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Archaeology of Pacific Oceania : inhabiting a sea of islands /

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"Now in its second edition, 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 signi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carson, Mike T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Routledge world archaeology.
Subjects:
Oceania > Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Oceania.
Human settlements > Oceania.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Océanie.
Établissements humains > Océanie.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Human settlements
Oceania
Table of Contents:
  • Research themes in Pacific Oceanic archaeology
  • Regional context and perspectives
  • Substance and scope of Pacific Oceanic archaeology
  • Hunter-gatherer traditions in the western Asia-Pacific region
  • Following the Asia-Pacific pottery trail, 4000 through 800 B.C.
  • First contact with the Remote Oceanic environment
  • A siege of ecological imperialism
  • The end of an era
  • A broad-spectrum revolution? 500 B.C. through A.D. 100
  • The atoll highway of Micronesia, A.D. 100 through 500
  • Ethnogenesis and polygenesis, A.D. 500 through 1000
  • An A.D. 1000 event? Formalization of cultural expressions
  • Expansion and intensification, A.D. 1000 through 1800
  • Living with the past.