Table of Contents

1: Introduction by Patrick Vinton Kirch 2: The Mangaia Socio-Ecosystem: Environmental and Ethnohistoric Perspectives by Patrick Vinton Kirch 3: Overview of Mangaian Archaeology by Patrick Vinton Kirch 4: Excavations at Tangatatau Rockshelter (Site MAN-44) by Patrick Vinton Kirch 5: Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Modeling of the Chronology of Tangatatau Rockshelter by Patrick Vinton Kirch 6: Vertebrate Fauna from Tangatatau Rockshelter: Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles by Patrick Vinton Kirch 7: Fish Remains from Tangatatau Rockshelter by Virginia L. Butler 8: Invertebrate Remains from Tangatatau Rockshelter by Patrick Vinton Kirch, Mireille N. Gonzalez, and Aimee M. Plourde 9: Archaeobotanical Assemblages from Tangatatau Rockshelter by Patrick Vinton Kirch, Jon G. Hather, and Mark Horrocks 10: Material Culture and Technological Change at Tangatatau Rockshelter by Patrick Vinton Kirch 11: The Tangatatau Fishhook Assemblage: A Typological Analysis by Christelle Carlier 12: Lithic Assemblages of Tangatatau Rockshelter: Reduction Strategies and the Organization of Lithic Technology by Jennifer G. Kahn 13: Archaeological Investigations at Other Sites by Patrick Vinton Kirch and Julie M. E. Taomia 14: Synthesis: The Evolution of the Mangaian Socio-Ecosystem by Patrick Vinton Kirch

About the Author

Patrick Vinton Kirch is a Chancellor's Professor Emeritus and the Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Integrative Biology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Curator of Oceanic Archaeology in the P. A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley.

Reviews

"The monograph is exemplary as both a final archaeological site report from Polynesia and a multi-faceted contribution to Polynesian island settlement studies. On both counts, it should serve as a high benchmark for others to follow." --Ian Barber, Archaeology in Oceania, 2018