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Archaeological perspectives on conflict and warfare in Australia and the Pacific /
When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space - even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archaeological evidence of conflict from those souther...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Canberra, ACT, Australia :
Australian National University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Terra Australis ;
54. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Archaeological perspectives on conflict and warfare in Australia and the Pacific / Geoffrey Clark and Mirani Litster
- 2. War is their principal profession: On the frequency and causes of Maori warfare and migration, 1250-1850 / Atholl Anderson
- 3. Violence and warfare in Aboriginal Australia / Colin Pardoe
- 4. Warfare in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) / Helene Martinsson-Wallin
- 5. Traditional places in conflict and their historic context: Ritidian, Guam / Boyd Dixon, Andrea Jalandoni and Maria Kottermair
- 6. The 'enata way of war: An ethnoarchaeological perspective on warfare dynamics in the Marquesas Islands / Guillaume Molle and Vincent Marolleau
- 7. Practical defensive features in Palau's earthwork landscape / Jolie Liston
- 8. High-resolution lidar analysis of the Fisi Tea defensive earthwork at Lapaha, Kingdom of Tonga / Phillip Parton, Geoffrey Clark and Christian Reepmeyer
- 9. Geospatial analysis of fortification locations on the island of Tongatapu, Tonga / Christian Reepmeyer, Geoffrey Clark, Phillip Parton, Malia Melekiola and David Burley
- 10. The fortified homestead of the Australian frontier / Nic Grguric
- 11. Archives, oral traditions and archaeology: Dissonant narratives concerning punitive expeditions on Malakula Island, Vanuatu / Stuart Bedford
- 12. Invisible women at war in the West: An archaeology of the Australian Women's Army Service camp, Walliabup (Bibra Lake), Western Australia, c. 1943-1945 / Sven Ouzman, Jillian Barteaux, Christine Cooper and the UWA Archaeology Fieldschool Class of 2017
- 13. Painting war: The end of contact rock art in Arnhem Land 251 / Daryl Wesley and Jessica Viney.