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Kohika Geoffrey Irwin

Kohika par Geoffrey Irwin

Kohika Geoffrey Irwin

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Résumé

A study of the archaeology of a Maori village dating from about AD 1700, which has been unusually well preserved because of its wetland location. In chapters on diet, wooden artefacts, fibrework, obsidian, houses, animal remains, the text offers conclusions on the trade, hunting, leisure, and social hierarchy of these early New Zealanders.

Kohika Résumé

Kohika: The Archaeology of a Late Maori Lake Village in the Ngati Awa Rohe, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Geoffrey Irwin

Te Kohika is an important book studying the archaeology of a Maori village dating from about AD 1700, which has been unusually well preserved because of its wetland location. Abandoned because of flooding, Te Kohika remained untouched for 270 years and its excavation and analysis has been a 30-year task by a large number of scholars from different disciplines, making this perhaps the major archaeological project of recent times. The work revealed extensive information about the social and domestic activities of a Maori village community well before the advent of Pakeha. The village also includes the oldest-known carved house which has also yielded a great deal of information. In chapters by 12 different experts on, for example, diet, wooden artefacts, fibrework, obsidian, houses, animal remains, Te Kohika offers convincing conclusions on the trade, hunting, leisure, and social hierarchy of these early New Zealanders. It is well illustrated with diagrams and photographs.

À propos de Geoffrey Irwin

Geoffrey Irwin is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has carried out fieldwork in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Indonesia and New Zealand. In the Pacific he has studied early migration and navigation, and the emergence of seaborne trading systems. In the course of fieldwork he has sailed in traditional canoes of southeastern Papua New Guinea and on one occasion, sailed his own yacht through Island Melanesia, retracing the path of the Lapita archaeological culture that was ancestral to Polynesian and Maori. This voyage resulted in The prehistoric exploration and colonisation of the Pacific, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 1992. His local work has concentrated on the origins of Classic Maori settlement, focusing on the emergence of defended social landscapes dominated by pa. Two projects have been in the North Kaipara described in Land, pa and polity: a study based on the Maori fortifications of Pouto (Monograph 15, NZ Archaeological Association, 1985), and a current project located in the inner islands of the Hauraki Gulf. He has had a long interest in wetland archaeology and during the work on the Kohika lake village, visited several wet sites in Europe and America. Further wetlands research is continuing at the Kohika site, in partnership with the local Ngati Awa tribe, and supported by a grant from the Marsden Fund, adminstered by the Royal Society.

Sommaire

1. An introduction to Kohika in historical and archaeological context GJ Irwin, RG Law, I Lawlor and P Ngaropo; 2. Kohika in the geomorphological context of the Rangitaiki Plains GJ Irwin; 3. The impact of Polynesian settlement on the vegetation of the coastal Bay of Plenty MS McGlone and KL Jones; 4. Excavations and site history at Kohika G J Irwin; 5. Site chronology GJ Irwin and MD Jones; 6. The wooden artefacts from Kohika RT Wallace and GJ Irwin; 7. Houses, pataka and woodcarving at Kohika RT Wallace, GJ Irwin and R Neich; 8. Kohika fibrework S McAra; 9. Artefacts of bone, tooth, pumice and pounamu GJ Irwin; 10. Sources of the Kohika obsidian artefacts PR Moore; 11. The Kohika obsidian artefacts: technology and distribution; SJ Holdaway; 12. Faunal remains from Kohika GJ Irwin, RK Nichol, MA Taylor, TH Worthy and IWG Smith; 13. Evidence for diet, parasites, pollen, phytoliths, diatoms, and starch grains in prehistoric coprolites from Kohika GJ Irwin, M Horrocks, LJ Williams, HJ Hall, MS McGlone and S Nichol; 14. Kohika as a late northern Maori lake village GJ Irwin; Appendix Inventory of wooden and fibre items RT Wallace and GJ Irwin; Index

Informations supplémentaires

GOR013594734
9781869403157
1869403150
Kohika: The Archaeology of a Late Maori Lake Village in the Ngati Awa Rohe, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Geoffrey Irwin
Geoffrey Irwin
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Auckland University Press
2004-12-31
356
N/A
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