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New Radiocarbon Ages of Colonization Sites in East Polynesia

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asian_perspectives/v041/41.2anderson.pdf

Asian Perspectives 41(2). The archaeological chronology of initial human colonization in East Polynesia has relied substantially upon radiocarbon dating results from a small number of sites in the central region, notably Motu Paeao cemetery and Vaito'otia-Fa'ahia in the Society Islands, and Hane and Ha'atuatua in the Marquesas Islands.

Submitted in section: Archaeology: Regional: Oceania: New Radiocarbon Ages of Colonization Sites in East Polynesia

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