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Oceanic explorations Lapita and Western Pacific settlement
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Terra Australis Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] ANU E Press 2007
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement
- The origins of Early Lapita culture
- Small islands in the big picture
- Lapita all over
- Lapita Writ Small? Revisiting the AustronesianColonisation of the Papuan South Coast
- Leap-frogging or Limping? Recent Evidence from theLapita Littoral Fringe, New Georgia, Solomon Islands
- Sample Size and the Reef/Santa Cruz LapitaSequence
- Makué (Aore Island, Santo, Vanuatu)
- Echoes from a distance
- Paleoenvironment of Lapita sites on Fanga 'UtaLagoon, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga
- In Search of Lapita and Polynesian PlainwareSettlements in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga
- Can We Dig It? Archaeology of Ancestral PolynesianSociety in Tonga
- The implements of Lapita ceramic stampedornamentation
- The excavation, conservation andreconstruction of Lapita burial pots fromthe Teouma site, Efate, Central Vanuatu
- Detailed analysis of Lapita Face Motifs
- Looking at the big motifs
- Specialisation, standardisationand Lapita ceramics.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- OCLC:
- 975221904
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