Tikopia - Wikipedia
WEBTikopia is a volcanic island in Temotu Province, in the independent nation of Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Although most of Solomon Islands is Melanesian, Tikopia is culturally Polynesian. The first Europeans arrived on 22 April 1606 as part of the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernandes de Queirós. [1]
Tikopia: take a step inside a remote civilization | Euronews
WEBNov 15, 2018 · Tikopia is far from any traditional maritime route, its singular civilization has evolved up until the present day almost without any external influences. The island is ruled by tribal chiefs...
Tikopia - Encyclopedia.com
WEBTikopia is a little, isolated, high island, primarily an extinct volcano with fringing coral reef, rising to a peak of 350 meters but extending only 4.6 square kilometers. It is in the southeast of the Solomons, at 168 ° 50 ′ E and 12 ° 18 ′ S. Historically, until the mid-1950s, the Tikopia people occupied only this island. But then ...
Tikopia - History and Cultural Relations - World Culture …
WEBFrom recent archaeological research it appears that Tikopia has been occupied for about 3,000 years. Three phases of traditional culture have been distinguished. The earliest (c. 900 to 100 B . C .) used locally made sand-tempered earthenware of Lapitoid type; the second (c. 100 B .
Tikopia - Summary - eHRAF World Cultures
WEBTikopia society has been divided into a large number of unilineal named descent groups, determined genealogically and tracing ancestry back for up to 10 generations. These groups are termed PAITO, a word with a wide range of …
Solom Isl.: Tikopia culture in the spotlight - Solomon Islands
WEBFor generations the Tikopia have learnt to live with the devastating impact of cyclones, and have managed to find refuge on different parts of the island in a bid to minimise loss of life.
Tikopia - Description - eHRAF World Cultures
WEBTikopia is a small volcanic island that is part of the Solomon Islands. The inhabitants are Polynesian in language and culture. The Tikopia are primarily agriculturalists and fishermen, living in more than 20 nucleated villages, situated along the sandy coastal strip.
Pulotu - Culture Tikopia
WEBTikopia is a small volcanic island located north of Vanuatu and east of the Solomons. It is one of the 'Polynesian outliers', in that its people are clearly Polynesian, but live outside the area usually defined as Polynesia.
Tikopia - iResearchNet
WEBTikopia, a Polynesian community near the eastern border of the Solomon Islands, is arguably the most thoroughly documented small-scale society in the ethnographic record. That documentation exists primarily as a result of investigations by Sir Raymond Firth in 1928-29, 1952, 1966, and 1973.
Tikopia : the prehistory and ecology of a Polynesian outlier
WEBFeb 1, 2019 · Tikopia : the prehistory and ecology of a Polynesian outlier : Kirch, Patrick Vinton : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Kirch, Patrick Vinton. Publication date. 1982. Topics.