Australia & the Pacific - World Archaeology

Archaeology of the Solomon Islands [Paperback]

Richard Walters (Author); Peter Sheppard (Author)

£26.50

ISBN: 9780947522537
Published by : Otago University Press
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Archaeology of the Solomon Islands presents the outcome of 20 years’ research in the Solomon Islands undertaken jointly by Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard, both leaders in the field of Pacific archaeology. At the time of first European encounter... .... Learn More

On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition [Paperback]

Patrick Vinton Kirch (Author)

£37.95

ISBN: 9780520292819
Published by : University of California Press
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The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands, which are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe n... .... Learn More

Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art [Hardback]

Anthony Forge (Author); Alison Clark (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)

£135.00

ISBN: 9789088904479
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 1
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Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'decorative art', and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became marginal as the dis... .... Learn More

Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art [Paperback]

Anthony Forge (Author); Alison Clark (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)

£45.00

ISBN: 9789088904462
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 1
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Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'decorative art', and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became marginal as the dis... .... Learn More

Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea [Paperback]

Thomas Richards (Editor); Bruno David (Editor); Ken Aplin (Editor); Ian J. McNiven (Editor)

£42.00

ISBN: 9781784915049
Published by : Archaeopress
In 2008 intensive archaeological surveys began at Caution Bay, located 20km to the northwest of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. This was followed by the excavation of 122 stratified sites in 2009-2010, and detailed analysis of the well preserved a... .... Learn More

Dialog of a Veteran Soldier [Paperback]

Diogo do Couto (Author); Timothy J. Coates (Author); M. N. Pearson (Author)

£20.00

ISBN: 9781933227726
Published by : Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Series: Classic Histories from the Portuguese-Speaking World in Translation
Fraud, scandal, theft of royal funds, official graft, and cover-ups: these are the subjects of the 1612 exposé written by Diogo do Couto in his Dialog of a Veteran Soldier. Couto revealed too much and as a result, this work had to wait more than 1... .... Learn More

Easter Island Archaeology/Arqueologia en Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua) [Paperback]

Daniel Schavelzon (Author); Mario Silveira (Editor)

£28.00

ISBN: 9781784913595
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology

This book is about how hunter-gatherer groups maintained a relationship with the use and management of fire in the Late Holocene of Southern Precordillera. The line of study developed here as part of the anthracology made use of methodologica... .... Learn More

Health and Disease in the Prehistoric Pacific Islands [Paperback]

Hallie Buckley (Author)

£48.00

ISBN: 9781407314433
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR INT
Volume: S2792
This study was conducted using a sample from the Solomon Islands in Melanesia and another sample from two burial mounds in Tonga, Polynesia. The primary aim of the study was to assess whether the presence of malaria in Melanesia adversely affected... .... Learn More

Malaita [Paperback]

Ben Burt (Author)

£40.00

ISBN: 9780861592012
Published by : British Museum Press
Volume: 201
Malaita traces the history and culture of a Pacific island from the 19th to 21st centuries through over 600 images drawn from the archives of the British Museum and public and private photographic collections around the world. This book explore... .... Learn More

Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Adventures and Explorations of an Island Archaeologist [Hardback]

Patrick Vinton Kirch (Author)

£46.95

ISBN: 9780824853457
Published by : University of Hawai'i Press
Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years he explored the Pacific, as his work took him to more than two dozen islands spread across the ocea... .... Learn More