On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition

On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition
ISBN-10
0520292812
ISBN-13
9780520292819
Category
Social Science
Pages
408
Language
English
Published
2017-11-14
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Patrick Vinton Kirch

Description

Introduction : defining Oceania -- Discovering the Oceanic past -- The Pacific islands as a human environment -- Sahul and the prehistory of "old" Melanesia -- Lapita and the Austronesian expansion -- The prehistory of "new" Melanesia -- Micronesia : in the "sea of little islands"--Polynesia : origins and dispersals -- Polynesian chiefdoms and archaic states -- Big structures and large processes in Oceanic prehistory

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