David V. Burley

Simon Fraser University

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William R. Dickinson

University of Arizona

Geoffrey Clark

The University of Texas at Arlington

Marshall I. Weisler

University of Otago

Kevan Edinborough

University of Melbourne

Atholl Anderson

Australian National University

David W. Steadman

Florida Museum of Natural History

Jian‐xin Zhao

University of Queensland

Sean P. Connaughton

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Richard Shutler

Simon Fraser University

William Dickinson

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital

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Paleo-sea levels, Bill Dickinson, and Interpretive Modeling for the Lapita Settlement of Fanga ‘Uta Lagoon, Kingdom of Tonga

The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (2015)

David V. Burley

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Times of sand: Sedimentary history and archaeology at the Sigatoka Dunes, Fiji

Geoarchaeology (2006)

Atholl Anderson Richard G. Roberts William Dickinson Geoffrey Clark David V. Burley

The orthodox archaeological sequence at the Sigatoka Dunes site (VL 16/1) in Fiji proposes three phases of occupation spanning Fijian prehistory, each associated with a period of dune stability. It has been taken as the standard model of Fijian prehistory for more than 30 years. Recently, however, it has been argued that there is no stratigraphic support for three discrete levels and that the occupation history was fragmented, complex, and continuous within a volatile dune system. We present new data, from optical and radiocarbon dating, to argue that a three-phase model, although somewhat more complex in detail, remains the most robust interpretation of site history. The longest stable phase (Level 2) began 2500–2300 cal yr B.P. and is possibly associated with relatively low ENSO frequency. Substantial sand dune accumulation began after ˜1300 cal yr B.P. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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10.1002/gea.20094

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Bayesian Modeling and Chronological Precision for Polynesian Settlement of Tonga

PLoS ONE (2015)

David V. Burley Kevan Edinborough Marshall I. Weisler Jian‐xin Zhao

First settlement of Polynesia, and population expansion throughout the ancestral Polynesian homeland are foundation events for global history. A precise chronology is paramount to informed archaeological interpretation of these events and their consequences. Recently applied chronometric hygiene protocols excluding radiocarbon dates on wood charcoal without species identification all but eliminates this chronology as it has been built for the Kingdom of Tonga, the initial islands to be settled in Polynesia. In this paper we re-examine and redevelop this chronology through application of Bayesian models to the questioned suite of radiocarbon dates, but also incorporating short-lived wood charcoal dates from archived samples and high precision U/Th dates on coral artifacts. These models provide generation level precision allowing us to track population migration from first Lapita occupation on the island of Tongatapu through Tonga's central and northern island groups. They further illustrate an exceptionally short duration for the initial colonizing Lapita phase and a somewhat abrupt transition to ancestral Polynesian society as it is currently defined.

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10.1371/journal.pone.0120795

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A never ending story: historical developments in Canadian archaeology and the quest for federal heritage legislation

Canadian Journal of Archaeology (1994)

David V. Burley

Le Canada est l'un des rares pays developpes a ne pas avoir au niveau federal une politique integree et coherente de la gestion des ressources patrimoniales. Meme si de fortes sommes d'argent ont ete depensees par le gouvernement canadien en archeologie depuis les annees 1960 jusqu'a aujourd'hui, et malgre les efforts constants de lobby par la communaute archeologique canadienne, la situation demeure inchangee. Un historique critique de l'archeologie canadienne et de ses politiques, comprenant les plus recentes initiatives de legislation sur le patrimoine du Departement des Communications, est presente dans ce texte. Avec cette nouvelle legislation a prendre en consideration, l'A. a identifie plusieurs solutions et defis qui s'offrent a la communaute archeologique canadienne pour le reste des annees 1990

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Early cessation of ceramic production for ancestral Polynesian society in Tonga

PLoS ONE (2018)

David V. Burley Sean P. Connaughton Geoffrey Clark

Ancestral Polynesian society is the formative base for development of the Polynesian cultural template and proto-Polynesian linguistic stage. Emerging in western Polynesia ca 2700 cal BP, it is correlated in the archaeological record of Tonga with the Polynesian Plainware ceramic phase presently thought to be of approximately 800 years duration or longer. Here we re-establish the upper boundary for this phase to no more than 2350 cal BP employing a suite of 44 new and existing radiocarbon dates from 13 Polynesian Plainware site occupations across the extent of Tonga. The implications of this boundary, the abruptness of ceramic loss, and the shortening of duration to 350 years have substantive implications for archaeological interpretations in the ancestral Polynesian homeland.

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10.1371/journal.pone.0193166

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Among Polynesia's first pots

Journal of Archaeological Science (2009)

David V. Burley William R. Dickinson

10.1016/j.jas.2009.12.002

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Ancient mtDNA Analysis of Early 16th Century Caribbean Cattle Provides Insight into Founding Populations of New World Creole Cattle Breeds

PLoS ONE (2013)

Camilla Speller David V. Burley Robyn P. Woodward Dongya Yang

The Columbian Exchange resulted in a widespread movement of humans, plants and animals between the Old and New Worlds. The late 15(th) to early 16(th) century transfer of cattle from the Iberian Peninsula and Canary Islands to the Caribbean laid the foundation for the development of American creole cattle (Bos taurus) breeds. Genetic analyses of modern cattle from the Americas reveal a mixed ancestry of European, African and Indian origins. Recent debate in the genetic literature centers on the 'African' haplogroup T1 and its subhaplogroups, alternatively tying their origins to the initial Spanish herds, and/or from subsequent movements of taurine cattle through the African slave trade. We examine this problem through ancient DNA analysis of early 16(th) century cattle bone from Sevilla la Nueva, the first Spanish colony in Jamaica. In spite of poor DNA preservation, both T3 and T1 haplogroups were identified in the cattle remains, confirming the presence of T1 in the earliest Spanish herds. The absence, however, of "African-derived American" haplotypes (AA/T1c1a1) in the Sevilla la Nueva sample, leaves open the origins of this sub-haplogroup in contemporary Caribbean cattle.

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10.1371/journal.pone.0069584

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Tongan and Samoan volcanic glass: pXRF analysis and implications for constructs of ancestral Polynesian society

Journal of Archaeological Science (2011)

David V. Burley Peter Sheppard Maia Simonin

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Archaeological Science

10.1016/j.jas.2011.05.016

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Origin and significance of a founding settlement in Polynesia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2001)

David V. Burley William R. Dickinson

Selected prehistoric potsherds from the deepest cultural level of the oldest known archaeological site in the Kingdom of Tonga, within the Eastern Lapita province of western Polynesia, display decorative motifs characteristic of the Western Lapita province of modern-day Island Melanesia, to the west. Most of the stylistically anomalous sherds contain temper sands exotic to Tonga but, in one case, petrographically indistinguishable from temper in a Lapita sherd recovered from the Santa Cruz Islands of Melanesia, and are inferred to record maritime transport of Lapita ceramics into Tonga from Melanesia far to the west. The non-Tongan sherds found on Tongatapu provide direct physical evidence for interisland transfer of earthenware ceramics between Western and Eastern Lapita provinces, and the Nukuleka site, where they occur, is interpreted as one of the founding settlements of Polynesia.

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10.1073/pnas.181335398

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Discontinuity in the Fijian Archaeological Record Supported by a Bayesian Radiocarbon Model

Radiocarbon (2014)

David V. Burley Kevan Edinborough

The Fijian archaeological record is segmented into a series of phases based on distinctive transformations in ceramic forms. Interpretations of the mid-sequence (∼1500–1300 cal BP) transition between the Fijian Plainware phase and the Navatu phase are contentious, with alternative explanations of population replacement versus internal processes of culture change. We present and analyze a series of Fijian Plainware and Navatu phase AMS radiocarbon dates acquired from superimposed but stratigraphically separated occupation floors at the Sigatoka Sand Dunes site on the southwest coast of Viti Levu. Employing an OxCal Bayesian sequential model, we seek to date the temporal span for each occupation as well as the interval of time occurring between occupation floors. The latter is estimated to be 0–43 calendar years at 2σ probability. The magnitude of ceramic and other differences between the Fijian Plainware and Navatu phase occupations at Sigatoka is substantive. We conclude that the abruptness of this change can be explained only by exogenous replacement at the Sigatoka site.

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10.2458/56.16482

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