Robert Bollt
Robert Bollt (26 August 1971 – 26 January 2010) was an American archaeologist, specializing in Pacific Archaeology.
Education[edit]
Bollt received his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaiʻi in 2005.[1]
Work[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bollt, R. 2008. Peva: The Archaeology of an Austral Settlement. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Anthropology 12
- ^ Weisler, M., R. Bollt, and A. Findlater. 2006. Prehistoric fishing strategies on the makatea island of Rurutu. Archaeology in Oceania 45: pages 130–143.
- ^ Steadman, D. W, and R. Bollt. 2010. Prehistoric Birds from Rurutu, Austral Islands, East Polynesia 1. Pacific Science 64, number 2: pages 315–325.
- ^ Trevor H. Worthy and Robert Bollt. Prehistoric Birds and Bats from the Atiahara Site, Tubuai, Austral Islands, East Polynesia. 2011. Pacific Science 65(1): pages 69-85
- ^ 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, number 3: pages 403–411.
- ^ "Home". atiahara.org.