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Patrick Vinton Kirch. This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological data have since been exploited.

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Patrick Vinton Kirch is an American archaeologist and Professor . 1984 – The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms (Cambridge Univ.

Patrick Vinton Kirch is an American archaeologist and Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology and the Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Concurrently, he is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i Manoa. The former Curator of Oceanic Archaeology in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and director of that museum from 1999 to 2002, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bishop Museum.

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