ISBN: 9780521301893

Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of un… Mehr…

Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of unique opportunities for tracking and explaining prehistoric change. From the 1950s onwards, excavations in such islands as Fiji, Palau and Hawaii revolutionised Oceanic archaeology and, as the major problems of cultural origins and island sequences were resolves, archaeologists came increasingly to study social change and to integrate newly acquired data on material culture with older ethnographic and ethnohistorical materials. The fascinating results of this work, centring on the evolution of complex Oceanic chiefdoms into something very much like classic 'archaic states', are authoritatively surveyed here. Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation Kirch, Patrick Vinton / Audouze, Francoise / Broodbank, Cyprian, Cambridge University Press<

ISBN: 0521301890

[SR: 4391310], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780521301893], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, Book, [PU: Cambridge University Press], 1986-10-09, Cambridge University Press, 98p… Mehr…

[SR: 4391310], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780521301893], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, Book, [PU: Cambridge University Press], 1986-10-09, Cambridge University Press, 98pp, inc. many b/w figs, laminated board, 4to, 276437, Prehistoric, 771726, By Period, 276416, Archaeology, 276411, Social Sciences, 60, Society, Politics & Philosophy, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 276522, Sociology, 496634, Family & Social Groups, 276303, Law & Disorder, 496644, Methodology & Research, 276447, Population & Demography, 276482, Social Issues, 276530, Sociological Theories, 496640, Sociology of Work, 276411, Social Sciences, 60, Society, Politics & Philosophy, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<