Reinvestigating a key site for <scp>P</scp>olynesian prehistory: new results from the <scp>H</scp>ane dune site, <scp>U</scp>a <scp>H</scp>uka (<scp>M</scp>arquesas)

Conte, E.; Molle, Guillaume

doi:10.1002/arco.5037

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“…These dates, much later than those reported by Spriggs and Anderson (1993), for example, do not allow much time for the development of the Eastern Polynesian language subgroups. Conte and Molle (2014) present evidence of human settlement in the Marquesas Islands approximately 1100 years BP. On the basis of the above and further evidence of lateral transfer in primary source material, Walworth (2014) disputes Marquesic and Tahitic as distinct subgroups.…”

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confidence: 79%

Lateral transfer in Stochastic Dollo models

Kelly¹,

Nicholls²

2017

Ann. Appl. Stat.

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Lateral transfer, a process whereby species exchange evolutionary traits through nonancestral relationships, is a frequent source of model misspecification in phylogenetic inference. Lateral transfer obscures the phylogenetic signal in the data as the histories of affected traits are mosaics of the overall phylogeny. We control for the effect of lateral transfer in a Stochastic Dollo model and a Bayesian setting. Our likelihood is highly intractable as the parameters are the solution of a sequence of large systems of differential equations representing the expected evolution of traits along a tree. We illustrate our method on a data set of lexical traits in Eastern Polynesian languages and obtain an improved fit over the corresponding model without lateral transfer.

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confidence: 79%

Lateral transfer in Stochastic Dollo models

Kelly¹,

Nicholls²

2017

Ann. Appl. Stat.

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“…The most obvious comparisons with Wairau Bar, in terms of size, settlement pattern, function, diversity and richness of artefact and faunal collections, are the colonisation phase ('Archaic') sites of tropical East Polynesia, including Hane, Ha'atuatua and Hanamiai (Marquesas); Urei'a and Anai'o (Cook Islands); and Vaito'otia/Fa'ahia and Maupiti (Society Islands) (Allen and Steadman 1990;Conte and Molle 2014;Emory and Sinoto 1964;Rolett 1998;Sinoto 1979;Sinoto and Kellum 1965;Suggs 1961;Walter 1998). Like those sites, Wairau Bar was a permanent village, located to provide safe access for deep-water sailing craft by residents who were participating in long-distance voyaging and exchange networks.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mass Migration and the Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand

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This paper reintroduces the concept of mass migration into debates concerning the timing and nature of New Zealand's settlement by Polynesians. Upward revisions of New Zealand's chronology show that the appearance of humans on the landscape occurred extremely rapidly, and that within decades settlements had been established across the full range of climatic zones. We show that the rapid appearance of a strong archaeological signature in the early 14th century AD is the result of a mass migration event, not the consequence of gradual demographic growth out of a currently unidentified earlier phase of settlement. Mass migration is not only consistent with the archaeological record but is supported by recent findings in molecular biology and genetics. It also opens the door to a new phase of engagement between archaeological method and indigenous Maori and Polynesian oral history and tradition.

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“…. However, there are still irreconcilable differences in the chronological boundaries of some island groups, with some researchers advocating for an earlier settlement of the Cook Islands, the Marquesas, Hawai'i and Mangareva (Gambier Islands; Kirch et al, 2010;Allen and McAlister, 2013;Athens et al, 2014;Conte and Molle, 2014;Weisler et al, 2015).…”

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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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Reinvestigating a key site for Polynesian prehistory: new results from the Hane dune site, Ua Huka (Marquesas)

Abstract: Since the first excavations by Kellum in 1964-1965

Cited by 42 publications

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Lateral transfer in Stochastic Dollo models

Lateral transfer in Stochastic Dollo models

Mass Migration and the Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand

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

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