Synthesizes the major issues in island archaeological research including human impacts on island ecosystems, island colonization, exchange systems, and theoretical and methodological concerns.
Preface List of Contributors Introduction Synthesizing Island Archaeology by Scott M. Fitzpatrick Humans and Their Island Environments Flexible Strategies for Resource Defense on the Northern Channel Islands of California: An Agent Based Model by Douglas J. Kennett and Robert A. Clifford Human Impacts on Ancient Environments: A Case Study from California's Northern Channel Islands by Jon M. Erlandson, Torben C. Rick, and Rene Vellanoweth Prehistoric Resource Depletion in the Northern West Indies by Lisbeth A. Carlson and William F. Keegan Island Interregional Interaction Population Dynamics in the Prehistory of Okinawa by Hiroto Takamiya Inter-Island Exchange in Micronesia: A Case of Monumental Proportions Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Brian Diveley Where the Wild Things Are: Prehistoric Animal Translocation in the Circum New Guinea Archipelago by J. Peter White Island Societies Aren't Always Insular: Tlingit Territories in the Alexander Archipelago and the Adjacent Alaska Mainland by Madonna Moss Methodological, Theoretical, and Historical Approaches to Island Archaeology Island Archaeology and Units of Analysis in the Study of Ancient Caribbean Societies by L. Antonio Curet Island Models of Reticulate Evolution: The "Ancient Lagoons" Hypothesis by John Edward Terrell Insularity in the Crossroads of Island Southeast Asia by Peter Lape Mediterranean Island Prehistory: What's Different and What's New? by John Cherry The Study of Islands and Island Societies Islands of Ambivalence by Atholl Anderson Islands Out of Time? Toward an Analytical Framework by Colin Renfrew
SCOTT M. FITZPATRICK received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Oregon. He has conducted fieldwork and research in the Pacific, Caribbean, and East Asia. He has published recent articles in Antiquity, Archaeology in Oceania, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Ethnobiology, and Radiocarbon.
?[A] few simple but powerful models drive much research in this
field....[i]nsularity is a mutable concept; as much of the mind as
of community and economy.?-Times Literary Supplement
?This book makes a major contribution towards contextualising the
archaeology of islands within a global frame of reference, as it
brings together some of the leading thinkers involved in the island
archaeology debate and demonstrates the relevance of different
approaches. It also shows that island archaeology has become a
well-established subject in its own right, by accommodating the
growing variety of ways in which the island can be conceptualised.
We believe that this book goes a long way towards showing how the
world island research community has recognised this diversity and
is developing increasingly effective ways of approaching
it.?-Papers from the Institute of Archaeology
?This superb collection is a cogent statement of much current
thinking on the subject that should find its way into university
libraries worldwide, and hopefully some of those on islands. Maybe
one day it will stimulate islanders' interest in the archeology of
their homelands.?-Island Studies Journal
?This thought-provoking volume on a relevant field of
anthropological research can be recommended to maritime
archaeologists.?-International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
?Voyages of Discovery: The Archaeology of Islands is by no means
comprehensive; it is in every way engaging and a step in the right
direction. Should your conceptual framework be in desperate need of
enlargement, then this is the book for you. If there is bad news in
Fitzpatrick's tome, it is this; you must make room in your already
crowded shelf for this volume.?-International Journal of Maritime
History
"This superb collection is a cogent statement of much current
thinking on the subject that should find its way into university
libraries worldwide, and hopefully some of those on islands. Maybe
one day it will stimulate islanders' interest in the archeology of
their homelands."-Island Studies Journal
"�A� few simple but powerful models drive much research in this
field....�i�nsularity is a mutable concept; as much of the mind as
of community and economy."-Times Literary Supplement
"[A] few simple but powerful models drive much research in this
field....[i]nsularity is a mutable concept; as much of the mind as
of community and economy."-Times Literary Supplement
"This thought-provoking volume on a relevant field of
anthropological research can be recommended to maritime
archaeologists."-International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
"Voyages of Discovery: The Archaeology of Islands is by no means
comprehensive; it is in every way engaging and a step in the right
direction. Should your conceptual framework be in desperate need of
enlargement, then this is the book for you. If there is bad news in
Fitzpatrick's tome, it is this; you must make room in your already
crowded shelf for this volume."-International Journal of Maritime
History
"This book makes a major contribution towards contextualising the
archaeology of islands within a global frame of reference, as it
brings together some of the leading thinkers involved in the island
archaeology debate and demonstrates the relevance of different
approaches. It also shows that island archaeology has become a
well-established subject in its own right, by accommodating the
growing variety of ways in which the island can be conceptualised.
We believe that this book goes a long way towards showing how the
world island research community has recognised this diversity and
is developing increasingly effective ways of approaching
it."-Papers from the Institute of Archaeology
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