Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Pacific production systems : approaches to economic prehistory
Other Name
Occasional papers in prehistory ; no. 18 (Series)
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Dept. of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
Place
Date
1990
Physical Description
277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0731510097
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
I. The hunters and the fishermen: Economic intensification and the development of complex society in medium-high latitude zones / Douglas G. Sutton
The aboriginal hunter in an unstable ecosystem : a view from subarctic Pacific / Igor I. Krupnik
Hunters of the Dreaming : some ideational, economic and ecological paramaters of the Australian Aboriginal productive system / Rhys Jones
II. Integrations with agriculture: Atoll production systems : fish and fishing on Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands / Tim Bayliss-Smith
The causes and consequences of a decline in the prehistoric Marquesan fishing industry / Tom Dye
Subsistence in a 'non' subsistence environment : factors of production in a Hawaiian alpine desert adze quarry / Patrick McCoy
Trading for subsistence : the case from the southern Massim / Martha Macintyre and Jim Allen
III. The agriculturalists: Kuk and the development of agriculture in New Guinea : retrospection and introspection / J. Golson
Subsistence food production systems in Papua New Guinea : old changes and new changes / R. Michael Bourke
Traditional Melanesian agriculture in New Caldeonia and pre-contact population distribution / J.C. Roux
Why irrigation matters in Pacific prehistory / Matthew Spriggs
Productiom, intensification, and the early Hawaiian Kingdom / Patrick V. Kirch
Prehistoric food production in Micronesia / William S. Ayres and Alan E. Haun
IV. The animals, the plants: Muruk, dok, pik, kakaruk : prehistoric implications of geographical distributions in the southwest Pacific / James A. Baldwin
Environment, agriculture and the colonisation of the Pacific / D.E. Yen.
Public Access Text
Includes bibliographical references. Papers from a symposium at the XV Pacific Science Congress, Dunedin, New Zealand 1983.
Collection Type
General Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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