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

著者

• Anderson, Atholl

書誌事項

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

Atholl Anderson

Cambridge University Press, 2003

• : pbk.

注記

Bibliography: p. [192]-208

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

• 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.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA7332179X
• ISBN:
  • 0521543967
• LCCN: 89007197
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge, England
• ページ数/冊数: xviii, 238 p.
• 大きさ: 28 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : DU423.H8
  • DC20 : 993.01
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Maori (New Zealand people) -- Hunting
  • LCSH : Moa
  • LCSH : Hunting, Prehistoric -- New Zealand
  • LCSH : New Zealand -- Antiquities