Prehistoric Cook Islands
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Author |
: Kazumichi Katayama |
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: 199? |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:57736232 |
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: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prehistoric Cook Islands by : Kazumichi Katayama
Author |
: Matthew Campbell |
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Total Pages |
: 672 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:223335172 |
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: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Settlement and Landscape in Late Prehistoric Rarotonga, Southern Cook Islands by : Matthew Campbell
Author |
: Geoffrey Irwin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521476518 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521476515 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific by : Geoffrey Irwin
The exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is a remarkable episode of human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography, no documents to record their route, no metal, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts, and computer simulations of voyages have produced an enormous range of literature on this controversial and mysterious subject. This book represents a major advance in knowledge of the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid and purposeful, undertaken systematically, and that navigation methods progressively improved. Using an innovative model to establish a detailed theory of navigation, Geoffrey Irwin claims that rather than sailing randomly downwind in search of the unknown, Pacific Islanders expanded settlement by the cautious strategy of exploring upwind, so as to ease their safe return. The author has tested this hypothesis against the chronological data from archaeological investigation, with a computer simulation of demographic and exploration patterns and by sailing throughout the region himself.
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Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:650348544 |
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: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prehistoric Cook Islands by :
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: Peter S. Bellwood |
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Total Pages |
: 244 |
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: 1978 |
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: UOM:39015028700980 |
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: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Archaeological Research in the Cook Islands by : Peter S. Bellwood
Author |
: ed. Katayama |
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Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:240577698 |
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: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis PREHISTORIC Cook Islands by : ed. Katayama
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: Roger Duff |
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Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105036222433 |
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: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prehistory of the Southern Cook Islands by : Roger Duff
Reports on investigations carried out in 1962-64 and in 1969.
Author |
: Geoffrey Richard Clark |
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: ANU E Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 2009-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781921666070 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1921666072 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Early Prehistory of Fiji by : Geoffrey Richard Clark
I enjoyed reading this volume. It is rare to see such a comprehensive report on hard data published these days, especially one so insightfully contextualised by the editors' introductory and concluding chapters. These scholars and the others involved in the work really know their stuff, and it shows. The editors connect the preoccupations of Pacific archaeologists with those of their colleagues working in other island regions and on "big questions" of colonisation, migration, interaction and patterns and processes of cultural change in hitherto-uninhabited environments. These sorts of outward-looking, big-picture contextual studies are invaluable, but all too often are missing from locally- and regionally-oriented writing, very much to its detriment. In sum, the work strongly advances our understanding of the early prehistory of Fiji through its well-integrated combination of original research and the reinterpretation of existing knowledge in the context of wider theoretical and historical concerns. In doing so The Early Prehistory of Fiji makes a truly substantial contribution to Pacific and archaeological scholarship. Professor Ian Lilley, The University of Queensland
Author |
: John Terrell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521369568 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521369565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prehistory in the Pacific Islands by : John Terrell
How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity.
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: [email protected] |
Total Pages |
: 48 |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9820201713 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789820201712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cook Islands Legends by :
Myths, stories and legends which once guided the lives of young Cook Islanders reveal a panorama of history, place names and genealogical identity. The mystique of the tales fascinated many young people who gathered around their elders to hear them illuminate the past.