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Author : Paul Rainbird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521656303
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Author : Paul Rainbird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139463942
Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities. In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and questions the basis for such an understanding of island archaeology. Through a series of case studies of prehistoric archaeology in the Mediterranean, Pacific, Baltic, and Atlantic seas and oceans, he argues for a decentering of the land in favor of an emphasis on the archaeology of the sea and, ultimately, a new perspective on the making of maritime communities. The archaeology of islands is thus unshackled from approaches that highlight boundedness and isolation, and replaced with a new set of principles - that boundaries are fuzzy, islanders are distinctive in their expectation of contacts with people from over the seas, and that island life can tell us much about maritime communities. Debating islands, thus, brings to the fore issues of identity and community and a concern with Western construction of other peoples.
Author : Peter Sherwood Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011917981
Author : William Hampton Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : UOM:39015041723753
Author : Mike T. Carson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351599993
This book integrates a region-wide chronological narrative of the archaeology of Pacific Oceania. How and why did this vast sea of islands, covering nearly one-third of the world’s surface, come to be inhabited over the last several millennia, transcending significant change in ecology, demography, and society? What can any or all of the thousands of islands offer as ideal model systems toward comprehending globally significant issues of human-environment relations and coping with changing circumstances of natural and cultural history? A new synthesis of Pacific Oceanic archaeology addresses these questions, based largely on the author’s investigations throughout the diverse region.
Author : Aymeric Hermann,Frédérique Valentin,Christophe Sand,Emilie Nolet
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789697162
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.
Author : Robert Layton,Peter Ucko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134828340
The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage.
Author : Anne Clarke,Robin Torrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134828425
The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interaction and negotiation by using a wide variety of case studies which take a crucially indigenous rather than colonial standpoint.
Author : Michiko Intoh,Foss Leach
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0860543536
(BAR S277, 1985)
Author : Mike T. Carson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000958201
Archaeology of Pacific Oceania, now in its second edition, offers a state-of-the-art and fully detailed chronological narrative of how Pacific Oceania came to be inhabited over a long time scale, posing fundamental questions both for Pacific Oceania and for global archaeology. The Pacific Ocean covers 165 million sq. km, nearly one-third of the world’s total surface area, yet its thousands of islands and their diverse cultural histories are scarcely known to the other two-thirds of the world. This book asks how and why did this vast sea of islands come to be inhabited over the last several millennia, transcending significant change in ecology, demography, and society? What were the roles of overseas contacts in the development of social networks, economic trade, and population dynamics? What can any or all of the thousands of islands offer as ideal model systems for comprehending globally significant issues of human-environment relations and coping with changing circumstances of natural and cultural history? What do the island archaeology records reveal about coastal setting as part of the larger human experience? How does Pacific Oceanic archaeology relate with a larger Asia-Pacific context or with the scope of world archaeology? The new second edition of Archaeology of Pacific Oceania addresses these questions and more, providing an updated synthesis of this important region. Archaeology of Pacific Oceania is for scholars of Asia-Pacific archaeology and anthropology and will support students investigating the archaeology of Pacific Oceania.
Author : Geoffrey Clark,Mirani Litster
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760464899
When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space – even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archaeological evidence of conflict from those southern oceans, from Palau and Guam, to Australia, Vanuatu and Tonga, the Marquesas, Easter Island and New Zealand. The evidence for conflict and warfare encompasses defensive earthworks on Palau, fortifications on Tonga, and intricate pa sites in New Zealand. It reports evidence of reciprocal sacrifice to appease deities in several island nations, and skirmishes and smaller scale conflicts, including in Easter Island. This volume traces aspects of colonial-era conflict in Australia and frontier battles in Vanuatu, and discusses depictions of World War II materiel in the rock art of Arnhem Land. Among the causes and motives discussed in these papers are pressure on resources, the ebb and flow of significant climate events, and the significant association of conflict with culture contact. The volume, necessarily selective, eclectic and wide-ranging, includes an incisive introduction that situates the evidence persuasively in the broader scholarship addressing the history of human warfare.
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Felicia Rounds Beardsley
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060993469
This work documents two seasons of archaeological fieldwork (1999, 2001) at the site of Safonfok, a prehistoric monumental site on the southwest coast of Kosrae Island, Kosrae State, Federated States of Micronesia.
Author : Gonzaga Puas
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760464653
This study addresses the neglected history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia’s (FSM) engagement with the outside world. Situated in the northwest Pacific, FSM’s strategic location has led to four colonial rulers. Histories of FSM to date have been largely written by sympathetic outsiders. Indigenous perspectives of FSM history have been largely absent from the main corpus of historical literature. A new generation of Micronesian scholars are starting to write their own history from Micronesian perspectives and using Micronesian forms of history. This book argues that Micronesians have been dealing successfully with the outside world throughout the colonial era in ways colonial authorities were often unaware of. This argument is sustained by examination of oral histories, secondary sources, interviews, field research and the personal experience of a person raised in the Mortlock Islands of Chuuk State. It reconstructs how Micronesian internal processes for social stability and mutual support endured, rather than succumbing to the different waves of colonisation. This study argues that colonisation did not destroy Micronesian cultures and identities, but that Micronesians recontextualised the changing conditions to suit their own circumstances. Their success rested on the indigenous doctrines of adaptation, assimilation and accommodation deeply rooted in the kinship doctrine of eaea fengen (sharing) and alilis fengen (assisting each other). These values pervade the Constitution of the FSM, which formally defines the modern identity of its indigenous peoples, reasserting and perpetuating Micronesian values and future continuity.
Author : Donald L. Hardesty
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848260030
Archaeology is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Archaeology is a road for traveling into the past that is independent of and complementary to documents and memory. The archaeological record provides historical perspectives on variability and change in human life support systems with the potential for use in planning for future sustainable development. The Theme is organized into four different topics which represent the main scientific areas of the theme: - Foundations of Archaeology; - The Archaeology of Life Support Systems; - World Cultural Heritage; - Preserving Archaeological Sites and Monuments which are then expanded into multiple subtopics, each as a chapter. The first topic deals with historical, methodological, and theoretical foundations of archaeology. The second topic explores the archaeological record of human life support systems and includes chapters on foraging, food production such as farming and nomadic lifestyles, civilizations, water-management systems, and sustainability. World cultural heritage is the third topic. Finally, the fourth topic covers the preservation of cultural memorials such as archaeological sites, landscapes, and monuments. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.