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Burger, Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization (New York, Thames and Hudson, 1992), and Jonathan Haas et al., eds., The Originsand Development of the Andean State (Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1987); for American chiefdoms, Robert Drennan and Carlos Uribe, eds. Chiefdoms in the Americas (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1987); for Polynesian societies, the books cited under Chapter 2; and for the Zulu state, Donald Morris, The Washing of the Spears (London: Jonathan Cape, 1966).
Chapter 15
Books covering the prehistory of both Australia and New Guinea include Alan Thorne and Robert Raymond, Man on the Rim: The Peopling of the Pacific (North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1989), J. Peter White and James O'Connell, A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea, andSahul (Sydney: Academic Press, 1982), Jim Alien et al., eds., Sunda andSahul (London: Academic Press, 1977), M. A. Smith et al., eds., Sahul in Review (Canberra: Australian National University, 1993), and Tim Flan-nery, The Future Eaters (New York: Braziller, 1995). The first and third of these books discuss the prehistory of island Southeast Asia as well. A recent account of the history of Australia itself is Josephine Flood, Archaeology of the Dreamtime, rev. ed. (Sydney: Collins, 1989). Some additional key papers on Australian prehistory are Rhys Jones, "The fifth continent: Problems concerning the human colonization of Australia," Annual Reviews of Anthropology 8:445-66 (1979), Richard Roberts et al., "Ther-moluminescence dating of a 50,000-year-old human occupation site in northern Australia," Nature 345:153-56 (1990), and Jim Alien and Simon Holdaway, "The contamination of Pleistocene radiocarbon determinations in Australia," Antiquity 69:101-12 (1995). Robert Attenborough and Michael Alpers, eds., Human Biology in Papua New Guinea (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), summarizes New Guinea archaeology as well as languages and genetics.
As for the prehistory of Northern Melanesia (the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes, northeast and east of New Guinea), discussion will be found in the above-cited books by Thorne and Raymond, Flannery, and scanned by Ugh in Cambridge
en et al. Papers pushing back the dates for the earliest occupation of Northern Melanesia include Stephen Wickler and Matthew Spriggs,
eistocene human occupation of the Solomon Islands, Melanesia,"
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Antiquity 62:703-6 (1988), Jim Alien et al., "Pleistocene dates for the human occupation of New Ireland, Northern Melanesia," Nature 331:707-9 (1988), Jim Alien et al., "Human Pleistocene adaptations in the tropical island Pacific: Recent evidence from New Ireland, a Greater Australian outlier," Antiquity 63:548-61 (1989), and Christina Pavlides and Chris Gosden, "35,000-year-old sites in the rainforests of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea," Antiquity 68:604-10 (1994). References to the Austronesian expansion around the coast of New Guinea will be found under further readings for Chapter 17.
Two books on the history of Australia after European colonization are Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore (New York: Knopf, 1987), and Michael Cannon, The Exploration of Australia (Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1987). Aboriginal Australians themselves are the subject of Richard Broome, Aboriginal Australians (Sydney: Alien and Unwin, 1982), and Henry Reynolds, Frontier (Sydney: Alien and Unwin, 1987). An incredibly detailed history of New Guinea, from the earliest written records until 1902, is the three-volume work by Arthur Wichmann, Entdeckungs-geschichte von Neu-Guinea (Leiden: Brill, 1909-12). A shorter and more readable account is Gavin Souter, New Guinea: The Last Unknown (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1964). Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, First Contact (New York: Viking, 1987), movingly describes the first encounters of highland New Guineans with Europeans.
For detailed accounts of New Guinea's Papuan (i.e., non-Austronesian) languages, see Stephen Wurm, Papuan Languages of Oceania (Tubingen; Gunter Narr, 1982), and William Foley, The Papuan Languages of NewGuinea (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986); and of Australian languages, see Stephen Wurm, Languages of Australia and Tasmania (The Hague: Mouton, 1972), and R. M. W Dixon, The Languages of Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
An entrance into the literature on plant domestication and origins of> food production in New Guinea can be found in Jack Golson, "Bulnaer phase II: Early agriculture in the New Guinea highlands," pp. 484-91 in;; Andrew Pawley, ed., Man and a Half (Auckland: Polynesian Society 1991), and D. E. Yen, "Polynesian cultigens and cultivars: The question oЈ| origin," pp. 67-95 in Paul Cox and Sandra Banack, eds., Islands,and Polynesians (Portland: Dioscorides Press, 1991).
Numerous articles and books are devoted to the fascinating problem of| why trading visits of Indonesians and of Torres Strait islanders to Australl%|