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pro vyhledávání: '"Oceanian culture"'
Publikováno v:
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 32:499-510
The first people in Sāmoa produced a varied ceramic archaeological record including a single deposit with decorated Lapita ceramics on the island of ‘Upolu in the west of the archipelago and a nearly contemporaneous plainware deposit over 250 km t
Autor:
Chunjie Zhang
Publikováno v:
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 36:263-277
Reading German world traveller Georg Forster's influential A Voyage Round the World (1777), this essay discusses the typical conflict between Enlightenment ideology of progress and civilisation, which assigns Oceanian culture to a lower development s
Publikováno v:
Journal of Archaeological Science. 38:2625-2632
A provenance study of volcanic glass specimens from 12 archaeological sites in the Kingdom of Tonga is carried out employing pXRF (portable X-ray fluorescence) analysis. To accomplish this, volcanic glass samples from previously identified sources in
Autor:
Fiona Petchey, Foss Leach, Christophe Sand, Michael Pietrusewsky, Mike Seed, Kathy Anderson, Matthew Spriggs
Publikováno v:
Journal of Archaeological Science. 38:29-44
Archaeologists have long debated the origins and mode of dispersal of the immediate predecessors of all Polynesians and many populations in Island Melanesia. Such debates are inextricably linked to a chronological framework provided, in part, by radi
Autor:
Alice A. Storey, Leon Huynen, Matthew Spriggs, Stuart Hawkins, Stuart Bedford, Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith, Judith H. Robins
Publikováno v:
Journal of Archaeological Science. 37:2459-2468
Chickens were part of the Lapita cultural complex, transported into and through the Pacific by prehistoric colonists; as such they can be used as a proxy for tracking prehistoric migration and interaction. The Lapita site of Teouma in Vanuatu is well
Publikováno v:
Antiquity. 84:649-665
A petroglyph showing a human face found in East Timor is dated to the late Pleistocene. It recalls ancient Australian forms and raises the possibility of connecting early cave art with the better known painted figures of Lapita/Austronesian art ten m
Autor:
David V. Burley, William R. Dickinson
Publikováno v:
Journal of Archaeological Science. 37:1020-1026
X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and petrographic thin section microscopy are applied to a sample of anomalous appearing Lapita pottery sherds from Nukuleka, the earliest archaeological site in Polynesia. Both analyses indicate non-local origins for t
Publikováno v:
Journal of Archaeological Science. 37:901-909
Burnt human remains excavated from a scoop feature from a cemetery at Teouma, Vanuatu in the western Pacific (∼2850 BP) were examined to assess the nature of the deposit. Possible scenarios explaining the reason the bone was burnt and interred were
Autor:
Frédérique Valentin, Stephanie Garling, Ben Shaw, Malcolm R. Reid, Dimitri Anson, Hallie R. Buckley, Glenn R. Summerhayes, Herman Mandui, Claudine H. Stirling
Publikováno v:
Journal of Archaeological Science. 37:605-613
This paper uses strontium isotope ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr), oxygen isotope (δ 18 O) and Ba/Sr trace element data in archaeological tooth enamel samples to investigate migration and mobility at the Late Lapita site of SAC, Watom Island in the Bismarck Archipe
Autor:
Geoffrey Clark, Christian Reepmeyer
Publikováno v:
Archaeometry. 52:1-18
PIXE–PIGME analysis of 19 obsidian artefacts from Lakeba Island in east Fiji identified contact with northern Vanuatu in the post-colonization period (c. 2500–1000 BP) of Fiji. The Lakeba obsidian is the only physical evidence for interaction acr