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050	0	0	_aGN871 _b.I78 1992
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100	1		_aIrwin, Geoffrey, _eauthor. _9245471
245	1	4	_aThe prehistoric exploration and colonisation of the Pacific / _cGeoffrey Irwin.
264		1	_aCambridge [England] : _bCambridge University Press, _c1992.
300			_avii, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c26 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aNew Zealand author.
500			_aReprinted 1996.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tAn introduction to the Pacific and the theory of its settlement -- _g2. _tPleistocene voyaging and the settlement of Greater Australia and its Near Oceanic neighbours -- _g3. _tIssues in Lapita studies and the background to Oceanic colonisation -- _g4. _tAgainst, across and down the wind: a case for the systematic exploration of the remote Pacific -- _g5. _tThe colonisation of Eastern Melanesia, West Polynesia and Central East Polynesia -- _g6. _tThe colonisation of Hawaii, New Zealand and their neighbours -- _g7. _tIssues in the colonisation of Micronesia -- _g8. _tVoyaging by computer: experiments in the exploration of the remote Pacific Ocean -- _g9. _tVoyaging after colonisation and the study of culture change -- _g10. _tThe rediscovery of Pacific exploration.
520			_aThe exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is one of the most remarkable episodes of human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography, no documents to record their route, no metal, no instruments for measuring time and none for navigation. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts and canoes, computer simulations of voyaging using real data on winds and currents have combined to produce an enormous range of literature on this controversial and mysterious subject. This book represents a major advance in the knowledge of and models for the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid and purposeful, undertaken systematically and that navigation methods progressively improved. The prehistoric exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is concerned with two distinct periods of voyaging and colonisation. The first began some 50,000 years ago in the tropical region of Island Southeast Asia, the continent of Australia and its Pleistocene outliers in Melanesia and was the first voyaging of its kind in the world. The second episode began 3500 years ago and witnessed a burst of sophisticated maritime and Neolithic settlement in the vast remote Pacific. This phase virtually completed human settlement of the planet apart from the ice-caps. Using an innovative model to establish a detailed theory of prehistoric navigation, Geoffrey Irwin claims that rather than sailing randomly in search of the unknown, Pacific Islanders expanded settlement by the cautious strategy of exploring first upwind, so as to ease their safe return. The range of strategies increased as geographical knowledge was added to navigational: it became safe to search across and down the wind returning by different routes. The author has tested this hypothesis against the chronological data from archaeological investigation, with a computer simulation of demographic and exploration patterns and by sailing throughout the region. He addresses ways in which the factors of geography and weather influenced the time and order of island settlement and why voyaging decreased in much of the Pacific after it was settled, in some places disappearing altogether. He shows that the colonisation of the remote Pacific should be seen as a coherent whole and that subsequent patterns of culture change of Pacific peoples were affected systematically by inter-island voyaging. He analyses what the evidence says of the culture of the people involved and the motives for what they did and whether there is evidence of their concern for survival.
588			_aMachine converted from AACR2 source record.
590			_a.b10641440 _bWorldCat_3_8_2017
650		0	_aNavigation, Prehistoric _zPacific Area _9617078
650		0	_aTrade routes _zPacific Area _xComputer simulation.
651		0	_aPacific Area _xDiscovery and exploration _9781719
651		0	_aPacific Area _xColonization _9781722
651		0	_aPacific Area _xAntiquities _9777786
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