Tangatatau Rockshelter : the evolution of an eastern Polynesian socio-ecosystem / edited by Patrick Vinton Kirch ; with contributions by Virginia L. Butler [and eight others].

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English
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  • [Los Angeles] : The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
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xix, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

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    This monograph is the definitive report on archaeological investigations undertaken on Mangaia Island in 1989 and 1991. The collections from Mangaia during this time are to be deposited in the Archaeology collections of Bishop Museum -- Patrick V. Kirch communication, 2017.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Patrick Vinton Kirch
    • The Mangaia socio-ecosystem: environmental and ethnohistoric perspectives / Patrick Vinton Kirch
    • Overview of Mangaian archaeology / Patrick Vinton Kirch
    • Excavations at Tangatatau Rockshelter (Site Man-44) / Patrick Vinton Kirch
    • Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modeling of the chronology of Tangatatau Rockshelter / Patrick Vinton Kirch
    • Vertebrate fauna from Tangatatau Rockshelter: mammals, birds, and reptiles / Patrick Vinton Kirch
    • Fish remains from Tangatatau Rockshelter / Virginia L. Butler
    • Invertebrate remains from Tangatatau Rockshelter / Patrick Vinton Kirch, Mireille Gonzalez, and Aimee M. Plourde
    • Archaeobotanical assemblages from Tangatatau Rockshelter / Patrick Vinton Kirch, Jon G. Hather, and Mark Horrocks
    • Material culture and technological change at Tangatatau Rockshelter / Patrick Vinton Kirch
    • The Tangatatau fishhook assemblage: a typological analysis / Christelle Carlier
    • Lithic assemblages of Tangatatau Rockshelter: reduction strategies and the organization of lithic technology / Jennifer G. Kahn
    • Archaeological investigations at other sites / Patrick Vinton Kirch and Julie M.E. Taomia
    • Synthesis: the evolution of the Mangaian socio-ecosystem / Patrick Vinton Kirch.
    ISBN
    • 9781938770104 (hardcover)
    • 1938770102 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2017004636
    OCLC
    974487697
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