Prodigious Birds
Moas and Moa-Hunting in New Zealand
Published on 30. October 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-0-521-54396-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 Tables, unspecified; 40 Halftones, unspecified; 20 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
645 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-54396-5 (9780521543965)
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01/1990
Cambridge University Press
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01/1990
Cambridge University Press
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Content
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.