Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific, Volume 86, Part 5Ward Hunt Goodenough This is a print on demand publication. Thse papers are from two symposia at the APS, and the Univ. of PA Museum. Contents: "Intro.," by Ward Goodenough; "The Pre-Austronesian Settlement of Island Melanesia: Implications for Lapita Archaeology," by Jim Allen; "Austronesian Culture History: The Windows of Language," by Robert Blust; "Archaeology of SE China and Its Bearing on the Austronesian Homeland," by Kwang-chih Chang and Ward Goodenough; "Lapita and Its Aftermath: The Austronesian Settlement of Oceania," by Patrick Kirch; "Colonizing an Island World," by Ben Finney; and "Beyond the Austronesian Homeland: The Austric Hypothesis and Its Implications for Archaeology," by Robert Blust. Illustrations. Second Printing, 1998 |
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Page 55 - I think history is more likely to be born on beaches, marginal spaces in between land and sea. Anyway this is where I would take you, to beaches where everything is relativised a little, turned around, where tradition is as much invented as handed down, where otherness is both a new discovery and a reflection of something old
Page 117 - After all, he had already announced in the original paper his belief that "most of the important lexical correspondences have been uncovered," and he had seen no reason, over the years, for changing this view. What is more, his colleagues appear to have believed him, since virtually no new comparative material has been brought forward to this time. It would appear that this unfortunate statement, which surely must be ranked with the most egregious overstatements of our times, contributed to a veritable...
Page 50 - If this is so, then it appears that there was an earlier spread of Austronesian speakers into Fujian and Taiwan associated with Dapenkeng and the corded-ware cultures. This was followed by a later spread of Austronesian speakers of Longshanoid culture, who moved into western Taiwan, and by a southward expansion of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian speakers from Fujian, perhaps represented by the distinctive Fengbitou site in southwestern Taiwan, serving as one of the way stations in the developing network...
Page 23 - On this evidence, ground stone technology, shell tool technology, ceramic technology, horticultural technology and efficient sailing technology all occurred in Melanesia well before the advent of Lapita, rather than arriving with Lapita as was widely believed a decade or so ago. This is not to imply that some of these technologies did not change significantly with the appearance of Lapita sites.
Page 87 - At night, navigators oriented on the rising and setting points of key stars and constellations; by day, on the sun when low in the sky (its changing position having been calibrated against the fading star field of the dawn sky). When clouds obscured the stars or sun...
Page 87 - ... by changing wind and sea conditions. To expand the range at which an island could be detected, they watched for such signs as cloud build-up over high islands, interference in the swell pattern, and the flight of land-nesting birds that daily fly out to sea to fish.
Page 77 - Sharp maintained that the islands must therefore have been settled accidentally by chance arrivals of drifting canoes that had been blown off course or had strayed through navigational error, or by fortuitous landfalls of canoes bearing desperate exiles fleeing war or famine.
Page 111 - The uniqueness of Rapa Nui, as marked by the great elaboration of the huge stone statues and other features of their culture, may therefore be a function of isolation from regional cultural developments shared among...
Page 77 - He accepted that the Polynesians came from the west, but claimed that their canoes did not sail well enough, and that their noninstrument navigation methods were not sufficiently accurate, for them to have intentionally explored and colonized the Pacific.