Author: Blong, R.J.
Title: The Time of Darkness : Local Legends and Volcanic Reality in Papua New Guinea
Description: Seattle, Univ. of Washington Press, 1982. orig. boards, dustwrapper. xi,257 pp, 24x15cm,. Textual graphs,maps & tables. An ink mark to bottom page-edge, VG, in a rubbed dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Tephra Identification & Characterisation; Chemical Fingerprinting & Distribution of Tibito & Olgaboli Tephras; Potential Sources of Tibito & Olgaboli Tephras; Long Island as the Tephra Source; Some Theoretical Considerations; The Time of Darkness Legends; Tibito Tephra and the Legends; Physical Characteristics of the Tephra Fall According to the Legends; The Effects of the Tephra Fall according to the Legends; Issues Arising from an Analysis of the Legends; The Legends & Reality: The Physical Characteristics of the Tephra Fall; The Legends & Reality: The Effects of the Tephra Fall; Dating the Legend & the Eruption; Some Conclusions & Some Questions; Appendix: Sample Descriptions & Analytical Results; Analysis of Factors Influencing the Spread of Values in Samples Field-Identified as Olgaboli Tephra; The Long Island Legends; Questionnaire distributed in 1976-77.

Keywords: Papua New Guinea, Anthropology, Volcanoes, Volcanic eruptions, Geochemistry, Folklore, Mythology, Tephra, Tephrostratigraphy, Ecological