On the road of the winds : an archaeological history of the Pacific islands before European contact
| 1. Verfasser: |
Kirch, Patrick Vinton
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017].
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| Ausgabe: | Revised and expanded edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xxii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : defining Oceania
- Discovering the Oceanic past
- The Pacific islands as a human environment
- Sahul and the prehistory of "old" Melanesia
- Lapita and the Austronesian expansion
- The prehistory of "new" Melanesia
- Micronesia : in the "sea of little islands"
- Polynesia : origins and dispersals
- Polynesian chiefdoms and archaic states
- Big structures and large processes in Oceanic prehistory.
