Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- 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
- Plate section
Plate section
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- 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
- Plate section
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992