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FURTHER READINGS • 4 5 I
colm Ross, "Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history,"
Annual Reviews of Anthropology 22:425-59 (1993), and Peter Bellwood
et al., The Austronesians: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (Canberra:
Australian National University, 1995).
Geoffrey Irwin, The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonization of the
Pacific (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), is an account of
Polynesian voyaging, navigation, and colonization. The dating of the settlement
of New Zealand and eastern Polynesia is debated by Atholl Anderson,
"The chronology of colonisation in New Zealand," Antiquity
65:767-95 (1991), and "Current approaches in East Polynesian colonisation
research," Journal of the Polynesian Society 104:110-32 (1995), and
Patrick Kirch and Joanna Ellison, "Palaeoenvironmental evidence for
human colonization of remote Oceanic islands," Antiquity 68:310-21
(1994).
Chapter 18
Many relevant further readings for this chapter will be found listed
under those for other chapters: under Chapter 3 for the conquests of the
Incas and Aztecs, Chapters 4-10 for plant and animal domestication,
Chapter 11 for infectious diseases, Chapter 12 for writing, Chapter 13 for
technology, Chapter 14 for political institutions, and Chapter 16 for
China. Convenient worldwide comparisons of dates for the onset of food
production will be found in Bruce Smith, The Emergence of Agriculture
(New York: Scientific American Library, 1995).
Some discussions of the historical trajectories summarized in Table
18.1, other than references given under previous chapters, are as follows.
For England: Timothy Darvill, Prehistoric Britain (London: Batsford,
1987). For the Andes: Jonathan Haas et al., The Origins and Development
of the Andean State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987);
Michael Moseley, The Incas and Their Ancestors (New York: Thames and
Hudson, 1992); and Richard Burger, Chavin and the Origins of Andean
Civilization (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992). For Amazonia:
Anna Roosevelt, Parmana (New York: Academic Press, 1980), and Anna
Roosevelt et al., "Eighth millennium pottery from a prehistoric shell midden
in the Brazilian Amazon," Science 254:1621-24 (1991). For Mesoamerica:
Michael Coe, Mexico, 3rd ed. (New York: Thames and Hudson,