Prehistory of Mauke
Author: Richard K. Walter
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 70
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Author: Richard K. Walter
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 288
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Author: Terry L. Hunt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 0190875658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOceania was the last region on earth to be permanently inhabited, with the final settlers reaching Aotearoa/New Zealand approximately AD 1300. This is about the same time that related Polynesian populations began erecting Easter Island's gigantic statues, farming the valley slopes of Tahiti and similar islands, and moving finely made basalt tools over several thousand kilometers of open ocean between Hawai'i, the Marquesas, the Cook Islands, and archipelagos in between. The remarkable prehistory of Polynesia is one chapter of Oceania's human story. Almost 50,000 years prior, people entered Oceania for the first time, arriving in New Guinea and its northern offshore islands shortly thereafter, a biogeographic region labelled Near Oceania and including parts of Melanesia. Near Oceania saw the independent development of agriculture and has a complex history resulting in the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Beginning 1000 BC, after millennia of gradually accelerating cultural change in Near Oceania, some groups sailed east from this space of inter-visible islands and entered Remote Oceania, rapidly colonizing the widely separated separated archipelagos from Vanuatu to S?moa with purposeful, return voyages, and carrying an intricately decorated pottery called Lapita. From this common cultural foundation these populations developed separate, but occasionally connected, cultural traditions over the next 3000 years. Western Micronesia, the archipelagos of Palau, Guam and the Marianas, was also colonized around 1500 BC by canoes arriving from the west, beginning equally long sequences of increasingly complex social formations, exchange relationships and monumental constructions. All of these topics and others are presented in The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania written by Oceania's leading archaeologists and allied researchers. Chapters describe the cultural sequences of the region's major island groups, provide the most recent explanations for diversity and change in Oceanic prehistory, and lay the foundation for the next generation of research.
Author: William R. Dickinson
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0813724066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Oceanian ceramic cultures making earthenware pottery spread during the past 3500 years through a dozen major island groups spanning 6000 km of the tropical Pacific Ocean from western Micronesia to western Polynesia. Island potters mixed sand as temper into clay bodies during ceramic manufacture. The nature of island sands is governed by the geotectonics of hotspot chains, island arcs, subduction zones, backarc basins, and remnant arcs as well as by sedimentology. Because small islands with bedrock exposures of restricted character are virtual point sources of sand, many tempers are diagnostic of specific islands. Petrographic study of temper sands in thin section allows distinction between indigenous pottery and exotic pottery transported from elsewhere. Study of 2223 prehistoric Oceanian potsherds from 130 islands and island clusters indicates the nature of Oceanian temper types and documents 105 cases of interisland transport of ceramics over distances typically
Author: William Wyatt Gill
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 134
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jukka Siikala
Publisher: Bradbury House of Words
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn English, some text in Cook Islands Maori. "Analyses the political system of the Ngaputoru group ... in the Southern Cook Islands. Beginning with local notions about the origin and population ... special attention is paid to the way in which the initial positions in the system emerge as genealogical positions"--Back cover. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150).
Author: Roger Duff
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 168
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Author: Edward Smith Craighill Handy
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 362
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 216
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