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The Pacific Ocean covers onethird of the earths surface and encompasses many thousands of islands the home to numerous human societies and cultures Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian doublehulled canoe navigators the atoll dwellers of Micronesia the statue carvers of remote Easter Island and the famed traders of Melanesia Recent archaeological excavations combined with allied research in historical linguistics biological anthropology and comparative ethnography have begun to reveal much new information about the longterm history of these Pacific Island 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 40000 years ago and tracing the development of myriad indigenous cultures up to the time of European contact in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuriesQuestions that scholars have posed and puzzled over for two centuries or more are illuminated here Where did the Pacific Islanders come from How did they discover and settle the thousands of islands Why did they build great monuments like Nan Madol on Pohnpei Island in Micronesia or the famous Easter Island statues This book provides an uptodate synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of these fascinating indigenous culturesIn particular Kirch focuses on human ecology and island adaptations the complexities of island trading and exchange systems voyaging technology and skills and the development of intensive economic systems linked to the growth of large populations He also draws on his own original field research conducted on many islands ranging from the Solomons to Hawaii as he takes us on an intellectual voyage into the Oceanic past. 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Pennsylvania State University. GEOG 596 A, Spring 2016. Dr. Alexander . Klippel. Advisor. Westcott and Brandon . declared that GIS as a research tool may have as profound of an effect on archaeological field work as the introduction of carbon dating did in the 1950s (Westcott and Brandon, 2000).. Tobi Baugh. Capstone Proposal Presentation. . December 18, 2012. Advisor – Tim Murtha. Outline. 2. Introduction . Background. Predictive . Archaeological . Models. Cultural Resource Management. Study Scope & Study Area. Friday . 17 February. Looking down the pipeline. Aid Suppliers Conference: PNG & the Pacific. Oda. to the pacific in 2016-17 is estimated to be $1.1 billion. Aid Suppliers Conference: PNG & the Pacific. Analyses are performed of an ocean-only model driven by observed winds, an idealized atmosphere-only model run with observed SSTs with a uniform tropical warming and an additional warming added to the tropical Indian Ocean, and GOGA and TOGA runs. Chapter 20710Sections20710010Purpose20710020Applicability20710030Development Review Applications20710040DAHP Coordination and Permitting20710050Documentation and Peer Review20710060Tribal Notification . loss considered irreversible and irretrievable. Potential effects include:. Increase of on-site erosion, displacement of primary cultural deposits. Increased vulnerability to . looting. Values at Risk. Global . Winds. - A . current. is a flow of air or water in a certain direction.. Global . Winds. Winds move from areas of . high. pressure to . low. pressure.. You might expect them to move straight from the poles (high pressure) to the equator (low pressure)but…. Lecture 10: Local Winds. ATMO 102 Pacific Climates and Cultures. Large and Small Scale Winds . Macroscale Winds. Planetary: Westerlies, trade winds. Synoptic: Cyclones and anti-cyclones, Hurricanes (weather map size). of. . America. excavate. educate. advocate. @archaeology_aia. @Archaeological.Institute. 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