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Burger, Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization (New York,
Thames and Hudson, 1992), and Jonathan Haas et al., eds., The Origins
and Development of the Andean State (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1987); for American chiefdoms, Robert Drennan and Carlos Uribe,
eds., Chiefdoms in the Americas (Lanham, Md.: University Press of
America, 1987); for Polynesian societies, the books cited under Chapter 2;
and for the Zulu state, Donald Morris, The Washing of the Spears (London:
Jonathan Cape, 1966).
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Books covering the prehistory of both Australia and New Guinea
include Alan Thorne and Robert Raymond, Man on the Rim: The Peopling
of the Pacific (North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1989), J. Peter
White and James O'Connell, A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea, and
Sahul (Sydney: Academic Press, 1982), Jim Allen et al., eds., Sunda and
Sahul (London: Academic Press, 1977), M. A. Smith et al., eds., Sahul in
Review (Canberra: Australian National University, 1993), and Tim Flannery,
The Future Eaters (New York: Braziller, 1995). The first and third of
these books discuss the prehistory of island Southeast Asia as well. A
recent account of the history of Australia itself is Josephine Flood, Archaeology
of the Dreamtime, rev. ed. (Sydney: Collins, 1989). Some additional
key papers on Australian prehistory are Rhys Jones, "The fifth continent:
Problems concerning the human colonization of Australia," Annual
Reviews of Anthropology 8:445-66 (1979), Richard Roberts et al., "Thermoluminescence
dating of a 50,000-year-old human occupation site in
^ northern Australia," Nature 345:153-56 (1990), and Jim Allen and Simon
Holdaway, "The contamination of Pleistocene radiocarbon determinations
in Australia," Antiquity 69:101-12 (1995). Robert Attenborough
and Michael Alpers, eds., Human Biology in Papua New Guinea (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1992), summarizes New Guinea archaeology as well as
languages and genetics.
As for the prehistory of Northern Melanesia (the Bismarck and Solomon
Archipelagoes, northeast and east of New Guinea), discussion will be
found in the above-cited books by Thorne and Raymond, Flannery, and
Allen et al. Papers pushing back the dates for the earliest occupation of
Northern Melanesia include Stephen Wickler and Matthew Spriggs,
"Pleistocene human occupation of the Solomon Islands, Melanesia,"