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Pacific production systems : approaches to economic prehistory

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Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Pacific production systems : approaches to economic prehistory
  • Other Name

    Occasional papers in prehistory ; no. 18 (Series)

  • Primary Maker

    D. Yen (Editor of compilation)

    J. Mummery (Editor of compilation)

    Australian National University. Department of History (Issuing body)

  • 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

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • 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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