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第二章補充閱讀提供的波利尼西亞聚落形成的文獻資料已經涵蓋東南波利尼西亞聚落。Tim Benton和Tom Spencer 合作編輯了The Pitcairn Islands:Biogeography, Ecology, and Prehistory(London:Academic Press, 1995),內含1991—1992年間科學家們在皮特凱恩島、漢德森島及奧埃諾和杜西環礁考察研究的結果。該書有27個章節,涉及這些群島的地理、植物、鳥類(包括在漢德森島滅絕的鳥類)、魚類、陸地和海洋的無脊椎動物,以及人類對當地生態環境造成的影響。

本書使用的波利尼西亞族群在皮特凱恩島和漢德森島定居和離棄的資料大部分來自Marshall Weisler與其同事的研究成果。在上文提到的Tim Benton和Tom Spencer編輯的論文集裡,其中一個章節就是Weisler對自己研究成果的一個概述:「Henderson Island prehistory:colonization and extinction on a remote Polynesian island」(pp.377-404)。此外,他又撰寫了兩篇綜合報告:「The settlement of marginal Polynesia:new evidence from Henderson Island」(Journal of Field Archaeology 21:83-102(1994)),和「An archaeological survey of Mangareva:implications for regional settlement models and interaction studies」(Man and Culture and Oceania 12:61-85(1996))。此外,Weisler又寫了四篇論文用以解釋如何對當地發現的玄武岩手斧進行化學分析,從而能弄清玄武岩的出處,也有助於瞭解當時的貿易路線。這四篇論文分別是:與D.Whitehead合作發表的「Provenance studies of Polynesian basalt adzes material:a review and suggestions for improving regional databases」(Asian Perspectives 32:61-83(1993));「Basalt pb isotope analysis and the prehistoric settlement of Polynesia」(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 92:1881-1885(1995));以及與Patrick V.Kirch合作發表的「Interisland and interarchipelago transfer of stone tools in prehistoric Polynesia」(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 93:1381-1385(1996));「Hard evidence for prehistoric interaction in Polynesia」(Current Anthropology 39:521-532(1998))。探討波利尼西亞東部與東南貿易網絡的論文有 Marshall Weisler與R.C.Green合作發表的「Holistic approaches to interaction studies:a Polynesian example」(pp.413-453);Martin Jones與Peter Sheppard編輯的Australasian Connections and New Directions(Auckland, N.Z.:Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, 2001);R.C.Green和Marshall Weisler的「The Mangarevan sequence and dating of the geographic expansion into Southeast Polynesia」(Asian Perspectives 41: 213-241(2002));以及Marshall Weisler的「Centrality and the collapse of long-distance voyaging in East Polynesia」(pp.257-273),這篇論文被收錄於Michael D.Glascock編輯的Geochemical Evidence for Long-Distance Exchange(London:Bergin and Garvey, 2002)。關於漢德森島上的農作物和骨骸可見下列三篇論文:Jon G.Hather與Marshall Weisler的「Prehistoric giant swamp taro(Cyrtosperma chamissionis)from Henderson Island, Southeast Polynesia」(Pacific Science 54:149-156(2000));Sara Collins和Marshall Weisler的「Human dental and skeletal remains from Henderson Island, Southeast Polynesia」(People and Culture in Oceania 16:67-85(2000));以及Vincent Stefan、Sara Collins和Marshall Weisler合作發表的「Henderson Island crania and their implication for southeastern Polynesian prehistory」(Journal of the Polynesian Society 111:371-383(2002))。

對皮特凱恩島和漢德森島感興趣或是喜歡看精彩故事的人一定不能錯過Charles Nordhoff與James Norman Hall合寫的小說Pitcairn's Island(Boston:Little, Brown, 1934)。這本小說用寫實的手法重現了叛艦喋血記中叛變者們如何控制船艦,驅逐船長與其親信,然後來到皮特凱恩島自相殘殺的故事。該事件的真實情況可參閱Caroline Alexander寫的The Bounty(New York:Viking, 2003)。