Prehistoric Settlement
LibCat
Use LibCat, the library's catalog, to search for resources by Keyword, Title, or Author.
The ‘Browse By Subject’ search option (in the menu at the top of the LibCat page) can also be used to find materials about a specific subject and/or geographic location.
Below, find a few examples of subject headings that may relate to your research topic. You can copy and paste into the "Browse by Subject" option available in the menu bar at the top of LibCat. (Replace Place with a broad place description, e.g., Hawaiʻi, Oceania, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, etc.)
- Ethnology - Oceania
- Ethnology - Place
- Human settlements - Oceania
- Human settlements - Place
- Human beings - Migrations
- Land settlement - Oceania
- Land settlement - Place
- Land settlement patterns - Place
- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
- Oceania - Antiquities
- Polynesia - Antiquities
- Oceania - Discovery and exploration
- Pacific Area - Discovery and exploration
- Prehistoric peoples - Oceania
- Prehistoric peoples - Pacific Area
- Polynesia - Civilization
To find materials about the settlement of specific peoples, try using the search format: People–Origin. See search samples below.
- Polynesians - Origin
- Hawaiians - Origin
- Maori (New Zealand people) - Origin
Samples of Audiovisual Materials
- Nga Paiaka Pacific = Pacific Roots
- Publication Date: 2011
- Polynesian Odyssey
- Publication Date: 2012
- Made in Taiwan: Genes, Culture, and the Peopling of the South Pacific
- Publication Date: 2006
- Crossroads of the Pacific
- Publication Date: 2011
Samples of Books in Print
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific islands Before European Contact by Patrick Vinton Kirch
Call Number: GN871 .K575 2002
Publication Date: 2002
First Settlement of Remote Oceania: Earliest Sites in the Mariana Islands by Mike T. Carson
Call Number: GN875.M27 C37 2014
Publication Date: 2013
Mystery Islands: Discovering the Ancient Pacific by Tom Koppel
Call Number: Coming soon!
Publication Date: 2012
Hawaiki: the Original Home of the Maori: With a Sketch of Polynesian History by S. Percy Smith
Call Number: GN663 .S65 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation by Patrick Vinton Kirch (Editor)
Call Number: GN871 .I85 2009
Publication Date: 2009
History of the Pacific Islands by Steven Roger Fischer
Call Number: DU28.3 .F57 2002
Publication Date: 2002
A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific by Donald Denoon; Philippa Mein-Smith (Contribution by); Marivic Wyndham
Call Number: DU28.3 .D46 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific by Ward H. Goodenough (Editor)
Call Number: GN871 .P74 1996
Publication Date: 1996
The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific by Geoffrey Irwin
Call Number: GN871 .I78 1992
Publication Date: 1992
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Samples of eBooks
First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective by Peter Bellwood
Call Number: GN370 .B45 2013
Publication Date: 2014
Available in print and online
Once Were Pacific Māori Connections to Oceania by Alice Te Punga Somerville.
Publication Date: 2012
Islands of Inquiry by Geoffrey Clark, Foss Leach, Sue O'Connor
Publication Date: 2008
The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives by Patrick V. Kirch (Editor); Jean-Louis Rallu (Editor)
Call Number: GN662 .G76 2007
Publication Date: 2008
Available in print and online
Oceanic Explorations Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement by Stuart Bedford, Christophe San,d Sean P. Connaughton
Publication Date: 2007
Possessing the Pacific Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska by Stuart Banner
Publication Date: 2007
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology by Patrick Vinton Kirch; Roger C. Green
Call Number: DU624.65 .K573 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Available in print and online
Maori and Polynesian, Their Origin, History and Culture by John M. Brown
Call Number: GN670 B85 1977
Publication Date: 1977
Available in print and online