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Archaeology of Oceania : Australia and the Pacific Islands.
Offering a view of past cultural developments across the whole area of Oceania, this text keeps in regional and global perspective the different patterns of long-term cultural change that unfolded across this very large part of the world.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
John Wiley & Sons,
2007.
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| Series: | Blackwell studies in global archaeology ;
8. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Contents; Series Editors' Preface; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Archaeology in Oceania:Themes and Issue; 2 Revisiting the Past: Changing Interpretations of Pleistocene Settlement Subsistence and Demography in Northern Australia; 3 Archaeology and the Dreaming:Toward an Archaeology of Ontology; 4 Blunt and to the Point: Changing Technological Strategies in Holocene Australia; 5 Rock Art and Social Identity: A Comparison of Holocene Graphic Systems in Arid and Fertile Environments.
- 6 Closing the Distance: Interpreting Cross-Cultural Engagements through Indigenous Rock Art7 Archaeology in Melanesia: A Case Study from the Western Province of the Solomon Islands; 8 Envisaging Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea; 9 Late Pleistocene Complexities in the Bismarck Archipelago; 10 Life before Lapita: New Developments in Melanesia's Long-Term History; 11 The First Millennium B.C. in Remote Oceania: An Alternative Perspective on Lapita; 12 Ethnoarchaeolo.