TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellwood,Peter S.
TI  - Man's conquest of the Pacific: the prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania 
SN  - 0002169118
AV  - GN871 .B44 x
U1  - 959.01 22
PY  - 1978///
CY  - Auckland [N.Z.]
PB  - Collins
KW  - Prehistoric peoples
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Antiquities, Prehistoric
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Antiquities
N1  - Includes references to New Zealand; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction. Southeast Asia and Oceania: Races, languages, ethnic groups and prehistory -- 2. Human population: past and present: Present populations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Genetic studies on Pacific populations. Evolutionary processes in Oceania. Natural selection, clines and gene flow. Genetic drift and genetic distances. The prehistory of man in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Homo Erectus and modern man in Eastern Asia. The racial history of Oceania -- 3. Cultural foundations: The Pleistocene epoch in Southeast Asia. Industries in the Middle Pleistocene. The Upper Pleistocene period. Australia. New Guinea. The Hoabinhian Technocomplex of the Southeast Asian mainland: North Vietnam. Malaya. Thailand. Laos and Cambodia. Sumatra. South China and Taiwan. The Hoabinhian Sequence: a summary. Hoabinhian economy. The earlier Holocene in Island Southeasr Aisa: the Flake and Blade Technocomplex. Summary; 4. The cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania. The Southeast Asian mainland. Island Southeast Asia. The peoples of Oceania. Melanesia. The New Guinea Highlands. Island Melanesia. Trade networks in Melanesia. Melanesian material culture. Micronesia. Polynesia. The ethnohisotry of Island Southeast Asia and Oceania -- 5. The linguistic history of the Pacific Area. The language families of the Pacific. The Papuan languages. The Austronesian languages. The major Austronesian subgroups. The western Austronesian languages. The eastern Austronesian and Oceanic subgroups. The languages of nuclear Micronesia. A problem of correlation. Dyen's lexicostatistical classification of the Austronesian languages. The problem of Austronesian dominance in Indonesia -- 6. Subsistence patterns and their prehistoric implications. The origins of cultivation. Indigenous major food plants of Southeast Asia and Oceania. Cultivation systems and their developmen. Cultivation in New Zealand. The wet-field cultivation of rice. Domesticated animals; 7. Neolithic and early metal age cultures on the South east Asian mainland. The earliest pottery in Southeast Asia. The prehistory of China. Thailand: an independent focus of innovation? Lungshanoid inflences in Thailand and Malaya? The Ban Kao culture. The adze types of Southeast Asia. An adze-based migration theory. The neolithic sites and cultures of Indochina: Cambodia. Vietnam -- Metal age cultures in Southeast Asia. The Dong-son style of bronze metallurgy. The metal age jar burial tradition: South Vietnam and Laos. Stone burial jars and megaliths of Northern Laos. Summary -- 8. Neolithic and metal age of cultures of Island Southeast Asia. The Neolithic cultures of Taiwan. Neolithic and metal age cultures in the Philippines. The Late Neolithic and metal ages in the Central Philippines. The Neolithic of Niah Cave, Sarawak. Neolithic sites in Eastern Indonesia. Neolithic sites in Western Indonesia. The metal age of Western and Southern Indonesia. Megaliths in Indonesia. The problems of beads in Southeast Asian metal age sites. Summary; 9. The prehistory of Melanesia. Preceramic settlement in Western Melania. Ceramic assemblages in Melanesia: the Lapita culture. Major sites of the Lapita culture. Who were the Lapita potters? Lapita-like assemblages in Melanesia. The incised and applied-relief ceramics in Melanesia. The non-Lapita prehistory of New Caledonia and Fiji. Southeast Asian metal age influences in Western Melanesia. Comb-incised pottery in Melanesia. Human sacrifice in the New Hebrides. Stone structures and rock art in Melanesia. The Melanesia past -- 10. The prehistory of Micronesia. Western Micronesia: the Marianas Islands. The Island of Yap. The Palau Islands. Eastern Micronesia: the Caroline Islands. Eastern Micronesia: Nukuoro Atoll. Summary -- 11. The prehistory of Polynesia. Part one. Canoes and their navigation. The whence of the Polynesians: theorists galore. The prehistory of Western Polynesia. The early East Polynesian culture (c.A.D. 300-1200); The prehistory of Polynesia. Part two. Later Eastern Polynesian prehistory (c.A.D. 1200-1800). The Marquesas Islands. Central Polynesia: the society, Tuamotu, Austral and Southern Cook Islands. The Society Islands. The Tuamotu Archipeligo. The Austral Islands. The southern Cook Islands. The isolated Mystery Islands. The Hawaiian Islands. Easter Island -- 13. The prehistory of New Zealand. The view from tradition. The coming archaeology. The New Zealand prehistoric sequence. The origins of the Maoris. Man and the moas. The Archaic Phase in the South Island. Economy, Settlements and trade in the South Island. The rock art od the South Island. The Archaic Phase in the North Island. The classic Maori Phase. The classic Maori artefact assemblage. Classic Maori settlements and economy. The Chatham Islands. Summary -- 14. Some problems for the future
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