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Voyagers : the settlement of the Pacific

by Nicholas Thomas

This history charts the sixty-thousand-year settlement of the Pacific islands, encompassing Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Drawing on genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, it analyses the seagoing technologies and migrations that populated these vast ocean regions.

Accession 28553 ISBN 9781541619838 Publisher Basic Books
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