Melinda S. Allen

Melinda S. Allen is an American–New Zealand archaeologist. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland.[1]

Melinda S. Allen
Alma mater	University of Hawaii at Manoa
Scientific career
Fields	Pacific archaeology
Institutions	Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum , University of Auckland
Thesis	Dynamic landscapes and human subsistence: Archaeological investigations on Aitutaki Island, southern Cook Islands (1992)

Academic career

After a PhD titled 'Dynamic landscapes and human subsistence: Archaeological investigations on Aitutaki Island, southern Cook Islands' at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Allen moved to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum and the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.[1]

Selected works

• Allen, Melinda S. "New ideas about late Holocene climate variability in the central Pacific." Current Anthropology 47, no. 3 (2006): 521-535.
• Allen, Melinda S. "Style and function in East Polynesian fish-hooks." Antiquity 70, no. 267 (1996): 97-116.
• Allen, Melinda S., and Rod Wallace. "New evidence from the East Polynesian gateway: Substantive and methodological results from Aitutaki, southern Cook Islands." Radiocarbon 49, no. 3 (2007): 1163-1179.
• Allen, Melinda S. "Bet-hedging strategies, agricultural change, and unpredictable environments: historical development of dryland agriculture in Kona, Hawaii." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 23, no. 2 (2004): 196-224.
• Allen, Melinda S. "Resolving long-term change in Polynesian marine fisheries." Asian Perspectives (2002): 195-212.

References

1. "Professor Melinda Allen - The University of Auckland". www.arts.auckland.ac.nz.

External links

• Melinda S. Allen publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Publications by Melinda S. Allen, at ResearchGate