Oceanic explorations Lapita and western Pacific settlement

Oceanic explorations Lapita and western Pacific settlement - Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, c2007. - 1 online resource (x, 299 pages : illustrations, maps). - Terra Australis ; 26. .

Papers evolved from the Oceanic Explorations Conference held at Nukuʼalofa, Tonga, Aug. 1-7, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement: Progress, prospects and persistent problems/ Lapita Origins. The Origins of Early Lapita Culture: The testimony of historical linguistics/ Small islands in the big picture: the formative period of Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago/ Lapita Dispersal and Archaeological Signatures. Lapita all over: Land-use on the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea / Lapita Writ Small? Revisiting the Austronesian Colonisation of the Papuan South Coast / Leap-frogging or Limping? Recent evidence from the Lapita Littoral Fringe, New Georgia, Solomon Islands / Sample Size and the Reef/Santa Cruz Lapita Sequence / Makué (Aore Island, Santo, Vanuatu): A new Lapita site in the ambit of New Britain obsidian distribution / Echoes from a distance: Research into the Lapita occupation of the Rove Peninsula, Southwest Viti Levu, Fiji / Paleoenvironment of Lapita sites on Fanga 'Uta Lagoon, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga/ In Search of Lapita and Polynesian Plainware Settlements in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga/ Can We Dig It? Archaeology of Ancestral Polynesian Society in Tonga: A first look from Falevai/ Lapita Ceramics. The implements of Lapita ceramic stamped ornamentation/ The excavation, conservation and reconstruction of Lapita burial pots from the Teouma site, Efate, Central Vanuatu/ Detailed analysis of Lapita Face Motifs: Case studies from the Reef/Santa Cruz sites and New Caledonia Lapita Site 13A / Looking at the big motifs: A typology of the central band decorations of the Lapita ceramic tradition of New Caledonia (Southern Melanesia) and preliminary regional comparisons / Specialisation, standardisation and Lapita ceramics / Stuart Bedford and Christophe Sand -- Andrew Pawley -- Jim Specht -- Jim Specht and Robin Torrence -- Glenn Summerhayes and Jim Allen -- Matthew Felgate -- Peter Sheppard and Roger C. Green -- Jean-Christophe Galipaud and Mary Clare Swete Kelly -- Patrick Nunn -- William R. Dickinson -- David V. Burley -- Sean P. Connaughton -- Wallace Ambrose -- Stuart Bedford [and others] -- Scarlett Chiu -- Christophe Sand -- Geoffrey Clark.

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"Lapita comprises an archaeological horizon that is fundamental to the understanding of human colonisation and settlement of the Pacific as it is associated with the arrival of the common ancestors of the Polynesians and many Austronesian-speaking Melanesians more than 3000 years ago. While Lapita archaeology has captured the imagination and sustained the focus of archaeologists for more than 50 years, more recent discoveries have inspired renewed interpretations and assessments. Oceanic Explorations reports on a number of these latest discoveries and includes papers which reassess the Lapita phenomenon in light of this new data. They reflect on a broad range of interrelated themes including Lapita chronology, patterns of settlement, migration, interaction and exchange, ritual behaviour, sampling strategies and ceramic analyses, all of which relate to aspects highlighting both advances and continuing impediments associated with Lapita research."--Publisher's description.


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Lapita culture--Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Melanesia--Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Polynesia--Congresses.


Melanesia--Antiquities--Congresses.
Polynesia--Antiquities--Congresses.
Melanesia.
Polynesia.

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