Mike T. Carson

Archaeology of Pacific Oceania (eBook, ePUB)

Inhabiting a Sea of Islands

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Archaeology of Pacific Oceania, now in its second edition, offers a state-of-the-art and fully detailed chronological narrative of how Pacific Oceania came to be inhabited over a long time scale, posing fundamental questions both for Pacific Oceania and for global archaeology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000958201
• Artikelnr.: 68610901

Autorenporträt

Mike T. Carson (Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, 2002) has investigated the broad geographic range and chronological scope of archaeological landscapes throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He was author of several books about Pacific Oceanic archaeology and ancient landscapes, editor of Palaeolandscapes in Archaeology: Lessons for the Past and Future (Routledge, 2022), and co-editor of Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific (University of Hawai'i Press, 2014-2020). He currently is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center at the University of Guam.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Research themes in Pacific Oceanic archaeology
Chapter 2 Regional context and perspectives
Chapter 3 Substance and scope of Pacific Oceanic archaeology
Chapter 4 Hunter-gatherer traditions in the western Asia-Pacific region
Chapter 5 Following the Asia-Pacific pottery trail, 4000 through 800 B.C.
Chapter 6 First contact with the Remote Oceanic environment
Chapter 7 A siege of ecological imperialism
Chapter 8 The end of an era
Chapter 9 A broad-spectrum revolution? 500 B.C. through A.D. 100
Chapter 10 The atoll highway of Micronesia, A.D. 100 through 500
Chapter 11 Ethnogenesis and polygenesis, A.D. 500 through 1000
Chapter 12 An A.D. 1000 event? Formalization of cultural expressions
Chapter 13 Expansion and intensification, A.D. 1000 through 1800
Chapter 14 Living with the past