SUPPLEMENT 29 19 May 2004 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM www.amonline.net.au/publications/ ISBN 0-9750476-2-0 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 2004 Supplement 29 Publications may be purchased at the Australian Museum Shop or online at: www.amonline.net.au/shop/ A M AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht edited by Val Attenbrow and Richard Fullagar CONTENTS Jim Specht's brilliant career—a tribute .................................................................................... ...................................... PAUL S.C. TAÇON, JACK GOLSON, KIRK HUFFMAN & DES GRIFFIN 1 Jim Specht: a bibliography ................................................................................. KATE KHAN 9 Holocene vegetation, savanna origins and human settlement of Guam ................................ ................................................................................ J. STEPHEN ATHENS & JEROME V. WARD 15 The effect of objects: the return of a north Vanuatu textile from the Australian Museum to the Vanuatu Cultural Centre ............................................................................ LISSANT BOLTON 31 Ownership and a peripatetic collection: Raymond Firth’s Collection from Tikopia, Solomon Islands ................................................................................................. ELIZABETH BONSHEK 37 Early agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea: an assessment of Phase 1 at Kuk Swamp .......................................................................................................................... TIM DENHAM 47 Settlement history and landscape use in Santo, Vanuatu ...... JEAN-CHRISTOPHE GALIPAUD 59 A century of collecting: colonial collectors in southwest New Britain ................................. .................................................................................. CHANTAL KNOWLES & CHRIS GOSDEN 65 Phytoliths and the evidence for banana cultivation at the Lapita Reber-Rakival Site on Watom Island, Papua New Guinea ......................... CAROL J. LENTFER & ROGER C. GREEN 75 Trade and culture history across the Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea: the emerging post- Lapita coastal sequence ...................................................................................... IAN LILLEY 89 From Misisil Cave to Eliva Hamlet: rediscovering the Pleistocene in interior West New Britain .................................................................................................. CHRISTINA PAVLIDES 97 Walpole, a “Mystery Island” in southeast New Caledonia? .................. CHRISTOPHE SAND 109 Oral tradition and the creation of Late Prehistory in Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands ..... .................................................. PETER SHEPPARD, RICHARD WALTER & SHANKAR ASWANI 123 Are the earliest field monuments of the Pacific landscape serial sites? ......... ANITA SMITH 133 Is there life after Lapita, and do you remember the 60s? The post-Lapita sequences of the western Pacific ....................................................................................... MATTHEW SPRIGGS 139 The nature of prehistoric obsidian importation to Anir and the development of a 3,000 year old regional picture of obsidian exchange within the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea .......................................................................................... GLENN R. SUMMERHAYES 145 Stone mortar and pestle distribution in New Britain revisited ............. PAMELA SWADLING 157 Pre-Lapita valuables in island Melanesia ................................................ ROBIN TORRENCE 163 Rethinking regional analyses of western Pacific rock-art .................... MEREDITH WILSON 173