Palaeoenvironmental evidence for human colonization of remote Oceanic islands

Antiquity - Tập 68 Số 259 - Trang 310-321 - 1994
Patrick Vinton Kirch1, JC Ellison2
1Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
2Department of Biogeography & Geomorphology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

Tóm tắt

Not every first footstep on a virgin shore leaves enduring trace, nor every first human settlement an enduring deposit that chances to survive, and then chances to be observed archaeologically. Good environmental evidence from Mangaia Island, central East Polynesia, gives — it is contended — a fairer picture of the human invasion of remote Oceania than the short and sceptical chronology recently published in ANTIQUITY.

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