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The Lapita Peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic World
- P. Kirch
- History
- 1997
Plates. Figures. Maps. Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. 2. Old Melanesia. 3. The Lapita Dispersal. 4. Lapita in Linguistics and Biological Perspective. 5. Lapita Pottery and the…
The evolution of the Polynesian chiefdoms
- P. Kirch
- Economics
- 1 September 1985
Preface 1. Introduction Part I. Foundation: 2. Polynesian societies and ecosystems 3. Ancestral Polynesia Part II. Process: 4. Dispersal, colonization, and adaptation 5. The demographic factor 6.…
Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistory
- P. Kirch
- History
- 1 April 1987
This text aims to combine all the evidence for Hawaiian prehistory into a coherent pattern. It presents a balanced cultural history of the Hawaiian group of islands, from the first Polynesian…
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology
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The wet and the dry: irrigation and agricultural intensification in Polynesia.
- P. Kirch
- Economics
- 1 December 1996
List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1: Introduction 2: Ethnographic Orientations 3: The Agricultural Landscape 4: Crops 5: The Dry: Shifting Cultivation 6: The Wet: Taro Irrigation 7: Nuku: An…
Tikopia, the Prehistory and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier
Les fouilles de Tikopia ont ete entreprises pour obtenir une sequence culturelle prehistorique de l'ile et determiner les structures d'adaptation de l'homme aux changements de l'environnement. Une…
Soils, Agriculture, and Society in Precontact Hawai`i
- P. Vitousek, T. Ladefoged, O. Chadwick
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 11 June 2004
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Long‐distance exchange and Island colonization: The Lapita case
- P. Kirch
- Environmental Science
- 1988
The Lapita cultural complex (3600–2500 BP), spanning the area from the Bismarck Archipelago to Samoa, is now widely regarded as representing the initial dispersal of Austronesian language speakers in…
Prehistoric sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) from Mangaia Island, Central Polynesia
Identification de la patate douce dans la prehistoire de Polynesie vers 1 000 A.D. Importance de cette decouverte (les restes de plantes a tubercules sont peu visibles dans les niveaux…
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