Patrick Vinton Kirch

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies(300), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies(85), Island Studies and Pacific Affairs(85), Isotope Analysis in Ecology(56), Asian American and Pacific Histories(25)

Publications468 total

Temporal Size Changes in Archaeological Fishbone Assemblages from Tikopia, Eastern Solomon Islands: Implications for Long-Term Human–Reef Ecosystem Interactions
Pacific Science·2025
Ancient mitogenomes of Lapita pigs confirm continuity of the Pacific Clade in Remote Oceania
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2025Open Access
A Newly Identified Basalt Adze Quarry at Honoko‘i Gulch, East Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands
Geoarchaeology·2025Open Access
Rising seas endanger maritime heritage
Science·2025· 4 cited
Do Ecological or Social Factors Generate Internal Variation Amongst Eastern Polynesian Chiefdoms? A Comparison of Human Interactions with Other Species in the Society Islands and Gambier Islands (Mangareva)
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Do Ecological or Social Factors Generate Internal Variation Amongst Eastern Polynesian Chiefdoms? A Comparison of Human Interactions with Other Species in the Society Islands and Gambier Islands (Mangareva)
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Ancient Mitogenomes of Lapita Pigs Confirm Continuity of the Pacific Clade in Remote Oceania
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
New Dog Parasite (Toxocara canis) Discoveries at Melanesian and Polynesian Sites in Tropical Remote Oceania
Pacific Science·2024· 6 cited
Pre-Contact Vegetation and Persistence of Polynesian Cultigens in Hālawa Valley, Moloka‘i
Pacific Science·2024· 4 cited
People of the Sea, or of the Soil? How the Balance of Marine and Terrestrial Resource Availability Informs Maximum Population on Four Polynesian Islands
Human Ecology·2024Open Access
People of the sea, or of the soil? How the balance of marine and terrestrial resource availability informs maximum population on four Polynesian islands
2024Open Access
A network of designs: studying Early Lapita exchange networks in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea through Social Network Analysis
Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania·2024· 1 cited
Understanding social connections within the Bismarck Archipelago through petrographic and motif analyses of Mussau Lapita pottery assemblages
ANU Press eBooks·2024Open Access
The Archaeology of East Polynesia
Oxford University Press eBooks·2024· 1 cited
The pre‐contact temple system of Hālawa Valley, Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands
Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Remembering Douglas Ernest Yen (20 March 1924–7 July 2023)
Asian perspectives·2024
IN MEMORIAM: REMEMBERING DOUGLAS ERNEST YEN (20 MARCH 1924 – 7 JULY 2023)
Asian perspectives·2023
Figures, Plates, and Tables
University of Hawaii Press eBooks·2023Open Access
Feathered Gods and Fishhooks
University of Hawaii Press eBooks·2023· 58 cited
The Hālawa dune site, Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Islands: New excavations, redating, and new interpretations
The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology·2023· 3 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Roger C. Green(4), Thegn N. Ladefoged(3), Marshall I. Weisler(3), John Edward Terrell(2), Elizabeth Matisoo‐Smith(2), Judith Robins(2), Matthew Spriggs(2), Michiko Intoh(2), Terry L. Hunt(2), Richard Walter(2), Oliver A. Chadwick(2), Peter M. Vitousek(2), Peter Bellwood(2), Chris Gosden(2), Jon G. Hather(2), David W. Steadman(2), Mark D. McCoy(2), P. Bion Griffin(1), Greger Larson(1), Thomas Cucchi(1)