Archaeology of Oceania
Subtitle: Australia and the Pacific Islands
By: edited by Ian Lilley.
Contributors: Lilley, Ian.
Series: Blackwell studies in global archaeology
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780631230823; 9780631230830
Subjects: Oceania -- Antiquities.; Australia -- Antiquities.; Islands of the Pacific -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Archaeology in Oceania : themes and issues / Ian Lilley; title: Revisiting the past : changing interpretations of Pleistocene settlement subsistence and demography in Northern Australia / Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth; title: Archaeology and the dreaming : towards an archaeology of ontology / Bruno David; title: Blunt and to the point : changing technological strategies in Holocene Australia / Peter Hiscock; title: Rock art and social identity : a comparison of Holocene graphic systems in arid and fertile environments / Jo Mcdonald and Peter Veth; title: Closing the distance : interpreting cross-cultural engagements through indigenous rock art / Anne Clarke and Ursula Frederick; title: Archaeology in Melanesia : a case study from the Western Province of the Solomon Islands / Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard; title: Envisaging early agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea / Tim Denham; title: Late Pleistocene complexities in the Bismarck Archipelago / Matthew Leavesley; title: Life before Lapita : new developments in Melanesia's long-term history / Christina Pavlides; title: The first millennium BC in remote Oceania : an alternative perspective on Lapita / Jean-Christophe Galipaud; title: Ethnoarchaeology in Polynesia / Eric Conte; title: The formation of Hawaiian territories / Thegn Ladefoged and Michael Graves; title: Ritual and domestic architecture, sacred places, and images : archaeology in the Marquesas Archipelago, French Polynesia / Sidsel Millerstrom; title: The archaeology of the conical clan in Micronesia / Paul Rainbird; title: Politics; title: What is archaeology for in the Pacific? history and politics in New Caledonia / Christophe Sand, Jacques Bole, and Andre Ouetcho; title: Levuka, Fiji : a case study in Pacific Islands heritage management / Anita Smith; title: Last words; title: a few words about archaeology in French Polynesia / Mickaelle-Hinanui Cauchois; title: Shaking the pillars / Mark Dugay-Grist; title: What is the future of our past? : Papua New Guineans and cultural heritage / Herman Mandui.