| Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation Contributor(s): Kirch, Patrick Vinton (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521105439 ISBN-13: 9780521105439 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $29.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: The evolution of complex Oceanic chiefdoms into something very much like classic 'archaic states', are authoritatively surveyed here. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 990 |
| Series: New Directions in Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 8.25" W x 11" (0.58 lbs) 108 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |