Robert Bollt

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Robert Bollt (26 August 1971 – 26 January 2010) was an American archaeologist, specializing in Pacific Archaeology.

Education[]

Bollt received his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in 2005.[1]

Work[]

Bollt spent much of his career studying the prehistory of the Austral Islands in French Polynesia. He published a monograph about his excavations on the island of Rurutu (Peva)[2] and co-authored several journal articles on prehistoric fishing strategies [3] and extirpated birds, bats and land mammals,[4][5][6] on both Rurutu and Tubuai. At the time of his death he was analyzing material from the excavation he led in 2007 on the island of Tubuai at the Atiahara site, a remarkable Archaic East Polynesian occupation.[7]

Bollt was a professor at the University of Hawaii Manoa from 2005 to early 2007. He taught a range of classes in the anthropology department including lithic analysis, lab analysis, Hawaiian archaeology and Anthropology 101.

References[]

  1. ^ Bollt, Robert J. 2008. Peva : the archaeology of an Austral Island settlement / Robert Bollt. Bishop Museum Bulletin in anthropology ; 12. Honolulu :: Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press.
  2. ^ Bollt, R. 2008. Peva: The Archaeology of an Austral Settlement. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Anthropology 12
  3. ^ Weisler, M., R. Bollt, and A. Findlater. 2006. Prehistoric fishing strategies on the makatea island of Rurutu. Archaeology in Oceania 45: 130–143.
  4. ^ Steadman, D. W, and R. Bollt. 2010. Prehistoric Birds from Rurutu, Austral Islands, East Polynesia 1. Pacific Science 64, no. 2: 315–325.
  5. ^ Trevor H. Worthy and Robert Bollt. Prehistoric Birds and Bats from the Atiahara Site, Tubuai, Austral Islands, East Polynesia. 2011. Pacific Science 65(1):69-85
  6. ^ Weisler, M. I, A. Findlater, and R. Bollt. 2006. A new eastern limit of the Pacific flying fox, Pteropus tonganus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), in prehistoric Polynesia: a case of possible human transport and extirpation. Pacific Science 60, no. 3: 403–411.
  7. ^ http://www.atiahara.org/
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