On the Road of the Winds

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ISBN: 9780520234611 | 0520234618
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/2001

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This is a graduate-level textbook synthesizing the prehistory of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia from the first human entry into the area about 42,000 years ago until Captain James Cook's voyages in the 1770's. Kirch effectively brings together results from all of the subfields of anthropology--ethnography, archaeology, biological anthro., and linguistics.

List of Maps	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Defining Oceania	p. 4
Linguistic, Human Biological, and Cultural Variation in Oceania	p. 6
About This Book	p. 10
A Note on Dates and Time	p. 11
Discovering the Oceanic Past	p. 12
Enlightenment Voyagers	p. 12
Outposts of Empire: Missionaries, Colonists, and Academic Beginnings	p. 14
"The Problem of Polynesian Origins"	p. 20
Te Rangi Hiroa and the "Micronesian Route" to Polynesia	p. 24
The Discovery of Time Depth and Culture Change	p. 27
The Search for Polynesian Sequences	p. 29
Broadening Research Horizons	p. 32
Beyond Polynesia: Archaeology in Melanesia and New Guinea	p. 36
Not an Ivory Tower: Public Archaeology in the Pacific	p. 39
Contemporary Approaches to Pacific Prehistory	p. 40
The Pacific Islands as a Human Environment	p. 42
Origins and Development of Pacific Islands	p. 44
Types of Islands	p. 47
Climatic Factors in the Pacific	p. 50
Island Life and Biogeography	p. 53
The Microbiotic World and Human Populations	p. 56
Island Ecosystems	p. 57
Human Impacts on Island Ecosystems	p. 59
Sahul and the Prehistory of "Old" Melanesia	p. 63
The Pleistocene Geography of Sahul and Near Oceania	p. 65
Initial Human Arrival in Sabul and Near Oceania	p. 67
Pleistocene Voyaging in Near Oceania	p. 68
Near Oceania during the Pleistocene	p. 70
Cultural Innovations of the Early Holocene	p. 78
A Paradox and a Hypothesis	p. 83
Lapita and the Austronesian Expansion	p. 85
The Human Landscape of Near Oceania at 2000-1500 B.C.	p. 86
The Advent of Lapita	p. 88
Lapita Origins: The Austronesian Expansion	p. 91
Lapita Dispersal into Remote Oceania	p. 93
Lapita in Linguistic and Biological Perspective	p. 98
The Lapita Ceramic Series	p. 101
Lapita Sites and Settlements	p. 106
Lapita Subsistence Economies	p. 109
Exchange among Lapita Communities	p. 112
Ancestral Oceanic Societies	p. 114
Lapita: Transformations and Legacy	p. 115
The Prehistory of "New" Melanesia	p. 117
Trading Societies of Papua and the Massim	p. 120
The Late Holocene in Highland New Guinea	p. 124
The Bismarck Archipelago after Lapita	p. 126
The Solomon Islands	p. 130
Vanuatu	p. 135
The Polynesian Outliers in Melanesia	p. 142
Ethnogenesis in La Grande Terre	p. 147
Fiji: An Archipelago "in Between"	p. 155
Summary	p. 161
Micronesia: In the "Sea of Little Lands"	p. 165
Colonization and Early Settlement in Micronesia	p. 167
Cultural Sequences in Micronesia	p. 175
Tuvalu and the Polynesian Outliers in Micronesia	p. 179
Atoll Adaptations	p. 181
Later Prehistory in Western Micronesia	p. 183
Development of Sociopolitical Complexity in the Caroline High Islands	p. 194
Polynesia: Origins and Dispersals	p. 207
Polynesian Origins	p. 208
Polynesia as a Phyletic Unit	p. 211
Ancestral Polynesia	p. 215
Cultural Sequences in Western Polynesia	p. 219
The Settlement of Eastern Polynesia	p. 230
The Polynesian Chiefdoms	p. 246
Polynesian Chiefdoms: Ethnographic Background and Anthropological Significance	p. 248
Sociopolitical Transformation in the Open Societies	p. 250
The Emergence of Stratified Chiefdoms	p. 283
Summary	p. 301
Big Structures and Large Processes in Oceanic Prehistory	p. 302
Voyaging and the Human "Conquest" of the Pacific	p. 302
History Written in the Present: Correlations between Language, Biology, and Culture	p. 305
The Role of Demographic Change in Oceanic History	p. 307
Oceanic Populations on the Eve of European Contact	p. 311
The Political Economy of Dynamic Landscapes	p. 313
Intensification and Specialization in Island Economies	p. 317
Transformations of Status and Power	p. 321
On Comparison: A Closing Comment	p. 323
Notes	p. 327
References	p. 355
Index	p. 409
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