Prehistoric Cook Islands
Author: Kazumichi Katayama
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Author: Kazumichi Katayama
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Published: 199?
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Campbell
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 672
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geoffrey Irwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521476515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 245
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter S. Bellwood
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: ed. Katayama
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger Duff
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReports on investigations carried out in 1962-64 and in 1969.
Author: Geoffrey Richard Clark
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2009-12-01
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1921666072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI 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: Norio Shibata
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 390
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