First Millenium BC Transport of Obsidian from New Britain to the Solomon Islands

Autor: AMBROSE, W. R., GREEN, R. C.
Zdroj: Nature; May 1972, Vol. 237 Issue: 5349 p31-31, 1p
Abstrakt: DURING recent archaeological work in New Guinea and the British Solomon Islands we have recovered simple flake artefacts of obsidian associated with a distinctively decorated pottery known as Lapita ware1. This ware had a wide distribution across the south-west Pacific in the first millenium BC, and is known archaeologically from Watom Island, near Rabaul in New Britain, to Tonga, some 4,000 km to the southwest.
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