Oceanic Migration Paths, Sequence, Timing and Range of Prehistoric M
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
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Charles E.M. Pearce · Frances M. Pearce
Oceanic Migration Paths, Sequence, Timing and Range of Prehistoric Migration in the Pacific and Indian Oceans
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Prof. Charles E.M. Pearce University of Adelaide School of Mathematical Sciences North Terrace Adelaide SA 5005 Australia [email protected]
Frances M. Pearce P.O.Box 520 Montacute SA 5134 Australia
ISBN 978-90-481-3825-8 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3826-5 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3826-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010920731 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To our daughters Emma and Ann
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank all who have helped and encouraged us in writing Oceanic Migration: our daughters Emma Hunt and Ann Head for their continued help and support; Sheila Pegum for ongoing helpful advice; Olga and Doug Farnell, Marianne and John Sved and Rubem Mondaini for their interest and encouragement; Ann and Murray Head for generous technical assistance; Tony Beresford for advice on eclipse timings; Jason Whyte for help with figures; and Andrew Metcalfe, Simon Tuke and Sam Cohen for their statistical and computational expertise and stimulating discussions as the statistical challenges faced in writing the book were confronted. We also wish to thank Cheryl Hoskin of the Polynesian Special Collection at the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, for her help over many years.
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Contents
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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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 . 2.4 Evidence for a Spice Island Homeland from the Study of Commensal Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 Polynesian Cold Resistance and Famine Resistance: Hought
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