{"product_id":"island-societies-patrick-vinton-kirch-9780521105439","title":"Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation","description":"Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of unique opportunities for tracking and explaining prehistoric change. From the 1950s onwards, excavations in such islands as Fiji, Palau and Hawaii revolutionised Oceanic archaeology and, as the major problems of cultural origins and island sequences were resolves, archaeologists came increasingly to study social change and to integrate newly acquired data on material culture with older ethnographic and ethnohistorical materials. The fascinating results of this work, centring on the evolution of complex Oceanic chiefdoms into something very much like classic 'archaic states', are authoritatively surveyed here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Vinton Kirch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521105439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521105439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.22d","brand":"Patrick Vinton Kirch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48216488345855,"sku":"9780521105439","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1cdb3d09-2939-48bb-a9d9-6bfcd25a5700.jpg?v=1771991331","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/island-societies-patrick-vinton-kirch-9780521105439","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}