Melinda S. Allen

Melinda S. Allen
Residence New Zealand
Alma mater University of Hawaii at Manoa
Scientific career
Fields Pacific archaeology
Institutions Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum , University of Auckland
Thesis

Melinda S. Allen is an American–New Zealand archaeologist. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland.[1]

Academic career

After a PhD titled 'Dynamic landscapes and human subsistence: Archaeological investigations on Aitutaki Island, southern Cook Islands' at the University of Hawaii at Manoa , Allen moved to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum and the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.[1]

Selected works

  • Allen, Melinda S. "New ideas about late Holocene climate variability in the central Pacific." Current Anthropology 47, no. 3 (2006): 521-535.
  • Allen, Melinda S. "Style and function in East Polynesian fish-hooks." Antiquity 70, no. 267 (1996): 97-116.
  • Allen, Melinda S., and Rod Wallace. "New evidence from the East Polynesian gateway: Substantive and methodological results from Aitutaki, southern Cook Islands." Radiocarbon 49, no. 3 (2007): 1163-1179.
  • Allen, Melinda S. "Bet-hedging strategies, agricultural change, and unpredictable environments: historical development of dryland agriculture in Kona, Hawaii." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 23, no. 2 (2004): 196-224.
  • Allen, Melinda S. "Resolving long-term change in Polynesian marine fisheries." Asian Perspectives (2002): 195-212.

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Melinda Allen - The University of Auckland". www.arts.auckland.ac.nz.


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