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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
Contributor:
Specht, Jim, 1940-
Attenbrow, Val, 1942-
Fullagar, R. L. K.
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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