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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defining Oceania | |
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| Linguistic, Human Biological, and Cultural Variation in Oceania | |
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| About This Book | |
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| A Note on Dates and Time | |
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| Discovering the Oceanic Past | |
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| Enlightenment Voyagers | |
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| Outposts of Empire: Missionaries, Colonists, and Academic Beginnings | |
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| "The Problem of Polynesian Origins" | |
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| Te Rangi Hiroa and the "Micronesian Route" to Polynesia | |
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| The Discovery of Time Depth and Culture Change | |
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| The Search for Polynesian Sequences | |
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| Broadening Research Horizons | |
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| Beyond Polynesia: Archaeology in Melanesia and New Guinea | |
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| Not an Ivory Tower: Public Archaeology in the Pacific | |
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| Contemporary Approaches to Pacific Prehistory | |
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| The Pacific Islands as a Human Environment | |
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| Origins and Development of Pacific Islands | |
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| Types of Islands | |
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| Climatic Factors in the Pacific | |
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| Island Life and Biogeography | |
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| The Microbiotic World and Human Populations | |
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| Island Ecosystems | |
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| Human Impacts on Island Ecosystems | |
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| Sahul and the Prehistory of "Old" Melanesia | |
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| The Pleistocene Geography of Sahul and Near Oceania | |
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| Initial Human Arrival in Sabul and Near Oceania | |
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| Pleistocene Voyaging in Near Oceania | |
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| Near Oceania during the Pleistocene | |
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| Cultural Innovations of the Early Holocene | |
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| A Paradox and a Hypothesis | |
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| Lapita and the Austronesian Expansion | |
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| The Human Landscape of Near Oceania at 2000-1500 B.C. | |
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| The Advent of Lapita | |
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| Lapita Origins: The Austronesian Expansion | |
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| Lapita Dispersal into Remote Oceania | |
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| Lapita in Linguistic and Biological Perspective | |
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| The Lapita Ceramic Series | |
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| Lapita Sites and Settlements | |
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| Lapita Subsistence Economies | |
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| Exchange among Lapita Communities | |
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| Ancestral Oceanic Societies | |
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| Lapita: Transformations and Legacy | |
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| The Prehistory of "New" Melanesia | |
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| Trading Societies of Papua and the Massim | |
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| The Late Holocene in Highland New Guinea | |
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| The Bismarck Archipelago after Lapita | |
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| The Solomon Islands | |
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| Vanuatu | |
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| The Polynesian Outliers in Melanesia | |
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| Ethnogenesis in La Grande Terre | |
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| Fiji: An Archipelago "in Between" | |
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| Summary | |
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| Micronesia: In the "Sea of Little Lands" | |
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| Colonization and Early Settlement in Micronesia | |
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| Cultural Sequences in Micronesia | |
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| Tuvalu and the Polynesian Outliers in Micronesia | |
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| Atoll Adaptations | |
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| Later Prehistory in Western Micronesia | |
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| Development of Sociopolitical Complexity in the Caroline High Islands | |
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| Polynesia: Origins and Dispersals | |
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| Polynesian Origins | |
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| Polynesia as a Phyletic Unit | |
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| Ancestral Polynesia | |
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| Cultural Sequences in Western Polynesia | |
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| The Settlement of Eastern Polynesia | |
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| The Polynesian Chiefdoms | |
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| Polynesian Chiefdoms: Ethnographic Background and Anthropological Significance | |
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| Sociopolitical Transformation in the Open Societies | |
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| The Emergence of Stratified Chiefdoms | |
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| Summary | |
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| Big Structures and Large Processes in Oceanic Prehistory | |
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| Voyaging and the Human "Conquest" of the Pacific | |
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| History Written in the Present: Correlations between Language, Biology, and Culture | |
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| The Role of Demographic Change in Oceanic History | |
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| Oceanic Populations on the Eve of European Contact | |
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| The Political Economy of Dynamic Landscapes | |
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| Intensification and Specialization in Island Economies | |
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| Transformations of Status and Power | |
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| On Comparison: A Closing Comment | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |