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Prodigious Birds: Moas and Moa-Hunting in New Zealand
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Prodigious Birds: Moas and Moa-Hunting in New Zealand
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Atholl Anderson
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:260 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 279,Width 210 |
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| Category/Genre | Archaeology by period and region |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521543965
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| Classifications | Dewey:993.01 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
20 Tables, unspecified; 40 Halftones, unspecified; 20 Line drawings, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
30 October 2003 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
Reviews..".a thorough, well-written, and well-illustrated critical treatment of all aspects of research on the moas of New Zealand, including taxonomy, evolution, and ecology; the latter half of the book focuses on the interactions between moas and Maoris. Atholl Anderson is first and foremost an archeologist, but his grasp of biology leaves little to be desired." Agnar Ingolfsson, Quarterly Review of Biology
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