Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Salemi Survey project: Long-term landscape change and political consolidation in interior western Sicily 3000 BC - AD 600. Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria: the Archaeology of Landscape Revisited. Matthew Fitzjohn (ed.). Accordia Press, London, pp. 171-185, 2007. (PDF 1,811k)

Contrada Pitrazzi: Late Bronze Age ruse of a Late Copper Age chamber tomb in western Sicily. (M. Kolb R. Osborn, C. Tyers, C. Heinzel). In Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria: the Archaeology of Landscape Revisited. Matthew Fitzjohn (ed.). Accordia Press, London, pp. 187-195, 2007. (PDF 1,542k)

The lost settlement of Halikyai and excavations at Cappasanta, Salemi, Sicily. (M. Kolb P. Vecchio, C Tyers). In Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria: the Archaeology of Landscape Revisited. Matthew Fitzjohn (ed.). Accordia Press, London, pp. 197-20, 2007. (PDF 1,143k)

rbanisation in western Sicily. (K. Cooney, M. Kolb). In Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria: the Archaeology of Landscape Revisited. Matthew Fitzjohn (ed.). Accordia Press, London, pp. 209-21, 2007. (PDF 1,135k)

The origins of monumental architecture in ancient Hawai'i. Current Anthropology 46(4):657-664, 2006. (PDF 416k)

Elymian regional interaction in Iron Age western Sicily: a preliminary neutron activation study of incised/impressed tablewares. With R. J. Speakman. Journal of Archaeological Science 32: 795-804, 2005. (PDF 381k)

The genesis of monuments among the Mediterranean islands. In: The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Mediterranean. Edited by B. A. Knapp and E. Blake. Blackwell, London, pp. 156-179, 2005. (PDF 905k)

Tracces di un insediamento del IV secolo a.C. a Salemi (TP). (with P.Vecchio and G. Mammina). Sicilia Archeologica 101:114-121, 2003.(PDF 3,483k)

Siti bizantini dell'agro salemitano. Atti delle Quarte Giornate Internazionali di Studi Elimi, Scuola Normale di Pisa (with P. Vecchio), pp. 839-846, 2003.(PDF 1,921k)

Landscape of War: Rules and Conventions of Conflict in Ancient Hawaii (and elsewhere). With B. Dixon. American Antiquity 67(3): 514-34, 2002. (PDF 3,561k)

Early human activity at a leeward coastal pondfield near Kalepolepo, Maui.(with J. Pepalis) Hawaiian Archaeology 8:32-41, 2002 (PDF 1,730k)

The late Bronze Age and early Iron Age landscape of interior western Sicily. (with S. Tusa) Antiquity 75:503-504, 2001. (PDF 313k)

Monumental grandeur and political florescence in pre-contact Hawaii.: Excavations at Piilanihale Heiau, Maui. Archaeology in Oceania 34:71-82, 1999. (PDF 3,158k)

Pig sacrifice and the archaeology of ritual in the Hawaiian kingdom. In, Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World, Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 9. Edited by E. A. Bacus and L. J. Lucero, pp. 89-107, 1999. (PDF 5,400k)

Labor, space, and boundary maintenance: Examining the archaeological community. (with J. Snead). American Antiquity 62(4):609-628, 1997. (PDF 804k)

New approached to combining the archaeological and historical records: Current research in the New and Old Worlds. (S. Kepecs and M. J. Kolb, editors). Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, special issue, 1997. (PDF 2,920k)

Monumentality and the rise of religious authority in precontact Hawaii. Current Anthropology 35(5):521-547, 1994. (PDF 1,397k)

Social Power, Chiefly Authority, and Ceremonial Architecture in an Island Polity, Maui, Hawaii. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1991. (PDF 21,564k)