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Vastly ingenious : the archaeology of Pacific material culture : in honour of Janet M. Davidson / edited by Atholl Anderson, Kaye Green and Foss Leach.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2007Description: 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1877372455
  • 9781877372452
Other title:
  • Archaeology of Pacific material culture : in honour of Janet M. Davidson
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 990 22
Contents:
Introduction : Janet M. Davidson : a museum archaeologist / Roger C. Green -- 1. Early Māori disc pendants / Nigel Prickett -- 2. An archaeological collection of gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village / Geoffrey Irwin, Rod Wallace and Stephanie Green -- 3. Cooking with pots : again / Helen Leach -- 4. Metal pa kahawai : a post-contact fishing lure form in northern New Zealand / Ian Smith -- 5. A cache of fishhooks from Serendipity Cave, Jackson Bay, New Zealand / Foss Leach -- 6. Horticultural site complexes on stony soils of the eastern North Island : an aerial interpretation / Kevin L. Jones -- 7. Ecuadorian sailing rafts and Oceanic landfalls / Atholl Anderson, Helene Martinsson-Wallin and Karen Stothert -- 8. Arthur Kempe of HMS Adventure and Veryan, Cornwall / Peter Gathercole -- 9. Meʻa lalanga and the category Koloa : intertwining value and history in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 10. Ancestral Polynesian fishing gear : archaeological insights from Tonga / David V. Burley and Richard Shutler jr -- 11. Reading Pacific pots / Geoffrey Clark and Duncan Wright -- 12. The rise of the Saudeleur : dating the Nan Madol chiefdom, Pohnpei / J. Stephen Athens -- 13. A study of gorges from the Gognga-Cove Beach Site, Tumon, Guam / Yosihiko H. Sinoto -- 14. The role of fishing lure shanks for the past people of Pohnpei, eastern Caroline Islands, Micronesia / Paul Rainbird -- 15. An assessment of shell fishhooks of the Lapita cultural complex / Katherine Szabó -- 16. The material culture of Makira / Moira White -- 17. Shalf-hole stone implements of New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Jim Specht -- 18. Pottery styles at Wañelek, Papua New Guinea / Susan Bulmer -- 19. Still vastly ingenious? Globalisation and the collecting of Pacific material cultures / Sean Mallon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Janet M. Davidson : a museum archaeologist / Roger C. Green -- 1. Early Māori disc pendants / Nigel Prickett -- 2. An archaeological collection of gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village / Geoffrey Irwin, Rod Wallace and Stephanie Green -- 3. Cooking with pots : again / Helen Leach -- 4. Metal pa kahawai : a post-contact fishing lure form in northern New Zealand / Ian Smith -- 5. A cache of fishhooks from Serendipity Cave, Jackson Bay, New Zealand / Foss Leach -- 6. Horticultural site complexes on stony soils of the eastern North Island : an aerial interpretation / Kevin L. Jones -- 7. Ecuadorian sailing rafts and Oceanic landfalls / Atholl Anderson, Helene Martinsson-Wallin and Karen Stothert -- 8. Arthur Kempe of HMS Adventure and Veryan, Cornwall / Peter Gathercole -- 9. Meʻa lalanga and the category Koloa : intertwining value and history in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 10. Ancestral Polynesian fishing gear : archaeological insights from Tonga / David V. Burley and Richard Shutler jr -- 11. Reading Pacific pots / Geoffrey Clark and Duncan Wright -- 12. The rise of the Saudeleur : dating the Nan Madol chiefdom, Pohnpei / J. Stephen Athens -- 13. A study of gorges from the Gognga-Cove Beach Site, Tumon, Guam / Yosihiko H. Sinoto -- 14. The role of fishing lure shanks for the past people of Pohnpei, eastern Caroline Islands, Micronesia / Paul Rainbird -- 15. An assessment of shell fishhooks of the Lapita cultural complex / Katherine Szabó -- 16. The material culture of Makira / Moira White -- 17. Shalf-hole stone implements of New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Jim Specht -- 18. Pottery styles at Wañelek, Papua New Guinea / Susan Bulmer -- 19. Still vastly ingenious? Globalisation and the collecting of Pacific material cultures / Sean Mallon.

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