Archaeology of Pacific Oceania Inhabiting a Sea of Islands

Archaeology of Pacific Oceania, now in its second edition, offers a state-of-the-art and fully detailed chronological narrative of how Pacific Oceania came to be inhabited over a long time scale, posing fundamental questions both for Pacific Oceania and for global archaeology.

About the author

Mike T. Carson (Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i, 2002) has investigated the broad geographic range and chronological scope of archaeological landscapes throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He was author of several books about Pacific Oceanic archaeology and ancient landscapes, editor of Palaeolandscapes in Archaeology: Lessons for the Past and Future (Routledge, 2022), and co-editor of Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014–2020). He currently is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center at the University of Guam.

Summary

Archaeology of Pacific Oceania, now in its second edition, offers a state-of-the-art and fully detailed chronological narrative of how Pacific Oceania came to be inhabited over a long time scale, posing fundamental questions both for Pacific Oceania and for global archaeology.

Product details

• Authors: Michael T. Carson, Mike T. Carson, Mike T. (Associate Professor of Archaeolog Carson, Carson Mike T.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 11.10.2023
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history
• EAN: 9781032486406
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248640-6
• Pages: 400
• Series: Routledge World Archaeology
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Rapa Nui, Archaeology by period / region, Australasia, Oceania & other land areas, Environmental archaeology, Ancient DNA, coastal ecology, bismarck archipelago, human migration patterns, Mariana Islands, Island Southeast Asia, Southern Melanesia, Radiocarbon Dates, prehistoric seafaring, Ancient DNA Study, human settlement Pacific islands, island colonisation studies, cultural adaptation Pacific, archaeological chronology analysis, decorated pottery, Eastern Micronesia, nan madol, Lapita Pottery, Inhabited Islands, Remote Oceania, Lapita Sites, East Polynesia, West Polynesia, Sea Level Drawdown, Remote Oceanic, DNA Lineage, Pacific Oceania, Lapita Cultural Complex, Pottery Horizon, Remote Oceanic Islands