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Jack Golson

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#1976

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#2551

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Archeology

#489

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#683

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PhD Archaeology University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Jack Golson was a British-born Australian archaeologist who carried out extensive field work in Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. Life and career Jack Golson was born in Rochdale, England on 13 September 1926. He studied history and archaeology at Cambridge University. In 1954, he lectured at the archaeology department of Auckland University in New Zealand where he began studies on pre-history in the Pacific Islands. Golson also worked towards improving standards and methods of archaeology in New Zealand and organised the New Zealand Archaeological Association.

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Jack Golson's Published Works

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Aboriginal man and environment in Australia (1972) (153)
Lapita sites of the Bismarck Archipelago (1989) (93)
The Appearance of Plant and Animal Domestication in New Guinea (1980) (90)
Late Quaternary change in the mountains of New Guinea (1995) (75)
Agriculture and Sociopolitical Organization in New Guinea Highlands Prehistory (1990) (75)
Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide (2013) (58)
Palaeoecology and prehistory in New Guinea (1983) (48)
Report on New Zealand, Western Polynesia, New Caledonia and Fiji (1961) (42)
A Colocasian revolution in the New Guinea Highlands? Insights from Phase 4 at Kuk (1992) (39)
Reading Early Agriculture at Kuk Swamp, Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea: the Archaeological Features (Phases 1–3) (2004) (32)
[TRANSITIONS TO AGRICULTURE IN THE PACIFIC REGION] The New Guinea Highlands on the eve of agriculture (1991) (30)
Old guards and new waves: reflections on antipodean archaeology 1954–1975 (1986) (25)
Collection of specimens for radiocarbon dating and interpretation of results (1967) (24)
BOTH SIDES OF THE WALLACE LINE: AUSTRALIA, NEW GUINEA, AND ASIAN PREHISTORY (1971) (23)
Polynesian navigation;: A symposium on Andrew Sharp's theory of accidental voyages (1972) (22)
Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (2017) (21)
THOR HEYERDAHL AND THE PREHISTORY OF EASTER ISLAND (1965) (17)
New Guinea, Australia and the Sahul Connection (2001) (14)
The remarkable history of indo‐pacific man (1972) (14)
The middle reaches of New Guinea history (2005) (13)
ANU [Australian National University, Canberra] radiocarbon date list II. (1968) (10)
The Last Decade in New Zealand Archaeology (1962) (9)
The Niobrara Gas Play: Exploration and Development of a Low-Pressure, Low-Permeability Gas Reservoir (1982) (9)
Archaeological evidence for the Ipomoean Revolution at Kuk swamp, upper Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea (2005) (8)
Introduction to the chapters on archaeology and ethnology (2005) (8)
Papuan Pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of the Papuan-speaking peoples (2005) (8)
Unravelling the Story of Early Plant Exploitation in Highland Papua New Guinea (2007) (8)
What went wrong with WAC 3 and an attempt to understand why (1995) (8)
The Ipomoean Revolution Revisited: Society and the Sweet Potato in the Upper Wahgi Valley (2017) (6)
Phase 6: Impact of the Sweet Potato on Swamp Landuse, Pig Rearing and Exchange Relations (2017) (6)
A renewed archaeological and archaeobotanical assessment of house sites at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea (2016) (5)
The origins and development of New Guinea agriculture (2020) (5)
[TRANSITIONS TO AGRICULTURE IN THE PACIFIC REGION] Introduction (1991) (4)
Archaeology in a changing society (1975) (4)
Phase 1: The case for 10,000-year-old agriculture at Kuk (2017) (3)
Phase 2: Mounded cultivation during the mid Holocene (2017) (3)
Manifest destiny and the expansion of America (2007) (3)
Foundations for New Guinea Nationhooda (1998) (3)
Phase 5: Retreating Forests, Flat-Bottomed Ditches and Raised Fields (2017) (2)
Phase 3: The emergence of ditches (2017) (2)
From FEPA to IPPA: the remaking of an institution (1998) (2)
The World Archaeological Congress, Southampton, and its aftermath (1986) (2)
Susan Bulmer, an archaeological pioneer (2016) (2)
The Kuk Artefacts, an Introduction (2017) (1)
Happy 6000th Anniversary (1997) (1)
Kuk Stone Artefacts: Technology, Usewear and Residues (2017) (1)
The World Archaeological Congress: A new archaeological organisation (1988) (1)
NEW ZEALAND ARCHAEOLOGY, 1957 (2016) (1)
An Introduction to the Investigations at Kuk Swamp (2017) (1)
Volcanic Ash at Kuk (2017) (1)
The personality of New England: Isabel McBryde and the dimensions of her regional archaeology (2005) (1)
Houses in and out of the Swamp (2017) (1)
Jim Specht’s brilliant career—a tribute. In A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht (2004) (1)
Charles Andrew Sharp (1906–1974) (1974) (1)
Peter Ucko's 'Humane Archaeology' (2006) (0)
18 The Kuk Artefacts , an Introduction (2017) (0)
17 Houses in and out of the Swamp (2017) (0)
Digging Up a Past [Book Review] (2011) (0)
Jack Golson - Emeritus Professor, archaeologist (2015) (0)
Abstracts (2004) (0)
Hail to the Chief: A Tribute to Bill Solheim (2004) (0)
Jim Specht's Brilliant Career—A Tribute (2004) (0)
W.R. Ambrose: an archaeological boffin (1997) (0)
Research Report by the Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1976 (1977) (0)
Ronald John Lampert (1927-2008) (2009) (0)
The Future of AA (1987) (0)
Freeman, J. D., and Geddes, W. R. Anthropology in the South Seas : Essays Presented to H. D. Skinner (1961) (0)
Phase 4: Major Disposal Channels, Slot-Like Ditches and Grid-Patterned Fields (2017) (0)
The world Archaeology Congress, Southampton, and its aftermath (1987) (0)
Australian Aboriginal Anthropology.@@@Aboriginal Man and Environment in Australia.@@@Aboriginal Settlements. (1972) (0)
12 Phase 2 : Mounded Cultivation During the Mid Holocene (2017) (0)
The Last Decade in New Zealand Archaeology. Part II (1962) (0)
Kuk 1991 to 1998, the Station Abandoned and the Land Resumed: Archaeological Implications (2017) (0)
Murray Charles Groves 24 August 1926 - 5 May 2011 (2011) (0)
Peter May 1960-1983 (1983) (0)
Professional Inaugural Address: Foundations for New Guinea Nationhood (1998) (0)
11 Phase 1 : The Case for 10 , 000-Year-Old Agriculture at Kuk (2017) (0)
Geddes, William Robert (1916-1989) (2007) (0)
Artefacts of Wood (2017) (0)
Professor W. R. Geddes (1989) (0)
Index for Volume 31 (1955) (0)
Stone Sources and Petrology of Kuk Swamp Artefacts (2017) (0)

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