The importance of shell: Redating of the To’aga site (Ofu Island, Manu'a) and a revised chronology for the Lapita to Polynesian Plainware transition in Tonga and Sāmoa

• Fiona Petchey ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: fpetchey@waikato.ac.nz

  Affiliations Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Division of Health, Engineering, Computing and Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3308-9983

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• Patrick V. Kirch

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, Hawai’i, United States of America

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