The early prehistory of Fiji /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2009] ©2009
Description:	1 online resource (437 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Terra australis ; 31 Terra Australis ; 31.
Subject:	Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Fiji. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Fiji. Antiquities Antiquities, Prehistoric Excavations (Archaeology) Fiji -- Antiquities. Fiji
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11397153

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Other authors / contributors:	Clark, Geoffrey R. (Geoffrey Richard), 1966- editor. Anderson, Atholl, editor.
ISBN:	9781921666070 1921666072 9781921666063 1921666064
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Summary:	"It is rare to see such a comprehensive report on hard data published these days, especially one so insightfully contextualised by the editors' introductory and concluding chapters. These scholars and the others involved in the work really know their stuff, and it shows. The editors connect the preoccupations of Pacific archaeologists with those of their colleagues working in other island regions and on "big questions" of colonisation, migration, interaction and patterns and processes of cultural change in hitherto-uninhabited environments. These sorts of outward-looking, big-picture contextual studies are invaluable, but all too often are missing from locally- and regionally-oriented writing, very much to its detriment. In sum, the work strongly advances our understanding of the early prehistory of Fiji through its well-integrated combination of original research and the reinterpretation of existing knowledge in the context of wider theoretical and historical concerns. In doing so The Early Prehistory of Fiji makes a truly substantial contribution to Pacific and archaeological scholarship."--Publisher website
Other form:	Print version: Early prehistory of Fiji 9781921536885
Standard no.:	459737

Table of Contents:

Research on the early prehistory of Fiji / Atholl Anderson and Geoffrey Clark
Palaeofaunal sites and excavations / Trevor H. Worthy and Atholl Anderson
Results of palaeofuanal research / Trevor H. Worthy and Atholl Anderson
Vegetation histories from the Fijian Islands : alternative records of human impact / Geoffrey Hope, Janelle Stevenson and Wendy Southern
Fieldwork in southern Viti Levu and Beqa Island / Atholl Anderson and Geoffrey Clark
Fieldwork in northern Viti Levu and Mago Island / Geoffrey Clark and Atholl Anderson
Site chronology and a review of radiocarbon dates from Fiji / Geoffrey Clark and Atholl Anderson
Molluscan remains from Fiji / Katherine Szabó
The fish bone remains / Geoffrey Clark and Katherine Szabó
Bird, mammal and reptile remains / Trevor H. Worthy and Geoffrey Clark
Ceramic assemblages from excavations on Viti Levu, Beqa-Ugaga and Mago Island / Geoffrey Clark
Post-Lapita ceramic change in Fiji / Geoffrey Clark
Compositional analysis of Fijian ceramics / Geoffrey Clark and Douglas Kennett
Stone artefact manufacture at Natunuku, Votua, Kulu and Ugaga, Fiji / Chris Clarkson and Lyn Schmidt
Characterisation and sourcing of archaeological adzes and flakes from Fiji / Barry Fankhauser, Geoffrey Clark and Atholl Anderson
Colonisation and culture change in the early prehistory of Fiji / Geoffrey Clark and Atholl Anderson.

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