The Archaeology of MicronesiaCambridge University Press, 03.06.2004 - 301 Seiten This is the first book-length archaeological study of Micronesia, an island group in the Western Pacific Ocean. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological, anthropological and historical sources, the author surveys the development of these islands, beginning with the earliest process of human colonisation, and places this within the broader context of Pacific Island studies. Addressing contemporary debates around processes of colonisation, social organisation, environmental change and the interpretation of material culture, this book will be essential reading for any scholar with an interest in the archaeology of the Pacific. |
Inhalt
Micronesianmacrofusion | 1 |
Micronesians the people in history and anthropology | 13 |
Fluid boundaries horizons of the local colonial and disciplinary | 37 |
Settling the seascape fusion islands and people | 70 |
Identifying difference the Mariana Islands | 101 |
A sea of islands Palau Yap and the Carolinian atolls | 134 |
How the past speaks here the eastern Caroline Islands | 168 |
Islands and beaches the atoll groups and outliers | 225 |
The tropical northwest Pacific in context | 245 |
References | 255 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adzes Aguiguan anthropology appears archaeological Archaeological Research Archaeological Survey archipelago artefacts Athens atolls Ayres Babeldaob Banaba basalt breadfruit Caroline Islands Carolinian century ceramics Chamorro chapter Chuuk Chuuk Lagoon coastal coconut colonial communities construction coral Cordy Craib deposits earliest early eastern Carolines enclosures ethnographic European evidence excavations expedition fishing fringing reef Gagil German Gilberts Guam Haun high islands Honolulu human Hunter-Anderson identified indicate Intoh islets Japanese kilometres Kiribati Kiste Kosrae Lamotrek land Lapita Latte Period latte sets Leluh Lessa linguistic linked located Mariana Islands Marshall Islands material culture Melanesia metres Micronesia Nan Madol Ngulu Nukuoro Oceania Pacific islands Palau Palauan platforms Pohnpei Pohnpeians Polynesian pottery prehistoric radiocarbon dates Rainbird regarded region relation reported Rota sailing Saipan sawei settlement shell sherds social society South-East Spanish stone subsistence Takayama taro terraces Tinian tion Ulithi University village voyaging Weisler western Micronesia Yapese