The prehistoric exploration and colonisation of the Pacific / Geoffrey Irwin
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- 2628764
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- Irwin, Geoffrey
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- Oakleigh, Vic.:Cambridge University Press , 1992, 1992
- vii, 240 p.; ill., maps.
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Reviews theories of Pacific voyaging, navigation and settlement; mention of origins of settlement in Sahul.
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- Machine derived contents note: 1. An introduction to the Pacific and the theory of its settlement
- 2. Pleistocene voyaging and the settlement of Greater Australia and its Near Oceanic neighbours
- 3. Issues in Lapita studies and the background to Oceanic colonisation
- 4. Against, across and down the wind: a case for the systematic exploration of the remote Pacific
- 5. The colonisation of Eastern Melanesia, West Polynesia and Central East Polynesia
- 6. The colonisation of Hawaii, New Zealand and their neighbours
- 7. Issues in the colonisation of Micronesia
- 8. Voyaging by computer: experiments in the exploration of the remote Pacific Ocean
- 9. Voyaging after colonisation and the study of culture change
- 10. The rediscovery of Pacific exploration
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliography; p.[223]-231; Includes tables and index.
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