Bruce McFadgen's Hostile Shores: Catastrophic Events in Prehistoric New PDF

By Bruce McFadgen

ISBN-10: 1869403908

ISBN-13: 9781869403904

The Polynesian settlers of recent Zealand arrived to a land susceptible to violent geological disruption by means of huge earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. In opposed beaches, Bruce McFadgen has written an authoritative, groundbreaking learn of the consequences of those catastrophic occasions at the New Zealand coastal panorama and its humans from the time of first Polynesian payment until eventually eu touch within the eighteenth century. facts from the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, demography, geology, historical past, vulcanology and Maori oral culture mix to provide a different research. particularly, McFadgen describes how the 'big crunch' of the 15th century, with its elevated tsunami task, used to be highly dangerous to coastal groups and prompted a concern that ended in cultural swap and conflict. antagonistic shorelines should be crucial analyzing for coastal planners, neighborhood gurus, surveyors and engineers, anthropologists, archaeologists - and an individual dwelling inside three hundred metres of the coastline of latest Zealand.

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