| Abstract: |
Recent studies in the southern Cook Islands demonstrate the exotic goods, such as fine grained adze stone, ceramics, and pearlshell, moved between islands of the group and into the Cooks from other archipelagos. This sphere of interaction was regional in scale, minimally extending west to Samoa and east to the Societies. These communication links had been established by AD 1000 as demonstrated at four southern Cook Island sites spread across the archipelago. Regional interaction declined after AD 1600 but continued at a low level between islands of the southern Cook group until western contact.
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