Download or read book The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai‘i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the heart of this new book, which draws together cutting-edge research by archaeologists, ethnographers, and demographers. In their accounts of exploration, early European voyagers in the Pacific frequently described the teeming populations they encountered on island after island. Yet missionary censuses and later nineteenth-century records often indicate much smaller populations on Pacific Islands, leading many scholars to debunk the explorers’ figures as romantic exaggerations. Recently, the debate over the indigenous populations of the Pacific has intensified, and this book addresses the problem from new perspectives. Rather than rehash old data and arguments about the validity of explorers’ or missionaries’ accounts, the contributors to this volume offer a series of case studies grounded in new empirical data derived from original archaeological fieldwork and from archival historical research. Case studies are presented for the Hawaiian Islands, Mo‘orea, the Marquesas, Tonga, Samoa, the Tokelau Islands, New Caledonia, Aneityum (Vanuatu), and Kosrae.
Download or read book Networks and Monumentality in the Pacific written by Aymeric Hermann and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects the tremendous progress made in Pacific island archaeology in the last 60 years which has considerably advanced our knowledge of early Pacific island societies, the rise of traditional cultural systems, and their later historical developments from European contact onwards.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania written by Terry L. Hunt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oceania was the last region on earth to be permanently inhabited, with the final settlers reaching Aotearoa/New Zealand approximately AD 1300. This is about the same time that related Polynesian populations began erecting Easter Island's gigantic statues, farming the valley slopes of Tahiti and similar islands, and moving finely made basalt tools over several thousand kilometers of open ocean between Hawai'i, the Marquesas, the Cook Islands, and archipelagos in between. The remarkable prehistory of Polynesia is one chapter of Oceania's human story. Almost 50,000 years prior, people entered Oceania for the first time, arriving in New Guinea and its northern offshore islands shortly thereafter, a biogeographic region labelled Near Oceania and including parts of Melanesia. Near Oceania saw the independent development of agriculture and has a complex history resulting in the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Beginning 1000 BC, after millennia of gradually accelerating cultural change in Near Oceania, some groups sailed east from this space of inter-visible islands and entered Remote Oceania, rapidly colonizing the widely separated separated archipelagos from Vanuatu to S?moa with purposeful, return voyages, and carrying an intricately decorated pottery called Lapita. From this common cultural foundation these populations developed separate, but occasionally connected, cultural traditions over the next 3000 years. Western Micronesia, the archipelagos of Palau, Guam and the Marianas, was also colonized around 1500 BC by canoes arriving from the west, beginning equally long sequences of increasingly complex social formations, exchange relationships and monumental constructions. All of these topics and others are presented in The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania written by Oceania's leading archaeologists and allied researchers. Chapters describe the cultural sequences of the region's major island groups, provide the most recent explanations for diversity and change in Oceanic prehistory, and lay the foundation for the next generation of research.
Download or read book Pathways to the Tongan Past written by Dirk R. Spennemann and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Archaeology of West Polynesian Prehistory written by Anita Jane Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be little doubt on linguistic evidence that East Polynesia was first settled from West Polynesia. The author argues, however, that the related archaeological record has been made to fit this dominant paradigm. Her objective assessment of the material evidence indicates that there is no compelling reason to derive East Polynesian settlers from West Polynesia on archaeological grounds.
Download or read book Archaeology in Oceania written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tongan Culture and History written by Phyllis Herda and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1990 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tonga and the Tongans written by Elizabeth Wood-Ellem and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19 essays on Tonga past and present.
Download or read book Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment written by Carole Shammas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt to delve into the period’s enhanced architectural investment—its successes, its failures, and the conflicts it provoked globally.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Indo Pacific Prehistory Association written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acquisition List written by University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Pacific Collection and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeology in New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of Pacific History Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implications of Expected Climate Changes in the South Pacific Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book IPPA written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vastly Ingenious written by Atholl Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Janet M. Davidson : a museum archaeologist / Roger C. Green -- 1. Early Maori disc pendants / Nigel Prickett -- 2. An archaeological collection of gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village / Geoffrey Irwin, Rod Wallace and Stephanie Green -- 3. Cooking with pots -- again / Helen Leach -- 4. Metal pa kahawai - a post-contact fishing lure form in northern New Zealand / Ian Smith -- 5. A cache of fishhooks from Serendipity Cave, Jackson bay, New Zealand / Foss Leach -- 6. Horticultural site complexes on stony soils of the eastern North Island: an aerial interpretation / Kevin L. Jones -- 7. Ecuadorian sailing rafts and Oceanic landfalls / Atholl Anderson, Helene Martinsson-Wallin and Karen Stothert -- 8. Arthur Kempe of H MS Adventure and Veryan, Cornwall / Peter Gathercole -- 9. Meʻa lalanga and the category Koloa: intertwining value and history in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 10. Ancestral Polynesian fishing gear: archaeological insights from Tonga / David V. Burley and Richard Shutler jr -- 11. Reading Pacific pots / Geoffrey Clark and Duncan Wright -- 12. The rise of the Saudeleur: dating the Nan Madol chiefdom, Pohnpei / J. Stephen Athens -- 13. A study of gorges from the Gognga-Cove Beach Site, Tumon, Guam / Yosihiko H. Sinoto -- 14. The role of fishing lure shanks for the past people of Pohnpei, eastern Caroline Islands, Micronesia / Paul Rainbird -- 15. An assessment of shell fishhooks of the Lapita cultural complex / Katherine Szabó -- 16. The material culture of Makira / Moira White -- 17. Shalf-hole stone implements of New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Jim Specht -- 18. Pottery styles at Wañelek, Papua New Guinea / Susan Bulmer -- 19. Still vastly ingenious? Globalisation and the collecting of Pacific material cultures / Sean Mallon.
Download or read book Journal of Field Archaeologty Vol 23 No 1 Spring 1996 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
