Archaeology - Pacific, Australia
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Australia :
to Australian Universities' Anthropology and Archaeology Departments, click here

Aboriginal Studies - Australia (WWW Virtual Library, Australian National University)
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Aboriginal.html

Ancient miners of Mount Isa, The
http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/resources/papers/mi/
ancientminers.htm

Archaeology of the Dharawal People of NSW (The) : Images of The Royal National Park
http://www.lesbursill.da.ru/

Archaeology of whaling in southern Australia and New Zealand
http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/archaeology/awsanz/

Archaeology World - (some links to Web sites on Australia and the Pacific)
http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/arcworld.htm

AusAnthrop : anthropological research, resources and documentation on the Aborigines of Australia (french language version here)
http://www.ausanthrop.net/

Australian Museum Online - Anthropology
http://www.amonline.net.au/anthropology/index.cfm

Western Australian Maritime Museum (Maritime Archaeology)
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/default.asp?et=2&ei=37

Australian Stone Tools on display in the Australian National University
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/tools/homepage.html

Bradshaw Paintings (Kimberley, Australia)
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/bradshaws/index.html

Découverte de vestiges des premiers peuplements de Micronésie centrale et orientale - 2000 (Anhd and Pamuk atolls)
http://www.ird.fr/fr/actualites/fiches/2000/fiche124.htm

Dinnertime at Cuddie Springs: hunting and butchering megafauna? (south eastern Australia)
http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/research/cuddie/cuddie.html

Historical Archaeological Investigations at Regentville (Australia)
http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/research/regentville/

Isles of Hiva : prehistory (Polynesia)
http://www.pvs-hawaii.com/Education/hiva/hiva_prehistory.htm

Kiandra Archaeological Project 1997 : excavations at the Dance Hall and the Teacher'sresidence
http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/aboutus/projects/kiandra1.htm

Peter Brown's Australian and Asian Palaeoanthropology
http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~pbrown3/palaeo.html

Prehistoric Australian Artefacts
http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/resources/paa/arcrock.htm

Queen of Nations (Corrimal Beach, Australia, underwater archaeology, 1881 wreck)
http://web.1earth.net/~srk/queenofnations/index.htm

Queensland Museum Explorer, The Pandora wreck
http://www.Qmuseum.qld.gov.au/culture/pandorawelcome.html

Stories of the dreaming - Indigenous Australia
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/

Stratigraphy, Harris matrices & relative dating of Australian rock-art (by Christopher Chippindale, Joané de Jongh, Josephine Flood & Scott Rufolo - published in Antiquity Vol 74 No 284 June 2000)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Pre2003/Chippindale/chippindale.html

Teaching the next generation - Archaeology for Children (by Jody Steele & Timothy Owen - published in Antiquity Vol 77 No 297 September 2003)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/owen/owen.html

Western New South Wales Archaeology Program, Macquarie University (WNSWAP) (Research on Aboriginal stone artefacts and their environmental setting)
http://www.gse.mq.edu.au/Research/wnswap/

New Zealand :
to New Zealand Universities' Anthropology and Archaeology Departments, click here

Archaeology of whaling in southern Australia and New Zealand
http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/archaeology/awsanz/

City without a State? Urbanisation in pre-European Taamaki-Makau-rau (Auckland, New Zealand) (paper by Susan Bulmer, pdf format; in 2002, Development of Urbanism from a Global Perspective, Uppsala Universiteit, Uppsala)
http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/afr/projects/BOOK/Bulmer/Bulmer.htm

New Zealand aerial archaeology
http://nzarchaeology.org/aerial/opacs.html

New Zealand Archaeology
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/

New Zealand radiocarbon database
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/waikato/nzcd/

Pacific :

Ancient Hawaiian Petroglyphs
http://www.alohafriends.com/Lanai_petroglyphs.html

Ancient Pottery of the Pacific Rim
http://www.workingdogweb.com/Pottery.htm

Archaeology in New Caledonia
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~mcarson/newcal.html

Archaeology in the Marquesas (Andover Foundation for Archaeological Research)
http://www.afargo.org/

Archaeology World - (some links to Web sites on Australia and the Pacific)
http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/arcworld.htm

Asian/Pacific Studies Subject-Oriented Bibliographies
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLBibl.html

Bibliography of Fijian Society (last updated 1997; The AnthroGlobe Bibliographies)
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_fiji1.html

Bibliography of the Cook Islands (last updated 1997; The AnthroGlobe Bibliographies)
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_cooks.html

Bibliography of Tonga : A-G (last updated 2003; The AnthroGlobe Bibliographies)
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_tonga1.html

Cikobia et Naqelevu : deux îles fidjiennes à la charnière entre cultures mélanésienne et polynésienne (in french)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/
archeologie/cikobia_naqelelevu/index.html

Easter Island Foundation (see 'guide to Easter Island'/'history')
http://www.islandheritage.org/index.html

Easter Island Home Page
http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html

Easter Island Rock Art and Statues
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/easter/index.html

Guam Historic Resources Division
http://ns.gov.gu/dpr/hrdhome.html

Hawaii Archaeological Research Project
http://www.harp.hawaii.edu/index.html

Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/ippa/ippa.htm

International Archaeological Research Institute Inc. (fieldwork in Palau, New Caledonia, American Samoa)
http://www.iarii.org/

Investigation of the initial human colonisation of Vanuatu (project of the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra and funded by the Pacific Biological Foundation)
http://www.pacificbiological.org.au/projects/PBF_01_7/pbf_01_7.htm

Marianas Bioarchaeology
http://www.forsyth.org/marianas/

Micronesian diary (excavations and fieldwork in Micronesia)
http://www.intangible.org/Features/micronesia/

Jane's Micronesia Prehistory (Kosrae, Yap, Pohnpei)
http://www.janesoceania.com/micronesia_prehistory/index.htm

New Guinea Research Program
http://www.fmnh.org/research_collections/anthropology/
anthro_sites/pacific_web/ngrp.htm

Oceanic Archaeology Laboratory (University of California at Berkeley)
Archaeology and Prehistory in Kahikinui (Hawaii) : http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~oal/research/kahikinui/kahikinui.htm
Human-Environment Interactions in Mangaia, Cook Islands : http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~oal/research/mangaia/mangaia.htm
Opunohu Valley Archaeological Project, Mo'orea, French Polynesia : http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~oal/research/research.htm
Prehistory of Mangareva, French Polynesia : http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~oal/research/mangareva/mangareva.htm

Pacific Archaeology at Otago (New Zealand. With reports on : Hawaiian Islands,Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Cook islands, Niue Island, Henderson Island - go through 'map')
http://www.otago.ac.nz/Anthropology/Pacific/index.html

Pacific prehistory at the University of Hawaii
http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth/projects/ppp/index.html

Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html

Painted Pottery in Palau: new evidence challenges past interpretations (by Sarah Phear - published in Antiquity Vol 77 No 296 June 2003)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/phear/phear.html

Polynesian archaeology
http://www.plu.edu/~ryandp/poly.html

Prehistoric Pacific, The (1998 paper)
http://www.he.net/~archaeol/9811/abstracts/pacific.html

SamWeb : American Samoa Community College-University of Oregon Field Classes in Archaeology Malaeimi and Malaeloa, Tutuila, American Samoa
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~samweb/

Secrets of Easter Island
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/

Secrets of lost empires : Easter Island
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/easter/

Traditional navigation in the western pacific (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/navigation/Intro.html

Urbanisation in Tonga: expansion and contraction of political centres in a tropical chiefdom (paper by Dirk H. R. Spenneman, pdf format; in 2002, Development of Urbanism from a Global Perspective, Uppsala Universiteit, Uppsala)
http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/afr/projects/BOOK/Spennemanframe.htm

William Ayres : Pacific Islands Research and Teaching (Pohnpei, Caroline Islands; Easter Island; Samoa; Malaeimi and Malaeloa, Tutuila, American Samoa;
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~wsayres/

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Excavation at Puritjarra, Australia. Copywright by Mike Smith.
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© by Mike Smith.

Cikobia Island, Korotuku Fortified hamlet, Fidji. The surrounding fortification.
Cikobia Island, Korotuku Fortified hamlet, Fidji
the surrounding fortification.