Archaeology of Oceania : Australia and the Pacific Islands / edited by Ian Lilley. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Archaeology in Oceania : themes and issues/ Ian Lilley ; -- Revisiting the past : changing interpretations of Pleistocene settlement subsistence and demography in Northern Australia/ Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth ; -- Archaeology and the dreaming : towards an archaeology of ontology/ Bruno David ; -- Blunt and to the point : changing technological strategies in Holocene Australia/ Peter Hiscock ; -- Rock art and social identity : a comparison of Holocene graphic systems in arid and fertile environments/ Jo Mcdonald and Peter Veth ; -- Closing the distance : interpreting cross-cultural engagements through indigenous rock art/ Anne Clarke and Ursula Frederick ; -- Archaeology in Melanesia : a case study from the Western Province of the Solomon Islands/ Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard ; -- Envisaging early agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea/ Tim Denham ; -- Late Pleistocene complexities in the Bismarck Archipelago/ Matthew Leavesley ; -- Life before Lapita : new developments in Melanesia's long-term history/ Christina Pavlides ; -- The first millennium BC in remote Oceania : an alternative perspective on Lapita/ Jean-Christophe Galipaud ; -- Ethnoarchaeology in Polynesia/ Eric Conte ; -- The formation of Hawaiian territories/ Thegn Ladefoged and Michael Graves ; -- Ritual and domestic architecture, sacred places, and images : archaeology in the Marquesas Archipelago, French Polynesia/ Sidsel Millerstrom ; -- The archaeology of the conical clan in Micronesia/ Paul Rainbird ; -- Politics ; -- What is archaeology for in the Pacific? history and politics in New Caledonia/ Christophe Sand, Jacques Bole, and Andre Ouetcho ; -- Levuka, Fiji : a case study in Pacific Islands heritage management/ Anita Smith ; -- Last words--a few words about archaeology in French Polynesia/ Mickaelle-Hinanui Cauchois ; -- Shaking the pillars/ Mark Dugay-Grist ; -- What is the future of our past? : Papua New Guineans and cultural heritage/ Herman Mandui.