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This project interacts with the following groups in a variety of ways: • Local communities: We interact daily with the communities on the Rove Peninsula, and stay in the Fijian village of Vusama. The local community provides our food and transport and is fully informed about the work we are carrying out. • Students: Local-area schools are invited to visit the site and be informed about what we are doing and why. Representatives of the research team will give lectures in selected schools during fieldwork and interface with local media. • Early career scientists: Field Team Leader Roselyn Kumar is a young scientist working on a Ph.D. Kuilanisautabu, Lal, Qolicokota, Ram, Sanjana, Tabe and Vosamosi are all enrolled in Master’s degree courses. • Host country national scientists: Both Field Team Leaders are Fiji nationals, as are field staff Kuilanisautabu, Lal, Qolicokota, Seeto, Ram, Sanjana, Tabe and Vosamosi. The research results of this project will be disseminated through professional papers in academic journals, public lectures at the Fiji Museum and within USP, press releases and media accounts of the fieldwork, Pacific region television and radio, and in other ways. LITERATURE CITED Allen, M.S. 2002. Resolving long-term change in Polynesian marine fisheries. Asian Perspectives, 41, 195-212. Anderson, A. 2002. Faunal collapse, landscape change and settlement history in Remote Oceania. World Archaeology, 33, 375-390. Campbell, I.C. 2003. Worlds Apart: a history of the Pacific Islands. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press (revised edition). Clark, J.T., Cole, A.O. and Nunn, P.D. 1999. Environmental change and human prehistory on Totoya island, Fiji. In Galipaud, J-C. and Lilley, I. (editors). The Pacific from 5000 to 2000 BP: Colonizations and Transformations. Paris: Editions de IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), 227-240. Dickinson, W.R. and Shutler, R. Jr. 2000. Implications of petrographic temper analysis for Oceanian prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory,14, 203-266. Horrocks, M. and Nunn, P.D. 2007. Evidence for introduced taro (Colocasia esculenta) and lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta) in Lapita-era (ca. 3050-2500 cal. yr BP) deposits from Bourewa, southwest Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Journal of Archaeological Science. [manuscript: 17 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables]. Howe, K.R. 2003. The Quest for Origins: who first discovered New Zealand and the Pacific Islands? Auckland: Penguin Books. Irwin, G. 1992. The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kirch, P.V. 1997. The Lapita Peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic World. Oxford: Blackwell. Kirch, P.V. 2000. On the Road of the Winds: an archaeological history of the Pacific Islands before European contact. Berkeley: University of California Press. Kumar, R., Nunn, P.D. and Dickinson, W.R. 2004. The emerging pattern of earliest human settlement in Fiji: four new Lapita sites on Viti Levu Island. Archaeology in New Zealand, 47, 108-117. Nunn, P.D. 1994. Oceanic Islands. Oxford, Blackwell. Nunn, P.D. 1998. Pacific Island Landscapes. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, The University of the South Pacific. Nunn, P.D. 1999. Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin: chronologies, causes, consequences. London: Wiley. 27
Nunn, P.D. 2005. Reconstructing tropical paleoshorelines using archaeological data: examples from the Fiji Archipelago, southwest Pacific. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 42, 15-25. Nunn, P.D. 2007. Space and place in an ocean of islands: thoughts on the attitudes of the Lapita people towards islands and their colonization. South Pacific Studies, 27, 24-35. Nunn, P.D., Kumar, R., Matararaba, S. and Ishimura, T. 2006a. The earliest human settlement in the Fiji Islands. Domodomo (Journal of the Fiji Museum), 19, 27-33. Nunn, P.D., Matararaba, S., Kumar, R., Pene, C. Yuen, L. and Pastorizo, M.R. 2006b. Lapita on an island in the mangroves? The earliest human occupation at Qoqo Island, southwest Viti Levu, Fiji. Archaeology in New Zealand, 49, 205-212. Nunn, P.D., Kumar, R., Matararaba, S., Ishimura, T., Seeto, J., Rayawa, S., Kuruyawa, S., Nasila, A., Oloni, B., Rati Ram, A., Saunivalu, P., Singh, P. and Tegu, E. 2004. Early Lapita settlement site at Bourewa, southwest Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Archaeology in Oceania, 39, 139-143. Nunn, P.D., Pene, C., Matararaba, S., Kumar, R., Singh, P., Dredregasa, I., Gwilliam, M., Heorake, T., Kuilanisautabu, L., Nakoro, E., Narayan, L., Pastorizo, M.R., Robinson, S., Saunivalu, P. and Tamani, F. 2005. Human occupations of caves of the Rove Peninsula, southwest Viti Levu Island, Fiji. South Pacific Journal of Natural Science, 23, 16-23.Summerhayes, G. 2000. Lapita Interaction. Canberra: Australian National University. Yu, K-F., Zhao, J-X., Collerson, K.D., Shi, Q., Chen, T-G., Wang, P-X. and Liu, T-S. 2004. Storm cycles in the last millennium recorded in Yongshu Reef, southern South China Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 210, 89-100. 28
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