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The Archaeology of Prehistoric Oceania (a single chapter of a title in Oxford Handbooks Online for personal use)

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dc.contributor.author Cochrane, Ethan E
dc.contributor.author Hunt, Terry L
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-29T23:06:02Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-29T23:06:02Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.isbn 9780199925070
dc.identifier.uri ${digitallibrary.baseUrl}/handle/1/818
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/705
dc.description 29 pp. ; ill en_US
dc.description.abstract The archaeological record of Oceania stretches over one-third of the earth’s surface with the first humans entering Oceania 50,000 years ago and with the last major archipelago settled approximately a.d. 1300. Oceania is often divided into the cultural-geographic regions of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, but these divisions mask much variation, and they do not always accurately characterize the historical relationships among Oceania’s populations. Since the 1950s, archaeological researchers have investigated Oceania’s human and environmental past and have focused on colonization chronologies and the origins of different populations, the intensity and spatial scale of interaction between groups, and changes in social complexity through time and space with a particular concern for the development of chiefdoms. Oceanic archaeologists often use historical linguistics, human genetics, and cultural evolution models to structure their research on ancient Pacific island populations. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Oxford University Press en_US
dc.subject Cultural evolution en_US
dc.subject Chiefdoms en_US
dc.subject Melanesia en_US
dc.subject Micronesia en_US
dc.subject Pacific en_US
dc.subject Polynesia en_US
dc.subject Oceania en_US
dc.title The Archaeology of Prehistoric Oceania (a single chapter of a title in Oxford Handbooks Online for personal use) en_US
dc.type Book chapter en_US


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