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Friday, February 29, 2008
NEW SOCIAL SCIENCE MEDAL
The Royal Society has established a new Social Science Medal to be awarded for the first time this year. The Dame Joan Metge Medal will be awarded to a social scientist who, working in New Zealand, has shown excellence in his or her area but also excellence in the utilisation of his or her social science training, research experience, teaching and/or working life to facilitate and create connections and opportunities among the various stakeholders involved in social science research. The Medal will recognise, in particular, those who have contributed to capacity building, beneficial relationships with research participants, mentoring of new researchers as well as contributions to new knowledge. The Dame Joan Metge Medal will be awarded biennially, alternatively with the Te Rangi Hiroa Medal.
Applications are now being called for and the closing date for application is 30 June 2008.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Conference
Updated information on the Masterton Conference
Monday, February 25, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Natural selection and cultural rates of change -- Rogers and Ehrlich, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Deborah S. Rogers and Paul R. Ehrlich*
Abstract
It has been claimed that a meaningful theory of cultural evolution is not possible because human beliefs and behaviors do not follow predictable patterns. However, theoretical models of cultural transmission and observations of the development of societies suggest that patterns in cultural evolution do occur. Here, we analyze whether two sets of related cultural traits, one tested against the environment and the other not, evolve at different rates in the same populations. Using functional and symbolic design features for Polynesian canoes, we show that natural selection apparently slows the evolution of functional structures, whereas symbolic designs differentiate more rapidly. This finding indicates that cultural change, like genetic evolution, can follow theoretically derived patterns.
Meri Low writes: Hi everyone PDC plan to re-run the highly successful Faunal Workshop in Wellington at Te Papa's off-site store/Archaeozoology Laboratory on the 3rd April 08. This workshop aims to show why the humble midden is a vitally important component of the New Zealand archaeological record and to suggest how archaeologists, particularly those working in public archaeology, can meet their responsibilities in this area. The emphasis will be on the sampling and identification of fish and shellfish remains, but will touch on any and all components of `middens'. There is also planned, a tour of the Archaeozoology Lab and practical demonstration of fish bone identification process This workshop will be led by Janet Davidson, with contributions from Rick McGovern-Wilson, Karen Greig and Carolyn McGill, Te Papa's Collection Manager with responsibility for the Archaeozoology Collections.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
ANU E Press - Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement
Terra Australis 26
Edited by Stuart Bedford, Christophe Sand and Sean P. Connaughton.
Purchase or download free.
Seventeen chapters on Lapita and Lapita ceramics.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Counterpoint - 11 February 2008 - Prehistory- ABC
Homo sapiens emerged in Africa more than 100,000 years ago and started to disperse to other continents in a big way 60,000 years ago. But why did it then take another 50,000 years before we developed villages and agriculture. Why the big wait?
Professor Colin Renfrew analyses one of the great mysteries of history.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Friday, February 08, 2008
Earl Neller writes again:
Hello, again. I got an email from Janet Davidson, which prompted me to take another look at the AINZ 1956 photo. I think I was wrong. Person no. 7 looks too short, and perhaps too old to have been Kenneth Emory. I'm attaching a photo I took of Kenneth Emory in 1978 at a meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Tucson, Arizona.
Ed: That's him in the middle.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
David J. Addison, PhD
Personal page - the link is to David's publication list - much of which is online (Marquesas, Hawaii, American Samoa).
Journal of Samoan Studies
Archaeology Issue - just out:
Topics in this issue include radiocarbon chronology of Samoa settlement on
Tutuila and Manu'a (Addison and Asaua); ancient Polynesian Plainware
ceramics from Aganoa and Faleniu (Suzanne Eckert and Frederic Pearl, Texas
A&M); the controversy over the Pulemelei mound site and other archaeological
issues on 'Upolu and Savai'i (Helene Matinsson-Wallin, Geoffrey Clark, and
Paul Wallin, Gotland University and Australia National University);
excavations at Siutu on Savai'i (Ishimura and Inoue, NRICP and Kyoto
University); GIS modeling of American Samoa archaeology sites (Alex
Morrison, University of Hawai'i); lithic tool manufacture quarries at
Tatagamatau Leone and Malaeloa (Quent Winterhoff and David Rigtrup,
University of Oregon); and the oral history and other traditional links
between Samoa and 'Uvea and Futuna (Christophe Sand, Archaeology Department
of New Caledonia).Anyone interested in the Journal of Samoan Studies can make inquiries by
contacting Telesia Lafotanoa at NUS via: t.lafotanoa@nus.edu.ws
Monday, February 04, 2008
Earl Neller writes:
"Digging Into History" AINZ 2004, the photo on page 8, Auckland Conference
Group photo, the unidentified man no. 7 is Kenneth Emory of the Bishop
Museum in Honolulu.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
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