"This volume of essays ... is a partial text of a workshop held ... in early December 1991"--Introduction. "The Division of Pacific and Asian History at the ...

ANTH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands, which are home to numerous ...

In a recent and groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists have unearthed tools from Pacific islands that are made from an unknown alloy. This unique find opens up a new realm of possibilities in our ...

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips ...

The Pacific is not an ocean, it is a universe. One can fly 13,000 miles from the tip of the Chukchi Peninsula, Russia’s Land’s End, to Tierra del Fuego and not see any land, barring the Aleutians, ...