Vastly ingenious : the archaeology of Pacific material culture : in honour of Janet M. Davidson / edited by Atholl Anderson, Kaye Green and Foss Leach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Atholl.

Green, K. (Kaye), 1938-

Leach, Foss, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Davidson, Janet M.

Material culture--Polynesia.

Material culture.

Material culture--New Zealand.

Art, Polynesian.

Māori (New Zealand people)--Material culture.

Māori (New Zealand people).

New Zealand.

Polynesia.

Physical Description:

319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction. Janet M. Davidson : a museum archaeologist / Roger C. Green

1. Early Maori disc pendants / Nigel Prickett

2. An archaeological collection of gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village / Geoffrey Irwin, Rod Wallace and Stephanie Green

3. Cooking with pots

again / Helen Leach

4. Metal pa kahawai - a post-contact fishing lure form in northern New Zealand / Ian Smith

5. A cache of fishhooks from Serendipity Cave, Jackson bay, New Zealand / Foss Leach

6. Horticultural site complexes on stony soils of the eastern North Island: an aerial interpretation / Kevin L. Jones

7. Ecuadorian sailing rafts and Oceanic landfalls / Atholl Anderson, Helene Martinsson-Wallin and Karen Stothert

8. Arthur Kempe of H MS Adventure and Veryan, Cornwall / Peter Gathercole

9. Meʻa lalanga and the category Koloa: intertwining value and history in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler

10. Ancestral Polynesian fishing gear: archaeological insights from Tonga / David V. Burley and Richard Shutler jr

11. Reading Pacific pots / Geoffrey Clark and Duncan Wright

12. The rise of the Saudeleur: dating the Nan Madol chiefdom, Pohnpei / J. Stephen Athens

13. A study of gorges from the Gognga-Cove Beach Site, Tumon, Guam / Yosihiko H. Sinoto

14. The role of fishing lure shanks for the past people of Pohnpei, eastern Caroline Islands, Micronesia / Paul Rainbird

15. An assessment of shell fishhooks of the Lapita cultural complex / Katherine Szabó

16. The material culture of Makira / Moira White

17. Shalf-hole stone implements of New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Jim Specht

18. Pottery styles at Wañelek, Papua New Guinea / Susan Bulmer

19. Still vastly ingenious? Globalisation and the collecting of Pacific material cultures / Sean Mallon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781877372452

1877372455

OCLC:

173241159