Description
Book SynopsisArchaeology of Pacific Oceania, now in its second edition, offers a state-of-the-art and fully detailed chronological narrative of how Pacific Oceania came to be inhabited over a long time scale, posing fundamental questions both for Pacific Oceania and for global archaeology.
The Pacific Ocean covers 165 million sq. km, nearly one-third of the world's total surface area, yet its thousands of islands and their diverse cultural histories are scarcely known to the other two-thirds of the world. This book asks how and why did this vast sea of islands come to be inhabited over the last several millennia, transcending significant change in ecology, demography, and society? What were the roles of overseas contacts in the development of social networks, economic trade, and population dynamics? What can any or all of the thousands of islands offer as ideal model systems for comprehending globally significant issues of human-environment relations and coping with changing circu
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Research themes in Pacific Oceanic archaeology
Chapter 2 Regional context and perspectives
Chapter 3 Substance and scope of Pacific Oceanic archaeology
Chapter 4 Hunter-gatherer traditions in the western Asia-Pacific region
Chapter 5 Following the Asia-Pacific pottery trail, 4000 through 800 B.C.
Chapter 6 First contact with the Remote Oceanic environment
Chapter 7 A siege of ecological imperialism
Chapter 8 The end of an era
Chapter 9 A broad-spectrum revolution? 500 B.C. through A.D. 100
Chapter 10 The atoll highway of Micronesia, A.D. 100 through 500
Chapter 11 Ethnogenesis and polygenesis, A.D. 500 through 1000
Chapter 12 An A.D. 1000 event? Formalization of cultural expressions
Chapter 13 Expansion and intensification, A.D. 1000 through 1800
Chapter 14 Living with the past
