Reserachers working on


INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY


(alphabetical order)

Jean-Michel CHAZINE
Senior Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, Indonesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Anthropological Field Records, Rock Art, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Borneo

Rowan GARD
PhD Student, Center for Pacific Studies at University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Hawaii, Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), Fiji, Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Climate Change, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cosmology, Ecology, Environment, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Public Art

John Dominic LYNCH
Professor emeritus, Faculty of Arts, Law and Education at University of the South Pacific

Administrative areas: Tafea (Vanuatu), Vanuatu, Malampa (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Contact Linguistic, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Language, Language Change, Language Documentation, Language Shift, Linguistic Reconstruction, Hitorical-Comparative Linguistics

Guillaume MOLLE
Research Fellow, Centre International de Recherche Archéologique sur la Polynesie (CIRAP) at University of French Polynesia, French Polynesia

Keywords: Cultural Landscapes, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Landscape, Polynesian Chiefdoms, Polynesian Languages, Religion, Ritual, Seascape, Social-ecological System, Techniques

Michael Clifford QUINNELL
Adjunct/associate Researcher, Cultural Environments QMS at Queensland Museum, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia
Keywords: Material Culture, Museums, Rock Art, Torres Strait, Typology, Textiles / Fibre Arts, Tapa, Native Title, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Ethnographic Encounter