Archaeology in Oceania articles from April 2003

Archaeology in Oceania archives from April 2003

Old boundaries and new horizons: the Weipa shell mounds reconsidered.(Cape York Peninsula )
April 1, 2003... Abstract This paper develops an alternative interpretation of shell mound phenomena at Albatross Bay, near Weipa on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula. Past researchers have interpreted these distinct mounded middens as functional...

Productivity, production and settlement in precontact Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
April 1, 2003... Abstract In order to examine the precontact production system of Rarotonga beyond the limits of the archaeologically visible irrigated taro terraces, a model of potential productivity is created. The model is based on an assessment of the...

Flexibility of stone tool manufacturing methods on the Georgina River, Camooweal, Queensland.
April 1, 2003... Abstract The Australian Aboriginal approach to stone technology is often characterised as highly flexible, a phenomenon well-documented by ethnographic observation. In the Australian context, it would appear that a stone's function was...

Hammer dressed stone hatchets in the Lake Eyre Basin. (Research Reports).
April 1, 2003... Abstract Examination of 137 edge ground stone hatchets from the Lake Eyre Basin suggested that as distance from the source increases the artefacts were more intensively reduced by hammer dressing. By reducing the thickness of the hatchet...

Histories of old ages. Essays in honour of Rhys Jones.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited by A. Anderson, I. Lilley and S.O'Connor. Pandanus Books, Australian National University, Canberra, 2001. ISBN 1 7407 6002 6. Pp.ix + 444. AUD64 There can be few feschrifts that so reflect the affection with which so many people...

The Pacific from 5000 to 2000 BP: Colonisation and Transformations.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited by Jean-Christophe Galipaud and Ian Lilley. Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Paris. 1999. ISBN 0767-2896. Pages 619. This large edited volume with 38 chapters provides published versions of papers delivered at a...

The archaeology of Lapita dispersal in Oceania: papers from the fourth Lapita Conference, June 2000, Canberra, Australia.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited by G. R. Clark, A. J. Anderson and T. Vunidilo. Terra Australis 17. Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 2001. ISBN1 74076 010 7. Pp. viii+223. AUD49.50. This volume...

The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes. Explorations in Slumland.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited by Alan Mayne and Tim Murray. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001. ISBN 0 521 77975 8 (paper). Pp. Xi+192. AUD55 (paper). Recent trends in historical archaeology have reinforced the awareness that all social practice--whether...

Inscribed Landscapes. Marking and Making Place.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited by Bruno David and Meredith Wilson. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2002. ISBN: 0-8248-2472-5 (hardback). Pp. viii + 303. USD 55. This collection of papers provides an excellent sample of the range of issues relating to the...

Fifty Years in the Field. Essays in Honour and Celebration of Richard Shutler Jr.'s Archaeological Career.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Edited by Stuart Bedford, Christophe Sand and David Burley. New Zealand Archaeological Association, Monograph 25, 2002. ISBN 0-9597915-8-2. Pp. 260. NZD 45. As the title suggests, this volume was put together as a tip of the hat to one of...

Book notices.(four titles)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Australasian Connections and New Directions. Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Archaeometry Conference Edited by Martin Jones and Peter Sheppard. Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, Research in Anthropology and Linguistics 5,...