Australia & the Pacific

ISBN: 9780333949757
Published by : Palgrave
The Pacific islanders were once viewed as naive victims of foreign exploitation although this book argues that the island identity of the Pacific people was strong before the arrival of the first Europeans and that although human confrontation and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780333949764
Published by : Palgrave
The Pacific islanders were once viewed as naive victims of foreign exploitation although this book argues that the island identity of the Pacific people was strong before the arrival of the first Europeans and that although human confrontation and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781859736173
Published by : Berg Publishers
Series: Materializing Culture
Malanggan are the funerary effigies of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, which can be found in ethnographic museums throughout the world. Malanggan is also the generic name of a funerary ritual that culminates in the production of effigies, their ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781859736227
Published by : Berg Publishers
Series: Materializing Culture
Malanggan are the funerary effigies of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, which can be found in ethnographic museums throughout the world. Malanggan is also the generic name of a funerary ritual that culminates in the production of effigies, their ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841714578
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR Archaeopress
Volume: 1080
There has been a distinct lack of intensive documentation of the history of the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea, leaving the origins of the people shrouded in myth. In 1998 and 1999 a project undertaken by Gotland University College in Swede... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780874807202
Published by : University of Utah Press
Well-illustrated summary of Waldmar Jochelson's 1909-1910 Aleut-Kamchatka expedition. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841712543
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR Archaeopress
Volume: 967
The 34 islands that comprise the Marshall group lie in the Pacific Ocean some half way between Hawaii and New Guinea. This study, incorporating landscape, habitation sites, chronologies, and material culture, is a detailed archaeological survey... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841711300
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A detailed investigation of the reliability of marine shell for radiocarbon dating New Zealand, which compares paired charcoal and marine shell radiocarbon ages from archaeological sites, specifically excavated for this study, and from already ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842170113
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: University of Southampton Department of Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 1
The traditional view of the colonisation of Fiji is one of an initial movement to the islands three thousand years ago followed by relative isolation until the 19th century. Therefore it is no surprise that these islands and their inhabitants h... .... Learn More