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Author : Paul Rainbird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521656306
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Author : Paul Rainbird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139463942
Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities. In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and questions the basis for such an understanding of island archaeology. Through a series of case studies of prehistoric archaeology in the Mediterranean, Pacific, Baltic, and Atlantic seas and oceans, he argues for a decentering of the land in favor of an emphasis on the archaeology of the sea and, ultimately, a new perspective on the making of maritime communities. The archaeology of islands is thus unshackled from approaches that highlight boundedness and isolation, and replaced with a new set of principles - that boundaries are fuzzy, islanders are distinctive in their expectation of contacts with people from over the seas, and that island life can tell us much about maritime communities. Debating islands, thus, brings to the fore issues of identity and community and a concern with Western construction of other peoples.
Author : Peter Sherwood Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Archaeology
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Author : Emilie G. Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0520234618
Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human ecology and island adaptations.
Author : Ralph Linton
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :
Author : Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Ethnology
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Author : William Hampton Adams
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Author : Mike T. Carson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351599992
This book integrates a region-wide chronological narrative of the archaeology of Pacific Oceania. How and why did this vast sea of islands, covering nearly one-third of the world’s surface, come to be inhabited over the last several millennia, transcending significant change in ecology, demography, and society? What can any or all of the thousands of islands offer as ideal model systems toward comprehending globally significant issues of human-environment relations and coping with changing circumstances of natural and cultural history? A new synthesis of Pacific Oceanic archaeology addresses these questions, based largely on the author’s investigations throughout the diverse region.
Author : William N. Morgan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0292786212
In the many centuries preceding Western contact, a richly diverse and innovative architectural tradition reached maturity in the western Pacific. Prehistoric Architecture in Micronesia, the first modern study of this remarkable work, reveals that there is no such thing as primitive architecture but only primitive means. This study presents five distinctly different examples of Micronesia's ancient architecture. The sites include the extraordinary stone cities of Leluh and Nan Madol on the islands of Kosrae and Pohnpei, respectively. Other structures include the meeting houses and residences built on hexagonal stone platforms in the Yap Islands, the earth terraces and ornately decorated meeting houses of Palau, and the megalithic columns and capstones of prehistoric houses in the Mariana Islands. These structures are illustrated by photographs, maps, plans, and other drawings. Many of the basic data come from archaeological investigations of the specific sites. Summaries at the ends of chapters and in the concluding section compare the architectural characteristics of the island groups with each other and with monuments outside Micronesia. One of the most remarkable achievements of any ancient people, the prehistoric architecture of Micronesia is a source of continuing inspiration for persons who search for meaning in the built form of our present-day environment.