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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1 Theory in the Pacific, and the Pacific in theory -- Introduction -- The place of theory -- Places in motion -- Defining the Pacific -- Regions, races and replacement -- Culture history -- Disassembling regions, unpacking culture -- Regional abstractions -- Book structure -- References -- 2 Theory beyond the calm ocean?: The Pacific contribution to global island archaeology -- Introduction -- Island archaeology as scholarly discourse -- Island archaeology as Pacific archaeology? |
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Isolates to laboratories -- The ubiquity of connectivity: networks and voyaging -- Connectivity and isolation in Caribbean island archaeology -- Human-island ecodynamics -- Island palaeoenvironments and historical ecology -- Conclusions -- The Pacific contribution to global island archaeology -- Future directions -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 3 Pacific island archaeology and evolutionary theory -- Introduction -- Evolutionary theories in the Pacific -- The ladder of cultural evolution: stages and adaptive advances |
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Phylogenetic history and adaptation: the legacy of islands as laboratories -- Selection, drift and other evolutionary mechanisms -- A case study of two approaches -- A political economy explanation of Lapita movement -- A selection-based explanation of Lapita movement -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 Controlled comparison and the phylogenetic model in Polynesian culture history -- The dendritic versus reticulate debate in prehistory -- Controlled comparison in Polynesia -- The phylogenetic model: background and development -- History and phylogeny in Polynesia |
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Triangulation and the phylogenetic model -- Reconstructing Ancestral Polynesian culture and society -- Isolation, interaction and cultural phylogeny -- Advances in the application of the phylogenetic model -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5 Pacific ethnography, archaeology and the pattern of global prehistoric social life -- Introduction -- Pacific ethnography and socio-economic theory -- The early importance of Pacific ethnography to social theory -- The Pacific and post-war social theory -- Language, material culture and human history -- Testing the 'myth of the primitive isolate' |
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Prehistoric social life in Near Oceania -- Archaeological network analysis and a relational past -- Diversity in a networked world -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6 Preceramic shell-working, Caution Bay and the Circum-New Guinea Archipelago -- Background: Tanamu 1 excavations and chronology -- Tanamu 1 worked shell: identification and analytical methods -- Preceramic shell artefact assemblage -- Stratigraphic Unit 6 (SU6) shell artefacts -- Stratigraphic Unit 5 (SU5) shell artefacts |
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ocial archaeology -- Islands of the Pacific
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Archaeology -- Islands of the Pacific -- Methodology
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Archaeology -- Philosophy.
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Archaeology -- Methodology
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Archaeology -- Philosophy
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Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351398916 |
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1351398911 |
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