TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,Geoffrey
AU  - Anderson,Atholl
TI  - TA31:  The Early Prehistory of Fiji
T2  - Terra Australis
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Canberra
PB  - ANU Press
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Fiji
KW  - History
KW  - Lapita Culture
KW  - Prehistory
N2  - I enjoyed reading this volume. It is rare to see such a comprehensive report on hard data published these days, especially one so insightfully contextualised by the editors’ introductory and concluding chapters. These scholars and the others involved in the work really know their stuff, and it shows. The editors connect the preoccupations of Pacific archaeologists with those of their colleagues working in other island regions and on “big questions” of colonisation, migration, interaction and patterns and processes of cultural change in hitherto-uninhabited environments. These sorts of outward-looking, big-picture contextual studies are invaluable, but all too often are missing from locally- and regionally-oriented writing, very much to its detriment. In sum, the work strongly advances our understanding of the early prehistory of Fiji through its well-integrated combination of original research and the reinterpretation of existing knowledge in the context of wider theoretical and historical concerns. In doing so The Early Prehistory of Fiji makes a truly substantial contribution to Pacific and archaeological scholarship
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33613/1/459737.pdfhttp://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/terra-australis/ta31_citationhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33613
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