Melinda S. Allen

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Melinda S. Allen is affiliated with the following schools: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Auckland, University of New Zealand

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#1720

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#2231

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#445

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#630

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Melinda S. Allen's Degrees

Bachelors Archaeology University of Auckland
Masters Archaeology University of New Zealand

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According to Wikipedia, Melinda S. Allen is an American–New Zealand archaeologist. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career Melinda gained her BA in anthropology and biology from the University of Arizona, followed by her Master of Arts in anthropology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. After a PhD titled 'Dynamic landscapes and human subsistence: Archaeological investigations on Aitutaki Island, southern Cook Islands' at the University of Washington , Allen moved to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. In 1996 she took up a position as lecturer at the University of Auckland, rising to full professor where she specializes in Bioarchaeology and Paleoecology, and curates the university's Anthropology Zooarchaeological Reference Collection.

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Melinda S. Allen's Published Works

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Published Works

The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific (1994) (252)
Bet-hedging strategies, agricultural change, and unpredictable environments: historical development of dryland agriculture in Kona, Hawaii (2004) (81)
New Evidence from the East Polynesian Gateway: Substantive and Methodological Results from Aitutaki, Southern Cook Islands (2007) (80)
New Ideas about Late Holocene Climate Variability in the Central Pacific (2006) (77)
Complex history of dog (Canis familiaris) origins and translocations in the Pacific revealed by ancient mitogenomes (2018) (67)
Three millennia of human and sea turtle interactions in Remote Oceania (2007) (63)
Style and function in East Polynesian fish-hooks (1996) (56)
Resolving Long-Term Change in Polynesian Marine Fisheries (2002) (55)
Temporal Variation in Polynesian Fishing Strategies: The Southern Cook Islands in Regional Perspective (1992) (54)
Dynamic landscapes and human subsistence : archaeological investigations on Aitutaki Island, southern Cook Islands (1992) (50)
Short-Lived Plant Materials, Long-Lived Trees, and Polynesian 14C Dating: Considerations for 14C Sample Selection and Documentation (2014) (46)
Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds [Book Review] (2007) (45)
Dynamics of Polynesian Subsistence: Insights from Archaeofauna and Stable Isotope Studies, Aitutaki, Southern Cook Islands1 (2009) (45)
Stability in the South Pacific surface marine 14C reservoir over the last 750 years. Evidence from American Samoa, the southern Cook Islands and the Marquesas (2009) (41)
Pacific 'Babes' : issues in the origins and dispersal of Pacific pigs and the potential of mitochondrial DNA analysis (2001) (39)
Human settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought (2020) (37)
Excavations at the Ureia site, Aitutaki, Cook Islands: preliminary results (1990) (37)
Revisiting and revising Marquesan culture history: New archaeological investigations at Anaho Bay, Nuku Hiva Island (2004) (36)
High-precision dating of colonization and settlement in East Polynesia (2011) (36)
Holocene Sea-Level Change on Aitutaki, Cook Islands: Landscape Change and Human Response (1998) (35)
Molluscan foraging efficiency and patterns of mobility amongst foraging agriculturalists: a case study from northern New Zealand (2012) (35)
A Marquesan coral reef (French Polynesia) in historical context: an integrated socio-ecological approach (2009) (35)
Starch analysis reveals prehistoric plant translocations and shell tool use, Marquesas Islands, Polynesia (2013) (34)
Oscillating climate and socio-political process: the case of the Marquesan Chiefdom, Polynesia (2010) (34)
Archaeological Investigations of the Mudlane-Waimea-Kawaihae Road Corridor, Island of Hawaii: An Interdisciplinary Study of an Environmental Transect. (1983) (34)
Marquesan colonisation chronologies and post-colonisation interaction: implications for Hawaiian origins and the “Marquesan Homeland” hypothesis (2014) (34)
Integrating Archaeology and Ethnohistory: The Development of Exchange between Yap and Ulithi, Western Caroline Islands (review) (2005) (33)
The Hakaea Beach site, Marquesan colonisation, and models of East Polynesian settlement (2010) (29)
Six centuries of anthropogenic forest change on a Polynesian high island: Archaeological charcoal records from the Marquesas Islands (2016) (29)
Early Marquesan Settlement and Patterns of Interaction: New Insights from Hatiheu Valley, Nuku Hiva Island (2013) (27)
The Identification of a Marquesan Adze in the Cook Islands (2013) (22)
Modelling site formation dynamics: geoarchaeological, chronometric and statistical approaches to a stratified rockshelter sequence, Polynesia (2013) (22)
Measuring stone artefact transport: the experimental demonstration and pilot application of a new method to a prehistoric adze workshop, southern Cook Islands (2014) (22)
A Novel Application of Molecular Techniques to Pacific Archaeofish Remains (2003) (22)
In Surplus and in Scarcity: Agricultural Development, Risk Management, and Political Economy on Ofu Island, American Samoa (2016) (20)
Traditional Rotuman fishing in temporal and regional context (2001) (19)
Morphological Variability and Temporal Patterning in Marquesan Domestic Architecture: Anaho Valley in Regional Context (2009) (19)
Polynesian Earth Ovens and Their Fuels: Wood Charcoal Remains from Anaho Valley, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands (2010) (19)
Taxonomy: Sus bucculentus revisited (2006) (17)
Environmental Variability and Traditional Hawaiian Land Use Patterns: Manuka's Cultural Islands in Seas of Lava (1994) (17)
Basalt geochemistry reveals high frequency of prehistoric tool exchange in low hierarchy Marquesas Islands (Polynesia) (2017) (17)
The Chronology of Coastal Morphogenesis and Human Settlement on Aitutaki, Southern Cook Islands, Polynesia (1994) (16)
Agent-based modelling, molluscan population dynamics, and archaeomalacology (2017) (16)
Lana'i Island's Arid Lowland Vegetation in Late Prehistory (1999) (14)
New pollen, sedimentary, and radiocarbon records from the Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia: Implications for archaeological and palaeoclimate studies (2011) (12)
Occupation duration and mobility in New Zealand prehistory: Insights from geochemical and technological analyses of an early Māori stone artefact assemblage (2016) (11)
The Historical Role of Bonefishes (Albula spp.) in Polynesian Fisheries (2014) (11)
Anthropogenic forests, arboriculture, and niche construction in the Marquesas Islands (Polynesia) (2020) (11)
Timing, magnitude and effects of late Holocene sea level drawdown on island habitability, Aitutaki, Cook Islands (2016) (9)
Variability is in the Mesh-size of the Sorter: Harataonga Beach and Spatio-temporal Patterning in Northern Māori Fisheries (2014) (9)
The Anomaly of Marquesan Ceramics: a Fifty Year Retrospective (2012) (9)
A list of bats from northeastern Luzon, Philippines (1986) (8)
Tattooing tools and the Lapita cultural complex (2018) (8)
Central East Polynesia: an introduction (2010) (7)
Patterns of interaction in Southern Cook Island prehistory (1996) (7)
Spatial variability and human eco-dynamics in central East Polynesian fisheries (2017) (7)
Antipodean Perspectives on Zooarchaeology: Behavioral Ecology, Taphonomy, and Applied Research (2009) (7)
Roof rat depredations on Hibiscadelphus (Malvaceae) Trees (1978) (6)
Inferring fishing intensity from contemporary and archaeological size-frequency data (2018) (5)
The impact of the sweet potato on prehistoric Hawaiian cultural development (1978) (4)
Ancient DNA Evidence for the Introduction and Dispersal of Dogs (Canis familiaris) in New Zealand (2018) (4)
Dietary Opportunities and Constraints on Islands (2015) (4)
Multi-species Perspectives on Anthropogenic Environments: Dental Pathology Patterns, Marquesas Islands (Polynesia) (2015) (4)
Ancient DNA evidence for the introduction and dispersal of dogs in New Zealand (2018) (3)
Prehistoric Settlement at Anaho Bay, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands: preliminary observations (2002) (3)
Marquesan ceramics, palaeotsunami, and megalithic architecture: Ho‘oumi Beach site (NHo‐3) in regional perspective (2021) (3)
When less is more: Element selection as sampling strategy in zooarchaeology (2020) (2)
Archaeological avifauna of Harataonga, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand: implications for avian palaeontology, Maori prehistory, and archaeofaunal recovery techniques (2010) (2)
Human–animal entanglements and environmental change (2020) (2)
Canine companions or competitors? A multi-proxy analysis of dog-human competition (2022) (1)
Cultural Resource Management Work in the Area of the Kamehameha III Birthsite Memorial, Keauhou Bay, Keauhou-Kona Resort, Keauhou, North Kona, Island of Hawai`i (1983) (1)
Dental analysis demonstrates variability in diet and health of prehistoric Polynesian pigs (2017) (1)
Appendix: Artifacts from 1987 Excavations on Henderson Island (1989) (1)
Polynesian earth ovens and their fuels: interpretation of wood charcoal remains from Anaho Valley, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands (2011) (1)
A Data Recovery Program for the Keauhou-Kona Resort Company Project Area, Keauhou-Kona Resort; Island of Hawai`i (Revised Working Draft) (1983) (0)
Examining the Causes of Migration into East Polynesia: A Bayesian Chronology Perspective on the Ideal-Free Distribution Model (2017) (0)
Assessing Island Habitability and Land Use on Polynesia’s Smallest Islands (2015) (0)
Less is more, vol 2: Element selection as sampling strategy (2019) (0)
Lost bioscapes: Floristic and arthropod diversity coincident with 12th century Polynesian settlement, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands (2022) (0)
Modelling climate impacts on human societies and marine fisheries in central Polynesia (2016) (0)
Arboriculture, Translocated Flora, and Ecological Inheritance in the Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia (2018) (0)
Human Ecodynamics in Central East Polynesia (2019) (0)
Ancient mitogenomes of Southeast Asian and Pacific dogs shows complex regional history (2018) (0)
Preliminary Report on Pollen and Sedimentary Records from Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia (2009) (0)
Modeling climate impacts and human predation on marine populations using prey age profiles: an agent based model (2015) (0)
Marine prey vulnerability versus resilience to human foragers: insights from agent based modelling (2016) (0)
MORE BIRD BONES FROM POLYNESIAN ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES ON HENDERSON ISLAND (2005) (0)
Archaeological Investigations in the Mangareva Islands (Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia (review) (2006) (0)
Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2018 (2018) (0)
Archaeological Inspection and Evaluation of Previously Identified Sites: Development Parcel 26, Keauhou-Kona Resort, Kahalu`u, North Kona, Hawai`i (1984) (0)
Mid- to Late Holocene Obsidian Importation in the Mussau Islands (2021) (0)
Erratum to “Dental analysis demonstrates variability in diet and health of prehistoric Polynesian pigs” [J. Archaeol. Sci. Rep. 15C (2017) 203–212] (2018) (0)
Complex history of dog (Canis familiaris) origins and translocations in the Pacific revealed by ancient mitogenomes (2018) (0)

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