Index
401
Tutumaiao, 101, 271, 366
Two genealogies stretching back to Lapita
times, 299
U
Uenuku, 313, 316, 323
Ui-te-Rangiora, 341
Ulimaroa, 154
Upper-tail power law behaviour, 250
Urewera tribe, 287, 296
Urlich, Colleen, 294
Urlich, Dorothy, 188, 230
Using myth to encode knowledge, 296
V
Vikings, 266
Vinland, 266
Violent separation of Heaven and Earth, 292
Visser, Edward, 237
Volcanic eruption at Ambrym, 273
Voyages to the Antarctic, 336
W
Wairau Plain
erosion, 203
Wakea, 169
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 128
Walker, Gilbert, 327
Wallacea, 3, 32
as centre for plant and animal
domestication, 120
dating of pulsed expansions, 24
genetic evidence for Wallacea as base for
expansion, 24
geographical description, 3
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 32, 33
Wallace’s Line, 3, 46
Walters, Roy, 264
Walton, Tony, 186, 235, 243
Ward, Jerome, 89
Warm Waihirere Period, 202
Warm wet erosion periods, 201, 240
Waves of migration
climate-modulated, 326
Weisler, Marshall, 171
West Australian Current, 82
Western Polynesia, 7, 156
West Pacific Warm Pool, 37, 373
changing seasonal boundaries, 40
dynamic oceanic phenomenon, 331
geological and oceanographic history, 43
high SSTs, 39
Ice Age maritime refuge, 7
long distance voyaging nursery, 56
major currents, 7
5 major functions, 42
oceanographic history, 25
oceanographic and volcanic history, 4, 7
tectonic disturbances leading to high SSTs,
48
West Wind Drift, 337
Whaitiri, 334
Whakatane, 275
Whakawhitira pa, 219
Whangaehu valley
erosion, 203
Whare wananga, 315
schools of learning, 69
Whare wananga tradition, 154
Whatonga, 275, 306
Wheeler, Jocelyn, 91
Wheteina, 357
White chickens
cultural complex of sacrifice and divination,
114
White, John, 268, 274
Whyte, A., 367
Wild men of the woods, 277, 280
Wi-Wi, 101, 271, 366
WPWP
dynamic oceanic phenomenon, 58
as a long-distance voyaging nursery, 46
Y
Yancheva, G., 334
Yayoi period, 60
Yen, Douglas, 91