ABSTRACT
Archaeology in Pacific Oceania, just like in any geographic region, can interface with local concerns of heritage management and cultural representation, but it furthermore can generate real tangible data for addressing globally relevant questions and problems about population migrations, cross-cultural contacts, human-environment relations, evolution of inhabited landscape systems, and more. Whether at the local or global scale, the practical value output of archaeology depends largely on the ability to translate or leverage site-specific material findings into a meaningful framework. One such framework has been proposed in a new chronological narrative of Pacific Oceanic archaeology, and its potential contribitions are explored here.
