First Settlement of Remote Oceania: Earliest Sites in the Mariana Islands

by Mike T Carson and Mike T. Carson

This book offers the only synthesis of early-period Marianas archaeology, marking the first human settlement of Remote Oceania about 1500 B.C. In these remote islands of the northwest Pacific Ocean, archaeological discoveries now can define the oldest site contexts, dating, and artifacts of a Neolithic (late stone-age) people. This ancient settlement was accomplished by the world's longest open-ocean voyage in human history at its time, more than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319010468
• ISBN13: 9783319010465
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"