Archaeology in Oceania articles from April 2002

Archaeology in Oceania archives from April 2002

Modelling past Aboriginal hunter-gatherer socio-economic and territorial organisation in Western Australia's lower south-west.
April 1, 2002... Abstract Past Aboriginal hunter-gatherer adaptation is modelled in Western Australia's `lower South-west' -- an informally named archaeological study area incorporating coastal and immediate hinterland districts from the Swan Region...

Megaliths of Muyuw (Woodlark Island), Milne Bay Province, PNG.
April 1, 2002... Abstract Archaeological survey on Muyuw (Woodlark Island) in the Massim area of Papua New Guinea located a number of stone arrangements, commonly known as megaliths. Test excavations have revealed the use of the stone arrangements as...

Explaining the prehistory of ceramic technology on Waya Island, Fiji.
April 1, 2002... Abstract This preliminary analysis of ceramic technological change on Waya Island, Fiji documents the variation present over three thousand years of innovation, interaction, and change. Hypotheses relating the observed variation in sherd...

Handbook of Rock Art Research.
April 1, 2002... Edited by David S. Whitley. Altamira Press, California, 2001. ISBN 0-7245-0256-2. Pp 863. USD99.95 David Whitley has produced a handbook of biblical proportions ambitiously aimed at summarising rock art research throughout the world at the...

Protection of Intellectual, Biological and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea.
April 1, 2002... Edited by Kathy Whimp and Mark Busse Asia Pacific Press at The Australian National University, Canberra, and Conservation Melanesia Inc., Port Moresby, 2000. ISBN 0 7315 3663 0. Pp. xiv + 216. AUD 32 (GST incl.) The Convention on...

East of Wallace's Line. Studies of past and present maritime cultures of the Indo-Pacific region.
April 1, 2002... Edited by Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia 16. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 2000. ISBN 90 5809 319 0. Pp. vi + 380. USD 76; UKP 46. The main title describes the central focus of this book, but the...

Index of Dates from Archaeological Sites in Queensland.
April 1, 2002... By Sean Ulm & Jill Reid Queensland Archaeological Research 12, 2000. Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland. ISSN 0814 3021. Pp. 129. AUD 33 (inc. GST), plus postage. This is a comprehensive yet concise listing of 849 dates from 258...

Amelia Earhart's Shoes. Is the mystery solved? (Book Notices).
April 1, 2002... By T.F. King, R.S. Jacobson, K. R. Burns and K. Spading. AltaMira Press, California, 2001. ISBN 0-7591-0130-2. Pp384. USD24.95 (cloth). A racy account, largely written by King, an archaeologist, of the historical and archaeological research...

Faunal and floral migrations and evolution in SE Asia -- Australasia. (Book Notices).
April 1, 2002... Edited by Ian Metcalfe, Jeremy M. B. Smith, Mike Morwood and Iain Davidson. A. A. Balkema, Lisse. ISBN 90 5809 349 2. Pp. 416. EUR119. This collection of 31 `selected' papers derives from a conference at University of New England in...

Deaths.
April 1, 2002... We record two lifetime contributions, now sadly ended: Rhys Jones' research into Tasmanian archaeology, Aboriginal studies and the antiquity of people in Australia and Roger Bird's development of AMS radiocarbon dating and PIXE-PIGME analysis.

Erratum.
April 1, 2002... Archaeology in Oceania 36 (2001) 170, column b, last line should read: `(100-200nM), the amount required for a 10 microlitre reaction is'. Our apologies to Dr Adcock and his co-authors.

Pacific Archaeology: assessments and prospects.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... International Conference for the 50th anniversary of the first Lapita excavation (July 1952). Kont, Noumta, New Caledonia 31 July-7 August 2002 Organizers Departement Archeologie, Service des Musees et du Patrimoine, Gouvernement...