Te Henua Enana : images and settlement patterns in The Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia /

Te Henua Enana : images and settlement patterns in The Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia /

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Author / Creator:	Millerstrom, Sidsel, author.
Edition:	1st edition.
Imprint:	Berkeley : Regents of the University of California, Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, [2017] Berkeley, California : University of California, Berkeley, [2017] ©2017
Description:	x, 243 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility ; number 67 Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility ; no 67.
Subject:	Human settlements -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands. Excavations (Archaeology) -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands. Petroglyphs -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands. Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) Human settlements. Manners and customs. Petroglyphs. Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Antiquities. Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Social life and customs. French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12565679

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Varying Form of Title:	Images and settlement patterns in The Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
ISBN:	9780989002257 098900225X 9780989002240
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-234) and index.
Summary:	This monograph represents the first attempt in Polynesian archaeology to systematically examine rock art in the Marquesas Islands in relation to settlement patterns and excavation data. Sidsel N. Millerstrom's groundbreaking archaeological research is based on more than 15 years of field work in the islands. Surveying the dramatic landscapes of the deep valleys and thick forests of the Marquesas, Millerstrom and her team found a significant quantity of rock art. They learned that every image was not randomly placed but rather purposefully positioned according to prehistoric Marquesan cultural norms. The images were found on public and private prehistoric architecture, on outcrops, rock shelters, walls of underground pits, narrow ridges and springs. Based on our present understanding of science, Millerstrom also explains what the prehistoric petroglyphs, pictographs and anthropomorphic sculptures probably signified to the past inhabitants.

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Call Number:	E51.C16 no.67
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