TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson, Atholl
AU  - J. Kennett, Douglas
AB  - This volume brings the remote and little known island of Rapa firmly to the forefront of Polynesian archaeology. Thirteen authors contribute 14 chapters, covering not only the basic archaeology of coastal sites, rock shelters, and fortifications, but faunal remains, agricultural development, and marine exploitation. The results, presented within a chronology framed by Bayesian analysis, are set against a background of ethnohistory and ethnology. Highly unusual in tropical Polynesian archaeology are descriptions of artefacts of perishable material. Taking the High Ground provides important insights into how a group of Polynesian settlers adapted to an isolated and in some ways restrictive environment.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_459880
ID  - OAPEN ID: 459880
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030815682
KW  - archaeology
KW  - polynesia
KW  - Charcoal
KW  - Rapa Iti
KW  - Rapa language
KW  - Taxon
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/44e8cb99-70fd-4e70-8940-a5a94cd3b62a/459880.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33568
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2012
TI  - Taking the High Ground: The archaeology of Rapa, a fortified island in remote East Polynesia (Terra Australis 37)null
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