Janet Davidson Fan Mail Address
New Zealand-born archaeologist Janet Marjorie Davidson ONZM (born 1941) has done considerable fieldwork in Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Davidson did fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, as well as the Society Islands of Moorea (1961–1962), Samoa (1964, 1965–1966), Tonga (1964), and Nukuoro (1965) in the Federated States of Micronesia.Davidson earned his MA in anthropology from New Zealand’s University of Auckland in 1964. Until her departure to Dunedin in 1980, she served as the E. Earle Vaile archaeologist at the Auckland Institute and Museum, and the Auckland War Memorial Museum made her an honorary research associate in archaeology.
She worked as a senior curator, Pacific, at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa after serving as an honorary professor there. In the 1960s, Davidson and Green did archaeological fieldwork in Samoa. In collaboration, they wrote Archaeology in Western Samoa, which established the discipline in Samoa. Davidson did some research on Samoan settlement trends before to 1840 as part of his fieldwork. Davidson is a prolific author on the topic of New Zealand and Pacific island prehistory. During the years 1985 and 2008, she was the journal’s editor for New Zealand Archaeology. Also, she made significant contributions to the Journal of the Polynesian Society. In 2007, she was recognised with the publishing of the archaeological journal Vastly Ingenious. The archaeology of Pacific material culture is the subject of a book written in honour of Janet M.
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