The Ngati Tiare adze cache: further evidence of prehistoric contact between West Polynesia and the Southern Cook Islands

Author:

Walter, P. K., Sheppard, P. J.

Title:

The Ngati Tiare adze cache: further evidence of prehistoric contact between West Polynesia and the Southern Cook Islands

Periodical:

Archaeology in Oceania

Year:

1996

Volume:

31

Pages:

33-39

Subject:

Adzes Polynesia

Summary:

Even though post-colonization contact between the West and East Polynesia regions were generally thought to have remained isolated from one another following human settlement, this document describes how evidence demonstrates significant interaction with West Polynesia during the early phase of the Southern Cook Islands prehistory through adzes that were found in the Ngati Tiare cache that were likely derived from Samoa.

Label:

Archaeology

Collection:

Periodicals