Prehistoric settlement and economy in a tropical small island environment : the Banks Islands, Insular Melanesia

• Main Author: Ward, Graeme
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
• Subjects: Pacific; High Island; Low Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9949; https://doi.org/10.25911/5d51474126fe6; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/9949/4/Ward_G.K._1979.pdf.jpg

Searching for the Islas de Salomon and their fabulous wealth, the Great Southern Continent beloved of European cartographers and the multitudes of souls surely awaiting salvation there, Quiros the third of the Spanish voyages into the southerly latitudes of the Pacific, stumbled upon the groups of t...