Recent Advances in Indo-Pacific Prehistory
Author: Misra
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-07-17
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9004644474
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New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory
Author: Philip J. Piper
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2017-03-24
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1760460958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neolithic farming communities, and the development of Iron Age societies. These core enduring issues continue to be explored throughout the vast region covered here, accordingly with a richness of results as shown by the authors. Befitting of the grand scope of this volume, the individual contributions articulate perspectives from multiple study areas and lines of evidence. Many of the chapters showcase new primary field data from archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. Equally important, other chapters provide updated regional summaries of research in archaeology, linguistics, and human biology from East Asia through to the Western Pacific.’ Mike T. Carson Associate Professor of Archaeology Micronesian Area Research Center University of Guam
Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific
Author: John Connell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-12-05
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1134138911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment management practices, changing social relationships and producing new forms of stratification. Bringing together case studies from across mainland Southeast Asia and the Island Pacific, an expert team of international contributors reveal how communities at the periphery take charge of their lives, champion the virtues of their own local systems of production and consumption, and engage in the complexities of new structures of development that demand a response to the vacillations of global politics, economy and society. Inherent in this is the recognition that 'development' as we have come to know it is far from over. Each chapter emphasizes the growing recognition that ecological and environmental issues are key to any understanding and analysis of structures of sustainable development. Providing diverse multidisciplinary theoretical and empirical perspectives, Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific makes an important contribution to the revitalization of development studies and as such will be essential reading for scholars in the field, as well as those with an interest in Asia-Pacific studies, economic geography and political economy.
First Islanders
Author: Peter Bellwood
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1119251567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention to migration in the period dating from 1.5 million years ago to the development of Indic kingdoms late in the first millennium CE.
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory
Author: Graeme Barker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 0199559953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddressing one of the most debated revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming, this title takes a global view, and integrates an array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology.
Early Animal Domestication and Its Cultural Context
Author: Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780924171963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transition from hunting and gathering to food production is one of the most significant developments in all of human prehistory, since it led to profound changes in population, settlement patterns, and technology. The authors examine the process of early animal domestication in the Near East, South Asia, and Europe, focusing on the cultural context of early animal husbandry. MASCA Vol. 6 Supplement
The Political Economy of India's Economic Development: 5000BC to 2022AD, Volume I
Author: Sangaralingam Ramesh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-10-14
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 3031420721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, the first of two volumes, explores India’s economic development from 5000BC through to the India’s independence period from 1947AD to 2022AD. The specific characteristics of economic development in India are examined to help determine development paths India can pursue to create sustainable development in the 21st century. The transition from the primary section to the secondary sector, through the process of industrialisation and in turn the move towards the services sector, is discussed in relation to climate change and the pressure on resources posed by population growth. This book aims to contextualise India’s economic development within the political economy of trade, sustainable development and culture with a particular focus on the institutions that have emerged in the Indian sub-continent since 5000BC. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic history, development economics, and the political economy.
Archaeology of Oceania
Author: Ian Lilley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 140515229X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a state-of-the-art introduction to the archaeology of Oceania, covering both Australia and the Pacific Islands. The first text to provide integrated treatment of the archaeologies of Australia and the Pacific Islands Enables readers to form a coherent overview of cultural developments across the region as a whole Brings together contributions from some of the region’s leading scholars Focuses on new discoveries, conceptual innovations, and postcolonial realpolitik Challenges conventional thinking on major regional and global issues in archaeology
Tracing Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea
Author: Tim Denham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-06-28
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1351115286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea and how these practices were transformed through time. The intention is twofold: to clearly establish New Guinea as a region of early agricultural development and plant domestication; and, to develop a contingent, practice-based interpretation of early agriculture that has broader application to other regions of the world. The multi-disciplinary record from the highlands has the potential to challenge and change long held assumptions regarding early agriculture globally, which are usually based on domestication. Early agriculture in the highlands is charted by an exposition of the practices of plant exploitation and cultivation. Practices are ontologically prior because they ultimately produce the phenotypic and genotypic changes in plant species characterised as domestication, as well as the social and environmental transformations associated with agriculture. They are also methodologically prior because they emplace plants in specific historico-geographic contexts.
The Emergence of Agriculture
Author: Peter White
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-25
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1000115518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, the first in the One World Archaeology series, is a compendium of key papers by leaders in the field of the emergence of agriculture in different parts of the world. Each is supplemented by a review of developments in the field since its publication. Contributions cover the better known regions of early and independent agricultural development, such as Southwest Asia and the Americas, as well as lesser known locales, such as Africa and New Guinea. Other contributions examine the dispersal of agricultural practices into a region, such as India and Japan, and how introduced crops became incorporated into pre-existing forms of food production. This reader is intended for students of the archaeology of agriculture, and will also prove a valuable and handy resource for scholars and researchers in the area.
