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Archaeology of Oceania : Australia and the Pacific Islands / edited by Ian Lilley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell studies in global archaeology ; 8.
- Blackwell studies in global archaeology ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oceania--Antiquities.
- Oceania.
- Australia--Antiquities.
- Australia.
- Islands of the Pacific--Antiquities.
- Islands of the Pacific.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 396 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offering a view of past cultural developments across the whole area of Oceania, this text keeps in regional and global perspective the different patterns of long-term cultural change that unfolded across this very large part of the world.
- Contents:
- Archaeology in Oceania : themes and issues / Ian Lilley
- Revisiting the past : changing interpretations of Pleistocene settlement subsistence and demography in Northern Australia / Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth
- Archaeology and the dreaming : towards an archaeology of ontology / Bruno David
- Blunt and to the point : changing technological strategies in Holocene Australia / Peter Hiscock
- Rock art and social identity : a comparison of Holocene graphic systems in arid and fertile environments / Jo Mcdonald and Peter Veth
- Closing the distance : interpreting cross-cultural engagements through indigenous rock art / Anne Clarke and Ursula Frederick
- Archaeology in Melanesia : a case study from the Western Province of the Solomon Islands / Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard
- Envisaging early agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea / Tim Denham
- Late Pleistocene complexities in the Bismarck Archipelago / Matthew Leavesley
- Life before Lapita : new developments in Melanesia's long-term history / Christina Pavlides
- The first millennium BC in remote Oceania : an alternative perspective on Lapita / Jean-Christophe Galipaud
- Ethnoarchaeology in Polynesia / Eric Conte
- The formation of Hawaiian territories / Thegn Ladefoged and Michael Graves
- Ritual and domestic architecture, sacred places, and images : archaeology in the Marquesas Archipelago, French Polynesia / Sidsel Millerstrom
- The archaeology of the conical clan in Micronesia / Paul Rainbird
- Politics
- What is archaeology for in the Pacific? history and politics in New Caledonia / Christophe Sand, Jacques Bole, and Andre Ouetcho
- Levuka, Fiji : a case study in Pacific Islands heritage management / Anita Smith
- Last words
- a few words about archaeology in French Polynesia / Mickaelle-Hinanui Cauchois
- Shaking the pillars / Mark Dugay-Grist
- What is the future of our past? : Papua New Guineans and cultural heritage / Herman Mandui.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611213831
- 9781405152297
- 140515229X
- 9781281213839
- 1281213837
- 9780470705476
- 0470705477
- 9780470773475
- 0470773472
- OCLC:
- 214281359
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