Voyages of Discovery
The Archaeology of Islands
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Product details:
- Publisher Praeger
- Date of Publication 30 April 2004
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780275979478
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x155 mm
- Weight 624 g
- Language English 0
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Voyages of Discovery is the first major synthesis of island archaeological research worldwide. The work brings together experts in the field who are concerned with analyzing islands and island societies from a variety of different archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Major topics include interaction spheres, exchange, human impacts, and theoretical models.
Over the past few decades there has been an increased interest in the archaeology of islands. Archaeological approaches to studying islands and island societies have often mirrored those of biologists because islands are relatively isolated, contain unique species or remnant populations, have an impoverished terrestrial ecology, provide opportunities to investigate the effects of animals (e.g., humans) on ecosystems, lend themselves to manipulative experiments, and have implications for helping us understand environmental and social changes on a global level from a microcosmic view. Although islands can be considered somewhat unique compared to mainland environments, environmental and cultural factors played important roles in how islands and islanders developed over time.
The field of island archaeology contributes to understanding the fluid boundaries (both physical and mental) that existed for islanders prehistorically and how they adapted to their island world. This book explores a wide range of issues including the impacts humans have had on island ecosystems, the intentional movement of goods, resources, and animals across vast distances, and ways in which archaeologists analyze islands and island societies methodologically and theoretically.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
Synthesizing Island Archaeology by Scott M. Fitzpatrick
Humans and Their Island Environments
Flexible Strategies for Resource Defense on the Northern Channel Islands of California: An Agent Based Model by Douglas J. Kennett and Robert A. Clifford
Human Impacts on Ancient Environments: A Case Study from California's Northern Channel Islands by Jon M. Erlandson, Torben C. Rick, and Rene Vellanoweth
Prehistoric Resource Depletion in the Northern West Indies by Lisbeth A. Carlson and William F. Keegan
Island Interregional Interaction
Population Dynamics in the Prehistory of Okinawa by Hiroto Takamiya
Inter-Island Exchange in Micronesia: A Case of Monumental Proportions Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Brian Diveley
Where the Wild Things Are: Prehistoric Animal Translocation in the Circum New Guinea Archipelago by J. Peter White
Island Societies Aren't Always Insular: Tlingit Territories in the Alexander Archipelago and the Adjacent Alaska Mainland by Madonna Moss
Methodological, Theoretical, and Historical Approaches to Island Archaeology
Island Archaeology and Units of Analysis in the Study of Ancient Caribbean Societies by L. Antonio Curet
Island Models of Reticulate Evolution: The "Ancient Lagoons" Hypothesis by John Edward Terrell
Insularity in the Crossroads of Island Southeast Asia by Peter Lape
Mediterranean Island Prehistory: What's Different and What's New? by John Cherry
The Study of Islands and Island Societies
Islands of Ambivalence by Atholl Anderson
Islands Out of Time? Toward an Analytical Framework by Colin Renfrew
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