ISBN:
9789048138265
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DDC:
304.82
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Oceanography
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Physical geography
;
Climatic changes
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Migration
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Pazifischer Ozean
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Indischer Ozean
;
Meereskunde
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Indischer Ozean Region
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Klimaänderung
;
Migration
;
Pazifischer Raum
;
Siedlung
;
Pazifischer Raum
;
Seehandel
Abstract:
This book tracks the progress of the prehistoric influx of population into the Pacific region, the last set of migrations involved in peopling the planet that saw the colonization of islands stretching across a quarter of the globe: from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east, from Hawaii in the North to New Zealand in the south. The authors use science and mathematics to cast new light on this final human expansion. The book focuses on two undeveloped areas of research, showing how oceanography and global climate change determined the paths, sequence, timing and range of migrations. Though the book has an oceanographic base and Pacific prehistory as its focus, it is interdisciplinary. It was a belief in the power of science to advance other disciplines that prompted its writing, and in the last decade genetic research has established Halmahera, the largest of the Spice Islands, rather than Taiwan as the ancient Polynesian homeland. Taking this as its starting point, the reader is led on a journey of discovery that takes in fields as diverse as oceanography, genetics, geology and vulcanology, ship hydrodynamics, global climate history and palaeodemography. Key themes: Prehistoric migration West Pacific Warm Pool currents Primary oceanic routes Settlement sequence Transoceanic spice trading Climate-driven chronology Charles Pearce holds the Thomas Elder Chair of Mathematics, University of Adelaide, Australia. He has been awarded the ANZIAM Medal and the Potts Medal for outstanding contributions to applied and industrial mathematics and to operations research. He is foundation Editor-in-Chief of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM Journal) and a member of the editorial boards of a number of international mathematical journals. He has over 300 research publications in the fields of optimization, convex analysis and the probabilistic modelling of physical and biological processes. Frances Pearce, a writer, plant hybridizer and former lecturer from the University of Adelaide, has interests in the areas of prehistory, oceanography, genetics and climate history, particularly in the use of science to illuminate prehistory.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Journal Abbreviations; Part I Early Exploration Strategies and Migration Paths; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Genetic Evidence for a Spice Island Polynesian Homeland; 1.3 Cold Adaptation; 1.4 A New Focus; 1.5 Some of the Implications of a Spice Island-Based Polynesian Prehistory; 1.6 Consilience; References; 2 The Genetic Context; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Speculative Prehistories for the Lapita Peoples; 2.3 Genetic Evidence for a Lapita Homeland in Wallacea
Description / Table of Contents:
2.4 Evidence for a Spice Island Homeland from the Study of Commensal Animals2.5 Polynesian Cold Resistance and Famine Resistance: Houghtons Evidence; 2.6 Houghtons Prehistory for the Proto-Polynesians; References; 3 The Oceanographic Context; 3.1 The West Pacific Warm Pool; 3.2 The Oceanographic Functions of the West Pacific Warm Pool; 3.3 The Major West Pacific Warm Pool Currents; 3.4 Early Evidence for Maritime Trading in the Spice Island Region; 3.5 The West Pacific Warm Pool as a Long-Distance Voyaging Nursery
Description / Table of Contents:
3.6 Spice Island Expansion from Regional to Long-Distance Trading After the Last Ice Age Flood3.7 International Spice Trading; 3.8 Ancient Spice Island Trading and Cultural Links with Mesopotamia and the Sepik/Ramu Region of New Guinea; 3.9 Evolution of the Sailing Strategy of Following Fast Warm Currents over Long Distances; 3.10 The Early Settlement of Micronesia; 3.11 Maritime Expansions from a Maritime Ice Age Refuge; 3.12 Solheim and the Nusantao Trading Culture; 3.13 A Summary; References; 4 Transoceanic Trade and Migration (1); 4.1 Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2 The Maori Whare Wananga Traditions4.3 The Cinnamon Route; 4.4 The Origins of the Malagasy; 4.5 Dating the First Settlement of Madagascar; 4.6 A Replica Voyage from Java to Africa; 4.7 Did Spice Island Mariners Follow Another Major Current from the West Pacific Warm Pool into the Indian Ocean?; References; 5 Transoceanic Trade and Migration (2); 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Some Evidence for a First-Wave Spice Island Colony in Southern Japan; 5.3 Evidence from the Japanese Taro; 5.4 Evidence for a Second-Wave Spice Island Colony in Southern Japan
Description / Table of Contents:
5.5 Linguistic, Archaeological, Horticultural and Cultural Evidence5.6 The Moon/Lake Myth and the Myth of the Cosmogonic Tree; 5.7 A Summary; References; 6 Transoceanic Voyaging in the Pacific; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Archaeological Evidence for Spice Island Contact with America; 6.3 The Polynesian Chicken in America; 6.4 Consilient Evidence for the Pre-Columbian Introduction of the Chicken to America; 6.5 The Asiatic Melanotic Chicken; 6.6 The Melanotic Chicken and the Cultural Complex of Cockfighting; 6.7 White Chickens and the Cultural Complex of Sacrifice and Divination; References
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Horticultural Context
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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10.1007/978-90-481-3826-5
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