Publications

Books

• 2019  McCorriston, J., J. S. Field. World Prehistory and the Anthropocene: An Introduction to Human Prehistory. Thames & Hudson, London and New York.

Journal Articles

• 2023  Roos, C. I., J. S. Field, Dudgeon, J. V. Multi-scale Analysis of Drought, Fire, and Deforestation of Oceanic Islands. Nature Ecology and Evolution. DOI 10.1038/s41559-023-02212-8.
• 2022 Montenegro, A., Temmen, J., Field, J. S., S. Juras, J. Grand. Modeling the drifting of sweet potato across the Pacific.  Quarternary Science Reviews 295 (2022) 107709. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107709.
• 2022 Mills, P., Lundblad, S., Cauley, C., Coleman, D. S., Field, J. S., Hafner, A., Kahn, J., Sinton, J. M., Kirch, P.V. Provenance, production, and distribution of basalt and volcanic glass artifacts in Leeward Kohala, Hawai’i Island. Article DOI: 10.1002/gea.21913.
• 2021 Riordan, K. J., Field, J. S., Dudgeon, J. V. Microanalysis of Naihehe Cave Sediments. Journal of Archaeological Science, Reports . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103202.
• 2021 D’Cunha, M-G, Montenegro, A., Field, J. S. Modeling water crossings leading to the arrival of early Homo in Sulawesi, Indonesia, via paleoclimate drift experiments. Journal of Archaeological Science, Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.109194.
• 2021 Kawa, N., Arceño, M., Goeckner, R., Hunter, C., Rhue, S., Scaggs, S., Biwer, M., Downey, S., Field, J. S., Gremillion, K., McCorriston, J., Willow, A., Newton, E., Moritz, M. Training Wicked Scientists for a World of Wicked Problems. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (8)1:1-4.

• 2017 Field, J. S. Comment on Exploring Patterns and Pathways of Dietary Change: Preferred Foods, Oral Health, and Stable Isotope Analysis of Hair from the Dani of Mulia, Papua, Indonesia, by Andrew Somerville, M. Martin, L. Hayes, D. Hayward, P. Walker, M. Schoeninger.  Current Anthropology 58(1):46-47.
• 2016 Roos, C. I., Field, J. S., Dudgeon, J. V.  Anthropogenic burning, agricultural intensification, and landscape transformation in Post-Lapita Fiji.  Journal of Ethnobiology 36(3):535-553.

• 2016 Field, J. S.,  Jacqueline N. Lipphardt, Patrick V. Kirch. Trends in Marine Foraging in Precontact and Historic Leeward Kohala, Hawai’i Island.  Pacific Science 70(3):287-307.

• 2013 Field, J. S.  Comment on ‘Fijian Polygenesis and the Melanesian/Polynesian Divide’ by David V. Burley.  Current Anthropology 54(4):449.

• 2012  Rose, D., Agnew, A., Gocha, T., Stout, S., Field, J. S. Technical Note: The use of geographical information systems software for the spatial analysis of bone microstructure.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 148:648-654.

• 2012  Kirch, P. V., Asner, G., Chadwick, O.A., Field, J. S., Ladefoged, T. N., Lee, C., Puleston, C., Tuljapurkar, S., Vitousek, P. M.  Building and testing models of long-term agricultural intensification and population dynamics: A case study from the Leeward Kohala Field System, Hawaiʻi.  Ecological Modeling 227:18-28.

• 2011   Field, J. S., Ladefoged, T. N, Sharp, W. D., Kirch, P. V.,  Residential chronology, household subsistence, and the emergence of socioeconomic territories in Leeward Kohala, Hawaii Island.  Radiocarbon 53(4):605-627.

• 2011  Field, J. S., T. N. Ladefoged, P. V. Kirch.  Household Expansion Linked to Agricultural Intensification during Emergence of Hawaiian Archaic States.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (18):7327-7332.

• 2010   Mills, P. R., Lundblad, S. P., Field, J. S., Carpenter, A., McElroy, W. K., Rossi, P. Geochemical sourcing of basalt artifacts from Kauaʻi, Hawaiian Islands.  Journal of Archaeological Science 37:3385-3393.

• 2010   Field, J. S. and Lape, P.  Paleoclimates and the emergence of fortifications in the tropical Pacific Islands. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29:113-124.

• 2010  Field, J. S., Kirch, P., Kawelu, K., Ladefoged, T.  Households and hierarchy: Domestic modes of production in Leeward Kohala, Hawai’i Island.  Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 5(1):52-85.

• 2009   Kyle, B., Field. J. S., and M. Kenyhercz. Post-Lapita health, behavior, and mortuary behavior in Fiji: A brief report. Rapa Nui Journal  23(1):28-39.

• 2009   Field, J. S., Cochrane, E., Greenlee, D.  Dietary Change in Fijian Prehistory:  Isotopic Analyses of Human and Animal Skeletal Material.  Journal of Archaeological Science 36:1547-1556.

• 2008   Field, J. S., and Graves, M.  A new chronology for Pololu Valley, Hawaii Island: Occupational history and agricultural development.  Radiocarbon 50(2):205-222.

• 2008   Field, J. S.,  Explaining fortifications in Indo Pacific prehistory. Archaeology in  Oceania 43:1-10.

• 2007   Field, J. S., Petraglia, M., Lahr, M. M.  The southern dispersal hypothesis and the South Asian archaeological record: Examination of dispersal routes through GIS analysis.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 26:88-108.

• 2006   Field, J. S.,  The prehistory of the interior of Vitilevu.  Domodomo 19:7-19.

• 2006  Field, J. S., Lahr, M. M., Assessment of the Southern Dispersal: GIS-Based Analyses of Potential Routes at Oxygen Isotopic Stage 4. Journal of World Prehistory 19(1):1-45.

• 2006   Kumar, R., Field, J. S., de Biran, A.  Human responses to climate change around AD 1300: A case study of the Sigatoka Valley, Viti Levu Island, Fiji.  Quaternary International 151:133-143.

• 2005   Field, J. S.,   Land tenure, competition, and ecology in Fijian Prehistory. Antiquity 79(305):586-600.

• 2005   Graves, M., Field, J. S., McElroy, W.  An overview of site 0-30-01-196, Nu‘alolo Kai, Kaua‘i: Features, excavations, stratigraphy and chronology of historic and prehistoric occupations.  Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Special Publication 2: 1-40.

• 2004   Field, J. S.,   Environmental and climatic considerations: A hypothesis for conflict and the emergence of social complexity in Fijian Prehistory.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 23:79-99.

• 2003   Field, J. S.,  A classification for Hawaiian artifacts based on morphology and wear: Analyses of discoidal artifacts.  Rapa Nui Journal 17(2):94-105.

• 2003   Field, J. S.,   Archaeological and GIS-based research in the Sigatoka Valley, Fiji. Domodomo 16(2).

• 2003   Field, J. S.,   The evolution of competitive settlement strategies in Fijian prehistory: Results of excavations and radiometric dating.  Archaeology in New Zealand 46(3):161-164.

• 2001   Field, J. S.,   An exercise in archaeological ethics: University of Hawai’i undergraduates and the case of the Kennewick Man.  In, Public Anthropology, edited by Dr. Robert Borofsky, [www.publicanthropology.org/Journals/Grad-j/Hawaii/HawaiiTOC.htm].

• 2000   Hunt, T. L., Aronson, K. F., Cochrane, E. E., Field, J. S., Humphrey, L., Rieth, T. M.  A preliminary report on archaeological research in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji.  Domodomo 12(2):5-43.

• 1999   Field, J. S.,   Remote sensing and GIS-based analyses of prehistoric agricultural production and habitation in the Sigatoka Valley, Fiji.  Hawai‘i Space Grant College Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowship Reports, Number 99-07:7-12.

• 1998   Field, J. S.,   Natural and constructed defenses in Fijian fortifications.  Asian Perspectives 37(1):32-58.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• 2015  Field, J. S., Graves, M. W.   Introduction.  In, Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kauaʻi. Edited by J. S. Field and M. W. Graves, pp. 1-11. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• 2015  Field, J. S., Graves, M. W.  Nuʻalolo Kai in Context.  In, Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kauaʻi. Edited by J. S. Field and M. W. Graves, pp. 12-20. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• 2015  Field, J. S. Excavations and investigations at site 50-30-01-196, Nuʻalolo Kai, 1958-1990.  In, Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kauaʻi. Edited by J. S. Field and M. W. Graves, pp. 21-30. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• 2015 Graves, M. W., Jolivette, S., Esh, K. S., Field, J. S. Modified and unmodified turtle remains from Nuʻalolo Kai. In, Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kauaʻi. Edited by J. S. Field and M. W. Graves, pp. 61-74. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• 2015  Field, J. S., Jolivette, S.  Introduced and native mammals from Nuʻalolo Kai. In, Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kauaʻi. Edited by J. S. Field and M. W. Graves, pp. 107-139. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• 2015  Field, J. S., and McElroy, W. K. Modified coral from Nuʻalolo Kai.  In, Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kauaʻi. Edited by J. S. Field and M. W. Graves, pp. 140-155. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• 2015  Field, J. S., and McElroy, W. K.  Shell, bone, and invertebrate ornaments from Nuʻalolo Kai. In, Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kauaʻi. Edited by J. S. Field and M. W. Graves, pp. 156-169. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• 2015 Field, J. S., and Graves, M. W.  Synthesis: The prehistory of Nuʻalolo Kai. In, Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kauaʻi. Edited by J. S. Field and M. W. Graves, pp. 188-206. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• 2015  Field, J. S., Appendix B. Other faunal tools and modified materials from Nuʻalolo Kai. In, Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kauaʻi. Edited by J. S. Field and M. W. Graves, pp. 213-220. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• 2015  Field, J. S., Appendix C. Unmodified invertebrate remains from Nuʻalolo Kai. In, Abundance and Resilience: Farming and Foraging in Ancient Kauaʻi. Edited by J. S. Field and M. W. Graves, pp. 221-225. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• 2008   Field, J. S.,   Natural and Cultural Deposits in Tatuba Cave, Fiji Islanand 2002 Excavations.  In, Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Fiji/West Polynesia, pp. 33-44, edited by D. Addison, C. Sand, and T. Asaua. University of Otago Anthropology Department Monograph Series, Vol. 21, Otago, New Zealand.

• 2005   Field, J. S.,   Interannual rainfall, ENSO, and agricultural  productivity in the Western Pacific.  In, The Reñaca Papers: Proceedings from the 6th International Conference on Easter Island and Polynesia, Viña del Mar, Chile, pp. 75-80, edited by J. Wozniak.  Easter Island Foundation, Los Osos.

• 2002   Field, J. S.,  GIS-based analyses of agricultural production and habitation in the Sigatoka Valley, Fiji.  In, Pacific Landscapes: Archaeological Approaches, pp. 97-124, edited by T. N. Ladefoged and M. W. Graves.  Easter Island Foundation Press, Los Osos, CA.

Reports

• 2017  Field, J. S., Roos, C. I., Dudgeon, J. V., Commendador, A., Hazard, R. Riordan, K. Collaborative Proposal: Investigating the Subsistence Transition in Post-Lapita Fiji (2500-1500 years BP) NSF-BCS Archaeology Award #1216330. Final Report on Fieldwork and Analyses Conducted June 2012-August 2017.

• 2010 Field, J. S., Kahn, J., Kirch, P. V., Ladefoged, T. Archaeological Survey and Excavations of Pahinahina, Kalala, Makiloa, and Kaiho‘oa Ahupua‘a, Kohala, Hawai‘i Island, 2009. Report. Prepared for the State Historic Preservation Division , the National Science Foundation, and Ponoholo Ranch LLC.

• 2009 Field, J. S., Kirch, P. V., Ladefoged, T. Summary of Archaeological Research on State Lands at Pahinahina, Kalala, Makiloa, and Kaiho‘oa Ahupua‘a, TMK 3rd/5-9-03:1 & 4, 3rd/5-9-04:8, 1, 3rd/5-6-01:4, and Ponoholo Ranch Land TMK 3rd/5-9-04:7, June 15-August 15, 2009. Prepared for the State Historic Preservation Division , the National Science Foundation, and Ponoholo Ranch LLC.

• 2009 Field, J. S., Kawelu, K., Kirch, P. V., Ladefoged, T., Connors, R. Archaeological Survey and Excavations of Pahinahina, Kalala, Kaiholena, and Makeanehu Ahupuaʻa, Kohala, Hawaii Island, 2008. Full report prepared for the State of Hawaii, the State Historic Preservation Division, Parker Ranch LCC, and the National Science Foundation.

• 2008 Field., J. S., Kirch, P. V., Ladefoged, T. Summary of Archaeological Research on State Lands at Pahinahina, Kalala, Makeanehu, and Kaiholena Ahupua’a, TMK 3rd/5-8-01:6 & 12; 3rd/5-9-03:1 & 4; and 3rd/5-9-08:8, July-August 2008. Prepared for the State Historic Preservation Division, the National Science Foundation, and Parker Ranch LLC.

• 2008 Field, J. S., Kirch, P. V., Kawelu, K., Connors, R., Ladefoged, T. Archaeological Survey and Excavations of Makiloa and Kalala Ahupua‘a, Kohala, Hawaii Island, 2007. Full report prepared for the State of Hawaii, the State Historic Preservation Division, and the National Science Foundation.

• 2007 Field, J. S., Kirch, P. V., Ladefoged, T. Summary of Archaeological Research on State Lands at Pahinahina, Makiloa, and Kalala Ahupua‘a, TMK 3rd/5-9-03:1, June – July 2007. Prepared for the State Historic Preservation Division, Dept. of Lands and Natural Resources, Honolulu.

• 2007 Field, J. S., Graves, M. W. Archaeological Investigations of Upper Halawa ahupua‘a, district of Kohala, Hawai‘i Island. Prepared for Surety Kohala, Hawi, Hawai‘i.

• 2007 Field, J. S., Graves, M. W. Archaeological Investigations of Niuli‘i Stream, Keokea Beach Park, Niuli‘i Ahupua‘a, Hawai‘i Island. Prepared for the County Parks of Hawai‘i Island.

• 2007 Field, J. S., Graves, M. W. Archaeological Investigations of Waianaia Gulch, ‘Iole ahupua‘a, Hawai‘i Island. Prepared for the New Moon Foundation.

• 2003a Field, J. S. Archaeological Investigations of the Site of Bātiri (2-SIG-005), District of Sigatoka, Nadrogā Province, Fiji Islands. Prepared for the Immigration Department, Fiji Islands, The Fiji Museum, and the Nadrogā/Navosa Provincial Office.

• 2003b Field, J. S. Archaeological Investigations of the Site of Korokune (2-CON-010), District of Conua, Nadrogā Province, Fiji Islands. Prepared for the Immigration Department, Fiji Islands, The Fiji Museum, and the Nadrogā/Navosa Provincial Office.

• 2003c Field, J. S. Archaeological Investigations of the Sites of Korovatuma (2-MAV-047), Bukusia (2-MAV-049), and Korohewa (2-MAV-048), District of Mavua, Nadrogā Province, Fiji Islands. Prepared for the Immigration Department, Fiji Islands, The Fiji Museum, and the Nadrogā/Navosa Provincial Office.

• 2003d Field, J. S. Archaeological Investigations of the Site of Madraya (1-NKR-031), District of Noikoro, Fiji Islands. Prepared for the Immigration Department, Fiji Islands, The Fiji Museum, and the Nadrogā/Navosa Provincial Office.

• 2003e Field, J. S. Archaeological Investigations of the Site of Malua (1-NSK-015), District of Nasikawa, Fiji Islands. Prepared for the Immigration Department, Fiji Islands, The Fiji Museum, and the Nadrogā/Navosa Provincial Office.

• 2003f Field, J. S. Archaeological Investigations of the Site of Nadrogā (1-NKR-046), District of Noikoro, Fiji Islands. Prepared for the Immigration Department, Fiji Islands, The Fiji Museum, and the Nadrogā/Navosa Provincial Office.

• 2003g Field, J. S. Archaeological Investigations of the Site of Nokonoko (2-NOK-009), District of Nokonoko, Fiji Islands. Prepared for the Immigration Department, Fiji Islands, The Fiji Museum, and the Nadrogā/Navosa Provincial Office.

• 2003h Field, J. S. Archaeological Investigations of the Site of Qoroqorovakatini (2-QMR-007), District of Naqalimare, Fiji Islands. Prepared for the Immigration Department, Fiji Islands, The Fiji Museum, and the Nadrogā/Navosa Provincial Office.

• 2003i Field, J. S. Archaeological Investigations of the Sites of Tatuba Cave (1-NMT-015), Muawai (1-NMT-014), and Tawaleka (1-NMT-009), District of Namataku, Fiji Islands. Prepared for the Immigration Department, Fiji Islands, The Fiji Museum, and the Nadrogā/Navosa Provincial Office.

• 2003j Field, J. S. Archaeological Investigations of the Sites of Vitogo (2-BMA-011), Ikoro (2-BMA-010), and Natuatuacoko (2-BMA-014), District of Bemana, Fiji Islands. Prepared for the Immigration Department, Fiji Islands, The Fiji Museum, and the Nadrogā/Navosa Provincial Office.

• 1999 Connor, M. A., Field, J. S., Roberts, K. M. Archaeological Testing of the World War II Prisoner-of-War Camp (5EP1211) at Fort Carson, El Paso County, Colorado. Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service Lincoln, NE.

• 1996 Cannon, K. P., Field, J. S., Roberts, K. M. Pahsimeroi River Valley and Big Lost River Valley Land Exchange Cultural Resource Survey. Bureau of Land Management Report No. I D4C95043. Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Lincoln NE.