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Islands of inquiry : colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes

Title: Islands of inquiry : colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes / edited by Geoffrey Clark, Foss Leach and Sue O'Connor.
Publication: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, ©2008.

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510 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm

Summary

"Many of the papers in this volume present new and innovative research into the processes of maritime colonisation, processes that affect archaeological contexts from islands to continents. Others shift focus from process to the archaeology of maritime places from the Bering to the Torres Straits, providing highly detailed discussions of how living by and with the sea is woven into all elements of human life from subsistence to trade and to ritual. Of equal importance are more abstract discussions of islands as natural places refashioned by human occupation, either through the introduction of new organisms or new systems of production and consumption. These transformation stories gain further texture (and variety) through close examinations of some of the more significant consequences of colonisation and migration, particularly the creation of new cultural identities. A final set of papers explores the ways in which the techniques of archaelogical sciences have provided insights into the fauna of the islands and the human history of such places."--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Terra Australis ; 29

Uniform Title

Terra Australis ; 29.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Festschriften.
History.

Note

"Papers in honour of Atholl Anderson"--P. [i].

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

Also available in an electronic format via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://epress.anu.edu.au.

Contents

INTRODUCTION -- 1. Atholl John Anderson: No ordinary archaeologist, p.1 / Foss Leacb: MODELLING SEAFARING AND COLONISATION -- 2. Getting from Sunda to Sahul, p.31 / Jim Allen and James F. O'Connell -- 3. Seafaring simulations and the origin of prehistoric setders to Madagascar, p.47 / Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Richard Callaghan -- 4. Friction zones in Lapita colonisation, p.59 / Geoffrey Clark and Stuart Bediord -- 5. Flights of fancy: Fractal geometry, the Lapita dispersal and punctuated colonisation in the Pacific, p.75 / Ian Lilley -- 6. Demographic expansion, despotism and the colonisation of East and South Polynesia, p.87 / Douglas J. Kennett and Bruce Winterhalder -- 7. The long pause and the last pulse: Mapping East Polynesian colonisation, p.97 / Tim Thomas: THE MARITIME DIMENSION IN PREHISTORY -- 8. Be careful what you ask for: Archaeozoological evidence of mid-Holocerıe dimate change in the Bering Sea and implications for the origins of Aretic Thule, p.113 / Susan J. Crockford -- 9. Ritualised marine midden formation in western Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait), p.133 / Ian J. McNiven and Duncan Wright -- 10. Sailing between worlds: The symbolism of death in northwest Borneo, p.149 / Katherine Szabô, Philip J. Piper and Graeme Barker -- 11. Land and sea animal remains from Middle Neolithic Pitted Ware sites on Godand Island in the Baltic Sea, Sweden, p.171 / Helene Martinsson- Wallin -- 12. A cache of orıe-piece fishhooks from Pohara, Takaka, New Zealand, p.185 / Janet Davidson and Foss Leach -- 13. Trans-oceanic transfer of bark-cloth technology from South China-Southeast Asia to Mesoamerica?, p.203 / Judith Cameron: ISLAND ENVİRONMENTS: THEORY, BIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS -- 14. Are islands islands? Some thoughts on the history of chalk and cheese, p.211 / Matthew Spriggs -- 15. No fmit on that beautiful shore: What plants were introduced to the subtropical Polynesian islands prior to European contact?, p.227 / Matthew Prebble -- 16. One thousand years of human environmental transformation in the Gambier Islands (French Polynesia), p.253 / Eric Conte and Patrick V. Kirch -- 17. Stora Karlsö -- a tiny Baltic island with a puzzling past, p.265 / Rita Larje -- 18. East of Easter: Traces of human impact in the far-eastem Pacific, p.281 / lona Flett and Simon Haberle -- 19. Subsistence and island landscape transformations: Investigating monumental earthworks in Ngaraard State, Republic of Palau, Micronesia, p.301 / Sarah Phear -- 20. Historical significance of the Southwest Islands of Palau, p.325 / Michiko lntoh: ETHNOHISTORY, CROSS-CULTURAL CONTACT AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN AIISTRALASIA AND THE PACIFIC -- 21. The historical archaeology of New Zealand's prehistory, p.339 / Matthew Campbell -- 22. Trans- Tasman stories: Australian Aborigines in New Zealand sealing and shore whaling, p.351 / Nigel Prickett -- 23. Maori, Pakeha and Kiwi: Peoples, cultures and sequence in New Zealand archaeology, p.367 / Ian Smith -- 24. Translating the 18th century pudding, p. 381 / Helen Leach -- 25. Boat images in the rock art of northern Australia with particular reference to the Kimberley, Westem Australia, p.397 / Sue O'Connor and Steve Arrow -- 26. The shifting place ofNgai Tahu rock art, p.411 / Gerard O'Regan: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SDENCE AND TAPHONOMY -- 27. Phosphates and bones: An analysis of the courtyard of marae Manunu, Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia, p.423 / Paul Wallin, fnger Österholm, Sven Österholm and Reidar Solsvik -- 28. The physical and mineralogical characteristics of pottery from Mochong, Rota, Mariana Islands, p. 435 / Foss Leacb, Janet Davidson, Graeme Claridge, Graeme Ward and John Craib -- 29. The dry and the wet: The variable effect of taphonomy on the dog remains from the Kohika Lake Village, Bay of Plerıry, New Zealand, p.453 / Graeme Taylor and Geoffrey frwin -- 30. Taphonomic analysis of the Twilight Beach seals, p.475 / Lisa Nagaoka, Steve Wolverton and Ben Fullerton -- 31. A new gen us and species of pigeon (Aves: Columbidae) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, p.499 / Trevor H Worthy and Graham M Wragg.

ISBN

9781921313899
1921313897
9781921313905
1921313900

LCCN

2010413257

OCLC

ocn240481384
240481384
SCSB-1488787

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library