Course
Schedule
ARCHY 325/525:
Archaeology of Island Southeast Asia and the
Pacific
University of Washington—Winter 2006
Course
Schedule:
Notes: This schedule is subject to change; check the
course website frequently for an updated version. You should be prepared to
discuss the readings on the date listed. Additional readings are
self-explanatory; some optional readings are listed here, contact me if you are
interested in pursuing a topic in more depth.
Introduction to the Region
January 4: Introductions
January 9: Geography, climate and human occupation of
the Pacific
Readings:
Kirch 2000 (textbook): 1-41
Bellwood, Peter
1997
Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian
Archipelago, 2nd Edition. University
of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, pp. 1-39
Additional Readings
for Archy 525 students:
Irwin,
Geoffrey
1992
The
Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-13.
Austronesian
world (Bellwood and Tyron)
Pacific
region map (Keegan and Diamond)
Island Biogeography
January 11: Pacific island
geology, environments and biogeography
Readings:
Kirch 2000, pp.42-62
Terrell,
J. E.
1997 “The postponed agenda: Archaeology and
human biogeography in the twenty-first century.” Human Ecology 25(3):
419-436.
Additional Readings for Archy 525 students:
Keegan,
William F. and Jared Diamond
1987 Colonization of islands by humans: a
biogeographical perspective. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
10: 49-92.
Map quiz
review sheet
Unlabeled
map of SE Asia/Pacific region (for quiz practice)
Geography
Powerpoint
January 16: MLK Jr. Day—no class
The First People in the Islands
January 18: Pleistocene colonization of Island Southeast Asia
and near Oceania
Map quiz
Readings:
Kirch
2000, pp. 63-84
Look
through the Nature Homo Floresiensis website, and read
all of the primary scientific articles from 2004 and 2005 as well as news
coverage and other information
National
Geographic’s May 2005 issue also has some on-line features and graphics
Additional Readings
for Archy 525 students:
O’Connor,
Sue and Peter Veth
2000 The world’s first mariners: Savannah
dwellers in an island continent. Modern
Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia
16:99-137. (skim this for good review of the Australia
colonization debate and migration routes through SE Asia)
O’Connor, Sue, Matthew
Spriggs and Peter Veth
2002 Excavation at Lene Hara Cave establishes occupation in East
Timor at least 30,000-35,000 years ago. Antiquity 76: 45-50.
Intervisibility
map--Bismarks
Intervisibility
map—Eastern Indonesia
January 23: Human impacts on islands and
vice versa
Guest Speaker: Stephanie
Jolivette
Readings:
Anderson, Atholl
2002 Faunal
collapse, landscape change and settlement history in Remote Oceania. World
Archaeology 33(3): 375–390
Burney, David
1997 Tropical
islands as paleoecological laboratories: Gauging the consequences of human
arrival. Human Ecology 25(3): 379-383.
Additional Readings for
Archy 525 students:
Spriggs, Matthew
1997 Landscape catastrophe and landscape
enhancement: Are either or both true in the Pacific? Historical Ecology in
the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change, pp.
80-104. P. V. Kirch and T. Hunt, Yale University Press, New Haven.
Into Remote Oceania
January 25:
Lapita overview
Film: The Navigators
Readings:
Kirch 2000: 85-116
Additional Readings for Archy 525 students:
Spriggs, Matthew
1995 The Lapita culture and Austronesian prehistory in Oceania. The Austronesians: Historical and
Comparative Perspectives. P. Bellwood, J. J. Fox and D. Tryon. Canberra,
Australian National University.
Lapita worksheet—p.1 and p.2
Some Lapita pottery images—1, 2, 3
January 30:
Archaeology,
linguistics, and genetics: do they tell the same story?
Readings:
Kirch 2000: 305-307
Diamond, Jared
2000 Taiwan’s gift to the world. Nature 403: 700-701
Oppenheimer,
Stephen and Martin Richards
2000 Slow
boat to Melanesia? Nature 430:
166-167
Additional Readings for Archy 525 students:
Hage, Per and Jeff Marck
2003 Matrilineality
and the Melanesian Origin of Polynesian Y Chromosomes. Current Anthropology supplement 44: S121-S127.
Cann, Rebecca
2001 Genetic clues to dispersal in human
migrations: Retracing the past from the present. Science 201: 1742-1748
Linguistic
worksheet
Polynesian
origin theories PowerPoint (orthodox)
February 1: A little problem with Micronesia, and some alternate
views
Readings:
Kirch 2000: 165-182
Szabo, Katherine and Sue
O’Connor
2004
Migration and complexity
in Holocene Island Southeast Asia. World
Archaeology 36(4): 621–628.
Additional Readings
for Archy 525 students:
Terrell,
John, Kevin M. Kelly, and Paul Rainbird
2001
Foregone
Conclusions? In Search of “Papuans” and “Austronesians” Current Anthropology
42(1): 97-124.
Polynesian origin theories
PowerPoint (unorthodox)
February 6: Tour of Burke Museum
archaeology and boat collections
Meet in front of Burke Café at 10:30 sharp!
Readings:
Kirch
2000: 238-245
Additional Readings
for Archy 525 students:
Anderson, Atholl
2000
Slow boats from China: Issues in the
pre-history of Indo-Pacific seafaring. Modern
Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia 16:13-50.
February 8: Workshop:
Where should research go from here?
Click
here for optional readings that might be useful for your position papers
Position paper due
Trade and Exchange Interactions
February
13: Long distance Oceanic exchanges
Readings:
Rollett,
Barry
2002 Voyaging and interaction in ancient
Polynesia. Asian Perspectives 41(2):
182-194.
Welsch,
Robert and John Terrell
1998 Material culture, social fields and social
boundaries on the Sepik Coast of New Guinea. In The Archaeology of Social
Boundaries, pp. 50-77, Miriam Stark, ed., Smithsonian Press, Washington DC.
Additional Readings
for Archy 525 students:
Aswani, Shankar and
Peter Sheppard
2003 The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Exchange
in Precolonial and Colonial Roviana: Gifts, Commodities, and Inalienable
Possessions. Current Anthropology 44
(Supplement 1): 51-78.
February 15 Trade and the development of social “complexity”
in Island Southeast Asia
Final paper abstract due
Readings:
Junker, Laura
1993 Craft goods specialization and prestige
goods exchange in Philippine chiefdoms of the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries. Asian Perspectives 32(1): 1-35.
Glover, Ian
1990 Early
Trade between India and South-East Asia, a Link in the Development of a World
Trading System. Centre for East
Asian Studies, Occasional Papers No. 16, University of Hull.
Additional Readings for Archy 525 students:
Bronson, Bennet
1977 Exchange at the upstream and downstream ends: Notes toward a
functional model of the coastal state in Southeast Asia. In Economic
Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia: Perspectives from
Prehistory, History, and Ethnography, pp. 39-52. Karl L. Hutterer, ed.,
Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor.
Social
organization chart (from Service/Renfrew)
February 20: President’s Day Holiday—no
class
Power, War, Development, Disaster, Reality
February 22: Chiefdoms,
big men and women, symbols and structures of power
Guest Speaker: Chris Lockwood
Readings:
Kirch 2000: 246-301
1986
Landscape,
land use and political transformation in southern Melanesia. In Island
Societies: Archaeological approaches to evolution and transformation, pp.
6-19, P.V. Kirch, ed., Cambridge University Press.
Additional Readings for Archy 525 students:
Earle, Timothy K.
1987 Chiefdoms
in Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspective. Annual Review of
Anthropology 16: 279-308.
February 27: Warfare, demographic collapse and other disasters
Guest Speaker: Emily
Peterson
Readings:
Weisler,
Marshall
1994 The settlement of marginal Polynesia: New
evidence from Henderson Island. Journal
of Field Archaeology 21(1): 83-102.
1998 Human vs. climate impacts at Rapa Nui: Did
the people really cut down all those trees? In Easter island in Pacific
Context: South Seas Symposium, pp. 85-99, C. M Stevenson, G. Lee and F.J.
Morin, eds., The Easter Island Foundation.
Additional Readings for Archy 525 students:
Miksic, John
1999 Water, urbanization and disease in ancient
Indonesia. In Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World, pp.
167-184, E. Bacus and L. Lucero, eds., American Anthropological Association.
March 1: New developments in Island Southeast Asia: cities,
religions, economies
Readings:
Reid, Anthony
1995Continuity and change in
the Austronesian transition to Islam and Christianity. In The Austronesians:
Historical and Comparative Perspectives, pp. 314-331, Peter Bellwood, James
Fox and Darrell Tryon, eds., Australian National University, Canberra.
Lape, Peter
Additional Readings
for Archy 525 students:
Torrence,
Robin
2000 Just another trader? An archaeological
perspective on European barter with Admiralty Islanders, Papua New Guinea. In The
Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating cross-cultural engagements in Oceania,
Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke, eds., pp. 104-141. Routledge, New York.
March 6: The politics and
practicality of doing archaeology in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Readings:
Glover, Ian
2004Writing
Southeast Asian Prehistoric archaeology: the western contribution from
colonialism to nationalism. In Southeast Asian Archaeology, Victor Paz,
ed., pp. 64-80. Quezon City, University of the Philippines.
Sand, Christoph, Jacques Bole and André
Ouetcho
2005 What is archaeology for in the Pacific?
History and Politics in New Caledonia. In Archaeology of Oceania: Australia
and the Pacific Islands, Ian Lilley, ed. pp. 321-345. Blackwell, London.
March 8: Final papers due(DEADLINE EXTENDED
TO FRIDAY, MARCH 10 at 5:00PM); Archy 525 students paper presentations
