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A mid-nineteenth-century trident illustrates a changing marine ecosystem in the South Pacific Archaeological artifacts create not only a record of human behavior, but can also record past ...

A trident lined with shark teeth, used in the study. Image via PLOS ONE/Drew et. al. For decades, a total of 124 swords, tridents and spears taken from the Pacific Ocean’s Gilbert Islands in the ...

Shark-tooth weapons once used for warfare in the Central Pacific have revealed two locally extinct shark species, a new study says. Historical records show that natives of the Gilbert Islands (map), ...

AT a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute on April 21, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, president, in the chair, Mr. Arthur Grimble read a paper entitled “From Birth to Death in the Gilbert Islands.” ...

From days immemorial the tawny Gil-bertese have chanted their folk sagas. Last week New York Timesman Robert Trumbull recorded one that “chanters yet unborn will sing”—the story of the U.S. 165th ...