| Lecturers | Dr. Rob Bollt Dr. Rob Bollt, (Ph.D. Archaeologist specializing in ancient East Polynesia). His current concentration is the Austral Islands, where he found and excavated the archipelago's earliest-known site to-date on Rurutu. (The results are published in the monograph Peva: the Archaeology of an Austral Island Settlement (Bishop Museum Press 2008)). He has also excavated sites in Hawai'I and the Marquesas. His primary interests include Polynesian material culture, and patterns of long-distance exchange among islands, which is achieved by using geochemical sourcing analyses to trace stone tools to their geological source of origin. He also enjoys experimental archaeology, especially adze making. Additional interests include Polynesian subsistence strategies, faunal analysis, human-environment relations, sociopolitical transformation, and warfare. |
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