The island Melanesians /
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| Author / Creator: | Spriggs, Matthew. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1997. |
| Description: | xxv, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2719989 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Plates
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1. This Island Melanesian World
- Introduction: An Archaeological View
- Island Melanesian Language
- The Island Melanesian People
- A Lapita and Post-Lapita Community of Culture
- The Island Melanesian World
- Conclusions
- 2. Early Settlement: 40,000 to 20,000 Years Ago
- Early Settlement in Island Melanesia: Who and When
- Voyaging
- Settlement and Subsistence Prior to 20,000 years ago
- Early Settlement of Vanuatu and New Caledonia?
- 3. Settling In: 20,000 to 6000 Year Ago
- Seal Level Changes
- The Archaeological Sites
- Cultural Changes
- Economic Change: 20,000 to 6000 BP
- Early Island Melanesians
- 4. The World Turned Upside Down: 6000 to 3000 Years Ago
- The Lapita Cultural Complex
- Sites of the Immediately Pre-Lapita Period
- The Argument for Continuity
- The Agricultural Question
- Lapita Discontinuities
- The Origins of the Lapita Culture
- A Lapita Language?
- A Lapita People?: The Evidence from Genetics
- How Southeast Asian is Lapita?
- Lapita Social Organisation
- The Structure of the Lapita Migration
- Lapita Origins Revisited
- 5. Success and Failure of Lapita: 3000 to 2000 Years Ago
- The Bismarcks
- The Solomons
- Vanuatu
- New Caledonia
- Contemporary Non-Lapita Sites
- The Micronesian Connection
- The Lapita Legacy
- 6. The Making of Traditional Island Melanesian Cultures: 2000 to 750 Years Ago
- The End of Lapita
- Investigating Alternatives
- The Bismarcks
- The Solomons
- Vanuatu
- New Caledonia
- The Legacy of Polynesian Contact
- 8. Ships from the West: Island Melanesians Encounter the Europeans
- The Conquest of the Conquistadors, 1528-1606 AD
- Fleeting Glimpses, 1616-1722 AD
- The Major European 'Discoveries', 1767-1774
- Final First Meetings, 1781-1850 AD
- Legacies of Contact
- 9. Custom and Continuity in Island Melanesian Cultures
- The Impact on Population
- Impact on Settlement Pattern
- Subsistence Change
- Environmental Degradation
- Mobility.Challenges to Authority Structures
- The Position of Women
- Directions and Constraints from the Past
- 10. An Island Melanesian Future?
- Index