or mesic tropical forest, or cloud forest at higher elevations (Meyer, ). Low elevations on all these islands have been greatly transformed by human impacts beginning with Polynesian colonization ≥ 1000 bp and accelerating with Western colonialism and the introduction of invasive plants and livestock (Meyer, ; Kahn et al ., ,b). Consequently, the lowest high islands (Maupiti: 380 m; Maiao: 154 m; Mehetia: 435 m) retain almost no original vegetation (Meyer, , ; Meyer et al ., ).…”

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Molecular phylogeography of the Society Islands (Tahiti; South Pacific) reveals departures from hotspot archipelago models

Hembry

Balukjian

2016

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim Phylogeographical and modelling studies have suggested that the biotas of oceanic hotspot archipelagos (such as the Hawaiian, Canary and Galápagos islands) diversify in parallel with the formation of the islands on which they live. Here, we review the phylogeography of the native terrestrial biota of the Society Islands, an archipelago formed < 4.6 Ma, to test this model. Location Society Islands, French Polynesia (Pacific Ocean). Methods We reviewed 49 phylogenetic and phylogeographical studies incorporating Society Island terrestrial animal and plant taxa. We ask: (1) Where are the sister groups of Societies lineages distributed? (2) Are Societies‐endemic ‘radiations’ monophyletic or polyphyletic? (3) What between‐island barriers are seen in the phylogeography of Societies taxa? (4) What within‐island barriers are seen in the phylogeography of Societies taxa? (5) How old is the Societies biota? Results Most Societies lineages are closely related to those in other tropical Pacific archipelagos, particularly the Cook, Austral and Marquesas Islands (< 2000 km distant). More genera show strong evidence for polyphyly (13 genera) than for monophyly (4 genera) in the Society Islands. The most common within‐archipelago phylogeographical barrier corresponds to the straits (150 km) between the Windward Society and Leeward Society Islands. Only a few groups, primarily species‐rich invertebrate radiations, show divergence among or within islands. Published divergence time estimates suggest that much of the Societies biota may be much younger than the age of the archipelago. Main conclusions Much of the Societies biota does not appear to have diversified in parallel with the formation of the archipelago, differing from ‘progression rule’ and general dynamic models for the diversification of oceanic archipelago biotas. Rather, many Societies ‘radiations’ may have been assembled via repeated, independent colonizations, which may have entailed extensive macroevolutionary turnover of colonizing lineages. These patterns have implications for the biogeography of other Pacific hotspot archipelagos.

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“…Recent research has generally supported a short and rapid colonization of eastern Polynesia in the early second millennium A.D (after 950 B.P. ; Hunt and Lipo, 2006;Petchey et al, 2010;Molle and Conte, 2011;Rieth et al, 2011;Wilmshurst et al, 2011;Kahn, 2012;Mulrooney, 2013;Commendador et al, 2014;Kahn et al, 2015;Kahn and Sinoto, 2017). A two-phase sequence of settlement has been proposed-establishment in the Society Islands ∼925-830 B.P.…”

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The Pacific Rat Race to Easter Island: Tracking the Prehistoric Dispersal of Rattus exulans Using Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

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The location of the immediate eastern Polynesian origin for the settlement of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), remains unclear with conflicting archeological and linguistic evidence. Previous genetic commensal research using the Pacific rat, Rattus exulans; a species transported by humans across Remote Oceania and throughout the Polynesian Triangle, has identified broad interaction spheres across the region. However, there has been limited success in distinguishing finer-scale movements between Remote Oceanic islands as the same mitochondrial control region haplotype has been identified in the majority of ancient rat specimens. To improve molecular resolution and identify a pattern of prehistoric dispersal to Easter Island, we sequenced complete mitochondrial genomes from ancient Pacific rat specimens obtained from early archeological contexts across West and East Polynesia. Ancient Polynesian rat haplotypes are closely related and reflect the widely supported scenario of a central East Polynesian homeland region from which eastern expansion occurred. An Easter Island and Tubuai (Austral Islands) grouping of related haplotypes suggests that both islands were established by the same colonization wave, proposed to have originated in the central homeland region before dispersing through the south-eastern corridor of East Polynesia.

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Mid- to Late Prehistoric Landscape Change, Settlement Histories, and Agricultural Practices on Maupiti, Society Islands (Central Eastern Polynesia)

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

Refining the Society Islands cultural sequence: colonization phase and developmental phase coastal occupation on Moʻorea Island

Refining the Society Islands cultural sequence: colonization phase and developmental phase coastal occupation on Moʻorea Island

Molecular phylogeography of the Society Islands (Tahiti; South Pacific) reveals departures from hotspot archipelago models

The Pacific Rat Race to Easter Island: Tracking the Prehistoric Dispersal of Rattus exulans Using Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

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