On the Road of the Winds

Patrick Vinton Kirch is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of twelve books including A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i and Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii.

• List of Maps /List of Figures /List of Tables /Preface /INTRODUCTION /Defining Oceania /• Linguistic, Human Biological, and Cultural Variation in Oceania /• About This Book /• A Note on Dates and Time /1 • DISCOVERING THE OCEANIC PAST /Enlightenment Voyagers /• Outposts of Empire: Missionaries, Colonists, and Academic Beginnings /• “The Problem of Polynesian Origins” /• Te Rangi Hiroa and the “Micronesian Route” to Polynesia /• The Discovery of Time Depth and Culture Change /• The Search for Polynesian Sequences /• Broadening Research Horizons /• Moving beyond Polynesia: Archaeology in Melanesia and New Guinea /• Francophone Archaeology in the Pacific /• Not an Ivory Tower: Public Archaeology in the Pacific /• Recent Advances in Pacific Archaeology /2 • THE PACIFIC ISLANDS AS A HUMAN ENVIRONMENT /Origins and Development of the Pacific Islands /• Types of Islands /• Climatic Factors in the Pacific /• Island Life and Biogeography /• The Microbiotic World and Human Populations /• Island Ecosystems /• Humans and Island Socioecosystems /3 • SAHUL AND THE PREHISTORY OF “OLD” MELANESIA /The Pleistocene Geography of Sahul and Near Oceania /• Initial Human Arrival in Sahul and Near Oceania /• Pleistocene Voyaging in Near Oceania /• Near Oceania during the Pleistocene /• Cultural Innovations of the Early Holocene /• A Paradox and a Hypothesis /4 • LAPITA AND THE AUSTRONESIAN EXPANSION /The Human Landscape of Near Oceania at 2000–1300 b.c. /• The Advent of Lapita /• Lapita Origins: The Austronesian Expansion /• Lapita across Time and Space /• Lapita in Linguistic and Biological Perspective /• The Lapita Ceramic Series /• Lapita Sites and Settlements /• Lapita Subsistence Economies /• Exchange between Lapita Communities /• Ancestral Oceanic Societies /5 • THE PREHISTORY OF “NEW” MELANESIA /Trading Societies of Papua and the Massim /• The Late Holocene in Highland New Guinea /• The Bismarck Archipelago after Lapita /• The Solomon Islands /• Vanuatu /• The Polynesian Outliers in Melanesia /• Ethnogenesis in La Grande Terre /• Fiji: An Archipelago “in Between” /• Larger Themes in Melanesian Prehistory /6 • MICRONESIA: IN THE “SEA OF LITTLE LANDS” /Colonization and Early Settlement in Micronesia /• Cultural Sequences in Micronesia /• Tuvalu and the Polynesian Outliers in Micronesia /• Atoll Adaptations /• Later Prehistory in Western Micronesia /• Development of Sociopolitical Complexity in the Caroline High Islands /7 • POLYNESIA: ORIGINS AND DISPERSALS /Polynesian Origins /• Polynesia as a Phyletic Unit /• Ancestral Polynesia /• Cultural Sequences in Western Polynesia /• The Settlement of Eastern Polynesia /• Early Settlement Sites in Eastern Polynesia /• Polynesian Voyaging /• Summary /8 • POLYNESIAN CHIEFDOMS AND ARCHAIC STATES /Polynesian Chiefdoms: Ethnographic Background and Anthropological Significance /• The “Traditional” Societies /• Sociopolitical Transformation in the Open Societies /• The Emergence of Stratified Chiefdoms /• From Chiefdom to Archaic State: Tonga and Hawai‘i /• Polynesian History: A Concluding Note /9 • BIG STRUCTURES AND LARGE PROCESSES IN OCEANIC PREHISTORY /Voyaging and the Human “Conquest” of the Pacific /• History Written in the Present: Correlations between Language, Biology, and Culture /• The Role of Demographic Transitions in Oceanic History /• Oceanic Populations on the Eve of European Contact /• The Political Economy of Dynamic Landscapes /• Intensification and Specialization in Island Economies /• Transformations of Status and Power /• On Comparison: A Closing Comment /Notes /References /Index /

"As a synthesis of Oceanic prehistory, the revised edition is meritorious and it remains unique in its comprehensive coverage."