A Pacific odyssey : archaeology and anthropology in the Western Pacific : papers in honour of Jim Specht / edited by Val Attenbrow and Richard Fullagar.
Includes bibliographical references. "Jim Specht, a bibliography": p. [9]-14.
Contents:
Jim Specht's brilliant career--a tribute / Paul S.C. Taçon ... [et al.] -- Jim Specht : a bibliography / Kate Khan -- Holocene vegetation, savanna origins and human settlement of Guam / J. Stephen Athens and Jerome V. Ward -- The effect of objects : the return of a North Vanuatu textile from the Australian Museum to the Vanuatu Cultural Centre / Lissant Bolton -- Ownership and a peripathetic collection : Raymond Firth's collection from Tikopia, Solomon Islands / Elizabeth Bonshek -- Early agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea : an assessment of Phase 1 at Kuk Swamp / Tim Denham -- Settlement history and landscape use in Santo, Vanuatu / Jean-Christophe Galipaud -- A century of collecting : colonial collectors in southwest New Britain / Chantal Knowles and Chris Gosden -- Phytoliths and the evidence for banana cultivation at the Lapita Reber-Rakival site on Watom Island, Papua New Guinea / Carol J. Lentfer and Roger C. Green -- Trade and culture history across the Vitiaz Strat, Papua New Guinea : the emerging post-Lapita coastal sequence / Ian Lilley -- From Misisil Cave to Eliva Hamlet : rediscovering the Pleistocene in interior West New Britain / Christina Pavlides -- Walpole, a "Mystery Island" in southeast New Caledonia? / Christophe Sand -- Oral tradition and the creation of late prehistory in Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands / Peter Sheppard, Richard Walter and Shankar Aswani -- Are the earliest field monuments of the Pacific landscape aerial sites? / Anita Smith -- Is there life after Lapita, and do you remember the 60s? The post-Lapita sequences of the Western Pacific / Matthew Spriggs -- The nature of prehistoric obsidian importation to Anir and the development of a 3,000 year old regional picture of obsidian exchange within the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea / Glenn R. Summerhayes -- Stone mortar and pestle distribution in New Britain revisited / Pamela Swadling -- Pre-Lapita valuables in island Melanesia / Robin Torrence -- Rethinking regional analyses of Western Pacific rock-art / Meredith Wilson.
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