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SUNRISE ARCHAEOLOGY

The following are some of our scholarly publications and conference presentations. 

Publications

  • Autufuga, D., Quintus, S., Yoo, K., Day, S., Huebert, J., Deenik, J., Lincoln, NK.. Distribution of Soil Nutrients and Ancient Agriculture on Young Volcanic Soils of Ta‘ū, American Samoa. Soil Systems. 2023; 7(2):52. https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems7020052

  • Rawlence, N. J., Verry, A. J., Greig, K., Maxwell, J. J., Shepherd, L. D., & Walter, R. (2022). Reconstructing the Impact of Humans on Aotearoa New Zealand's Biodiversity. Historical Ecology: Learning from the Past to Understand the Present and Forecast the Future of Ecosystems, 233-245.

  • Quintus, S., J. Huebert, J.A. Swift, K. Yoo. 2022. Rats, Bats, and Birds. In The Power of Nature: Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics, Smith, M. L. (Ed.). University Press of Colorado. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.608081

  • Quintus, S., D. Autufuga, S. Day, J. Huebert, N.K. Lincoln, N. Motu & K. Yoo. 2021. Tracking Emergent Spatial and Social Patterns across Terraced Landscapes in Polynesia, Journal of Field Archaeology 47(3):196-211, DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2021.2018259 
  • Tilburg, J.A., M. Huebert, J., Sherwood, S.C., Barrier, C.R. 2022. Pre-European Contact Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) at Rapa Nui: Macrobotanical Evidence from Recent Excavations in Rano Raraku Quarry, Rapa Nui. In: Rull, V., Stevenson, C. (eds) The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91127-0_5
  • Allen M.S., McAlister A.N., Petchey, F., Huebert, J.M., Maeva M.A., Jones, B.D. Marquesan ceramics, palaeotsunami, and megalithic architecture: Ho'oumi Beach site (NHo‐3) in regional perspective. 2021. Archaeology in Oceania 56(2):73-99.
  • Quintus, Seth, Jennifer Huebert, Stephanie Day, Noa Lincoln, Kyungsoo Yoo, Tiffany Lee, Darby Filimoehala, and Dolly Autufuga. 2020. Tempo and trajectory of the built landscape on Ta'u Island, Manu'a Group, American Samoa: Integrating extensive radiocarbon dating with joint posterior modeling. Radiocarbon 62(5):1317-1337.
  • Huebert, J.M., and Allen, M.S. 2020. Anthropogenic Forests, Arboriculture, and Niche Construction in the Marquesas Islands (Polynesia). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 57.
  • Robinson, J., Blanchard, A., Clendon, M.T.N., Maxwell, J.J., Sutton, N. and Walter, R., 2019. Mangahawea Bay Revisited: a reconsideration of the stratigraphy and chronology of site Q05/682. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 10(1), pp.45-55.
  • Quintus, S., Huebert, J., Kirch, P.V., Lincoln, N.K., and Maxwell, J.J. 2019. Qualities and Contributions of Agroforestry Practices and Novel Forests in Pre-European Polynesia and Polynesian Outliers. Human Ecology, 47(6), pp.811-825.
  • Swift, J.A., Kirch, P.V., Baer, A., Huebert, J.M., and Gill, T.M.. 2019. Late Pre-Contact Construction and Use of an ‘Archaic’ Shrine at the Pālehua Complex (Honouliuli District, O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i). Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 10(2).
  • Maxwell, J.J., McCoy, M. D., Tromp, M., Hoffman, A. & Barber, I. 2017. The Difficult Place of Deserted Coasts in Archaeology: New archaeological research on Cooks Beach (Pukaki), Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. Journal of Coastal and Island Archaeology.
  • Waters, J. M., Ceridwen, I. F., Maxwell, J. J. and Rawlence, N. 2017. Did interaction between human pressure and Little Ice Age drive biological turnover in New Zealand? Journal of Biogeography.
  • Maxwell, J.J. 2017. Conservation and restoration of a cultural forest landscape. Protecting the forests created by Moriori for food, fuel, shelter, and where a unique art form was produced. Journal of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites.
  • Maxwell, J.J., Tromp, M. 2016. Corynocarpus laevigatus: where art though? Finding evidence of this reclusive tree crop. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.
  • Huebert, J.M., and Allen, M.S. 2016. Six centuries of anthropogenic forest change on a Polynesian high island: archaeological charcoal records from the Marquesas Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews 137:79-96.
  • Maxwell, J.J., Howarth, J.D., Vandergoes, M.J., Jacobsen, G.E., Barber, I.G. 2016. The timing and importance of arboriculture and agroforestry in a temperate East Polynesia Society, the Moriori, Rekohu (Chatham Island). Quaternary Science Reviews 149, pp. 306-325.
  • Maxwell, J.J., Woods, N. and Robinson, J. 2016. New Zealand’s first Government House at Okiato, Bay of Islands: where did it come from? Journal of Post-modern Archaeology.
  • Barber, I.G., Maxwell, J.J., Petchey, F.  2016.  A radiocarbon investigation of Moriori forest use on Rēkohu (Chatham Island), southwestern Polynesia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
  • Rawlence, N.J., Collins, C.J., Anderson, C.N.K., Maxwell, J.J., Smith, I.W.G., Knapp, M., Horsburgh, K.A., Stanton, J.-A., Scofield, P.R., Tennyson, A.J.D., Matisoo-Smith, E., Waters, J.M.. 2016.  Human-mediated extirpation of the unique Chatham Islands sea lion and implications for the conservation management of remaining New Zealand sea lion populations. Molecular Ecology.
  • Maxwell, J.J. and Smith, I.W.G. 2015. A re-assessment of settlement patterns and subsistence at Point Durham, Chatham Island. Archaeology in Oceania.
  • Huebert, J.M. 2015. Anthropogenically driven decline and extinction of Sapotaceae on Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia). The Holocene, 25(6) 1039-1046.
  • Maxwell, J.J., Middleton, A, and Latham, P. 2015. Victorian Era European exploitation of Pounamu in Dunedin, New Zealand. Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 6: 58-69.
  • Barber, I.G., Maxwell, J.J. and Hemi, R. 2014. Growing images: generating 3D digital models to investigate archaeological Moriori carvings on live trees. World Archaeology, 1-15.
  • Allen, M.S., and Huebert, J.M. 2014. Short-Lived Plant Materials, Long-Lived Trees, and Polynesian 14C Dating: Considerations for 14C Sample Selection and Documentation. Radiocarbon 56(1):257-276.
  • Barber, I. and Maxwell, J.J. 2012. Evaluating new radiocarbon dates from midden deposits near Moriori tree carvings, Rekohu, (Chatham Island). Journal of the Polynesian Society.
  • Allen, M.S., Dickinson, W.R., and Huebert, J.M. 2012. The Anomaly of Marquesan Ceramics: a Fifty Year Retrospective. Journal of Pacific Archaeology 3 (1): 90–104.
  • Barber, I. and Maxwell, J.J. 2011. A collaborative archaeological research and conservation project for Moriori carved trees (rakau momori), Rekohu (Chatham Island). Archaeology in New Zealand, 54 (1): 62-75.
  • Huebert, J.M., Allen, M.S., and Wallace, R.T. 2010. Polynesian earth ovens and their fuels: Interpretation of wood charcoal remains from Anaho Valley, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands. Journal of the Polynesian Society 119: 61-97.
  • Quintus, S., Huebert, J.M., Swift, J.A., Yoo, K. In Press. Rats, Bats, and Birds: The Role of Non-Human Ecosystem Engineers in Pre-European Polynesian Agriculture. In The Power of Nature: Agency and the Archaeology of Human-Environmental Dynamics, edited by Smith, M.L. University Press of Colorado.


Conference Presentations

  • 2022 Maxwell, J.J. Moriori and kōpi (karaka / Corynocarpus laevigatus) and its significance to the people of Rēkohu / Wharekauri / Chatham Islands. Karaka – Kōpi - Corynocarpus Laevigatus Wānanga / Symposium. Wellington, 19-20 August 2022. 
  • 2018  Huebert, J.M., and Allen, M.S. Arboriculture, Translocated Flora, and Ecological Inheritance in the Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia. Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 11-15 April 2018.
  • 2018  Quintus, S., Huebert, J.M., Swift, J.A., Yoo, K. Rats, Bats, and Birds: The Role of Non-Human Ecosystem Engineers in Pre-European Polynesian Agriculture. Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 11-15 April 2018.
  • 2017  Maxwell, J.J. Multi-disciplinary approaches to investigating New Zealand archaeology. New research into the timing and impact of people on New Zealand’s flora and fauna-case studies from the Chatham Islands and Northland. Department of Geology Research Seminar, Benson Common room. 22 March 2017.
  • 2016 Maxwell, J.J. The Moriori. A Polynesian example of innovation in food production when colonising a challenging environment. WAC-8 Kyoto, Japan.
  • 2016  Vandergoes, M., Li, X., Howarth, J., Dunbar, G., Roop, H., Levy, R., and Maxwell, J.J. The rate of landscape transformation following Polynesian and European arrivals in the Makenzie Basin, South Island, New Zealand.  Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA), Auckland. 5-9  December 2016.
  • 2016  Maxwell, J.J. Early horticulture by Maori; lake cores holding landscape modification and vegetation change records. . Te Hiku taiao research symposium. Korou Kore Marae (Ahipara). 17-18 October 2016.
  • 2016  Maxwell, J.J. Archaeobotany in New Zealand. Investigating anthropomorphic vegetation change, fire regimes and the timing of settlement. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology Seminar Series. 11 August 2016.
  • 2016  Maxwell, J.J. Moriori agroforestry and Arboriculture: an example of innovation in response to a challenging climate and environment. Botanical Society of Otago, Department of Zoology Building.. 13 July 2016.
  • 2016  Maxwell, J.J. Moriori agroforestry and arboriculture. Hokopanopano ka Toi Moriori. Kopinga marae, Chatham Island. January 2016.
  • 2015  Maxwell, J.J. Moriori agroforestry: an example of innovation in response to a challenging climate and environment. 9th International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Ethnological Museum Dahlem, Berlin, Germany. 22-27 June 2015.
  • 2015  Maxwell, J.J. A collaborative project to conserve the remaining culturally significant broad leaved forests on Rēkohu (Chatham Island). New Zealand Plant Conservation Network Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand. 28-31 October 2015.
  • 2014  Maxwell, J.J. The Moriori: Arboriculture and Agroforestry in an East Polynesian Society. School of Social Science. Working Paper in Archaeology. University of Queensland. 17 October 2014.
  • 2014  Maxwell, J.J. and Barber, I.G. A re-evaluation of Moriori subsistence and settlement using ethnobotanical tools. New Zealand Archaeological Association Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • 2013  Maxwell, J.J., Barber, I.G., Vandergoes, M. and Howarth, J. 2013. Rekohu research project and prehistoric East-Polynesian adaptation to climate. In C.M. Reid and A. Wandres (eds), Abstracts, Geosciences 2013 Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand. Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 136A, p. 65.
  • 2013  Maxwell, J.J. Dating Moriori landscape modification of the north east coast of Rekohu (Chatham Island). GNS Rafter campus, 1 October 2013.
  • 2012  Huebert, J.M. Forest transformations and arboreal subsistence strategies in highly variable environments: Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. 8th International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Santa Rosa, California, USA. 8-13 July 2012.
  • 2012  Maxwell, J.J. 2012. Botanical identifications and the hypothesis of early Chatham Island arboriculture. 8th International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Santa Rosa, California, USA. 8-13 July 2012.
  • 2012  Barber, I., Maxwell, J.J., and Hemi, R. Growing Images: Creating surface scans and archaeological knowledge of Moriori carved trees (rakau momori) on the Chatham Islands. 8th International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Santa Rosa, California, USA. 8-13 July 2012.
  • 2012  Maxwell, J.J. Rakau momori, Moriori carvings on living trees. The need for immediate conservation or preservation. Me Rongo: Moriori Peace, Sustainability, Art and Inclusivity on Rekohu (the Chatham Islands) Centre for Sustainability, Agriculture, Food, Environment. University of Otago,  August 2012.
  • 2011  Huebert, J.M., Polynesian earth ovens and their fuels: Interpretation of archaeological wood charcoal from Anaho Valley, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands. 5th International Meeting of Charcoal Analysis, Valencia, Spain, 5-10 Sept 2011.
  • 2011  Maxwell, J.J. Report on 3D scanning programme and monitoring results for rakau momori (carved kopi trees). Me Rongo 2011 Peace Congress: Peace, Sustainability and Respect for the Sacred, 7-21 November 2011, Rekohu (Chatham Islands).
  • 2009  Huebert, J.M. Archaeobotanical investigations of wood charcoal from Polynesian earth ovens in the Marquesas Islands. New Zealand Archaeological Association Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.