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The Mariana Islands: People, History and Archaeology

The Mariana Islands: People, History and Archaeology

Liston, Jolie
Clark, Geoffrey

Paperback

Series: Terra Australis, Book 39

Australia & OceaniaAnthropologyArchaeology

Publisher Price: $90.86

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 17, 2026

ISBN10: 1760467391
ISBN13: 9781760467395
Publisher: Anu Press
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.65 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

'The Mariana Islands: People, History and Archaeology' brings together new research about the history of the Mariana Islands through community perspectives, archaeological investigations, and anthropological and historical studies. The colonisation and growth of societies in the Mariana Islands, and of those elsewhere in Micronesia, are often seen as peripheral compared with those of Melanesia and Polynesia that tend to dominate scholarly and public views of Pacific history. The Marianas were the first remote archipelago to be recorded by Europeans with the arrival of Magellan in 1521, and the islands have a long and complicated history with colonial 'great powers', which during World War II involved the establishment of the remote Pacific's sole concentration camp. Initial colonisation over 3,000 years ago was by migrants from East Asia who were related to, but genetically different from, Lapita groups who extended human occupation as far east as Tonga and Samoa. Later population movements to the Marianas, some involving Papuan people, point to a mobile Pacific that was connected to insular Asia, New Guinea and other parts of Oceania. Migration and local development contributed to the formation of a unique and vibrant CHamoru culture. The volume is dedicated to two pioneer archaeologists, Darlene Moore and Roz Hunter-Anderson, who established modern archaeological practice in the Marianas through projects involving community members and elders in the preservation of cultural heritage sites and the creation of new land use histories.

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