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Note: The capitalisation of paper titles and the presentation of authors names has varied over the issues. They are presented here as printed in the paper heading.
| Paper No. | Title | Author(s) |
| 1 | Prehistoric Ecology and Economy in the Port Moresby Region | Susan Bulmer |
| 2 | The Changing Proportions of Mayor Island Obsidian in New Zealand Prehistory | B. Foss Leach and Peter de.Souza |
| 3 | New records form an analysis of the side-hafted adze from New Zealand | P.R. Moore and I.W. Keyes |
| 4 | Early prehistoric wooden artefacts from the Waitore Site (N136.16), near Patea, Taranaki | Richard Cassels |
| 5 | Stylistic affinities of the Waitore Site (N136/16) assemblage | Ian Lawlor |
| 6 | The Identification of Dugong Ivory Reel Artefacts from Strontium Content and Microstructure | B. Foss Leach |
| 7 | Regional Variation in Maori | R.B. Harlow |
| 8 | An Analysis of an Open-air Workshop in Palliser Bay | Helen M. Leach |
| 9 | Archaeological evidence for the design of kauri driving dams in New Zealand | Bruce W. Hayward and John T. Diamond |
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| 1 | Towards an Explanation of Protohistoric Social Organisation and Settlement Patters Amongst the Southern Ngai Tahu | Atholl J. Anderson |
| 2 | Coastal Hunting in the Subantarctic Zone | D.G. Sutton and Y.M. Marshall |
| 3 | Demographic Models and Island Colonisation In the Pacific | Stephen Black |
| 4 | Oruarangi Pa: Past and Present Investigations | Simon Best |
| 5 | Analysis of Shell Material from Oruarangi, N9/28 | R.K. Nichol |
| 6 | The Riverton Site: An Archaic Adze Manufactory in Western Southland, New Zealand | H.M. Leach and B.F. Leach |
| 7 | Screen Size and Sample Stratification in Efficient Shell Midden Analysis | R.K. Nichol and L.J. Williams |
| 8 | An Estimation of Fertility in Prehistoric New Zealanders | M.A.L. Phillips |
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| 1 | The Role of Pigs in the Economy of Pakea Islet, Banks Islands, Southwest Pacific | D.R. Horton and G.K. Ward/ |
| 2 | Pre-European Hunting Dogs in the South Island, New Zealand | Atholl Anderson |
| 3 | Fluorine Concentration Profiles in Archaeological Bone: An Application of a Nuclear Microprobe | G.E Coote and R.J. Sparks |
| 4 | Dating New Zealand Obsidians by resonant Nuclear Reactions | Foss Leach and Harry Naylor |
| 5 | Archaeological Interpretation of Alluvial Gold Tailing Sites, central Otago, New Zealand | Neville Ritchie |
| 6 | The Ages of Pacific Obsidians from Fission Track Analysis | B.F. Leach, C.W. Naeser and G.K. Ward |
| 7 | Regional Occurrence of the Fern-Root Plane in Prehistoric New Zealanders | A.I.F. Simpson |
| 8 | New Zealand Mataa from Marlborough, Nelson and the Chatham Islands | K.L Jones |
| 9 | Archaic and Classic Maori Relationships at Long Beach, Otago: the Artefacts and Activity Areas | Helen M. Leach |
| 10 | The Value of High Latitude Models in South Pacific Archaeology: A Critique | Atholl Anderson |
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| 1 | Models for the Lapita Cultural Complex: An Evaluation of Some Current Proposals | R.C. Green |
| 2 | The Prehistoric Role of the Cromwell Gorge, New Zealand | Neville A. Ritchie |
| 3 | A Review of Economic Patterns During the Archaic Phase in Southern New Zealand | Atholl Anderson |
| 4 | Minimum Mahalanobis Distance Functions and Lithic Source Characterisation by Multi-element Analysis | Foss Leach |
| 5 | An Archaeologists' Guide to the Maori Dwelling | Nigel Prickett |
| 6 | Cooking Without Pots: Aspects of Prehistoric and Traditional Polynesian Cooking | Helen M. Leach |
| 7 | On New Zealand Climate Within the Last 1000 Years | Colin Burrows |
| 8 | A Preliminary report on a hafted Adze and Some Adze Handles from Archaeological Excavations on Huahine Island, French Polynesia | Yoshiko H. Sinoto |
| 9 | Woods Used in One-Piece and Composite Adze Hafts | R.T. Wallace |
| Paper No. | Title | Author(s) |
| 1 | Pa and People in New Zealand: An Archaeological Estimate of Population | Aileen Fox |
| 2 | New Caledonian Culture History: A Review of the Archaeological Sequence | R.C. Green and J.S. Mitchell |
| 3 | An Archaeological Exploration of Vanikoro, Santa Cruz Islands, Eastern Melanesia | P.V. Kirch |
| 4 | Typology and Seriation of Wax Vesta Tin Matchboxes from Cental Otago: A New Method of Dating Historic Sites in New Zealand | Dimitri Anson |
| 5 | Model Gardens and the Acceptability of New Crops to Polynesian Horticulturalists | Helen Leach |
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1985, Editor: Janet Davidson
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| 1 | The Chronology of the Mount Camel Archaic Site, Northland, New Zealand | Atholl Anderson and Rod Wallace |
| 2 | Bedggood Buildings, Te Waimate, Bay of Islands, Excavations on the site of the Blacksmith's Shop | Aidan J. Challis |
| 3 | The Chronology of Occupation on Maungarei (Mount Wellington): a Large Volcanic Cone Pa in Auckland | Janet Davidson |
| 4 | Sir Peter Buck and the Samoans | Helen M. Leach |
| 5 | Prehistory of Alega, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: A Small Residential and Basalt-industrial Valley | Jeffrey T. Clark |
| 6 | Plane-rasps: a Knapp Tool Type Re-identified from a Nelson Classic Maori Site | Helen M. Leach |
| 7 | The Chronology of the Natunuku Site Fiji | Janet Davidson and Foss Leach |
| 8 | Three Thousand Years of Settlement in the South of New Caledonia: Some Recent Results from the Region of Païta | Christophe Sand and André Ouétcho |
| 9 | The Importance of Fish Otoliths in Pacific Island Archaeofaunal Analysis | Marshall I. Weisler |
| Paper No. | Title | Author(s) |
| 1 | Following the Flake Trail: Adze Production on the Coromandel East Coast, New Zealand | Marianne Turner and Dante Bonica |
| 2 | Excavation of Wellers Rock Try-works, Otakou Whaling Station, Otago Harbour, New Zealand | Mathew Campbell |
| 3 | The Temple of Faleme'e: Archaeological and Anthropological Considerations of a Pre-Christian God-House on the Island of Ha'ano, Kingdom of Tonga | David V. Burley |
| 4 | The Impact of Pre-European Maori Fishermen on the New Zealand Snapper, Pagrus auratus, in the Vicinity of Rotokura, Tasman Bay | Foss Leach and Angela Boocock |
| 5 | Sex Determination of Prehistoric New Zealand Clavicles | A.M. C. Murphy |
| 6 | Obsidian Sourcing by PIXE Analysis at AURA2 | S.R. Neve, P.H. Barker , S. Holroyd , P.J. Sheppard |
| 7 | Settlement Patterns in the Whanganui River Valley, 1839-1864 | A. Walton |
1995, Editor: Janet Davidson
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| 1 | Linguistic, Biological and Cultural Origins of the Initial Inhabitants of Remote Oceania | R. C. Green |
| 2 | Sex Determination of Prehistoric New Zealand Scapulae | A.M.C. Murphy |
| 3 | Historical and Archaeological Aspects of Muttonbirding in New Zealand | Atholl Anderson |
| 4 | Prehistoric Maori Fishermen of Te Ika a Maru Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand | B.F. Leach, J.M. Davidson, L.M. Horwood and A Boocock |
| 5 | A Revision of the Prehistoric Sequence of Southern New Caledonia | Jean-Christophe Galipaud |
| 6 | Bruce Bay Revisited: Archaic Maori Occupation and Haast's 'Paleolithic' | Kevin L. Jones, Ray Hooker and Atholl Anderson |
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| 1 | Prehistoric and Historic Maori Fishermen of Mana Island, Cook Strait, New Zealand | L. M Horwood, B. F. Leach, and J. M. Davidson |
| 2 | A Skeleton from the Lapita Site at Kone, Foue Peninsula, New Caledonia | Michael Pietrusewsky, Jean-Christophe Galipaud and Foss Leach |
| 3 | Chemical Pretreatment and Radiocarbon Dating of Samples from the Prehistoric Site of Killermont #2, Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand | T. F. G. Higham, R. J. McGovern-Wilson, A.G. Hogg |
| 4 | Archaeological Research on Uvea Island, Western Polynesia | Christophe Sand |
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A Maori Canoe Prow from Stewart Island, New Zealand |
Karl Gillies |
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| 1 | The Tamaki River Pa: the excavation of a small defended site R11/1506, on the Tamaki River, Auckland, New Zealand | Russell Foster and Brenda Sewell |
| 2 | Settlement Permanence and Function at Pleasant River Mouth, East Otago, New Zealand | Ian Smith |
| 3 | New Zealand Bone Dating Revisited: A Radiocarbon Discard Protocol for Bone | Fiona J. Petchey |
| 4 | What was on the Menu? Avian Extinction in New Zealand | T.J. Worthy |
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| 1 | An Introduction to Investigations on Watom Island, Papua New Guinea | R.C. Green |
| 2 | Excavations at Kainapirina (SAC), Watom Island, Papua New Guinea | R.C. Green and Dimitri Anson |
| 3 | Excavations at Vunavaung (SDI), Rakival Village, Watom Island, Papua New Guinea | Dimitri Anson |
| 4 | Reber-Rakival Dentate-Stamped Motifs: Documentation and Comparative Implications | Dimitri Anson |
| 5 | Terrestrial Fauna from Excavations at the Kainapirina (SAC) Locality, Watom Island, Papua New Guinea | lan W.G. Smith |
| 6 | Evidence of Prehistoric Lapita Diet at Watom Island, Papua New Guinea, using Stable Isotopes | B.F. Leach, C.J. Quinn, G.L. Lyon, A. Haystead and D.B. Myers |
| 7 | Petrography of Sand Tempers in Prehistoric Watom Sherds and Comparison with Other Temper Suites of the Bismarck Archipelago | William R. Dickinson |
| 8 | Archaeological Investigations on Watom Island: Early Work, Outcomes of Recent Investigations and Future Prospects | R.C. Green and Dimitri Anson |
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| 1 | Prehistoric Fishing at Hane, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia | J.M. Davidson, K. Fraser, B.F. Leach and Y.H. Sinoto |
| 2 | Pits Long, Large and Prestigious: Recognition of Varieties of Maori Kumara Storage Pits in Northern New Zealand | R.G. Law |
| 3 | Renewed Excavations at Motu Paeao, Maupiti Island, French Polynesia: Preliminary Results | A. Anderson, E. Conte, G. Clark, Y. Sinoto and F. Petchey |
| 4 | A Kohika Wharepuni House Construction Methods of the Late Pre-contact Maori | Rod Wallace and Geoffrey Irwin |
| 5 | The Form and Construction of the Makotukutuku House, a Pre-European Dwelling in Palliser Bay, New Zealand | Foss Leach, Janet Davidson and Rod Wallace |
| 6 | Pre-European Catches of Blue Cod (Parapercis colias) in the Chatham Islands and Cook Strait, New Zealand | Foss Leach, Janet Davidson and Karen Fraser |
| Paper No. | Title | Author(s) |
| 1 | The Origins Of Muttonbirding In New Zealand | Atholl Anderson |
| 2 | The Age of the Yanuca Lapita Site, Viti Levu, Fiji | Geoffrey Clark and Atholl Anderson |
| 3 | European Perceptions of the Roles of Bracken Rhizomes (Pteridium esculentum (Forst. f.) Cockayne) in Traditional Maori Diet | Helen Leach |
| 4 | Sites and Site Types in Rarotonga, Cook Islands | Matthew Campbell |
| 5 | Pre-European Maori Fishing at Foxton, Manawatu, New Zealand | Janet Davidson, Foss Leach, Karen Greig and Penny Leach |
| 6 | Evaluating the "Lapita Smoke Screen" Site SGO015 of Goro, an Early Austronesian Settlement on the South-East Coast of New Caledonia's Grande Terre | Christophe Sand, Andre Ouetcho, Jacques Bole and David Baret |
2001, actual date of appearance 2003, Editor: Janet Davidson
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| 1 | Field Archaeology of the Mahia Peninsula (Nukutaurua mai Tawhiti), Northern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand | Kevin Jones, Mary Jeal and Mick Jeal |
| 2 | The use of Multiple Isotope Signatures in Reconstructing Prehistoric Human Diet from Archaeological Bone from the Pacific and New Zealand | Foss Leach, Carol Quinn, John Morrison and Graeme Lyon |
| 3 | Field Archaeology and Settlement Distribution in the Waiapu River Valley, East Coast | Kevin Jones |
| 4 | Identifying Fem-root Beaters: Documentary and Statistical Aids to Recognition | Helen Leach and Carla Purdue |
| A Wooden Trumpet, Pukaea, from Te Mata Hapuku Pa, Canterbury, New Zealand | Roger Fyfe | |
| Experimental Growing of Pre-European Cultivars of Kumara (Sweet Potato, Ipomoea batatas [L.] Lam.) at the Southern Margins of Maori Horticulture | Mike Burtenshaw, Graham Harris, Janet Davidson and Foss Leach | |
| Analysis of Sediments and Plant Remains from the Find-spot of a Cache of Polynesian Gardening Tools at Ruakaka, Northern New Zealand | Mark Horrocks, Simon Best and Mairie Byrami |
2002, actual date of appearance 2004, Editor: Janet Davidson
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| 1 | Nutritional Perspectives on Prehistoric Marine Fishing in New Zealand | Ian Smith |
| 2 | Identifying Site Usage at Arrawarra Beach and Red Rock, New South Wales, Australia, from Archaeological Marine Fauna! Assemblages | Deborah Vale |
| 3 | Prehistoric Fishing Technologies and Species Targeted in the Aleutian Islands: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Evidence | Lucille Lewis Johnson |
| 4 | Fish Remains from Site 4853-1 at Bellows Beach, Waimanalo, O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands | Min-yung Chiu |
| 5 | Prehistoric Fishing at Bukit Tengkorak, East Coast of Borneo Island | Rintaro Ono |
| 6 | Potable Water and Sanitation in Early Queenstown, New Zealand | Jill Hamel |
| 7 | The Age of Rat Introduction in New Zealand: Further Evidence from Earthquakes #1, North Otago | Atholl Anderson and Tom Higham |
| 8 | The Age Disconformity in AMS Radiocarbon Results on Rattus exulans Bone | Atholl Anderson |
2003, actual date of appearance 2004, Editor: Janet Davidson
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| 1 | W. Gumbley, T.F.G. Higham and D.J. Low | |
| 2 | Defining the Lau Context: Recent Findings on Nayau, Lau Islands, Fiji | Sharyn Jones O’Day, Patrick O’Day and David W. Steadman |
| 3 | Contraction of the Southeast Polynesian Interaction Sphere and Resource Depression on Temoe Atoll | Marshall I. Weisler |
| 4 | The Volcanic Outlier of ‘Ata in Tongan Prehistory: Reconsideration of its Role and Settlement Chronology | David V. Burley, David W. Steadman and Atholl Anderson |
| 5 | Petrography of Polynesian Plainware from ‘Ata, Tonga | William R. Dickinson |
| 6 | A Stone Tool Basalt Source on ‘Ata, Southern Tonga | Marshall I. Weisler |
| 7 | The Archaeology of Omaha Sandspit, Northland, New Zealand | Matthew Campbell, Simon Bickler and Rod Clough |
2004, actual date of appearance 2005, Editor: Janet Davidson
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| 1 | Archaeology on Ice: a Review of Historical Archaeology in Antarctica | David L. Harrowfield |
| 2 | A Local Marine Reservoir Correction Value (ΔR) for Watom Island, Papua New Guinea | Fiona Petchey, Roger Green, Martin Jones and Matthew Phelan |
| 3 | Reconstructing the Lapita-era Geography of Northern Fiji: a Newly-discovered Lapita site on Yadua Island and its Implications | Patrick D. Nunn, Sepeti Matararaba, Tomo Ishimura, Roselyn Kumar and Elia Nakoro |
| 4 | Functional and Technological Explanations for the Variation Among Early New Zealand Adzes | Marianne Turner |
| 5 | Pa¯, Forest and Fire on the Western Approaches to the Urewera Ranges, New Zealand | Kevin L. Jones |
2005, actual date of appearance 2006, Editor: Janet Davidson
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(Editorials and Letters to the Editor are not indexed)
| Paper No. | Title | Author(s) |
| 1 | Ceramic Deposit Below Fifth to Sixth Century AD Volcanic Ash Fall at Pava‘ia‘i, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: Preliminary Results from Site AS-31-17C1 | David J. Addison, Tuipuavai Tago, Jeffery Toloa and Erik Pearthree |
| 2 | Periodicity, Duration, and Function of Occupation at Tauroa Point, Northland, New Zealand | Melinda S. Allen |
| 3 | An Interpretation of the Settlement and Defences of the Otatara-Hikurangi Pa Complex, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand | Kevin L. Jones and Tony Walton |
| 4 | The Hamurama Road Site, U15/9, Rotorua, New Zealand | Matthew Campbell and Mark Horrocks |
| 5 | Greywacke Stone Artefacts on the Canterbury Coast | Dan Witter |
| 6 | Historical Archaeology in Island Melanesia: First Research on the Convict Settlements of New Caledonia | Christophe Sand, Jaques Bolé and André Ouetcho |
2006 actual date of appearance 2007, Editor: Janet Davidson
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| Paper No. | Title | Author(s) |
| 1 | Subterranean Storage Pits for Kumara (Sweet Potato, Ipomoea batatas L. Lam.): Ethnographic, Archaeological and Experimental Research in New Zealand | Janet Davidson, Foss Leach, Mike Burtenshaw and Graham Harris |
| 2 | Mission Station as Trading Post: The Economy of the Church Missionary Society in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand | Angela Middleton |
| 3 | Bird Remains from Takahe Valley (D42/1), Fiordland, New Zealand: A New Appreciation of the Site | Gerard O’Regan |
| 4 | Archaeology of the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace, Wellington, New Zealand: “It’s all memories now… .” | Kevin L. Jones |
| Volume Number | Nominal Year of Publication | Editor |
| 1 | 1979 | Jill Hamel |
| 2 | 1980 | Jill Hamel |
| 3 | 1981 | Jill Hamel |
| 4 | 1982 | Jill Hamel |
| 5 | 1983 | Jill Hamel |
| 6 | 1984 | Jill Hamel |
| 7 | 1985 | Janet Davidson |
| 8 | 1986 | Janet Davidson |
| 9 | 1987 | Janet Davidson |
| 10 | 1988 | Janet Davidson |
| 11 | 1989 | Janet Davidson |
| 12 | 1990 | Janet Davidson |
| 13 | 1991 | Janet Davidson |
| 14 | 1992 | Janet Davidson |
| 15 | 1993 | Janet Davidson |
| 16 | 1994 | Janet Davidson |
| 17 | 1995 | Janet Davidson |
| 18 | 1996 | Janet Davidson |
| 19 | 1997 | Janet Davidson |
| 20 | 1998 | Janet Davidson |
| 21 | 1999 | Janet Davidson |
| 22 | 2000 | Janet Davidson |
| 23 | 2001 | Janet Davidson |
| 24 | 2002 | Janet Davidson |
| 25 | 2003 | Janet Davidson |
| 26 | 2004 | Janet Davidson |
| 27 | 2005 | Janet Davidson |
| 28 | 2006 | Janet Davidson |