Settlement history and landscape use in Santo, Vanuatu. In A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific. Papers in Honour of Jim Specht
Abstract
Preliminary results of an archaeological investigation of the northwest coast of Santo Island in Vanuatu are presented. They indicate the possibility that wet taro gardening correlated with the use of oven stone cooking technology in some coastal rockshelters extends back some 1,000 years.