The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138237766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 342 str.

Michelle Langley; Duncan Wright; Mirani Litster

Opis

Significant discoveries in Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific islands provide important information on human development but they are often overlooked by researchers. The Archaeology of Portable Art provides the first comprehensive narrative of portable art, including global comparisons, for the region.

Spis treści

Section 1: Southeast Asia 2. The Contribution of Southeast Asian Material to a Global Understanding of Portable Art 3. The Ubiquity of Light Coloured Disk Beads: Insights from the Comparison of Pleistocene Marine Shell, Ostrich Eggshell, Bone, Ivory, and Stone Disk Beads 4. Shell Keepsakes and Ornaments from the Niah Caves, Northwest Borneo: A Scalar Understanding of Value and Meaning 5. Glass Beads in Early Historic Mainland Southeast Asia: Mortuary Ritual and Meaning? 6. Beads: Small Artefacts as Evidence for Understanding Filipino Prehistory 7. A Small Greenstone Jewellery Workshop in the Tabon Caves Section 2: Pacific 8. Portable Artefacts in the Pacific - Approaches and Directions 9. Pendants of Stone, Shell, and Tooth from Southern Vanuatu 10. Modified Canines: Circular Pig’s Tusks in the Pacific and Beyond 11. Te Whakapapa o Te Mahi Taonga o Aotearoa: Understanding the Portable Art of New Zealand within an Indigenous Archaeology Framework 12. Cypraea Shell Ornament Use in the Marianas, Remote Oceania 13. Dissecting ‘Value’: Theory, Method, and Fijian Chiefly Breastplates Section 3: Australia 14. The Estoric and Decorative Use of Bone, Shell, and Teeth in Australia 15. Beads and Boundaries 16. Maker’s Marks: Identifying Master Shield Makers from Aboriginal south-east Australia 17. An Object of Desire: Tales of a Fat-Tailed Macropod 18. Marine Shell Ornaments in North Western Australian Archaeological Sites: Different Meanings over Time and Space 19. Portable Art in Australia’s Western Desert 20. Developing Approaches for Studying Past Australian Indigenous Use of Glass Beads 21. Lithics as Portable Art 22. Future Directions for Asian-Pacific Portable Art Research.