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

• Main Author: Ward, Graeme
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University 2013
• Subjects: High Island; Main Island; Major Point; Pacific; The Islets; Banks Island; Low Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25911/5d4d534619cc1; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/9949

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...