Island Societies : Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New Directions in Archaeology
ISBN-10
0521105439
ISBN-13
9780521105439
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 19th, 2009
Print length
108 Pages
Weight
260 grams
Dimensions
28.00 x 21.00 x 0.60 cms
Product Classification:
Oceania / Pacific IslandsPrehistoric archaeologyArchaeology by period / region
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Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of unique opportunities for tracking and explaining prehistoric change.
Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of unique opportunities for tracking and explaining prehistoric change. From the 1950s onwards, excavations in such islands as Fiji, Palau and Hawaii revolutionised Oceanic archaeology and, as the major problems of cultural origins and island sequences were resolves, archaeologists came increasingly to study social change and to integrate newly acquired data on material culture with older ethnographic and ethnohistorical materials. The fascinating results of this work, centring on the evolution of complex Oceanic chiefdoms into something very much like classic 'archaic states', are authoritatively surveyed here.
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