Human settlement of the western fringes of the Pacific occurred at least 40,000 years ago. Long, hazardous sea voyages were the only way of reaching the tiny islands scattered through this vast expanse of ocean. Food and shelter were hard to come by, even on land. This book documents how these settlers adapted culturally and biologically to the Pacific environment, and how this can explain the patterns seen today in New Zealand, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. The book discusses the distinctive Pacific environment and how its inhabitants have evolved into large-bodied, muscular people to meet the particular demands of the region. People of the Great Ocean is a uniquely original work based on extensive research and careful analysis. Houghton's text presents detailed technical information, but remains highly readable and persuasive.
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"....the most ambitious attempt so far to deal with the biological anthropology of the peoples of the 'Remote Pacific,' the inhabitants of the islands to the east, northeast, and southeast of New Guinea-Polynesia" Asian Perspectives
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This unique work documents the biology of the first human settlers of the Pacific islands. The book discusses the distinctive Pacific environment and how its inhabitants evolved in response to the particular demands of the region. Houghton presents extensive research, while offering an absorbing text.
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Stretching from the Americas to Asia and washing Antarctica in the south, the Pacific, including such arms as the Philippine, Coral and Tasman Seas, which are part of it in all but name, covers about one-quarter of the globe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stature equations, flat cranial base, antegonial notch, heat balance data, gene frequency studies, auditory exostoses, rocker jaw, cranial data, blood polymorphisms, cranial base angle, cribra orbitalia, nasal height, skeletal record, racial likeness, skeletal series, masticatory system, diving women, joint diameters, neolithic technology, porotic hyperostosis, survival proportions, spinal degeneration, anthropometric assessment, dermatoglyphic patterns, angular process Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Remote Oceania, New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Near Oceania, New Caledonia, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, Ontong Java, New Britain, Easter Island, Santa Cruz, Society Islands, Chatham Islands, South-East Asia, Australian Aborigines, Maori Battalion, New Ireland, Malaitan Lau, Karkar Island, Wairau Bar, South American, Nordin's Score, North Island, South Island New!
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Stretching from the Americas to Asia and washing Antarctica in the south, the Pacific, including such arms as the Philippine, Coral and Tasman Seas, which are part of it in all but name, covers about one-quarter of the globe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stature equations, flat cranial base, antegonial notch, heat balance data, gene frequency studies, auditory exostoses, rocker jaw, cranial data, blood polymorphisms, cranial base angle, cribra orbitalia, nasal height, skeletal record, racial likeness, skeletal series, masticatory system, diving women, joint diameters, neolithic technology, porotic hyperostosis, survival proportions, spinal degeneration, anthropometric assessment, dermatoglyphic patterns, angular process Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Remote Oceania, New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Near Oceania, New Caledonia, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, Ontong Java, New Britain, Easter Island, Santa Cruz, Society Islands, Chatham Islands, South-East Asia, Australian Aborigines, Maori Battalion, New Ireland, Malaitan Lau, Karkar Island, Wairau Bar, South American, Nordin's Score, North Island, South Island New!
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- Papua New Guinea: The Struggle for Development (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia) by John Connell on 4 pages
- Anthropometric Assessment of Nutritional Status (Seriia tekhnicheskikh dokladov) by John H. Himes on 4 pages
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- Beach Crossings: Voyaging Across Times, Cultures, and Self by Greg Dening in Back Matter
- Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology by Patrick Vinton Kirch in Back Matter
- Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology by Patrick Vinton Kirch in Back Matter
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