Prodigious birds : moas and moa-hunting in prehistoric New Zealand

Author(s)

• Anderson, Atholl

Bibliographic Information

Prodigious birds : moas and moa-hunting in prehistoric New Zealand

Atholl Anderson

Cambridge University Press, 1989

Note

Bibliography: p. [192]-208

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Prodigious Birds brings together the entire field of moa-related research, some 150 years of enquiry. The moa was a large flightless bird, hunted into extinction by the Maori tribes of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. Atholl Anderson brings an historical perspective to the development of moa research and its formative debates, analytical methods and results, reviewing evidence from palaeontology, biology, archaeology, ethnography and history.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• Part I. Discovery and Biology of Moas: 2. Discovery
• 3. Systematics
• 4. Origins and development
• 5. Morphology and behaviour
• 6. Maori traditions
• Part II. Moa-Hunting, Processing and Extinction: 7. The Moa-hunter debate
• 8. North Island sites
• 9. South Island coastal sites
• 10. South Island island sites
• 11. Hunting strategies
• 12. Processing technology
• 13. Chronology and extinction
• 14. Conclusions
• Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA23318261
• ISBN:
  • 0521352096
• LCCN: 89007197
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, England ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 238 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DU423.H8
  • DC20 : 993.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Maori (New Zealand people) -- Hunting
  • LCSH : Moa
  • LCSH : Hunting, Prehistoric -- New Zealand
  • LCSH : New Zealand -- Antiquities