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A Pacific odyssey : archaeology and anthropology in the Western Pacific : papers in honour of Jim Specht / edited by Val Attenbrow and Richard Fullagar.
Penn Museum Library GN871 .P293 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Records of the Australian Museum. Supplement ; 29.
- Records of the Australian Museum. Supplement ; 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Oceania.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Oceania--Antiquities.
- Oceania.
- Antiquities.
- Oceania Region.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 186 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 29 cm.
- Other Title:
- Papers in honor of Jim Specht
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : Australian Museum, [2004]
- Contents:
- Jim Specht's brilliant career
- a tribute / Paul S.C. Taçon ... [et al.]
- Jim Specht: a bibliography / Kate Khan
- Holocene vegetation, savanna origins and human settlement of Guam / J. Stephen Athens and Jerome V. Ward
- The effect of objects: the return of a North Vanuatu textile from the Australian Museum to the Vanuatu Cultural Centre / Lissant Bolton
- Ownership and a peripatetic collection: Raymond Firth's collection from Tikopia, Solomon Islands / Elizabeth Bonshek
- Early agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea: an assessment of Phase 1 at Kuk Swamp / Tim Denham
- Settlement history and landscape use in Santo, Vanuatu / Jean-Christophe Galipaud
- A century of collecting: colonial collectors in southwest New Britain / Chantal Knowles and Chris Gosden
- Phytoliths and the evidence for banana cultivation at the Lapita Reber-Rakival site on Watom Island, Papua New Guinea / Carol J. Lentfer and Roger C. Green
- Trade and culture history across the Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea: the emerging post-Lapita coastal sequence / Ian Lilley
- From Misisil Cave to Eliva Hamlet: rediscovering the Pleistocene in interior West New Britain / Christina Pavlides
- Walpole, a "Mystery Island" in southeast New Caledonia? / Christophe Sand
- Oral tradition and the creation of late prehistory in Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands / Peter Sheppard, Richard Walter and Shankar Aswani
- Are the earliest field monuments of the Pacific landscape serial sites? / Anita Smith
- Is there life after Lapita, and do you remember the 60s? The post-Lapita sequences of the Western Pacific / Matthew Spriggs
- The nature of prehistoric obsidian importation to Anir and the development of a 3,000 year old regional picture of obsidian exchange within the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea / Glenn R. Summerhayes
- Stone mortar and pestle distribution in New Britain revisited / Pamela Swadling
- Pre-Lapita valuables in island Melanesia / Robin Torrence
- Rethinking regional analyses of Western Pacific rock-art / Meredith Wilson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0975047620
- OCLC:
- 56722484
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