The Archaeology of Micronesia

The Archaeology of Micronesia
Title The Archaeology of Micronesia PDF eBook
Author Paul Rainbird
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 324
Release 2004-06-03
Genre History
ISBN 9780521656306

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Archaeological Excavations at Site MLMI-3, Kapen Islet, Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands

Archaeological Excavations at Site MLMI-3, Kapen Islet, Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands
Title Archaeological Excavations at Site MLMI-3, Kapen Islet, Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands PDF eBook
Author Marshall I. Weisler
Publisher
Pages 320
Release 2001
Genre Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN

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The Archaeology of Niue Island, West Polynesia

The Archaeology of Niue Island, West Polynesia
Title The Archaeology of Niue Island, West Polynesia PDF eBook
Author Richard K. Walter
Publisher
Pages 190
Release 2002
Genre Antiquities, Prehistoric
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The Archaeology of Pouerua

The Archaeology of Pouerua
Title The Archaeology of Pouerua PDF eBook
Author Doug G. Sutton
Publisher Auckland University Press
Pages 282
Release 2003
Genre History
ISBN 9781869402921

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The third book to emerge from the Pouerua Project focuses on the pa itself, and explores the innovative attempt to use archaeological techniques to explore and understand socio-political processes. This book should be of interest to scholars, students and amateur archaeologists and historians.

The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific

The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific
Title The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey Irwin
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 264
Release 1992
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780521476515

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The exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is a remarkable episode of human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography, no documents to record their route, no metal, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts, and computer simulations of voyages have produced an enormous range of literature on this controversial and mysterious subject. This book represents a major advance in knowledge of the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid and purposeful, undertaken systematically, and that navigation methods progressively improved. Using an innovative model to establish a detailed theory of navigation, Geoffrey Irwin claims that rather than sailing randomly downwind in search of the unknown, Pacific Islanders expanded settlement by the cautious strategy of exploring upwind, so as to ease their safe return. The author has tested this hypothesis against the chronological data from archaeological investigation, with a computer simulation of demographic and exploration patterns and by sailing throughout the region himself.

Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas

Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas
Title Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas PDF eBook
Author Mariana Mondini
Publisher Oxbow Books
Pages 129
Release 2017-01-23
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1785705180

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Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident. This volume of 12 papers offers a zooarchaeological approach to questions surrounding the nature and extent of human colonization and migration, and the adaptation of humans to new and sometimes extreme or challenging environments. The volume is divided into two parts: Part 1 takes up the theme of Human and Animal Migration and Colonisation. Contributors consider the relationship between human movements and the movements of animals and animal products; case studies look at Neolithic population movements in Oceania, the Norse colonization of Greenland, and the European settlement of Virginia. Part 2 focuses on the topic of Behavioural Variability in the So-Called Marginal Areas. Contributors offer various interpretations of the concept of 'marginality', from climatic extremes of the Arctic cold, and the heat and aridity of western North America, to the geographical remoteness of Patagonia, and the cultural circumstances surrounding the beginnings of transhumant pastoralism in prehistoric southeastern Europe.

The Lost World of Cham

The Lost World of Cham
Title The Lost World of Cham PDF eBook
Author David Hatcher Childress
Publisher SCB Distributors
Pages 580
Release 2017-01-25
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 1939149762

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David Childress, popular author and star of the History Channel’s show Ancient Aliens, brings us the incredible story of the Cham: Egyptian-Hindu-Buddhist seafarers who ruled a realm that was as big as the Pacific Ocean. The mysterious Cham, or Champa, peoples of Southeast Asia formed a megalith-building, seagoing empire that extended into Indonesia, Fiji, Tonga, Micronesia, and beyond—a transoceanic power that reached Mexico, the American Southwest and South America. The Champa maintained many ports in what is today Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia (particularly on the islands of Sulawesi, Sumatra and Java), and their ships plied the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, bringing Chinese, African and Indian traders to far off lands, including Olmec ports on the Pacific Coast of Central America. Statues in Vietnam of the Champa show men and women distinctly African in appearance and the Champa royalty were known to consist of nearly every racial group. They had iron tools and built megalithic cities of finely-cut basalt and granite, such as the city of My Son in central Vietnam. Its construction is identical to that at Tiwanaku in South America. Topics include: Who Were the Champa?; Cham and Khem: The Egyptian Influence on Cham; The Search for Metals; Trans-Pacific Voyaging; The Basalt City of Nan Madol; Elephants and Buddhists in North America; The Cham and the Olmecs; The Cham in Colombia; The Cham and Lake Titicaca; Easter Island and the Cham; tons more.