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Author : Janet M. Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046390931
Author : Paul Rainbird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521656303
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Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520234611
Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human ecology and island adaptations.
Author : John Terrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0521369568
How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity.
Author : Ethan E. Cochrane,Terry L. Hunt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199925070
"The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island's statues, and the development of the word's last archaic states."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Mariana Mondini,Sebastián Munoz,Stephen Wickler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785705168
Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident. This volume of 12 papers offers a zooarchaeological approach to questions surrounding the nature and extent of human colonisation and migration, and the adaptation of humans to new and sometimes extreme or challenging environments. The volume is divided into two parts: Part 1 takes up the theme of Human and Animal Migration and Colonisation. Contributors consider the relationship between human movements and the movements of animals and animal products; case studies look at Neolithic population movements in Oceania, the Norse colonisation of Greenland, and the European settlement of Virginia. Part 2 focuses on the topic of Behavioural Variability in the So-Called Marginal Areas. Contributors offer various interpretations of the concept of 'marginality', from climatic extremes of the Arctic cold, and the heat and aridity of western North America, to the geographical remoteness of Patagonia, and the cultural circumstances surrounding the beginnings of transhumant pastoralism in prehistoric southeastern Europe.
Author : Terry L. Hunt,Carl P. Lipo,Sarah L. Sterling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313000874
Although many believe that archaeological knowledge consists simply of empirical findings, this notion is false; data are generated with the guidance of theory, or some sense-making system acting in its place whether researchers recognize this or not. Failure to understand the relationship between theory and the empirical world has led to the many debates and frustrations of contemporary archaeology. Despite years of trying, the atheoretical, empiricist foundations of archaeology have left us little but a history of storytelling and unsatisfying generalizations about historical change and human diversity. The present work offers promising directions for building theoretically defensible results by providing well-designed case studies that can be used as guides or exemplars. Evolutionary theory, in at least some form, is the foundation for a scientific archaeology that will yield scientific explanations for historical change.
Author : Misra,Bellwood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004644472
Author : International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0422809306
First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Geoffrey Irwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521476518
The exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is a remarkable episode of human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography, no documents to record their route, no metal, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts, and computer simulations of voyages have produced an enormous range of literature on this controversial and mysterious subject. This book represents a major advance in knowledge of the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid and purposeful, undertaken systematically, and that navigation methods progressively improved. Using an innovative model to establish a detailed theory of navigation, Geoffrey Irwin claims that rather than sailing randomly downwind in search of the unknown, Pacific Islanders expanded settlement by the cautious strategy of exploring upwind, so as to ease their safe return. The author has tested this hypothesis against the chronological data from archaeological investigation, with a computer simulation of demographic and exploration patterns and by sailing throughout the region himself.
Author : International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1974-10-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 042274400X
First published in 1974. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Robert Borofsky,S. Alan Howard
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824881962
Development in Polynesian Ethnology assesses the current state of anthropological research in Polynesia by examining the debates and issues that shape the discipline today. What have anthropologists achieved? What concerns now dominate discussion? Where is Polynesian anthropology headed? In a series of provocative and original essays, leading scholars examine prehistory, social organization, socialization and character development, mana and tapu, chieftainship, art and aesthetics, and early contact. Together these essays show how history, anthropology, and archaeology have combined to give a broad understanding of Polynesian societies developing over time--how they represent a blend of modernity and tradition, continuity and change. This book is both an introduction to Polynesia for interested students and a thought-provoking synthesis for scholars charting new directions and posing possibilities for future research. Scholars outside Polynesian studies will find the perspectives it offers important and its comprehensive bibliography an invaluable resource.
Author : Richard K. Walter,Atholl Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112326017
Author : Robert C. Kiste,Mac Marshall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824820177
American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the U.S. colonial administration, and the discipline of anthropology itself. Contributors analyze the interplay between anthropology and history, in particular how American colonialism affected anthropologists' use of history, and examine the research that has been conducted by American anthropologists in specific topical areas of socio-cultural anthropology. Although concentrating largely on disciplinary concerns, the authors consider the connections between work done in the era of applied anthropology and that completed later when anthropology was pursued mainly for its own sake. The focus then returns to applied concerns in more recent years and issues pertaining to the relevance of anthropology for the world of practical affairs. It will be of essential interest to students and scholars of Pacific Islands studies and the history of anthropology.
Author : Terry L. Jones,Alice A. Storey,Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith,José Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759120068
The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of trans-oceanic contacts, summarizes the historic evidence and supplements it with recent archaeological, linguistic, botanical, and physical anthropological findings. Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America.