Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation - Couverture souple

Kirch, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521105439 ISBN 13 : 9780521105439

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The evolution of complex Oceanic chiefdoms into something very much like classic 'archaic states', are authoritatively surveyed here.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521105439
• ISBN 13: 9780521105439
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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