The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific: Seven Years of the CBAP Project

Matthew Spriggs

Collection:Histories of Archaeology: Keynotes from the 2021 Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific Conference

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The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific: Seven Years of the CBAP Project

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Matthew Spriggs

Abstract

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Project, The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific or ‘CBAP’ was funded between 2015-2020 and, due to COVID disruptions, associated events continued until the end of 2022. Some of the initial aims included: to create a sub-field of the history of Pacific archaeology; to re-define the development of Australian archaeology within its wider Oceanic context; to re-discover the contribution of both French and German scholars; to recover the considerable amount of archaeological excavation that took place in the Pacific from the 1870s until WWII; to re-conceptualise the perennial issue of trans-Oceanic cultural contacts; to redress the neglect of the role of Indigenous Pacific scholars and of women in archaeology; and to re-engage with descendant communities in the light of our research and its findings. The paper discusses the project’s results in light of these and other emerging aims during the last seven years. It also provides a comprehensive bibliography of publications by the Project’s main contributors.

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Year: 2023

Volume: 33 Issue: 1

Page/Article: 5

DOI: 10.5334/bha-673

Submitted on Sep 29, 2022

Accepted on Sep 6, 2023

Published on Dec 26, 2023

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Introduction

As was noted in the 2017 paper laying out the justification for, and background to, the Australian Research Council-funded Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific Laureate Project (henceforth CBAP), that the Pacific and Island Southeast Asian regions had hitherto been almost completely absent from world histories of archaeology (). CBAP had as an anticipated outcome to change this situation through examination and exposition of the forgotten networks of influence linking Pacific scholars to the metropoles of Europe and America, giving Pacific archaeology its proper place with the much more established histories of Pacific anthropology and of Australian archaeology. It also intended to highlight the particularly significant early Francophone and Germanophone contributions to Pacific archaeology while not ignoring other non-Anglophone traditions (Hawaiian, Japanese, Russian and so on), through recuperation of the very largely forgotten archaeological excavations of the Pre-World War II period, and through re-membering the neglected roles of Indigenous scholars, women and so-called ‘amateur’ archaeologists in the development of Pacific archaeology.

It can fairly be claimed, and the very extensive project bibliography at the end of this paper (including four completed PhD theses) clearly demonstrates, that over the past seven years CBAP has firmly established the history of Pacific archaeology as a new and fruitful sub-discipline within world archaeology, covering the period from the speculations of early explorers to the present. The project was timely in that Pacific archaeology has been in a serious conceptual crisis in recent years, with theories about the origins of Pacific peoples mired in often racialised assumptions that were largely unanalysed. At the same time, archaeological ideas about the Pacific past have become increasingly internalised among indigenous Pacific Islanders. There has been an urgent need for the understanding of this history to move theory forward to create a more inclusive, decolonised Pacific archaeology. Much, of course, remains to be done in this regard.

Aims and Achievements

It is worth going back to the original detailed aims of CBAP to evaluate how far we have come. The first was, as mentioned above, to create a sub-field of the history of Pacific archaeology, drawing upon but greatly extending the rather parochial histories of Australian and New Zealand archaeology that already existed. The hiring of French and German-language specialists, Emilie Dotte-Sarout and Hilary Howes, as the two postdoctoral fellows for CBAP, as well as recruiting two major Pacific historians as our primary research associates, Bronwen Douglas and Elena Govor, the latter a native Russian speaker, helped to broaden CBAP’s perspectives. The recruitment of four PhD scholars, Michelle Richards, Andrea Ballesteros Danel, Eve Haddow and Victor Melander, from Australia, Mexico, Scotland, and Sweden, further broadened the team’s perspectives, as did a wider informal network of research associates across the world. Our research and administration team of Catherine Fitzgerald, Tristen Jones and Mirani Litster brought further perspectives to the Project.

Annual sessions on the history of regional archaeology were organised at the Australian Archaeological Association Conferences of 2015–2022 – the 2020 conference was cancelled – showcasing the work of the project (see listing below). Four of these so far have resulted in published collections in journals (, , , and ; see also the published AAA session on pXRF analyses by ). CBAP co-sponsored the Annual Humanities Research Centre Conference at ANU in January 2017 on the theme Oceanic Knowledges: Exchange and Collaborations across Land and Sea and Time. A 2016 conference was held in Marseilles, France jointly with CREDO and CNRS on the history of Francophone contributions to Pacific archaeology (published in French and English as and ) and a workshop at the ANU for Francophone early career researchers in archaeology was held in 2017 (). Annual CBAP Lectures invited key figures researching the history of archaeology worldwide to address and meet with CBAP personnel, associated with annual CBAP workshops/conferences at the ANU from 2015 to 2019. These culminated in an international conference on Histories of Archaeology held as an online event at the end of 2021(delayed from March 2020), as well as history of Asia-Pacific archaeology sessions organised at several other conferences, including the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Congresses in Hue, Vietnam (2018) and Chiang Mai, Thailand (2022) – anticipated by an initial history session organised by Spriggs and Anna Källén at the January 2014 Congress in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The final CBAP event was Pasifika Perspectives on the History of Archaeology, a workshop for Pacific museum and archives personnel to repatriate the regional and local history of archaeology and to discuss ways of incorporating the history of archaeology into future exhibitions and research. This workshop was delayed from March 2020 and finally held at ANU in October 2022. Between them, these public fora did much to bring the history of Pacific archaeology to global attention.

The second aim was to re-evaluate our current stalemated and inadequate theories about the settlement of the Pacific and to re-engage with and critique histories of socio-cultural anthropology that have excised much of its shared past with archaeology in the Pacific in the development of key concepts and schools of thought. The work of all CBAP participants, their publications and PhD theses helped to achieve this objective. The concentration of the project on the period up to the 1960s allowed us to critique earlier approaches and conclusions. The Uncovering Pacific Pasts devolved exhibition at some 36 institutions worldwide (listed at the end of this paper) and the resultant publication () were delivered very specifically to address the ‘hidden history’ of Pacific archaeology and its origins – as with sociocultural anthropology in the region – in ethnology. The impetus of the multi-site exhibition continues with subsequent and planned exhibitions at the Vanuatu National Museum on The History of Vanuatu Archaeology, presented on posters in English and French. Part one, covering from the early European explorers to the start of World War II was exhibited during 2020–22, and Part two, the post-War years is planned for 2024. The Fiji Museum is re-imagining its Fiji and Pacific archaeology exhibitions in 2022–24, incorporating insights from CBAP research. Other institutions, also listed, engaged with the preparation of the Uncovering Pacific Pasts publication, even though they were not able to participate directly by preparing exhibits.

The third aim was to re-define the development of Australian archaeology within its wider Oceanic context and its participation in world archaeological debates over diffusion and evolution that were precursors to the recognisably modern archaeology brought into being by John Mulvaney and others in the 1950s and 1960s. The project increasingly engaged with the historiography of Australian archaeology, not least as CBAP research showed that it has provided only very partial and misleading accounts of the discipline’s history (). Other research concentrated on the forgotten role of Dermot Casey, the facilitator of much of Mulvaney’s early work in Australian archaeology from the 1950s onwards as well as being a pioneer of Lapita pottery studies in the 1930s (, ). Another paper with early career researcher Chris Urwin further critiqued the accepted history of Australian archaeology (). This new research direction has led to an Australian Research Council Strategic Research Initiative (ARC SRI) Grant for the project Aboriginal Involvement in the Early Development of Australian Archaeology, led jointly by Spriggs and Lynette Russell of the Monash University Indigenous Studies Centre (Grant SR200200155 for 2021–4). Other CBAP members have also contributed to the history of early research on Indigenous Australia (; ; ).

The fourth aim was to re-imagine the story of external understandings of Papua New Guinea and its people, through a detailed examination of the development of theories about the origins and spread of the peoples of Australia’s only significant former colonies -- the pre-Independence Territories of Papua and of New Guinea. No suitable PhD candidate could be found to concentrate on this project as intended. However, much of the research of Howes and Spriggs examined the history of archaeology in Papua New Guinea and so contributed to the objective (see ; & , , & , & , & , , , & , ; & , ), as did the participation of project associates Govor with her work on Russian scholar and sometime New Guinea resident Miklouho-Maclay, and Douglas with her work on race, explorers and on the history of mapping the Pacific, including Torres Strait between New Guinea and Australia (see, for instance, , ; ; & ; ; ; ).

The fifth aim was to re-discover the contribution of both French and German scholars to the early development of Pacific archaeology. Dotte-Sarout and Howes were recruited to pursue this objective and published extensively on it, including the proceedings of the conference held on Francophone approaches in 2016 (, and papers therein) among other works (those cited in the previous paragraph by Howes, as well as , & , & ; , , ). Much of Douglas’ work also researched early French (and Spanish) explorers and their contributions, particularly the edited volume on Bruni D’Entrecasteaux’s collections and the papers therein () as well as other contributions (, , , , , ). This aim was also pursued through collaborations with museums in France, Germany, Austria and in the French Pacific for the Uncovering Pacific Pasts exhibition and resultant publication (). The many publications by Govor on early Russian studies of the Pacific, beyond those cited above in relation to New Guinea, are also notable for extending the reach of the project beyond Anglophone scholarship (; , ; ; , ; ; and papers therein).

The sixth aim was to recover the considerable amount of archaeological excavation that took place in the Pacific from the 1870s until WWII, to demonstrate that the post-war professionalisation of archaeology in the region was built upon an ever-growing accumulation of knowledge and theories that had developed over a much longer time span. Our results contradict the idea that ‘modern’ archaeology began only in the post-war period (; cf. for a similar argument about Australian archaeology). This objective was extensively covered in publications by the team and particularly in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts devolved exhibition (see papers in ) which concentrated centrally on the period from the 1870s to just after WWII.

Pre-1918 excavations were documented by CBAP for Hawaii, Mariana Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, what is now Papua New Guinea, Pohnpei, Rapa Nui and Vanuatu () and the interwar years added the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, French Polynesia, Solomon Islands and Tonga to the list (). Further accounts by Project members of these early excavations can be found in Dotte-Sarout (, , ), Dotte-Sarout and Howes (), Haddow et al (), Howes (, , , & ), Richards () and Spriggs and Bedford (, ).

Key 1920s figures investigated such as Dermot Casey of what is now Museum Victoria (Australia), Kenneth Emory of the Bishop Museum (Hawaii), E.W. Gifford of UC Berkeley (USA) and H.D. Skinner of Otago University (New Zealand) bridged both the pre-and post-World War II periods. They were found to be critical in linking the two and in the increasing professionalisation of the discipline (see papers in ).

The seventh aim was to re-write the forgotten history of Pacific archaeological practice by re-uniting artefacts and field notes from a series of earlier scholars, particularly those involved in archaeological excavation, and attempting to re- interpret or in some cases interpret for the first time their findings, within our current methods and knowledge. This was a particular focus of PhD scholars Haddow and Richards, both of whose theses link collections and field notes (; ). This objective was also pursued in the collaborative context of the Uncovering Pacific Pasts exhibition. Richards’ thesis research and additional publications are particularly important in this respect, using cutting-edge chemical analytical technology through the application of portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) to study Polynesian adzes and pounders in museum collections to source them to particular islands and quarries (see also ; & , ; ). Other CBAP papers examining earlier collections and reinterpreting them in light of current evidence include those by Balakhonova and Govor (), Haddow (, ), Haddow et al. () and several of the chapters in the edited volumes by Douglas et al. () and Govor and Nicholas Thomas (). Several collections that are discussed for their place within earlier theories of Pacific archaeology and ethnology resulted from seizures of artefacts during ‘punitive’ expeditions mounted by European powers against Indigenous populations and discussions of the contexts for these occur in the themed issue by Douglas and Chris Ballard in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History ().

The eighth aim was to re-conceptualise the perennial issue of trans-Oceanic cultural contacts, a theme coming back into vogue in the second decade of the 21st century (see for example ) and situated within a long history of discourse that extends back to the start of the 19th century and was particularly influential through the work of Thor Heyerdahl of Kon-Tiki fame who saw the contacts as particularly one-way, from the Americas into Polynesia. PhD scholars Ballesteros Danel ( & ) and Melander () produced theses and additional publications which directly addressed this objective. Ballesteros Danel wrote on Spanish-language sources concerning ideas of contacts between Polynesia and the Americas from the 16th century on (, ; ). Melander’s thesis (see also , & ) covered the genesis and early development of Thor Heyerdahl’s views on the putative settlement of Polynesia from the Americas up to Heyerdahl’s massive tome American Indians in the Pacific (). Ricardo Ventura Santos and Douglas () examined the recent claim for a supposed Polynesian genomic input into Botocudo Indian populations in Brazil, tracing the idea’s long and tangled history.

The ninth aim was to redress the neglect of the role of women archaeologists working in the region, not only those professionally engaged but also the often-invisible archaeological wives who accompanied their partners into the field and who provided significant intellectual as well as physical labour towards the success of projects. CBAP participants and associates revealed much about the lives of early female pioneer archaeologists with Pacific interests: see contributions in the themed journal issues of Journal of Pacific Archaeology edited by Dotte-Sarout and Spriggs (), Journal of Pacific History edited by Howes and Spriggs (), and Historical Records of Australian Science again edited by Howes and Spriggs (), as well as the edited volumes by Dotte-Sarout et al. (, ) and Howes et al. () and papers by Dotte-Sarout () and Howes (). In addition, PhD scholar Richards’ thesis addressed the contribution of English pioneer Katherine Routledge on Rapa Nui (see also ). The topic clearly deserved a project of its own – a clear mark of its previous neglect – and in 2019 Dotte-Sarout was awarded an ARC DECRA Fellowship for the project Pacific Matildas: Finding the women in the history of archaeology focusing on the role of Pacific women archaeologists (Grant DE200100597 for 2020–3), thus extending the ‘life’ of the Laureate project with a further three years of research ().

The tenth aim was to re-engage with descendant communities in the present in the light of our research and its findings and to restore knowledge of the now largely forgotten agency and contribution of indigenous scholars and interlocutors to the creation of a Pacific past. Such involvement can probably be traced back as far as the Tahitian navigator and priest, Tupaia, on Cook’s First Voyage (see ). Many of the exhibits in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts devolved exhibition included telling the stories of such scholars and interlocutors, such as those of Aurora Natua in Tahiti and Juan Tepano on Rapa Nui, and the final CBAP workshop for Pacific museum and archive professionals in October 2022 continues the dialogue and possibilities for future collaborations. Spriggs’ research brought out the importance of the autonomous Fijian Administration under the leadership of Rata Sir Lala Sukuna and particularly the key role of Ratu Rabici Logavatu in the research strategy and successful operation of UC Berkeley archaeologist Edward Gifford’s 1947 archaeological expedition (, & ). Spriggs also managed to trace some of Ratu Rabici’s children in Fiji and share with them the results of his findings. Biographies of several prominent Indigenous Vanuatu filwokas/fieldworkers attached to the Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta/Cultural Centre who died in 2020–2021 were published (). These Indigenous cultural experts had worked with many archaeologists over a period of 50 years and made major contributions to their studies.

The importance of the Indigenous Pacific contribution to the history of archaeology was brought out in many other CBAP team publications and continues to be a significant area of engagement for team members. As noted earlier, building on the perspectives brought out in CBAP led Spriggs and Russell to develop a successful ARC grant on Aboriginal Involvement in the Early Development of Australian Archaeology which is ongoing. The involvement of Kepas Paon and the community of Rakival on Watom Island, East New Britain, PNG in discussions about the Lapita pottery found there by Father Otto Meyer in 1909 will hopefully lead to a suitable memorial to Father Meyer in the form of a local museum and further collaboration with PNG and international archaeologists (see ‘Statement by Rakival People’ in ).

Additional themes and issues came up as the project progressed. These included: the need to take account of other marginalised groups important for the history of Pacific archaeology, such as the broad category of avocational archaeologists or ‘amateurs’; issues of repatriation of artefacts and human skeletal remains; the need to preserve the personal archives of archaeologists working in the Pacific today; and the necessity for obituaries of archaeologists, Indigenous specialists, and those in related disciplines to address their role in the history of Pacific archaeology as older generations pass on. Although it is always tricky dealing with the most recent parts of the history of the discipline while those involved in particular debates and controversies are still alive, much reflection on the last few decades of Pacific archaeology has also taken place.

Before World War I almost all Pacific archaeologists were ‘amateurs’ as no professional career was available in the discipline beyond positions in some museums that would have included the possibility of carrying out archaeological research; in the Pacific itself, only John F.G. Stokes at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu held such a position prior to 1914 (). Avocational archaeologist is perhaps a less pejorative term than ‘amateur’ for people who engaged in archaeology while employed doing other things.

One of the aspects of Pacific archaeology that CBAP has brought out is the extremely important role of early missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, in archaeological pursuits, from the early nineteenth century through into the twentieth. This was the theme of Haddow’s PhD thesis () which concentrated on the careers of Presbyterian missionary Frederick Gatherer Bowie (1869–1933) and Anglican missionary teacher Charles Elliot Fox (1878–1977). Both were enmeshed in the developing networks of scientific scholars interested in Pacific origins and migrations. Bowie was a regular correspondent of Cambridge anthropologist W.H.R. Rivers, while Fox was in contact with Rivers and Alfred Cort Haddon in Cambridge and Grafton Elliott Smith in London (, ). Many other missionaries had archaeological interests, starting with William Ellis in Hawaii from the 1820s onwards (), through George Turner on Aneityum in the mid-nineteenth century () and Père Jean-Baptiste Suas on Ambrym in the early twentieth century (), both in Vanuatu, and on to Arthur Henry Voyce and Père Patrick O’Reilly who bridge the pre- and post-World War II era (), as does the contribution of French protestant missionary Maurice Leenhardt, and his wife Jeanne, in New Caledonia (). The contribution of other avocational archaeologists is addressed in various papers in Howes et al. () and other publications, including the role of Aubrey Parke in Fiji; employed as a Government Officer but probably upon his arrival in Fiji in 1951 the most highly trained archaeologist present in the Western Pacific (, , ; ).

Repatriation issues have very much come to the fore in recent years over museum collections either containing human remains of Indigenous peoples from the Australian and Pacific regions or artefacts deemed to have been obtained by deceit or force (for the latter see the themed issue of Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History edited by , particularly ). In addition, some European museums are seeking to repatriate collections that no longer constitute the core of their interests or whose colonial associations are thought to be objectionable. This is indeed a fast-moving scene in current metropolitan museums!

CBAP Fellow Hilary Howes has had a long involvement with issues to do with the repatriation of ancestral remains from European museums and this continued and was informed by collaborations formed during the CBAP Project (see ; ). She has further developed her interest in repatriation with a successful ARC DECRA grant called Skulls for the Tsar: Indigenous Human Remains in Russian Collections. This involves the study of Pacific and Australian human remains in Russian collections, collected as part of early interest in the origins of Pacific peoples (Grant DE210101721, for 2021–4).

Through their research, CBAP members provided informal advice to museums on repatriation issues as well as to groups and individuals seeking repatriation of collections, such as the Benin bronzes. Two rare Naamboi clay pots from Malakula, Vanuatu, collected by the archaeologist Richard Shutler Jr. in the 1960s were repatriated in 2017 to the Vanuatu National Museum from the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Canada, after interest from the CBAP team and associates (museu.ms/collection/details/572/dr-richard-shutler-jr-collection; last viewed 19/09/2022). The Royal Cornwall Museum, UK, has been placed in contact with the Vanuatu National Museum concerning the repatriation of a skull from the Maskelyne Islands in Vanuatu, collected in the 1880s. Dialogue has also been established in 2022 between the National Gallery of Australia and the Vanuatu National Museum over NGA holdings of traditional sculptures involving over-modelled skulls of ancestors. Archaeologist Aubrey Parke’s collections from Rotuma and Fiji were repatriated by Spriggs to the Fiji Museum from The Australian National University storerooms in September 2022 as a direct result of CBAP research and ongoing collaborations with the Fiji Museum and with the cooperation of Parke’s family. These are but a few examples of the facilitation of repatriation of objects and human remains that took place during the CBAP Project.

Archival materials are constantly under threat of being discarded because their value for Pacific archaeology has not been realised. One of the inspirations for CBAP was the loss of much of the archives of archaeologist Aubrey Parke (1925–2007) after his death owing to a misunderstanding between university administrators and his family. CBAP managed to ‘save’ several important archaeological archives such as the remaining papers of Aubrey Parke, those of New Zealand archaeologist Les Groube (1938–2018) and of American archaeologist Richard Shutler, Jr (1921–2007); the latter collection has been split between the Pacific Archives at ANU and the Vanuatu National Archives. Other prominent senior archaeologists have been encouraged to donate their collections to suitable archives, such as the Pacific Archives at The Australian National University, which has seen a recent influx of Pacific archaeological archives that they are working through. CBAP initiated a project to identify the archives of Australian archaeological scholars which once complete will lead to the creation of a database to be hosted online by the Australian Archaeological Association.

The CBAP team felt it was important to mark the passing of past scholars who contributed to Pacific archaeology. The collective obituary celebrating the life of key Vanuatu cultural specialists has already been alluded to: Frank Inhat Asjinjap (1964–2021, Eli Field Malau (1954–2021) Sempet Naritantop (1951–2021), Jimmy William Sanhanbath (1954–2020) and Uminduru ‘Jerry’ Taki (c.1953–2021), who all passed away in 2020–2021 (). Other obituaries by CBAP team members included those for anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018: ) and Pacific historical linguist John Lynch (1946–2021: ).

While the focus of CBAP has largely been on earlier periods in the history of Pacific archaeology, particularly before the 1970s as this has been a neglected area of research, there has been an opportunity to review more recent themes and issues and to look at the state of theory in historiographic studies of archaeology more generally, informed by some recent autobiographies and interviews of key players such as Patrick Kirch () and Yosihiko Sinoto (). This is seen most prominently in the later papers in Howes et al. (; see ). It has been done with a view to reflect on past practices and suggest future directions. Biographical and autobiographical reflections have included ), Dotte-Sarout et al. (), Spriggs (, ), and Spriggs and Reich (). Archaeological technologies and what they make possible in terms of new analyses and, importantly, when they make them possible are another such topic (; ; ). Wider theoretical developments in archaeology and in the historiography of archaeology have also been considered (, ; ; papers in the themed issue of History and Anthropology edited by , persuasively situated in its introduction by ; ; ; ; papers in the themed issue of World Archaeology edited by and their introduction, ; , ).

Conclusion

The field of the history of world archaeology had very largely ignored the Pacific region until this project; it is now firmly on the map on a world scale, and a new sub-discipline relating to the Pacific has become established and recognised. It also feeds back into discussions of the history of archaeology in adjacent regions such as Australia and Southeast and East Asia. This success has been achieved through publications, organising conferences, workshops, and conference sessions, presenting seminars/lectures internationally, and involvement with museums worldwide and especially within the Pacific region in helping to provide additional context and framing for their collections. Four PhD scholars and two ECR postdoctoral fellows were trained and mentored.

Archival sources to construct a history of Pacific archaeology are vastly more extensive than had been imagined prior to the commencement of CBAP and much remains to be researched. Some important archaeological archives were saved from destruction. The research of the Project established how vital it is to consider non-Anglophone sources when considering the history of Pacific archaeology, concentrating on those of Francophone, German, Russian and Spanish-speaking nations as well as Pacific languages (Bislama of Vanuatu, Fijian, Hawaiian and Tahitian among them). The Project’s research aims will be directly carried on in ARC DECRA projects by the two CBAP postdoctoral fellows: Emilie Dotte-Sarout with her project Pacific Matildas: Finding the Women in the History of Archaeology and Hilary Howes with Skulls for the Tsar: Indigenous Human Remains in Russian collections.

One of the major products of the Laureate Project was a devolved exhibition, Uncovering Pacific Pasts, which took place from the beginning of March 2020 at some 36 museums and other cultural institutions in 19 countries and territories; further spin-off exhibitions will be taking place at some of these institutions such as the Vanuatu National Museum and the Fiji Museum. These collaborations have benefitted both Pacific Island and metropolitan partner organisations involved through creating new forms of outreach to Indigenous communities. Some metropolitan museums have not had much contact in the past with Pacific communities, and the research of members of the CBAP team has also value-added to the knowledge of each museum’s collections. Significant early archaeological collections exist in museums and archives around the world which have not previously contributed to our knowledge of the deep past of the Pacific, but which have great potential to do so. Often these collections were unknown to descendant communities including to the national museums of their respective countries; new avenues of research and collaboration have thus been created for Pacific Island institutions. Although there is much left to learn, assimilate and inform our practice concerning the history of Pacific archaeology, we certainly know a lot more today than we did in 2015 when CBAP commenced.

The role of archaeological theories, usually generated in the metropolitan centres and sometimes imposed on a resisting archaeological record in the Pacific is another key theme, and also the reflexive impact of Pacific ethnographic and material culture studies back on European archaeology in particular. Polynesian chiefdom analogies for the Bronze Age of Europe enjoyed a vogue at one stage, and the dominance of (Malinowski’s understanding of) the Kula Ring exchange network of Papua New Guinea to explain Neolithic axe distributions in the United Kingdom persists today. Such tropes are also in need of explanation and deconstruction. Overtly decolonial approaches have also begun to be explored recently (), albeit seemingly in ignorance of the many ongoing efforts in that direction happening across the Pacific. Such approaches, prefigured in McNiven and Russell (), might be seen to be long overdue, but can only be persuasive when they address the actual history of the practice of regional archaeology and its contexts.

We need to know more on Indigenous involvement in the development of Pacific archaeology, including through oral histories from interlocutors and descendants. The ongoing research into Ratu Rabici Logavatu’s role in Gifford’s 1947 expedition shows what can be discovered when the frame is shifted from the expatriate investigator to local knowledge-holders (, ). Local knowledge-holders would also include non-Indigenous residents with an interest in archaeology such as Dr Lindsay Verrier in Fiji, critical in the first discovery of Lapita pottery there in 1948 (). The encouragement of Indigenous skills in archaeological research was generally slow to develop in the Pacific but has grown tremendously in recent decades and has the potential to transform the practice of archaeology. That is another story worthy of further research. Much more could be investigated on the role of institutions such as the Bishop Museum in Honolulu and the Otago Museum in Dunedin, organisations such as the Hawaiian Historical Society and the Polynesian Society, and in the post-WWII period in particular the nascent university departments in places such as Auckland, Canberra, Dunedin, Honolulu, Sydney and Melbourne. Further biographical studies on key museum and academic figures such as Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), Sue Bulmer, Kenneth Emory, E.W. Gifford, Jack Golson, Roger Green, Aurora Natua, Rudolf Pöch, Katherine Routledge, Margarete Schurig, Yosi Sinoto, Richard Shutler and H.D. Skinner, to name but a few pioneers, would also yield much more about the sometimes-serendipitous ways in which archaeology developed in the Pacific, and the interactions between different scholars. There are only a few women archaeologists listed here and the often-hidden roles of women need much further work, including on Indigenous women scholars in related fields such as folklore and oral history who had a major impact on early archaeological practice. There is indeed much left to learn.

Funding Statement

Funded by: Australian Research Council; Australian National University; UK Leverhulme Trust; Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (CUMAA); ANU Carers’ Career Development Assistance Fund; ANU ECR Travel Grant; ANU Global Research Partnerships Fund (with Harvard University, USA); ANU Gender Institute; ANU Research School of Humanities & the Arts (RSHA) Staff Conference, Symposia and Workshop; Australian Academy of the Humanities; Australian Archaeological Association Student Subsidy Fund; Australian German Association (AGA); Wenner-Gren Foundation; University of Freiburg.

Acknowledgements

CBAP acknowledges additional support for Conference and Exhibit organisation from Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Eve Haddow, Janet Luk and Michelle Richards. The CBAP annual lecturers are also thanked: Tim Murray (2015), Jo Anne van Tilburg (2016), Brian Fagan (2017), Seren Griffiths (2018) and Ingrid Ahlgren (2019). Andrea Ballesteros Danel, Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Bronwen Douglas, Elena Govor, Hilary Howes, Michelle Richards and Tristen Jones provided useful comments and additional information for this iteration of the paper.

Funding information

The generous funding from the Australian Research Council for Matthew Spriggs’ Laureate Fellowship (2015–2020, Grant FL140100218) is gratefully acknowledged, as are supporting funds provided by The Australian National University during the same period. A further grant from the ANU Major Equipment Fund allowed purchase of a Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) machine for Richards’ PhD research. A UK Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship for Spriggs was awarded under the sponsorship of Prof. Nicholas Thomas, Director of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (CUMAA) for 2016–2017 and facilitated periods of research on the collections of CUMAA and other relevant institution in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Vatican City. Additional funds came from: ANU Carers’ Career Development Assistance Fund; ANU ECR Travel Grant; ANU Global Research Partnerships Fund (with Harvard University, USA); ANU Gender Institute; ANU Research School of Humanities & the Arts (RSHA) Staff Conference, Symposia and Workshop Grant; Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship Grant; Australian Archaeological Association Student Subsidy Fund; Australian German Association (AGA)/Goethe-Institut Fellowship; Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Grant; University of Freiburg Workshop Presentation Grant.

Competing Interests

The author has no competing interests to declare.

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Bedford, Stuart, Matthew Spriggs, James Flexner and Anna Naupa. “Grassroots Badly Burnt: The Loss of Ni-Vanuatu Archaeologists whose Careers Spanned 50 Years.” Journal of Pacific Archaeology 13, no. 1(2022): [online1–7].
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Dotte-Sarout, Emilie. “‘How Dare our Prehistoric Have a Prehistory of his Own?!’ The interplay of Historical and Biographical Contexts in Early French Archaeology of the Pacific.” Journal of Pacific Archaeology 8, no. 1(2017): 23–34.
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Dotte-Sarout, Emilie. “‘Marche Quand Même’: The Tireless Alfred Marche and the First Archaeological Exploration of the Mariana Islands.” In For a History of Prehistory in Oceania: Historiography and Epistemology of Francophone Archaeology in the Pacific, edited by Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Frédérique Valentin, Anne Di Piazza and Matthew Spriggs, 71–97. Faa’a, Tahiti: Maison des Sciences de L’Homme du Pacifique, 2021c.
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Dotte-Sarout, Emilie. “Pacific Matildas: Finding the women in the history of archaeology.” Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 31, no. 1(2021a):2:1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-656
Dotte-Sarout, Emilie. “1800: How the ‘South Seas Savages’ became ‘Antique Monuments’.” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 41–64. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.04
Dotte-Sarout, Emilie, Anne Di Piazza, Frédérique Valentin, and Matthew Spriggs. “For a History of Pacific Prehistory.” In For a History of Prehistory in Oceania: Historiography and Epistemology of Francophone Archaeology in the Pacific, edited by Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Frédérique Valentin, Anne Di Piazza and Matthew Spriggs, 9–25. Faa’a, Tahiti: Maison des Sciences de L’Homme du Pacifique, 2021b.
Dotte-Sarout, Emilie, Frédérique Valentin, Anne Di Piazza and Matthew Spriggs, eds. For a History of Prehistory in Oceania: Historiography and Epistemology of Francophone Archaeology in the Pacific [English edition of the previous book], 335 pp. Paris: Maison des Sciences de L’Homme du Pacifique, 2021a. Accessible free online: http://www.mshp.upf.pf/fr/editions-de-la-msh-p
Dotte-Sarout, Emilie, Anne Di Piazza, Frédérique Valentin and Matthew Spriggs. “Pour une Histoire de la Préhistoire en Océanie.” In Pour une Histoire de la Préhistoire Océanienne: Approches Historiographiques de l’Archéologie Francophone dans le Pacifique, edited by Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Frédérique Valentin, Anne Di Piazza and Matthew Spriggs, 7–20. Marseille: Pacific-CREDO Publications, 2020b. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pacific.1222
Dotte-Sarout, Emilie, Frédérique Valentin, Anne DiPiazza and Matthew Spriggs, eds. Pour une Histoire de la Préhistoire Océanienne: Approches Historiographiques de l’Archéologie Francophone dans le Pacifique, 331 pp. Marseille: Pacific-CREDO Publications, 2020a. Accessible free online: https://books.openedition.org/pacific/1103 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pacific.1103
Dotte-Sarout, Emilie, and Hilary Howes. “Lapita Before Lapita: The Story of the Meyer/O’Reilly Watom Island Archaeological Collection.” Journal of Pacific History 54, no. 3 (2019): 354–378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2018.1561254
Dotte-Sarout, Emilie, Hinanui Cauchois, Michel Charleux, Stéphanie Domergue, Aymeric Hermann, Louis Lagarde, Mathieu Leclerc, Tamara Maric, Guillaume Molle, Emilie Nolet, Arnaud Noury, Vahine Ahuura Rurua and Jean-Marie Wadrawane. “Putting New Francophone Archaeology on the Pacific Map: A Quick Overview.” Archaeology in Oceania 53, no. 2 (2018): 103–115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.5146
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Dotte-Sarout, Emilie, and Michelle Richards, eds. “Histories of Asia/Pacific Archaeologies.” Special collection, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2020. https://www.archaeologybulletin.org/collections/special/histories-of-asia-pacific-archaeologies/
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Douglas, Bronwen. “Affect, Agency, and Ambiguous Praxis: French Expeditions in the Pacific Islands, 1827–50.’ Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 18, no. 1 (2017): 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2017.0019
Douglas, Bronwen. “Afterword: A Prelude.” In Imagined Racial Laboratories: Comparative and National Racialisations in Southeast Asia, edited by Ricardo Roque and Warwick Anderson, 293–321. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023b. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004542983
Douglas, Bronwen. “Darwin and the French: The Species Question and ‘Man’ in Oceania.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 91, no. 1 (2022a): 168–80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.10.018
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Douglas, Bronwen. “Imagined Futures in the Past: Empire, Place, Race and Nation in the Mapping of Oceania.” In Pacific Futures: Past and Present, edited by Warwick Anderson, Miranda Johnson and Barbara Brookes, 131–54. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018e. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824877422-008
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Douglas, Bronwen. “Mapping the Once and Future Strait: Place, Time, and Torres Strait from the Sixteenth Century to the Pleistocene.” History and Anthropology 33, no. 1(2022b): 17–43 (first published online June 2019) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2019.1607849
Douglas, Bronwen. “Medium, Genre, Indigenous Presence: Spanish Expeditionary Encounters in the Mar del Sur, 1606.” In Expeditionary Anthropology: Teamwork, Travel, and the ‘Science of Man’, edited by Martin Thomas and Amanda Harris, 175–204. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2018f. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvw04g1m.10
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Douglas, Bronwen. “Naming ‘Polynesia’: Cartography, Geography and Toponymy of the ‘Fifth part of the World’”. Journal of Pacific History 56, no. 4(2021): 375–414. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2021.1961082
Douglas, Bronwen. “Sailors, Savants, Naming: France and the Knowing of Oceania, 1756–1840.” In IKUWA6. Shared Heritage: Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Underwater Archaeology, edited by Jennifer Rodrigues and Arianna Traviglia, 207–217. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. Available free online: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45966
Douglas, Bronwen. “Seaborne Ethnography to the Science of Race, 1521–1850.” In The Pacific Ocean after 1800, edited by Anne Perez Hattori and Jane Samson, Vol. 2 of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean, edited by Paul D’Arcy, Anne Perez-Hattori, Ryan Jones, Matt Matsuda, and Jane Samson, 389–420. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023a. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108226875
Douglas, Bronwen, and Chris Ballard. “Contact Tracing: The Materiality of Encounters.” History and Anthropology 33, no. 1(2022b): 1–16 (published online October 2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2021.1987234
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Douglas, Bronwen, and Dario Di Rosa. “Ethnohistory and Historical Ethnography.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, edited by John Jackson. Online, 22 pages. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199766567-0240
Douglas, Bronwen, and Elena Govor. “Eponymy, Encounters, and Local Knowledge in Russian Place Naming in the Pacific Islands, 1804–1830.” Historical Journal (Cambridge) 3 (2019): 709–740. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000013
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Govor, Elena, and Chris Ballard. “MANUSCRIPT XXXV: Why Miklouho-Maclay Chose New Guinea.” Journal of Pacific History 56, no. 4 (2021): 459–471. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2021.1972799
Govor Elena, and Ekaterina Balakhonova. “The Mystery of the Moscow Ki‘i.” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 65–74. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.05
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Govor, Elena, and Hilary Howes. “Physical anthropology in the field: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay.” In The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew, edited by Cressida Fforde, Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler, 521–537. London and New York: Routledge, 2020a. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203730966-31
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Howes, Hilary. “À Propos de Cent Trente-cinq crânes de Papous: A.B. Meyer et la Controverse autour de la Craniologie.” Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines 27 (2015a): 109–41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rhsh.2645
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Howes, Hilary. ‘“Their Indonesian forefathers”: Indonesia as the Austronesian homeland in German-language theories of ancient Pacific migrations.” In Imagined Racial Laboratories: Colonial and National Racialisations in Southeast Asia, edited by Ricardo Roque and Warwick Anderson Anderson, 83–125. Brill, Leiden, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004542983_005
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Howes, Hilary, and Matthew Spriggs. “Writing the History of Archaeology in the Pacific: Voices and Perspectives.” Journal of Pacific History 54, no. 3 (2019b): 295–306. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2019.1617682
Howes, Hilary, Tristen Jones, and Matthew Spriggs, eds. Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Pacific Archaeology. 577 + xxxv pp. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022. Accessible free online: https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/pacific/uncovering-pacific-pasts
Jones, Terry, Alice Storey, Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith, and José Ramirez-Aliaga, eds. Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World. Lanham: Altimira, 2011.
Jones, Tristen, Hilary Howes, and Matthew Spriggs. “Conclusion: Highlights from the Uncovering Pacific Pasts Exhibition.” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 549–556. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.36
Jones, Tristen, Hilary Howes, and Matthew Spriggs. “Uncovering Pacific Pasts – Histories of Archaeology in Oceania: An exhibition.” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 1–12. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.01
Jones, Tristen, and Ingrid Ahlgren. “A Collector of Ideas – Roland Burrage Dixon and the Beginnings of Professional American Anthropology in the Pacific.” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 305–323. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.20
Kirch, Patrick. Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Explorations and Adventures of an Island Archaeologist. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824853457.001.0001
Litster, Mirani, Tristen Jones, and Hilary Howes. “An Emerging Major Centre: Pacific Archaeology at The Australian National University (1961–1979).” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 501–516. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.32
McAlister, Andrew, and Michelle Richards, eds. “Archaeological Applications of XRF Analysis in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.” Special issue, Archaeology in Oceania 54, no. 3 (2019). https://https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.virtual.anu.edu.au/toc/18344453/2019/54/3
McNiven, Ian, and Lynette Russell. Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology. Lanham MD: Altamira Press, 2005.
Melander, Victor. “A Better Savage than the Savages: Thor Heyerdahl’s Early Ethnographical Attempts and their Importance for the Development of the ‘Kon-Tiki theory’.” Journal of Pacific History 54, no. 3 (2019a): 379–396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2018.1561253
Melander, Victor. “David’s Weapon of Mass-destruction: The Reception of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Theory.” Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 29, no. 1 (2019b): 1–6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-612
Melander Victor. The Coming of the White Bearded Men: The Origin and Development of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Theory. Unpublished PhD diss., The Australian National University, 2020. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/202135
Melander, Victor. “The Head-hunters of the North and the Polynesian Shadow. Thor Heyerdahl’s Skull-collecting Act on Fatu Hiva, Marquesas Islands, 1937.” Journal of Pacific Archaeology 8, no. 1 (2017): 77–87.
Murray, Tim, and Matthew Spriggs, eds. “History of Archaeology.” Theme issue, World Archaeology 49, no 2 (2017a). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwar20/49/2?nav=tocList. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2017.1334583
Murray, Tim, and Matthew Spriggs. “The Historiography of Archaeology: Exploring Theory, Contingency and Rationality.” World Archaeology 49, no. 2 (2017b): 151–157. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2017.1334583
Richards, Michelle. “Archaeological Approaches for Understanding the Marquesan Stone Pounder ke’a tuki popoi.” Journal of Polynesian Archaeology and Related Research 1, no. 1 (in press).
Richards Michelle. Challenging Typology: Re-evaluating Historical and Prehistoric Exchanges of Polynesian Adzes and Pounders with pXRF. PhD diss., The Australian National University, 2021. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/251232
Richards, Michelle. “Duff’s Adze Typology versus Polynesian Adze Exchanges.” Archaeology in Oceania 50, no. 1 (2019a): 1–11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.5194
Richards, Michelle. “Notes and Queries on Anthropology: Its Influence on Pacific Prehistoric Archaeology at the Turn of the 20th Century.” Journal of Pacific Archaeology 8, no. 1 (2017): 12–17.
Richards, Michelle. “Realising the Potential of pXRF for the Geochemical Classification of Volcanic Rock Types.” Journal of Archaeological Science 105 (2019b): 31–45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.03.004
Richards, Michelle, Hilary Howes, and Elena Govor. “Origins of Archaeology in the Pacific: The Emergence and Application of Archaeological Field Techniques.” Journal of Pacific History 54, no. 3 (2019): 307–29. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2019.1585232
Richards, Michelle, and Jasmin Günther. “The Past, Present and Future Values of Stone Adzes and Pounders Collected on the Pandora.” Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 29, no 1 (2019):4:1–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-622
Sinoto, Yosihiko. The Curve of the Hook. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016.
Spriggs, Matthew. “A 1980 Attempt at Reviving Ancient Irrigation Practices in the Pacific: Rationale, Failure and Success.” In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology, edited by Christian Isendahl and Daryl Stump, 395–411. Oxford: Oxford University Press (published online, 2015), 2019c. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672691.013.25
Spriggs, Matthew. “Aubrey Parke: An Enthusiastic Amateur in Fiji?” In Degei’s Descendants: spirits, place and people in Pre-Cession Western Fiji, by Aubrey Parke, edited by Matthew Spriggs and Deryck Scarr, viii–xvi. Terra Australis 41. Canberra: ANU E Press, 2014. Available free online: https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p289571/pdf/Aubrey-Parke-An-Enthusiastic-Amateur-in-Fiji.pdf. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_502535
Spriggs, Matthew. “Aubrey Parke: An Enthusiastic Amateur in Fiji?” In True and Fast: The Parke Family of Whitbeck, Jamaica, Henbury and Beyond, compiled by John Birchenough, Tom Birchenough and John Parke, 170–180. Henbury Press (printed in Poland) [adapted from Spriggs 2014 of the same title], 2021b.
Spriggs, Matthew. “‘Casey Did Very Good Work for Wheeler and You are Lucky to Have Him’: Dermot Casey’s Under-Appreciated Importance in Australian Archaeology.” Historical Records of Australian Science 32 (2021a): 1–14 [included in Special Issue edited by Hilary Howes and Matthew Spriggs] (published online August 2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/HR20009
Spriggs, Matthew. “Covert Control? Indigenous Agency in Edward Winslow Gifford’s Fijian Archaeological Expedition of 1947.” Journal of Pacific History 54, no. 3(2019a): 397–416. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2018.1556089
Spriggs, Matthew. “Elliott Smith reborn? A View of Prehistoric Globalization from the Island Southeast Asia and Pacific Margins.” In Trade and Civilisation: Economic Networks and Cultural Ties, from Prehistory to the Early Modern Era, edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Thomas Lindqvist and Janken Myrdahl, 410–440. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108340946.016
Spriggs, Matthew. “European Interests and Ideas on the Diversity of Human Cultures in the Pacific (1500s–1870s).” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 15–28. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022a. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.02
Spriggs, Matthew. “Everything You’ve Been Told About the History of Australian Archaeology is Wrong!” Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 30, no. 1 (2020a):3:1–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-626
Spriggs, Matthew. “Gather Ye the Fragments that are Left: On Archaeological Boxes.” In Expanding the Field: Encounters in Archaeology and Art, edited by Ursula Frederick, Caren Florance and Katie Hayne, 8–10. Canberra: Lucky U Press, 2020b.
Spriggs, Matthew. “Lapita: History of a Name, its Terminologies and Influences.” In press (for a festschrift – title and editors not available).
Spriggs, Matthew. “Review article: The Curve of the Hook by Yosi Sinoto, University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu, 2016 & Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Explorations and Adventures of an Island Archaeologist by Patrick V. Kirch, University of Hawai‘i Press.” Archaeology in Oceania 52, no. 2 (2017c): 135–138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.5127
Spriggs, Matthew. “The Burgeoning Fields of Anthropology and Archaeology (1918–1945).” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 287–304. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022c. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.19
Spriggs, Matthew. “The First Archaeological Excavations (1870s–1910s).” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 105–131. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022b. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.08
Spriggs, Matthew. “The First Lapita Pottery Found in Fiji: Links to an Early Pacific World.” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 429–441. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022e. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.27
Spriggs, Matthew. The Hidden History of a Third of the World: The Collective Biography of Australian and International Archaeology in the Pacific (CBAP) Project. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 27, no. 1 (2017a): 3:1–11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-583
Spriggs, Matthew. “The Political Economy of Prestige Practices in the Pacific: Understanding Lapita and After.” In Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by Tim Thomas, 180–199. London and New York: Routledge, 2021c. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203730973-8
Spriggs, Matthew. “The Vicissitudes of Lapita Pottery 1909–1945: The Melbourne Witness.” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 371–386. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022d. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.24
Spriggs, Matthew. “Thomas G. Thrum and John F.G. Stokes: Australian Archaeologists in Paradise in the Early Twentieth Century.” Journal of Pacific Archaeology 8, no. 1 (2017b): 47–62.
Spriggs, Matthew. “Towards a History of Melanesian Archaeology: Techniques and Theories.” In Archaeologies of Island Melanesia: Current Approaches to Landscapes, Exchange and Practice, edited by Mathieu Leclerc and James Flexner, 9–31. Terra Australis 51. Canberra: ANU Press, 2019b. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/TA51.2019.02
Spriggs, Matthew. “Ratu Rabici Logavatu and Aubrey Parke: Two Archaeological Pioneers of the Fijian Administration.” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 443–457. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022f. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.28
Spriggs, Matthew, and David Reich. “An Ancient DNA Pacific Journey: A Case Study of Collaboration between Archaeologists and Geneticists.” World Archaeology 51, no. 4 (2020): 620–639. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2019.1733069
Spriggs, Matthew, and Hilary Howes. “Archaeology as a Profession in the Pacific (1945-Current).” In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs, 401–428. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021.26
Spriggs, Matthew, and Stuart Bedford. “Redécouverte, Confirmation et Datation d’un Profil Stratigraphique décrit par Gustave Glaumont sur l’Ile d’Ambae en 1909.” In Pour une Histoire de la Préhistoire Océanienne: Approches historiographiques de l’archéologie francophone dans le Pacifique, edited by Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Frédérique Valentin, Anne Di Piazza and Matthew Spriggs, 189–200. Marseille: Pacific-CREDO Publications, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pacific.1253
Spriggs, Matthew, and Stuart Bedford. “Rediscovery, Confirmation and dating of a Stratigraphic Profile Discovered by Gustave Glaumont on the Island of Ambae in 1890.” In For a History of Prehistory in Oceania: Historiography and Epistemology of Francophone Archaeology in the Pacific, edited by Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Frédérique Valentin, Anne Di Piazza and Matthew Spriggs, 197–208. Faa’a, Tahiti: Maison des Sciences de L’Homme du Pacifique, 2021.
Tutorsky A. V., Elena Govor and Chris Ballard. “Miklouho-Maclay’s Legacy in Russian- and English-Language Academic Research, 1992–2017.” Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 47, no. 2 (2019): 112–121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2019.47.2.112-121
Urwin, Chris, and Matthew Spriggs. “The Development (and Imagined Reinvention) of Australian Archaeology in the Twentieth Century.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea edited by I. McNiven and B. David, 32 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press (published online April 2021), 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190095611.013.44
Ventura Santos, Ricardo, and Bronwen Douglas. “‘Polynesians’ in the Brazilian Hinterland? Sociohistorical Perspectives on Skulls, Genomics, Identity, and Nationhood.” History of the Human Sciences 33, no. 2 (2020): 22–47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695119891044
Ward, Ingrid, Sean Winter, and Emilie Dotte-Sarout. “The Lost Art of Stratigraphy? A Critical Consideration of Excavation Strategies in Australian Prehistoric Archaeology.” Australian Archaeology 82, no. 3 (2016): 263–274. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2016.1251014
Windle, Kevin, Alexander Massov, and Elena Govor. From St Petersburg to Port Jackson: Russian Travellers’ Tales of Australia 1807–1912. 291 pp. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016.

Web sites

https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/world-first-exhibition-on-pacifics-past-spans-19-countries

https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au/research/cbap/histories-archaeology-conference

https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au/research/collective-biography-archaeology-pacific

www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org

Conference/Workshop sessions

2015. On the Edge of Archaeology: The History of Archaeology in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Session co-chaired by Emilie Dotte-Sarout and Matthew Spriggs, Australian Archaeology Association 2015 Conference, Fremantle, WA.
2016. Histories of Archaeology in Archaeological Scholarship, Education and Practice: Education from the Past, session co-chaired by Hilary Howes and Matthew Spriggs, Australian Archaeological Association 2016 Conference, Terrigal, Australia.
2016. French Scientific and Exploration Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere: The Making of a Shared Cultural Heritage, session co-chaired by Nicolas Bigourdan and Emilie Dotte-Sarout, at the 6th International Congress on Underwater Archaeology, Fremantle, Australia.
2016. Pour une Histoire de la Préhistoire Océanienne: Approches Historiographiques et Epistémologiques de l’Archéologie dans le Pacifique. Workshop co-sponsored by CBAP, Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l’Océanie (CREDO) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), co-organised by Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Frédérique Valentin & Anne Di Piazza, Marseille, France.
2017. Indigenous Australians and New Zealanders within Global Networks of Science, session chaired by Hilary Howes. Australian Historical Association Annual Conference, Newcastle, Australia.
2017. In Search of Connections: The History of Ideas on Australia’s Links with the Indo-Pacific Region (and Beyond), session co-chaired by Michelle Richards, Eve Haddow and Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Australian Archaeology Association 2017 Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
2017. Oceanic Knowledges: Exchange and Collaborations across Land and Sea and Time, ANU Humanities Research Centre Conference, co-sponsored by CBAP, Humanities Research Centre and Pacific Institute, ANU and co-organised by Peter Brown, Kylie Moloney and Matthew Spriggs, ANU, Canberra, Australia.
2018. Australasian and Pacific Archaeology: New Perspectives on Disciplinary History, session co-chaired by Tristen Jones, Hilary Howes, Harry Allen and Matthew Spriggs, New Zealand Archaeological Association/Australian Archaeological Association 2018 Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
2018. XRF studies in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and Beyond, session co-chaired by Michelle Richards and Andrew McAlister, New Zealand Archaeological Association/Australian Archaeological Association 2018 Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
2018. The History of Archaeology in the Asia-Pacific Region: Learning from our Past, session co-chaired by Hilary Howes and Matthew Spriggs, 21st Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Hue, Vietnam.
2019. The History of Archaeology in the Driest Continent and its Relationships with (Less Dry) Adjacent Regions, session co-chaired by Eve Haddow, Hilary Howes and Tristen Jones Australian Archaeological Association 2019 Conference, Gold Coast, Australia.
2021. Histories of Archaeology International Conference (re-scheduled from 2020), co-organised by CBAP team, Australian National University but held online. https://archanth.cass.anu.edu.au/research/cbap/histories-archaeology-conference
2021. Disciplinary History in the Light of Indigenous Involvement, session co-chaired by Hilary Howes and Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Australian Archaeological Association 2021 Conference, held online.
2022. Pasifika Perspectives on the History of Archaeology Workshop (re-scheduled from 2020), co-organised by CBAP team, The Australian National University.
2022. A Hidden History? Women in the History of Indo-Pacific Archaeology before 2000, session co-chaired by Matthew Spriggs and Emilie Dotte-Sarout, 22nd Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2022. Voices from the Footnotes of Entangled Encounters: Stories of Often-Forgotten Participants in the History of Archaeology, session chaired by Matthew Spriggs, Australian Archaeological Association 2022 Conference, Darwin, Australia.

Exhibitions

2019. Unearthing Archaeology in Australasia and the Pacific: Archaeological Research in the Research School of Pacific Studies at ANU, 1961-75, sponsored by CBAP and curated by Tristen Jones with the assistance of Brittany Burgess, Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Eve Haddow, Hilary Howes and Man-Ting Hsu, May 2019, ANU, Canberra, Australia.

2020. The History of Vanuatu Archaeology (Part One to World War II), sponsored by CBAP and co-curated by Matthew Spriggs, Lenny Tafau and Maurisco Batick, Vanuatu National Museum, Port Vila, Vanuatu. A French language version of the exhibition was launched in 2022, sponsored by the Ambassade de France, Port Vila. It is hoped to exhibit Part Two, the Post-War Period, in 2024.

2020. Uncovering Pacific Pasts – international multi-sites and online exhibition, co-organised by CBAP team and collaborators. www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org.

Participating Institutions were (*unable to host exhibition but participated in preparations for the Howes et al. 2022 publication):

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Auckland, New Zealand.

Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia*.

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

British Museum, London, UK.

Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Etnografiska Museet (Museum of Ethnography), National Museums of World Culture, Stockholm, Sweden.

Ethnological Museum Anima Mundi – Peoples, Arts and Cultures, Vatican Museums, Vatican City State.

Fiji Museum, Suva, Fiji*.

Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo, Norway.

Mana Gallery, Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui, Chile.

Melbourne Museum, Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Australia*.

Menzies Library, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Musée de Tahiti et des Iles, Te Fare Manaha, Puna’auia, Tahiti, French Polynesia.

Museo Antropológico P. Sebastián Englert (Museo de Rapa Nui), Rapa Nui, Chile

Museum am Rothenbaum – Cultures and Arts of the World (MARKK), Hamburg, Germany.

Museums and Special Collections, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

Museum of Anthropology of Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.

Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Natural History Museum, La Rochelle, France.

Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria (jointly with the Weltmuseum, Vienna).

Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum – Cultures of the World, Cologne, Germany.

Reid Library, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.

Royal Geographical Society, London, UK.

Solomon Islands National Museum, Honiara, Solomon Islands.

South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Vanuatu National Museum, Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila, Vanuatu.

Weltmuseum (World Museum), Vienna, Austria.