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Author : Jesse David Jennings
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106015767129
Author : Jesse D. Jennings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 0783741588
Author : Peter S. Bellwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9999449875
Author : John Terrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Peter S. Bellwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 0500020930
Author : Anita Jane Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015056430278
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.
Author : Valentí Rull,Christopher Stevenson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030911270
This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island’s (Rapa Nui, in the Polynesian language) prehistory from the time of initial settlement to European contact with a multidisciplinary perspective. The main topics include: (i) the time of first settlement and the origin of the first settlers; (ii) the main features of prehistoric Rapanui culture and their changes; (iii) the deforestation of the island and its timing and causes; (iv) the extinction of the indigenous biota, (v) the occurrence of climatic shifts and their potential effects on socioecological trends; (vi) the evidence for a cultural and demographic collapse before European contact; and (vii) the influence of Europeans on prehistoric Rapanui society. The book is subdivided into thematic sections and each chapter is written by renowned specialists in disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, paleoecology, ethnography, linguistics, ethnobotany, phylogenetics/phylogeography and history. Contributors have been invited to provide an open and objective vision that includes as many views as possible on the topics considered. In this way, the readers may be able to compare different of points of view and make their own interpretations on each of the subjects considered. The book is intended for a wide audience including graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, university teachers and researchers interested in the subject. Given its multidisciplinary character and the topics included, the book is suitable for students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines and interests.
Author : Christina Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062060891
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Computer Science Press, Incorporated
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112006947078
Author : Michael W. Graves,Roger Curtis Green
Publisher : Australian Geographic
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Polynesia
ISBN : UOM:39015032073226
Author : Madi Williams
Publisher : Past Imperfect
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1641892145
A historical overview and thematic examination of Polynesia (especially New Zealand and its outlying islands), 900-1600.
Author : Geoffrey Irwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Ethan E. Cochrane,Terry L. Hunt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Patrick Vinton Kirch,Roger C. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 052178879X
The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as the particular methods, for such a historical anthropology. Drawing upon and integrating the approaches of archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. They illustrate their approach through meticulous application to the history of the Polynesian cultures, and for the first time reconstruct in extensive detail the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished in the Polynesian homeland - Hawaiki - some 2,500 years ago. Of great significance for Oceanic studies, Kirch and Green's book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the theory and method of long-term history.
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0824853458
Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years he explored the Pacific, as his work took him to more than two dozen islands spread across the ocean, from Mussau to Hawai'i to Easter Island. In this lively memoir, rich with personal—and often amusing—anecdotes, Kirch relates his many adventures while doing fieldwork on remote islands. At the age of thirteen, Kirch was accepted as a summer intern by the eccentric Bishop Museum zoologist Yoshio Kondo and was soon participating in archaeological digs on the islands of Hawai'i and Maui. He continued to apprentice with Kondo during his high school years at Punahou, and after obtaining his anthropology degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Kirch joined a Bishop Museum expedition to Anuta Island, where a traditional Polynesian culture still flourished. His appetite whetted by these adventures, Kirch went on to obtain his doctorate at Yale University with a study of the traditional irrigation-based chiefdoms of Futuna Island. Further expeditions have taken him to isolated Tikopia, where his excavations exposed stratified sites extending back three thousand years; to Niuatoputapu, a former outpost of the Tongan maritime empire; to Mangaia, with its fortified refuge caves; and to Mo'orea, where chiefs vied to construct impressive temples to the war god 'Oro. In Hawai'i, Kirch traced the islands' history in the Anahulu valley and across the ancient district of Kahikinui, Maui. His joint research with ecologists, soil scientists, and paleontologists elucidated how Polynesians adapted to their island ecosystems. Looking back over the past half-century of Polynesian archaeology, Kirch reflects on how the questions we ask about the past have changed over the decades, how archaeological methods have advanced, and how our knowledge of the Polynesian past has greatly expanded.
