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The Peopling of the Pacific

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dc.contributor.authorBellwood, P. S.en
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-23T08:26:23Z
dc.date.available2025-05-23T08:26:23Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-01en
dc.description.abstractThe peopling of the Pacific was the greatest feat of maritime colonization in human history. If one begins at the beginning and chooses to trace all the movements of its major actors, the record spans perhaps two million years in time and extends beyond the Pacific proper as far west as Madagascar and as far north as mainland China above the Tropic of Cancer. Its main arena, however, consists of the islands of Southeast Asia, the subcontinent of Australia and its island neighbors, and the great ocean reaches of what today are called Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Its first maritime phase was well under way 40,000 years ago. By then certain hunter-gatherers had managed to cross a minimum of 70 kilometers of open water to settle Australia and New Guinea.en
dc.description.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.format.extent17en
dc.identifier.isbn9780754606475en
dc.identifier.isbn9781040241868en
dc.identifier.otherORCID:/0000-0001-6033-9629/work/184098708en
dc.identifier.scopus85203383413en
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85203383413&partnerID=8YFLogxKen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733751883
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen
dc.relation.ispartofDefining the Pacific: Opportunities and Constraintsen
dc.rightsPublisher Copyright: © 2002 by Taylor & Francis, and Introduction by Paul W. Blank and Fred Spier.en
dc.titleThe Peopling of the Pacificen
dc.typeBook chapteren
dspace.entity.typePublicationen
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage285en
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage269en
local.contributor.affiliationBellwood, P. S.; School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Research School of Humanities & the Arts, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences, The Australian National Universityen
local.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003555629-18en
local.identifier.pure091891b3-69f8-4e6c-90dd-ecfabdc27b94en
local.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85203383413en
local.type.statusPublisheden

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