TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Anita
ED  - Australian National University.
TI  - An archaeology of West Polynesian prehistory
SN  - 1740760190
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Canberra
PB  - Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
KW  - Prehistoric peoples
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Antiquities, Prehistoric
KW  - Colonization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - There can be little doubt on linguistic evidence that East Polynesia was first settled from West Polynesia. The author argues, however, that the related archaeological record has been made to fit with this dominant interpretative paradigm. Her objective assessment of the material evidence contradicts the popularly held view
ER  -