Second Edition. — University of New South Wales Press, 2010. — 240 p. Revealing the diversity of Aboriginal life in the Sydney region, this study examines a variety of source documents that discuss not only Aboriginal life before colonization in 1788 but also the early years of first contact. This is the only work to explore the minutiae of Sydney Aboriginal daily life,...
ANU E Press, 2004. — 410 p. — (Terra Australis 21). Val Attenbrow’s archaeology in Upper Mangrove Creek was among the first pieces of research aimed at the scientifically rigorous understanding of an environmentally defined area. It attempted to sample the area and the sites in a theoretically justifiable way. These data, the original block of which was from a salvage program...
ANU E Press, 2011. — 310 p. — (Terra Australis 26) Lapita comprises an archaeological horizon that is fundamental to the understanding of human colonisation and settlement of the Pacific as it is associated with the arrival of the common ancestors of the Polynesians and many Austronesian-speaking Melanesians more than 3000 years ago. While Lapita archaeology has captured the...
ANU E Press, 2006. — 344 p. — (Terra Australis 23). Introduction and Research Design Archaeology of Vanuatu Excavated sites: plans, stratigraphy and dating Ceramic analytical methodology Ceramics from Erromango Efate Ceramics Malekula ceramics Vanuatu Ceramic Sequences and Inter-regional Comparisons Non-Ceramic material culture Faunal remains Discussion and Conclusion
Springer International Publishing, 2014. — 153 p. This book offers the only synthesis of early-period Marianas archaeology, marking the first human settlement of Remote Oceania about 1500 B.C. In these remote islands of the northwest Pacific Ocean, archaeological discoveries now can define the oldest site contexts, dating, and artifacts of a Neolithic (late stone-age) people....
ANU E Press, 2010. — 522 p. — (Terra Australis 29). This collection makes a substantial contribution to several highly topical areas of archaeological inquiry. Many of the papers present new and innovative research into the processes of maritime colonisation, processes that affect archaeological contexts from islands to continents. Others shift focus from process to the...
ANU E Press, 2009. — 444 p. — (Terra Australis 31). This book explores the factors behind – and the implications of – the 2006 coup. It brings together contributions from leading scholars, local personalities, civil society activists, union leaders, journalists, lawyers, soldiers and politicians – including deposed Prime Ministers Laisenia Qarase and Mahendra Chaudhry. The 2006...
ANU E Press, 2007. — 240 p. — (Terra Australis 25). Lithics in the Land of the Lightning Brothers skilfully integrates a wide range of data-raw-material procurement, tool design, reduction and curation, patterns of distribution and association-to reveal the major outlines of Wardaman prehistory. At the same time, the book firmly situates data and methods in broad theoretical...
ANU E Press, 2009. — 274 p. — (Terra Australis 28). Archaeological Science meetings will have a personality of their own depending on the focus of the host archaeological fraternity itself. The 8th Australasian Archaeometry meeting follows this pattern but underlying the regional emphasis is the continuing concern for the processes of change in the landscape that simultaneously...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 260 p. The exploration and colonization of the Pacific is a remarkable episode in human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no knowledge of Pacific geography, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts, and computer simulations of voyages have produced an...
Black Inc., 2018. — 394 p. Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. It investigates a twin...
New York: Pocket Books, 1960. — 368 p. Aku-Aku is the fascinating account of a scientific expedition to solve the mysteries of Easter Island. That lonely speck in the Southeast Pacific is dotted with colossal statues of long-eared men — weird relics of a people who have vanished from the earth. When and how were these fifty-ton giants carved? How were they moved for miles...
Routledge, 2008. — 338 p. — ISBN: 0-203-44835-9. Australia has been inhabited for 50,000 years. This clear and compelling book shows how it is possible to unearth this country’s long human history when our historical records are limited to the few hundred years since its European discovery. Beginning with the first human colonization and ending with European contact in the...
Auckland University Press, 2004. — 260 p. The archaeological remains of a remarkably well-preserved indigenous Maori village are unearthed and analyzed in this collection of contributions from 20 scholars who worked at the excavation site. Abandoned because of flooding, the village of Te Kohika remained untouched for 270 years and preserved in a peat swamp until it was...
ANU E Press, 2008. — 409 p. — (Terra Australis 37). Dreatimes Superhighway presents a thorough and original contextualization of the rock art and archaeology of the Sydney Basin. By combining excavation results with rock art analysis it demonstrates that a true archaeology of rock art can provide insights into rock art image-making in people's social and cultural lives. Based...
New York, Washington: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1969. — 276 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places series. Vol. 65). Although Australia was the last inhabited continent to be discovered by Europeans, Aborigines have lived in it for perhaps thirty millennia, and, at least during the later centuries of its prehistory, the continent was visited by inhabitants of Southeast Asia....
Allen & Unwin, 1998. — 364 p. — ISBN: 1-86448-066-1. During the past thirty years the human history of the Australian continent has become the object of intense national and international interest. These years have been the 'decades of discovery', featuring fieldwork and analyses which have rewritten the distant past of Australia almost on a yearly basis. One measure of the...
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1968. — 114 p. The skeletal material from Easter Island analyzed in this study was collected in excavations directed by Dr. Carlyle S. Smith of the University of Kansas and Dr. William Mulloy of the University of Wyoming during the Norwegian archaeological expedition to Polynesia in 1955-56. The work done on Easter Island was...
ANU E Press, 2011. — 322 p. — (Terra Australis 22). This volume describes the results of the first archaeological survey and excavations carried out in the fascinating and remote Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia between 1995 and 1997. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who stopped here in search of the Birds of Paradise on his voyage through the Indo-Malay Archipelago in the...
Auckland University Press. 2011. — 200 p. Drawing on archaeology, Maori oral history, European accounts, this is a fascinating study of cultural change and development by Maori in a single region of New Zealand. Dr Caroline Phillips is a consultant archaeologist nearly 50 years of field experience. She was for many years the cartographer in the Anthropology Department at The...
Cummings Publishing Company, 1975. — 125 p. — (Cummings Modular Program in Anthropology). — ISBN: 0-8465-1938-0. This book provides a review of major topics on what is currently known of the prehistory of the Pacific Islands and Australia. The course of cultural development in prehistoric Oceania is traced from its beginnings on mainland Southeast Asia, thousands of years ago...
New American Library, 1960. — 256 p. — (Mentor: Ancient Civilizations). The Polynesians voyaged hundreds of miles across open water in wooden canoes, sailing, for the most part, against prevailing winds and currents. Their only navigational aids were their own naked eyes and their incredible knowledge of the sea. They were the children of Tangaroa, Gog of the Sea, and their...
Allen & Unwin, 2009. — 272 p. Eminent scientists set the record straight for readers puzzled by the myriad of claims and counterclaims about Australia's prehistory, arguing that many popular theories are based on misinterpretation or outright distortion of scientific evidence. Who owns the past? How do you read ancient bones? And what do artefacts, pollen and genes from the ice...
ANU E Press, 2006. — 340 p. — (Terra Australis 24). Coastal archaeology in Australia differs in many respects from that of other areas, with the potential to examine relatively fine-scale variation. Nevertheless, there has been a general tendency in Australian archaeology to play down the variability and to subsume the evidence into broader homogenising models of Aboriginal...
British Museum Press, 2006. — 76 p. — (British Museum Research Paper, Book 158). This paper is a considerably revised version of the 1992 British Museum Occasional Paper No. 73 by the same author. The book describes how, when and by whom Hoa Hakanai'a was collected. It also reconstructs the underlying Rapanui aesthetic and social structure that produced Hoa Hakanai'a, and which...
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