Island Societies

Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation

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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.

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Anthropology Archaeology Archaeology by Period & Region Prehistoric Archaeology History

Introduction: the archaeology of island societies
Landscape, land use and political transformation in southern
Conceptual and substantive issues in Fijian prehistory
Exchange systems and inter-island contact in the transformation of an island society: the Tikopia case
The role of competition and cooperation in the evolution of island societies
Some basic components of the Ancestral Polynesian settlement system: building blocks for more complex Polynesian societies
Social evolution in ancient
The socio-political structure of the southern coastal area of Easter Island: AD 1300-1864
Turtles, priests and the afterworld: a study in the iconographic interpretation of Polynesian petroglyphs
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