Acknowledgements
We wish to thank all who have helped and encouraged us in writing Oceanic
Migration: our daughters Emma Hunt and Ann Head for their continued help
and support; Sheila Pegum for ongoing helpful advice; Olga and Doug Farnell,
Marianne and John Sved and Rubem Mondaini for their interest and encouragement; Ann and Murray Head for generous technical assistance; Tony Beresford
for advice on eclipse timings; Jason Whyte for help with figures; and Andrew
Metcalfe, Simon Tuke and Sam Cohen for their statistical and computational expertise and stimulating discussions as the statistical challenges faced in writing the book
were confronted. We also wish to thank Cheryl Hoskin of the Polynesian Special
Collection at the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, for her help over many
years.
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We wish to thank all who have helped and encouraged us in writing Oceanic
Migration: our daughters Emma Hunt and Ann Head for their continued help
and support; Sheila Pegum for ongoing helpful advice; Olga and Doug Farnell,
Marianne and John Sved and Rubem Mondaini for their interest and encouragement; Ann and Murray Head for generous technical assistance; Tony Beresford
for advice on eclipse timings; Jason Whyte for help with figures; and Andrew
Metcalfe, Simon Tuke and Sam Cohen for their statistical and computational expertise and stimulating discussions as the statistical challenges faced in writing the book
were confronted. We also wish to thank Cheryl Hoskin of the Polynesian Special
Collection at the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, for her help over many
years.
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