The Prehistory of Buka: a Stepping Stone Island in the Northern Solomons.(Book Review)

From: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Holdaway, Simon | Copyright information

The Prehistory of Buka: A Stepping Stone Island in the Northern Solomons. Stephen Wickler. Terra Australis 16. Canberra: Department of Archaeology and Natural History and Centre for Archaeological Research, The Australian National University, 2001. xix + 360 pp., 68 figs., 40 plates, 175 tables, bibliography. Paperback. ISBN 0-7315-5500-7.

This work reports on archaeological fieldwork conducted on the small offshore islands of Sohano and Pororan over eight months in 1987,...

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