The collective biography of archaeology in the Pacific: a hidden history

太平洋考古集体传记：隐藏的历史。该项目旨在将太平洋考古学史确立为世界考古学中的一个新的分支学科，涵盖从早期探险家的推测到现在的时期。澳大利亚和新西兰学者经常被遗忘的作用将被突出。太平洋考古学家是世界上三分之一的考古学的管理者，他们已经忘记了这段历史的太多，以至于这门学科陷入了严重的概念危机，目前关于太平洋人起源的理论陷入了过时的、往往被种族主义的假设之中。与此同时，我们关于太平洋过去的想法正在太平洋本土岛民中变得内化。为了推动理论向前发展，有必要了解学科历史。

The collective biography of archaeology in the Pacific: a hidden history. The project aims to establish the history of Pacific archaeology as a new sub-discipline within world archaeology, covering the period from the speculations of early explorers to the present. The often-forgotten role of Australian and New Zealand scholars will be highlighted. Pacific archaeologists, stewards of a third of the World's archaeology, have forgotten so much of that history that the discipline is in a serious conceptual crisis, with current theories about the origins of Pacific peoples mired in outmoded and often racialised assumptions. At the same time, our ideas about the Pacific past are becoming internalised among indigenous Pacific Islanders. There is a need for understanding the disciplinary history in order to move theory forward.