The Pacific Ocean is a vast expanse that is punctuated by diverse islands and archipelagos. Some of these islands closer to Asia and the Australian landmass have been home to humans for tens of millennia. Others – spread across Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia – make up Remote Oceania and were only settled by humans within the past few thousand years. Archeological investigations have provided ...[Read More]
Early farmers of the Pacific recorded in sediment cores from Vanuatu
A schematic landscape of Vanuatu depicting some of the signals that can be transported and preserved in the sediment. Fecal markers, indicating the presence of human and pigs, palmitone as a proxy specific for taro, charcoal as a proxy for burning. The combination of these proxies is used as indication of human presence. Figure from Camperio, 2024, PhD Thesis.