About the Journal

The Journal of Pacific Archaeology is a Q1 ranked (SCImago 2025), international peer-reviewed, electronic journal that publishes research on the archaeology of the islands and continental margins of the Pacific Ocean, both northern and southern hemispheres. The journal is a Diamond Open Access journal and is wholly funded by the New Zealand Archaeology Association. One issue is published continuously each year with articles published as they are accepted.

Current Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026)
Published: 28-01-2026

Articles

  • Early Māori Settlement in Auckland CBD Redating the Queen Street Gaol Excavation

    Simon Best, Simon Bickler, Fiona Petchey
    Article 1
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v16i1.393

  • Local isotopic ecologies matter in the Pacific: an example from Waya Island, Fiji

    Kathryn King, Judith Littleton, Ethan Cochrane, Caitlin Bonham Smith
    Article 2
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v16i1.391

  • Fluctuating local mobility from the end of the Pleistocene to the end of the Holocene on the north coast of New Guinea

    Ceri Shipton, Emily Nutman, Phoebe Barnes, Shimona Kealy, Loretta Hasu, John Sepe, Sue O'Connor
    Article 3
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v16i1.392
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