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If it is about anything, this book is about communication: about archaeologists communicating with each other, with their colleagues in cognate disciplines and, above all, with local and descendant communities. It could hardly be otherwise, based as it is on the 2009 conference on Pacific Island archaeology in the 21st century: relevance and engagement. Held in Palau in Micronesia, this meeting of more than 300 delegates was concerned with the ways in which contemporary ‘Pacific Islander culture is integral to preserving and protecting the natural and cultural re-sources of Oceania as both are currently threatened by rapid economic, social and environmental changes’. The book is dedicated to the late Rita Olsudong, who passed away a few months before the conference. Rita had been involved with cultural preservation in Palau since th