BAR Publishing, 2020. — 241 p. — (BAR International Series 2964). This book comprises a study of ceramic tableware and teaware remains from the outback pastoral homestead, The Old Kinchega Homestead, in western NSW, Australia, occupied from 1870 until 1955. This homestead is on the Kinchega Pastoral Estate which was a major player in Australia’s important wool industry. These...
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, detailing...
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...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 468 p. Community Archaeology presents the results of an investigation of wetland heritage in eastern Australia, with important contributions to the archaeology of the Tasmanian Midlands and the New England Tablelands. In this first substantial project in these bioregions since 1991, OSL and radiocarbon dating at lagoon sites provided dates going back to...
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). Foreword Acknowledgements 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...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 185 p. Popular culture has often presented a mythologised version of archaeology that at times misinforms the general public about broader academic intentions. The fantastic and bizarre continue to capture the public imagination, so that while archaeological teams excavate, survey and record, they occupy the same geographic locations as...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 254 p. — (BAR International Series 2792). This book is an historical document presenting the author's doctoral thesis on health and disease in the Pacific Islands, completed in 2001. The study was conducted using a sample from the Solomon Islands in Melanesia and another sample from two burial mounds in Tonga, Polynesia. The primary aim of the study was...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 234 p. Anthropogenic climate change has become a reality, and in Australia this means longer wildfire seasons with more intense fires across a wider area. The GunaiKurnai people of southeastern Victoria saw a large proportion of their Country decimated by the Gippsland Fires of ‘Black Summer’ (2019–2020), prompting questions about the management of Country...
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....
Springer, 2016. — 322 p. Landscapes have been fundamental to the human experience world-wide and throughout time, yet how did we as human beings evolve or co-evolve with our landscapes? By answering this question, we can understand our place in the complex, ever-changing world that we inhabit. This book guides readers on a journey through the concurrent processes of change in...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 194 p. The Ritidian Site in Guam contains multiple layers and components that together reveal the full scope of traditional cultural heritage in the Mariana Islands in the northwest tropical Pacific since 1500 B.C., dating from the beginning of human settlement of the Remote Pacific Islands. The material records of changing artefacts, sites, and landscapes...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 196 p. At the Unai Bapot Site of the Mariana Islands, new excavation has clarified the oldest known instance of a residential habitation prior to 1500 B.C. in the Remote Pacific, previously difficult to document in deeply buried layers that originally had comprised near-tidal to shallow subtidal zones. The initial habitation at this site, as well as at...
Routledge, 2018. — 406 p. This book integrates a region-wide chronological narrative of the archaeology of Pacific Oceania. How and why did this vast sea of islands, covering nearly one-third of the world’s surface, come to be inhabited over the last several millennia, transcending significant change in ecology, demography, and society? What can any or all of the thousands of...
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...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 183 p. — (BAR International Series 2762). Early Polynesian social development, and its dispersal through migration, are hotly debated topics, though this development is thought to have been centred on Tonga. This thesis uses material from Tongan archaeological sites to attempt to form more definite conclusions about ancestral Polynesian society, and to...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 464 p. Rockshelter Excavations in the East Hamersley Range' offers a detailed study of six exceptional rockshelter sites from the inland Pilbara Region of Western Australia. It provides highly descriptive, chapter-length accounts of archaeological investigations at Jundaru, Djadjiling, HS-A1, HD073APAD13, PAD 3, and HD073A03 rockshelters, which were...
Routledge, 2020. — 216 p. In this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea and how these practices were transformed through time. The intention is twofold: to clearly establish New Guinea as a region of early agricultural development and plant domestication; and, to develop a contingent, practice-based...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 202 p. When Ferdinand Magellan first anchored off the island of Guam in 1521, the inhabitants of the small Chamorro village at Afetna Point on the southwest coast of Saipan were likely unaware. Archaeological investigations of the traditional village yielded Latte Period burials, ceramics, stone and shell tools, microfossils from food remains, and charcoal...
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...
Routledge, 2021. — 216 p. Aboriginal Maritime Landscapes in South Australia reveals the maritime landscape of a coastal Aboriginal mission, Burgiyana (Point Pearce), in South Australia, based on the experiences of the Narungga community. A collaborative initiative with Narungga peoples and a cross-disciplinary approach have resulted in new understandings of the maritime history...
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...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 918 p. This volume presents a new systematic approach to the archaeological recording and documentation of rock art developed to analyse the spatial and temporal structure of complex rock art panels. Focusing on the ceiling art at Nawarla Gabarnmang, one of the richest rock art sites in Arnhem Land the approach utilised DStretch-enhanced photographs to...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 104 p. Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France) Volume 7 Session XXXVIII Sessions XXXVIII-1,2 of UISPP 2018 in Paris were dedicated to monumental constructions and to complex exchange networks in the Pacific. Both topics have been extensively commented on and described by indigenous experts, explorers, missionaries, and...
London: George Allen & Unwin LTD, 1952. — xv + 821 p., maps, 90 plates from photographs (including 8 in color). When Thor Heyerdahl landed his Kon-Tiki raft on a tiny South Pacific atoll in 1947, he had wrought the missing link in the massive chain of evidence he was forging in support of his theory on origins of the Polynesian peoples. Now, for the first time, he sets forth in...
Routledge, 2008. — 338 pp. — 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...
ANU Press, 2022. — 614 p. Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition....
ANU Press, 2022. — 614 p. Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition....
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 discovered...
2nd Revised and Expanded Edition — University of California Press, 2017. — 408 p. The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth’s surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue...
2nd Revised and Expanded Edition — University of California Press, 2017. — 408 p. The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth’s surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue...
University of Hawaii Press, 1996. — 144 p. Precontact Hawaiian civilization is represented by a rich legacy of archaeological sites, many of which have been preserved and are accessible to the public. This volume provides for the first time an authoritative handbook to the most important of these archaeological treasures. The 50 sites covered by this book are distributed over...
University of Hawaii Press, 2019. — 384 p. Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani is a collaborative study of 78 temple sites in the ancient moku of Kahikinui and Kaupō in southeastern Maui, undertaken using a novel approach that combines archaeology and archaeoastronomy. Although temple sites (heiau) were the primary focus of Hawaiian archaeologists in the earlier part of the twentieth century,...
University of Hawaii Press, 2015. — 400 p. Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years he explored the Pacific, as his work took him to more than two dozen islands spread across the ocean, from Mussau to Hawai'i to Easter Island. In this lively memoir, rich with personal—and...
University of Hawaii Press, 2015. — 400 p. Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years he explored the Pacific, as his work took him to more than two dozen islands spread across the ocean, from Mussau to Hawai'i to Easter Island. In this lively memoir, rich with personal—and...
Aboriginal Studies Press, 2023. — 272 p. Bone and tooth tools and ornaments have been made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for at least 46,000 years some of the oldest organic technologies in the world. Despite their beauty, sophistication, and ubiquity, archaeologists and other researchers have overwhelmingly focused on the stone artefacts of Australia....
Aboriginal Studies Press, 2023. — 272 p. Bone and tooth tools and ornaments have been made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for at least 46,000 years some of the oldest organic technologies in the world. Despite their beauty, sophistication, and ubiquity, archaeologists and other researchers have overwhelmingly focused on the stone artefacts of Australia....
Aboriginal Studies Press, 2023. — 272 p. Bone and tooth tools and ornaments have been made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for at least 46,000 years some of the oldest organic technologies in the world. Despite their beauty, sophistication, and ubiquity, archaeologists and other researchers have overwhelmingly focused on the stone artefacts of Australia....
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...
Springer, 2019. — 291 p. This book presents research into the urban archaeology of 19th-century Australia. It focuses on the detailed archaeology of 20 cesspits in The Rocks area of Sydney and the Commonwealth Block site in Melbourne. It also includes discussions of a significant site in Sydney – First Government House. The book is anchored around a detailed comparison of...
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...
UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2015. — 658 p. ill. Nan Madol is a series of more than 100 islets off the south-east coast of Pohnpei that were constructed with walls of basalt and coral boulders. These islets harbour the remains of stone palaces, temples, tombs and residential domains built between 1200 and 1500 CE. These ruins represent the ceremonial centre of the Saudeleur...
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...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 119 p. — (BAR International Series 3102). With contributions by Jane Batcheller, Charlotte King, and Rod Wallace. This book describes the investigation of St John’s Cemetery near Milton in Otago, southern New Zealand, that was carried out in 2016 as part of a wider study of early settler graves in the region. The cemetery was used between 1860 and 1926...
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...
Adlard Coles, 2018 — 256 p. — ISBN: 1472957733 Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands –...
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...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 111 p. A Tribute to Daniel Schávelzon on the 30th anniversary of the Center for Urban Archaeology at the University of Buenos Aires/Homenaje a Daniel Schávelzon a los treinta años del Centro de Arqueología Urbana de la Universidad de Buenos Aires This well illustrated volume presents in its introduction a personal history of Daniel Schávelzon’s experience...
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...
М.: Наука, 1986. — 529 с. — (По следам исчезнувших культур Востока). Питер Беллвуд, известный австралийский археолог, специалист по древней истории Тихоокеанского региона, рассматривает вопросы археологии, истории, материальной культуры народов Юго-Восточной Азии и Океании. Особое внимание в книге уделяется истории заселения и освоения человеком островов Океании. Монография...
М.: Искусство, 1982. — 540 с. с илл. Две примечательные особенности выделяют остров Пасхи среди всех прочих островов Тихоокеанского полушария: уникальное географическое положение и редкостные археологические памятники. Можно ли считать случайным такое сочетание географической и археологической уникальности? Тихий океан насчитывает десятки тысяч островов и многие из них больше и...
М.: Искусство, 1982. – 546 с. с иллюстрациями
Перевод с английского Л. Жданова.
Две примечательные особенности выделяют остров Пасхи среди всех прочих островов Тихоокеанского полушария: уникальное географическое положение и редкостные археологические памятники. Можно ли считать случайным такое сочетание географической и археологической уникальности? Тихий океан насчитывает...
Искусство, 1982. – 540 с.
Настоящий том - переведенное с английского продолжение двух томов отчета Норвежской археологической экспедиции на остров Пасхи об исследованиях в восточной части Тихого океана. Для распаковки архива нужны все части
Искусство, 1982. – 540 с.
Настоящий том - переведенное с английского продолжение двух томов отчета Норвежской археологической экспедиции на остров Пасхи об исследованиях в восточной части Тихого океана. Для распаковки архива нужны все части
Искусство, 1982. – 540 с.
Настоящий том - переведенное с английского продолжение двух томов отчета Норвежской археологической экспедиции на остров Пасхи об исследованиях в восточной части Тихого океана. Для распаковки архива нужны все части
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