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Author:

Skelly, Robert John, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016047074

Title:

Hiri : archaeology of long-distance maritime trade along the south coast of Papua New Guinea / Robert John Skelly and Bruno David.

Publisher:

University of Hawaiʻi Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xxxv, 570 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Subject:

Commerce, Prehistoric--Papua New Guinea.
Pottery, Prehistoric--Papua New Guinea.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Papua New Guinea.
Motu (Papua New Guinean people)--History.--History.
Antiquities, Prehistoric--Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea--Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Commerce, Prehistoric.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Pottery, Prehistoric.
Papua New Guinea.

Other Authors:

David, Bruno, 1962- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001108077

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-561) and index.

Contents:

Prolegomena -- Early European visions of the hiri in British New Guinea -- Archaeology along the south coast of Papua New Guinea -- The Kouri lowlands -- Old Helau : islands in the sea -- Keveoki : traces of the ancestral hiri -- Meiharo : tracking past settlement of ancient coastlines -- Lui ovo : road to the sea -- Oheo yopo : looking down to the sea -- Iri Kahu : the promised land -- Kaveharo : a coastal trading village -- Hopo : Hori's forgotten village -- Hohelavi : Hori's eravo -- Hivo : lagatoi harbor -- A potted history of the Kouri lowlands -- "Marvellous" lives in "vile" places : making sense of the past in the Kouri lowlands -- The hiri in history.

ISBN:

0824853660
9780824853662

OCLC:

(OCoLC)946725963

LCCN:

2016015370

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)