GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL - Cloverport Independent Schools

4 4 8 • FURTHER READINGS
Antiquity 62:703-6 (1988), Jim Allen et al., "Pleistocene dates for the
human occupation of New Ireland, Northern Melanesia," Nature
331:707-9 (1988), Jim Allen et al., "Human Pleistocene adaptations in
the tropical island Pacific: Recent evidence from New Ireland, a Greater
Australian outlier," Antiquity 63:548-61 (1989), and Christina Pavlides
and Chris Gosden, "35,000-year-old sites in the rainforests of West New
Britain, Papua New Guinea," Antiquity 68:604-10 (1994). References to
the Austronesian expansion around the coast of New Guinea will be found
under further readings for Chapter 17.
Two books on the history of Australia after European colonization are
Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore (New York: Knopf, 1987), and Michael
Cannon, The Exploration of Australia (Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1987).
Aboriginal Australians themselves are the subject of Richard Broome,
Aboriginal Australians (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1982), and Henry
Reynolds, Frontier (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1987). An incredibly
detailed history of New Guinea, from the earliest written records until
1902, is the three-volume work by Arthur Wichmann, Entdeckungsgeschichte
von Neu-Guinea (Leiden: Brill, 1909-12). A shorter and more
readable account is Gavin Souter, New Guinea: The Last Unknown (Sydney:
Angus and Robertson, 1964). Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson,
First Contact (New York: Viking, 1987), movingly describes the first
encounters of highland New Guineans with Europeans.
For detailed accounts of New Guinea's Papuan (i.e., non-Austronesian)
languages, see Stephen Wurm, Papuan Languages of Oceania (Tubingen:
Gunter Narr, 1982), and William Foley, The Papuan Languages of New
Guinea (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986); and of Australian
languages, see Stephen Wurm, Languages of Australia and Tasmania (The
Hague: Mouton, 1972), and R. M. W Dixon, The Languages of Australia
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
An entrance into the literature on plant domestication and origins of
food production in New Guinea can be found in Jack Golson, "Bulmer
phase II: Early agriculture in the New Guinea highlands," pp. 484-91 in
Andrew Pawley, ed., Man and a Half (Auckland: Polynesian Society,
1991), and D. E. Yen, "Polynesian cultigens and cultivars: The question of
origin," pp. 67-95 in Paul Cox and Sandra Banack, eds., Islands, Plants,
and Polynesians (Portland: Dioscorides Press, 1991).
Numerous articles and books are devoted to the fascinating problem of
why trading visits of Indonesians and of Torres Strait islanders to Australia