Robert Bollt

Robert Bollt (26 August 1971 – 26 January 2010) was an American archaeologist, specializing in Pacific Archaeology.

Education

Bollt received his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in 2005.[1]

Work

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 analysing 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
  1. 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.
  2. Bollt, R. 2008. Peva: The Archaeology of an Austral Settlement. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Anthropology 12
  3. Weisler, M., R. Bollt, and A. Findlater. 2006. Prehistoric fishing strategies on the makatea island of Rurutu. Archaeology in Oceania 45: 130–143.
  4. Steadman, D. W, and R. Bollt. 2010. Prehistoric Birds from Rurutu, Austral Islands, East Polynesia 1. Pacific Science 64, no. 2: 315–325.
  5. Trevor H. Worthy and Robert Bollt. Prehistoric Birds and Bats from the Atiahara Site, Tubuai, Austral Islands, East Polynesia. 2011. Pacific Science 65(1):69-85
  6. 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, no. 3: 403–411.
  7. http://www.atiahara.org/
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