White and James O'Connell, A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea, andSahul (Sydney: Academic Press, 1982), Jim Alien et al., eds., Sunda andSahul (London: Academic Press, 1977), M. A. Smith et al., eds., Sahul in Review (Canberra: Australian National University, 1993), and Tim Flan-nery, The Future Eaters (New York: Braziller, 1995). The first and third of these books discuss the prehistory of island Southeast Asia as well. A recent account of the history of Australia itself is Josephine Flood, Archaeology of the Dreamtime, rev. ed. (Sydney: Collins, 1989). Some additional key papers on Australian prehistory are Rhys Jones, 'The fifth continent: Problems concerning the human colonization of Australia,' Annual Reviews of Anthropology 8:445-66 (1979), Richard Roberts et al., 'Ther-moluminescence dating of a 50,000- year-old human occupation site in northern Australia,' Nature 345:153-56 (1990), and Jim Alien and Simon Holdaway, 'The contamination of Pleistocene radiocarbon determinations in Australia,' Antiquity 69:101-12 (1995). Robert Attenborough and Michael Alpers, eds., Human Biology in Papua New Guinea (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), summarizes New Guinea archaeology as well as languages and genetics. As for the prehistory of Northern Melanesia (the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes, northeast and east of New Guinea), discussion will be found in the above-cited books by Thorne and Raymond, Flannery, and scanned by Ugh in Cambridge en et al. Papers pushing back the dates for the earliest occupation of Northern Melanesia include Stephen Wickler and Matthew Spriggs, eistocene human occupation of the Solomon Islands, Melanesia,' 448• FURTHER READINGS Antiquity 62:703-6 (1988), Jim Alien et al., 'Pleistocene dates for the human occupation of New Ireland, Northern Melanesia,' Nature 331:707-9 (1988), Jim Alien et al., 'Human Pleistocene adaptations in the tropical island Pacific: Recent evidence from New Ireland, a Greater Australian outlier,' Antiquity 63:548-61 (1989), and Christina Pavlides and Chris Gosden, '35,000-year-old sites in the rainforests of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea,' Antiquity 68:604-10 (1994). References to the Austronesian expansion around the coast of New Guinea will be found under further readings for Chapter 17. Two books on the history of Australia after European colonization are Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore (New York: Knopf, 1987), and Michael Cannon, The Exploration of Australia (Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1987). Aboriginal Australians themselves are the subject of Richard Broome, Aboriginal Australians (Sydney: Alien and Unwin, 1982), and Henry Reynolds, Frontier (Sydney: Alien and Unwin, 1987). An incredibly detailed history of New Guinea, from the earliest written records until 1902, is the three-volume work by Arthur Wichmann, Entdeckungs-geschichte von Neu- Guinea (Leiden: Brill, 1909-12). A shorter and more readable account is Gavin Souter, New Guinea: The Last Unknown (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1964). Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, First Contact (New York: Viking, 1987), movingly describes the first encounters of highland New Guineans with Europeans. For detailed accounts of New Guinea's Papuan (i.e., non- Austronesian) languages, see Stephen Wurm, Papuan Languages of Oceania (Tubingen; Gunter Narr, 1982), and William Foley, The Papuan Languages of NewGuinea (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986); and of Australian languages, see Stephen Wurm, Languages of Australia and Tasmania (The Hague: Mouton, 1972), and R. M. W Dixon, The Languages of Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980). An entrance into the literature on plant domestication and origins of> food production in New Guinea can be found in Jack Golson, 'Bulnaer phase II: Early agriculture in the New Guinea highlands,' pp. 484-91 in;; Andrew Pawley, ed., Man and a Half (Auckland: Polynesian Society 1991), and D. E. Yen, 'Polynesian cultigens and cultivars: The question oЈ| origin,' pp. 67-95 in Paul Cox and Sandra Banack, eds., Islands,and Polynesians (Portland: Dioscorides Press, 1991). Numerous articles and books are devoted to the fascinating problem of| why trading visits of Indonesians and of Torres Strait islanders to Australl%| FURTHERREADINGS • 449 produced only limited cultural change. C. C. Macknight, 'Macassans and Aborigines,' Oceania 42:283-321 (1972), discusses the Macassan visits, while D. Walker, ed., Bridge and Barrier: The Natural and Cultural History of Torres Strait (Canberra: Australian National University, 1972), discusses connections at Torres Strait. Both connections are also discussed in the above-cited books by Flood, White and O'Connell, and Alien et al. Early eyewitness accounts of the Tasmanians are reprinted in N. J. B. Plomley, The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines 1802 (Hobart: Blubber Head Press, 1983), N. J. B. Plomley, Friendly Mission:The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834 (Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1966), and Edward Duyker, The Discovery of Tasmania: Journal Extracts from theExpeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, 1642 and 1772 (Hobart: St. David's Park Publishing, 1992). Papers debating the effects of isolation on Tasmanian society include Rhys Jones, 'The Tasmanian Paradox,' pp. 189-284 in R. V. S. Wright, ed., Stone Tools asCultural Markers (Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1977); Rhys Jones, 'Why did the Tasmanians stop eating fish?' pp. 11-48 in R. Gould, ed., Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978); D. R. Horton, 'Tasmanian adaptation,' Mankind 12:28-34 (1979); I. Walters, 'Why did the Tasmanians stop eating fish?: A theoretical consideration,' Artefact 6:71-77 (1981); and Rhys Jones, 'Tasmanian Archaeology,' Annual Reviews of Anthropology 24:423-46 (1995). Results of Robin Sim's archaeological excavations on Flinders Island are described in her article 'Prehistoric human occupation on the King and Furneaux Island regions, Bass Strait,' pp. 358-74 in Marjorie Sullivan et al., eds., Archaeology in the North (Darwin: North Australia Research Unit, 1994). Chapters 16 and 17 Relevant readings cited under previous chapters include those on East Asian food production (Chapters 4-10), Chinese writing (Chapter 12), Chinese technology (Chapter 13), and New Guinea and the Bismarcks and Solomons in general (Chapter 15). James Matisoff, 'Sino-Tibetan linguists: Present state and future prospects,' Annual Reviews of Anthropology • 69-504 (1991), reviews Sino- Tibetan languages and their wider rela- 45o* FURTHER READINGS tionships. Takeru Akazawa and Emoke Szathmary, eds., Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), and Dennis Etler, 'Recent developments in the study of human biology in China: A review,' Human Biology 64:567-85 (1992), discuss evidence of Chinese or East Asian relationships and dispersal. Alan Thorne and Robert Raymond, Man on the Rim (North Ryde: Angus and Robertson, 1989), describes the archaeology, history, and culture of Pacific peoples, including East Asians and Pacific islanders. Adrian Hill and
