Voyages of Discovery The Archaeology of Islands

Subjects:

• Anthropology » Archaeology
• Anthropology » Anthropology (General)

Reviews:

• 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 2006
• 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 February 4, 2005
• [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 2005
• 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 2004

Table of Contents:

• 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