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Oceanic culture history : essays in honour of Roger Green / edited by Janet Davidson ...[et al.].

Contributor(s): Davidson, Janet M | Green, Roger Curtis
Language: English Publisher: Dunedin : New Zealand Journal of Archaeology, 1996.Description: 691p. : ill., maps ; 30cm.ISBN: 0473037211
Contents:
Roger Green in the Pacific / J. Davidson; Roger Green: a bibl., 1956-1995 / Dorothy Brown; Oceania: overviews. Chronology and colonisation in island Southeast Asia and the Pacific / Matthew Spriggs; Lapita as history and culture hero / J. Terrell; Pottery terms in proto Oceanic / Malcolm D. Ross; The Japanese as an Asia-Pacific population / K. Katayama; Dead on arrival: a simulation of survival in Neolithic Pacific voyaging / P. Houghton; Hard rock: archaeological implications of chert sourcing in near and remote Oceania / P.J. Sheppard; Ethnobotany / P.J. Matthews; The geometry of the dead / L. Groube; An overview of the contributions of Roger Green / Michael W. Graves; Near Oceania. Spheres of interaction and integration: modelling the culture history of the Bismarck Archipelago / Jim Allen, C. Gosden; Rocks in the head: thinking about distribution of obsidian / J. Peter White; Which obsidian is worth it? A view from the west New Britain sources / R. Torrence [et al]; Colonisation, trade and exchange: from Papua to Lapita / Geoffrey Irwin, S. Holdaway; Island Melanesia. The distribution of Lapita sites and coral reef resources in the Solomon Islands / P. Swadling; The development of archaeological work in the Solomon Islands / L.A. Foana'ota; Obsidian hydration dating of the reef/Santa Cruz lapita sites / W.R. Ambrose; Tikopia social space revisited / P.V. Kirch; Linguistic consequences of the Kuwae eruption / Ross Clark; Archaeological structures, socio-political complexity and population density: New Caledonia / Christophe Sand; New Caledonia / J. - C. Galipaud; Roger Green: early and late encounters / J. Golson; Micronesia. Mass harvesting of fish in the waterways of Nan Nadol, Pohnpei / Foss Leach, J. Davidson, J. Stephen Athens; Polynesia and Fiji. The physical anthropology / M. Pietrusewsky; The end of the trail: the genetic basis for deriving the Polynesian peoples from Austronesian speaking palaeopopulations / Kevin M. Kelly; Putting voyaging back into Polynesian prehistory / Ben Finney; Historical linguistics and Pacific archaeology: the unreality of ancestral Polynesian society / Douglas G. Sutton; On the Polynesian subgroup as a problem for Irwin's continuous settlement thesis / A. Pawley; Of steel and stone adzes and typological tests / Helen M. Leach; The Central Pacific. Pottery in Fiji / P. Geraghty; Rethinking western Polynesia: Uvea in the early Tongan empire / N.J. Pollock; Samoan prehistory in review / Jeffrey T. Clark; Early eastern lapita to Polynesian plainware at Tongatapu and Lifuka / Tom Dye; The investiture of 'Ulukalala VII / A.L. Kaeppler; Eastern Polynesia. Eastern Polynesian subgrouping today / J. Marck; What is the east Polynesian "archaic"? A view from the Cook Islands / Richard Walter; Colonisation and cultural change in the Marquesas / B.R. Rolett; Mata'ire'a Hill, Huahine / Y.H. Sinoto; Easter Island (Rapa Nui) archaeology since 1955 / J.A. van Tilburg; Social complex adaptive systems: some Hawaiian examples / R.J. Hommon; The rise and fall of the O'ahu kingdom / R. Cordy; Taking the mystery out of the Polynesian "mystery" islands: Mangareva and the Pitcairn group / M.I. Weisler; New Zealand and Australia. Wakawaka and mahinga kai / Atholl Anderson; Settlement patterns in Tamaki-makau-rau revisited / S. Bulmer; Horde and hapu / Harry Allen; Historical documents, archaeology and 18th century seal hunting in New Zealand / Ian Smith.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Roger Green in the Pacific / J. Davidson; Roger Green: a bibl., 1956-1995 / Dorothy Brown; Oceania: overviews. Chronology and colonisation in island Southeast Asia and the Pacific / Matthew Spriggs; Lapita as history and culture hero / J. Terrell; Pottery terms in proto Oceanic / Malcolm D. Ross; The Japanese as an Asia-Pacific population / K. Katayama; Dead on arrival: a simulation of survival in Neolithic Pacific voyaging / P. Houghton; Hard rock: archaeological implications of chert sourcing in near and remote Oceania / P.J. Sheppard; Ethnobotany / P.J. Matthews; The geometry of the dead / L. Groube; An overview of the contributions of Roger Green / Michael W. Graves; Near Oceania. Spheres of interaction and integration: modelling the culture history of the Bismarck Archipelago / Jim Allen, C. Gosden; Rocks in the head: thinking about distribution of obsidian / J. Peter White; Which obsidian is worth it? A view from the west New Britain sources / R. Torrence [et al]; Colonisation, trade and exchange: from Papua to Lapita / Geoffrey Irwin, S. Holdaway; Island Melanesia. The distribution of Lapita sites and coral reef resources in the Solomon Islands / P. Swadling; The development of archaeological work in the Solomon Islands / L.A. Foana'ota; Obsidian hydration dating of the reef/Santa Cruz lapita sites / W.R. Ambrose; Tikopia social space revisited / P.V. Kirch; Linguistic consequences of the Kuwae eruption / Ross Clark; Archaeological structures, socio-political complexity and population density: New Caledonia / Christophe Sand; New Caledonia / J. - C. Galipaud; Roger Green: early and late encounters / J. Golson; Micronesia. Mass harvesting of fish in the waterways of Nan Nadol, Pohnpei / Foss Leach, J. Davidson, J. Stephen Athens; Polynesia and Fiji. The physical anthropology / M. Pietrusewsky; The end of the trail: the genetic basis for deriving the Polynesian peoples from Austronesian speaking palaeopopulations / Kevin M. Kelly; Putting voyaging back into Polynesian prehistory / Ben Finney; Historical linguistics and Pacific archaeology: the unreality of ancestral Polynesian society / Douglas G. Sutton; On the Polynesian subgroup as a problem for Irwin's continuous settlement thesis / A. Pawley; Of steel and stone adzes and typological tests / Helen M. Leach; The Central Pacific. Pottery in Fiji / P. Geraghty; Rethinking western Polynesia: Uvea in the early Tongan empire / N.J. Pollock; Samoan prehistory in review / Jeffrey T. Clark; Early eastern lapita to Polynesian plainware at Tongatapu and Lifuka / Tom Dye; The investiture of 'Ulukalala VII / A.L. Kaeppler; Eastern Polynesia. Eastern Polynesian subgrouping today / J. Marck; What is the east Polynesian "archaic"? A view from the Cook Islands / Richard Walter; Colonisation and cultural change in the Marquesas / B.R. Rolett; Mata'ire'a Hill, Huahine / Y.H. Sinoto; Easter Island (Rapa Nui) archaeology since 1955 / J.A. van Tilburg; Social complex adaptive systems: some Hawaiian examples / R.J. Hommon; The rise and fall of the O'ahu kingdom / R. Cordy; Taking the mystery out of the Polynesian "mystery" islands: Mangareva and the Pitcairn group / M.I. Weisler; New Zealand and Australia. Wakawaka and mahinga kai / Atholl Anderson; Settlement patterns in Tamaki-makau-rau revisited / S. Bulmer; Horde and hapu / Harry Allen; Historical documents, archaeology and 18th century seal hunting in New Zealand / Ian Smith.

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