Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025)

Editorial

Editorial: Making the Journal of Pacific Archaeology open access

Joshua Emmitt, Rebecca Phillipps

Editorial
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.395

Articles

New Zealand's own Pompeii? The Sunde site, Motutapu Island, through a geoarchaeological lens

Robert Brassey

Article 1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.359
Microfossil starch provides the first evidence for introduced taro (Colocasia esculenta) on the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, commencing c. 1800 cal. BP

Mark Horrocks, Marshall I. Weisler, Quan Hua

Article 2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.362
Palaeoecological studies at four archaeological sites in the New Guinea Highlands document local vegetation histories and plant use from c. 18,000 cal BP to the recent past

Mark Horrocks, Sander van der Kaars, Susan Bulmer, Tim Denham

Article 4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.370
The green and the grey Use of visual attributes in the analysis of New Zealand obsidian artefact assemblages

Phil Moore

Article 5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.374
Three Late 18th Century CE East Polynesian Sails in the British Museum Collected from New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii (or the Marquesas) Reveal Regional Adaptations in Sailing Technology

Geoffrey Irwin, Peter Sheppard, Richard Flay

Article 6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.373
‘Hardy rascals of doubtful fame’ Historical perspectives upon sealers in southern New Zealand Ian Smith Memorial Lecture 2025

Atholl John Anderson

Article 7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.378
The geological occurrence and visual attributes of sedimentary and 'volcanic' cherts in northern New Zealand

Phil Moore

Article 8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.382
Geochemical evidence of cultural continuity in lithic procurement from the Late Pleistocene to recent Holocene at Nombe rockshelter, Highland Papua New Guinea

Emily Nutman, Dr Michelle J Richards, Mathieu Leclerc, Mary-Jane Mountain, Tim Denham

Article 10
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.379
“The material for boring the greenstone”: characterization and archaeological distribution of the Pahautane chert, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

Phil Moore, Andrew La Croix

Article 12
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.383
Microfossil analysis of sediments from Carpenters Gap 1 and 3 archaeological sites, Kimberley, Western Australia, provides evidence for processing cf. Dioscorea transversa and cf. Colocasia esculenta since c. 30,000-25,000 cal BP

Mark Horrocks, Sue O'Connor, India E Dilkes-Hall

Article 13
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.384
Locating the Pā Sites from Hartley Ferrar’s Geological Maps

Simon Bickler, Benjamin D. Jones

Article 14
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.388

Research Reports

Plant microfossils reveal human activity in and around Hawaiian Island fishponds, including introduced Polynesian and European multi-cropping

Mark Horrocks, Ena Sroat, Jillian Swift, Mara Mulrooney, Windy McElroy, Tanya Lee-Greig, Simon Bickler

Article 3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.372
Rock Painting Traditions around Waigeo Island, Raja Ampat, West New Guinea

Daud Tanudirjo, Dylan Gaffney, Abdul Razak Macap, Tristan Russell, Benjamin Utting, Moses Dailom, Yansen Lapon, Erlin Novita Idje Djami, Zubair Mas'ud

Article 9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.375
The Archaeology of the Kapiti Coast

Mary O'Keeffe

Article 11
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70460/jpa.v15i1.377

Editorial

Editorial: Making the Journal of Pacific Archaeology open access

Articles

New Zealand's own Pompeii? The Sunde site, Motutapu Island, through a geoarchaeological lens

Microfossil starch provides the first evidence for introduced taro (Colocasia esculenta) on the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, commencing c. 1800 cal. BP

Palaeoecological studies at four archaeological sites in the New Guinea Highlands document local vegetation histories and plant use from c. 18,000 cal BP to the recent past

The green and the grey Use of visual attributes in the analysis of New Zealand obsidian artefact assemblages

Three Late 18th Century CE East Polynesian Sails in the British Museum Collected from New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii (or the Marquesas) Reveal Regional Adaptations in Sailing Technology

‘Hardy rascals of doubtful fame’ Historical perspectives upon sealers in southern New Zealand Ian Smith Memorial Lecture 2025

The geological occurrence and visual attributes of sedimentary and 'volcanic' cherts in northern New Zealand

Geochemical evidence of cultural continuity in lithic procurement from the Late Pleistocene to recent Holocene at Nombe rockshelter, Highland Papua New Guinea

“The material for boring the greenstone”: characterization and archaeological distribution of the Pahautane chert, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

Microfossil analysis of sediments from Carpenters Gap 1 and 3 archaeological sites, Kimberley, Western Australia, provides evidence for processing cf. Dioscorea transversa and cf. Colocasia esculenta since c. 30,000-25,000 cal BP

Locating the Pā Sites from Hartley Ferrar’s Geological Maps

Research Reports

Plant microfossils reveal human activity in and around Hawaiian Island fishponds, including introduced Polynesian and European multi-cropping

Rock Painting Traditions around Waigeo Island, Raja Ampat, West New Guinea

The Archaeology of the Kapiti Coast

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