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Uncovering Pacific pasts : histories of archaeology in Oceania / edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones, and Matthew Spriggs.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antiquities.
- Archaeology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (614 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra ANU Press 2022
- Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts (UPP) exhibition.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Early European exploration in the Pacific, 1500s - 1870s
- Part 2: The first archaeological excavations, 1870s - 1910s
- Part 3: The burgeoning field of anthropology and archaeology, 1918-45
- Part 4: Archaeology as a profession in the Pacific, 1945 - present.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Howes, Hilary Uncovering Pacific Pasts
- ISBN:
- 9781760464875
- 1760464872
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