In the last 10 years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and of the early colonisers in the Pacific islands has seen enormous progress. This new and exciting research is synthesised, contextualised and expanded upon in The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia …
This important work introduces a critical theoretical perspective to the study of social change in the Pacific islands, a subject which has long been dominated by ethnographic studies. The islands covered are Hawai'i, French Polynesia, American and Western Samoa, Tonga, New Cale…
First published in 1992. The Pacific Ocean is the largest geographical feature on the face of the earth, covering about one third of its entire surface. Occupying part of that large expanse are the far-flung islands of the Pacific. As the papers of this volume clearly indicate, …