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- First Page
- Preliminary pages
- List of figures
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- List of participating institutions
- 1. Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania – An exhibition
- Part 1: Early European exploration in the Pacific, 1500s – 1870s
- 2. European interests and ideas on the diversity of human cultures in the Pacific (1500s – 1870s)
- 3. ‘Artificial curiosities’ and the Royal Navy
- 4. 1800: How the ‘South Seas savages’ became ‘antique monuments’
- 5. The mystery of the Moscow ki‘i
- 6. Watercolour of Fijian man, painted by Charles Pickering
- 7. Idol speculations: Aneityum Nelcau and Dr Turner’s missionary archaeology
- Part 2: The first archaeological excavations,1870s – 1910s
- 8. The first archaeological excavations (1870s – 1910s)
- 9. Sir Julius von Haast and Roger Duff
- 10. The Pacific archaeology and ethnography of Hjalmar Stolpe and the Vanadis Expedition, 1883–85
- 11. Stephenson Percy Smith (1840–1922), founder of the Polynesian Society
- 12. Alfred Haddon: A ‘palaeontologist’ in the Torres Strait
- 13. Patterns of connection: The Wanigela shells revisited
- 14. Superiority complex: Rudolf Pöch’s interpretations of archaeological finds at Wanigela
- 15. Global journeys of Lapita potsherds from the Bismarck Archipelago
- 16. Shell trumpets sounding in the stone city: Paul Hambruch and Nan Madol
- 17. Huli hele nā wahi pana (seeking out storied places): The contributions of John F.G. Stokes to the field of Hawaiian archaeology
- 18. Intelligent eyes: Visualising Rapa Nui (Easter Island) archaeology
- Part 3: The burgeoning field of anthropology and archaeology, 1918–45
- 19. The burgeoning field of anthropology and archaeology (1918–45)
- 20. A collector of ideas: Roland Burrage Dixon and the beginnings of professional American anthropology in the Pacific
- 21. Searching for origins: Archaeology and the government officers of Papua
- 22. Father Wilhelm Schmidt, Indigenous beliefs and Oceanic collections in the Vatican’s Anima Mundi Museum
- 23. H.D. Skinner
- 24. The vicissitudes of Lapita pottery, 1909–45: The Melbourne witness
- 25. Looking beyond Australia’s shores in the 1930s: F.D. McCarthy in Southeast Asia
- Part 4: Archaeology as a profession in the Pacific,1945–present
- 26. Archaeology as a profession in the Pacific (1945 – present)
- 27. The first Lapita pottery found in Fiji: Links to an early Pacific world
- 28. Ratu Rabici Logavatu and Aubrey Parke: Two archaeological pioneers of the Fijian Administration
- 29. Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Museum’s research in the Marquesas and on Rapa Nui/Easter Island, 1955–63
- 30. Aurora Natua and the Motu Paeao site: Unlocking French Polynesia’s islands for Pacific archaeologists
- 31. Jack Golson in New Zealand
- 32. An emerging major centre: Pacific archaeology at The Australian National University (1961–79)
- 33. Roger Curtis Green (1932–2009)
- 34. Sue Bulmer and New Guinea archaeology
- 35. Then and now: W.H. Davenport’s 1966 archaeological expedition to Santa Ana with new data on the plainware pottery
- 36. Conclusion: Highlights from the Uncovering Pacific Pasts exhibition
- Appendix: Statement by Rakival people
