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Archaeology of Oceania : Australia and the Pacific Islands / / edited by Ian Lilley



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Titolo: Archaeology of Oceania : Australia and the Pacific Islands / / edited by Ian Lilley Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 396 pages) : illustrations, maps
Disciplina: 995
Soggetto geografico: Oceania Antiquities
Australia Antiquities
Islands of the Pacific Antiquities
Altri autori: LilleyIan  
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Archaeology of Oceania  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 140515229X
1-281-21383-7
9786611213831
0-470-70547-7
0-470-77347-2
1-4051-5229-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910829000003321
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Serie: Blackwell studies in global archaeology ; ; 8.