Uncovering Pacific Pasts

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ISBN (print):

9781760464868

ISBN (online):

9781760464875

Publication date:

Jun 2022

Imprint:

ANU Press

DOI:

http://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021

Series:

Pacific Series

Disciplines:

Arts & Humanities: Archaeology, History

Countries:

Pacific

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• Preliminary pages (PDF, 0.2MB)
• List of figures (PDF, 0.2MB)
• Abbreviations (PDF, 0.1MB)
• Contributors (PDF, 0.1MB)
• List of participating institutions (PDF, 0.1MB)

1. Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania – An exhibition (PDF, 3.0MB) – Tristen Jones, Hilary Howes and Matthew Spriggs doi

Part 1: Early European exploration in the Pacific, 1500s – 1870s

2. European interests and ideas on the diversity of human cultures in the Pacific (1500s – 1870s) (PDF, 0.2MB) – Matthew Spriggs doi
3. ‘Artificial curiosities’ and the Royal Navy (PDF, 1.3MB) – Alison Mann doi
4. 1800: How the ‘South Seas savages’ became ‘antique monuments’ (PDF, 1.3MB) – Emilie Dotte-Sarout doi
5. The mystery of the Moscow ki‘i (PDF, 0.7MB) – Elena Govor and Ekaterina Balakhonova doi
6. Watercolour of Fijian man, painted by Charles Pickering (PDF, 1.4MB) – William Scates Frances doi
7. Idol speculations: Aneityum Nelcau and Dr Turner’s missionary archaeology (PDF, 0.5MB) – Eve Haddow and Andy Mills doi

Part 2: The first archaeological excavations,1870s – 1910s

8. The first archaeological excavations (1870s – 1910s) (PDF, 0.3MB) – Matthew Spriggs doi
9. Sir Julius von Haast and Roger Duff (PDF, 0.7MB) – Emma Brooks doi
10. The Pacific archaeology and ethnography of Hjalmar Stolpe and the Vanadis Expedition, 1883–85 (PDF, 0.8MB) – Aoife O’Brien doi
11. Stephenson Percy Smith (1840–1922), founder of the Polynesian Society (PDF, 2.4MB) – Sascha Nolden doi
12. Alfred Haddon: A ‘palaeontologist’ in the Torres Strait (PDF, 1.8MB) – Anita Herle and Duncan Wright doi
13. Patterns of connection: The Wanigela shells revisited (PDF, 1.2MB) – Elizabeth Bonshek doi
14. Superiority complex: Rudolf Pöch’s interpretations of archaeological finds at Wanigela (PDF, 1.4MB) – Hilary Howes doi
15. Global journeys of Lapita potsherds from the Bismarck Archipelago (PDF, 1.1MB) – Hilary Howes doi
16. Shell trumpets sounding in the stone city: Paul Hambruch and Nan Madol (PDF, 1.1MB) – Hilary Howes doi
17. Huli hele nā wahi pana (seeking out storied places): The contributions of John F.G. Stokes to the field of Hawaiian archaeology (PDF, 1.3MB) – Mara A. Mulrooney and Jillian A. Swift doi
18. Intelligent eyes: Visualising Rapa Nui (Easter Island) archaeology (PDF, 1.0MB) – Jo Anne Van Tilburg doi

Part 3: The burgeoning field of anthropology and archaeology, 1918–45

19. The burgeoning field of anthropology and archaeology (1918–45) (PDF, 0.2MB) – Matthew Spriggs doi
20. A collector of ideas: Roland Burrage Dixon and the beginnings of professional American anthropology in the Pacific (PDF, 2.2MB) – Tristen Jones and Ingrid Ahlgren doi
21. Searching for origins: Archaeology and the government officers of Papua (PDF, 1.8MB) – Anna Edmundson doi
22. Father Wilhelm Schmidt, Indigenous beliefs and Oceanic collections in the Vatican’s Anima Mundi Museum (PDF, 1.3MB) – Katherine Aigner doi
23. H.D. Skinner (PDF, 1.1MB) – Moira White doi
24. The vicissitudes of Lapita pottery, 1909–45: The Melbourne witness (PDF, 1.3MB) – Matthew Spriggs doi
25. Looking beyond Australia’s shores in the 1930s: F.D. McCarthy in Southeast Asia (PDF, 0.9MB) – Campbell Macknight doi

Part 4: Archaeology as a profession in the Pacific,1945–present

26. Archaeology as a profession in the Pacific (1945 – present) (PDF, 0.3MB) – Matthew Spriggs and Hilary Howes doi
27. The first Lapita pottery found in Fiji: Links to an early Pacific world (PDF, 1.5MB) – Matthew Spriggs doi
28. Ratu Rabici Logavatu and Aubrey Parke: Two archaeological pioneers of the Fijian Administration (PDF, 1.7MB) – Matthew Spriggs doi
29. Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Museum’s research in the Marquesas and on Rapa Nui/Easter Island, 1955–63 (PDF, 1.4MB) – Reidar Solsvik doi
30. Aurora Natua and the Motu Paeao site: Unlocking French Polynesia’s islands for Pacific archaeologists (PDF, 1.2MB) – Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Tamara Maric and Guillaume Molle doi
31. Jack Golson in New Zealand (PDF, 1.0MB) – Louise Furey doi
32. An emerging major centre: Pacific archaeology at The Australian National University (1961–79) (PDF, 1.0MB) – Mirani Litster, Tristen Jones and Hilary Howes doi
33. Roger Curtis Green (1932–2009) (PDF, 1.3MB) – Peter Sheppard and Louise Furey doi
34. Sue Bulmer and New Guinea archaeology (PDF, 1.2MB) – Glenn R. Summerhayes doi
35. Then and now: W.H. Davenport’s 1966 archaeological expedition to Santa Ana with new data on the plainware pottery (PDF, 1.5MB) – Adria H. Katz and Marie-Claude Boileau doi
36. Conclusion: Highlights from the Uncovering Pacific Pasts exhibition (PDF, 1.4MB) – Tristen Jones, Hilary Howes and Matthew Spriggs doi

• Appendix: Statement by Rakival people (PDF, 1.8MB)
• Index (PDF, 0.2MB)