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Pacific landscapes : archaeological approaches

documentary heritage
  • Description

    Considers the ways in which people prior to European contact created and lived in the landscapes of the Pacific; examines how humans have created culturally significant landscapes by building architecture and modifying the physical environment, and how that, in turn, moulded human behaviour.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    GN 871 PAC (Library of Congress Call Number)

    31417 (Cat ID)

    38990 (DBTextworks system ID)

    23795 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Pacific landscapes : archaeological approaches
  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Easter Island Foundation ; Bearsville Press
  • Place
  • Date
    Circa 2002
  • Physical Description

    274 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

  • ISBN/ISSN
    1880636204
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    An introduction to Pacific landscapes / Michael W. Graves, Thegn N. Ladefoged
    Creations and transformations of prehistoric landscapes in New Caledonia, the southernmost Melanesian Islands / Christophe Sand
    Cultural sediment : the nature of a cultural landscape in Roviana Lagoon, New Georgia, Solomon Islands / Peter J, Sheppard ... [et al.]
    Terraces and villages : transformations of the cultural landscape in Palau / Stephen Wickler
    GIS-based analyses of agricultural production and habitation in the Sigatoka Valley, Fiji / Julie S. Field
    A retrospective view of settlement pattern studies in Samoa / Roger C. Green
    Landscape and culture change on Niue Island, West Polynesia / Atholl Anderson, Richard Walter
    The social landscape of Mangaia Island, Southern Cook Islands / Julie M. E. Taomia
    Separating time and space in archaeological landscapes : an example from Windward Society Islands ceremonial architecture / Ethan E. Cochran
    Territorial divisions on Easter Island in the 16th century : evidence from the distribution of ceremonial architecture / Christopher M. Stevenson
    Tracking changes in community-scaled organization in Kohala and Kona, Hawai'i Island / Michael W. Graves, Blaze V. O'Connor, Thegn N. Ladefoge
    Bridge or barrier? Maori occupation on the shores of Cook Strait, New Zealand / Janet Davidson, Foss Leach.
  • Public Access Text

    Includes bibliographical references.

  • Collection Type
    General Collection
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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