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The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earths surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue carvers of remote Easter Island, and the famed traders of Melanesia. Decades of archaeological excavationscombined with allied research in historical linguistics, biological anthropology, and comparative ethnographyhave revealed much new information about the long-term history of these societies and cultures. On the Road of the Winds synthesizes the grand sweep of human history in the Pacific Islands, beginning with the movement of early people out from Asia more than 40,000 years ago and tracing the development of myriad indigenous cultures up to the time of European contact in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. This updated edition, enhanced with many new illustrations and an extensive bibliography, synthesizes the latest archaeological, linguistic, and biological discoveries that reveal the vastness of ancient history in the Pacific Islands.

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On the ROAD of the WINDS

Restored Moai statue on Rapa Nui with replicated obsidian and coral eyes - photo 2

Restored Moai (statue) on Rapa Nui, with replicated obsidian and coral eyes. Photo by Thrse Babineau.

On the ROAD of the WINDS

An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

Patrick Vinton Kirch

REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu.

University of California Press

Oakland, California

2017 by Patrick Vinton Kirch

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kirch, Patrick Vinton, author.

Title: On the road of the winds : an archaeological history of the Pacific islands before European contact / Patrick Vinton Kirch.

Description: Revised and expanded edition. | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017012519 (print) | LCCN 2017015961 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520968899 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520292819 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH : Prehistoric peoplesOceania. | OceaniaAntiquities.

Classification: LCC GN 871 (ebook) | LCC GN 871 . K 573 2017 (print) | DDC 995dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017012519

Manufactured in the United States of America

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FOR DOUGLAS E. YEN

WHOSE OUTSTANDING ETHNOBOTANICAL RESEARCHES CONTINUE TO INFLUENCE INTERPRETATIONS OF PACIFIC PREHISTORY

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

Born and raised on one Pacific island, I have spent three decades of my adult life exploring, living on, studying, and seeking to understand a plethora of others, especially the history and culture of their inhabitants. While my own ancestry is ultimately European, I sometimes feel that the Pacific is in my blood. This is, naturally, but a metaphor. Yet the many years spent living and working with Pacific islanders, learning to speak more than one of their indigenous languages, and adapting my behavior to fit their cultural canons haveI hopeengendered a certain empathy beyond that typically associated with dispassionate social science. This book is my attempt to distill a lifetime of studyand the insights gained through much tedious sifting of often minute strands of evidence by myself and innumerable colleaguesinto a coherent whole, a synthesis for those whose curiosity would take them on an intellectual voyage into the Oceanic past.

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