Talepakemalai
Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania
Published on 15. November 2021
592 pages
978-1-950446-23-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Lapita Cultural Complex--first uncovered in the mid-20th century as a widespread archaeological complex spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia--has subsequently become recognized as of fundamental importance to Oceanic prehistory. Notable for its highly distinctive, elaborate, dentate-stamped pottery, Lapita sites date to between 3500-2700 BP, spanning the geographic range from the Bismarck Archipelago to Tonga and Samoa. The Lapita culture has been interpreted as the archaeological manifestation of a diaspora of Austronesian-speaking people (specifically of Proto-Oceanic language) who rapidly expanded from Near Oceania (the New Guinea-Bismarcks region) into Remote Oceania, where no humans had previously ventured. Lapita is thus a foundational culture throughout much of the southwestern Pacific, ancestral to much of the later, ethnographically-attested cultural diversity of the region.
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Patrick Vinton Kirch
Talepakemalai
Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania
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01/2022
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Recent Monumenta Archaeologica
- Copyright
- Frontispiece
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Talepakemalai and the Mussau Project in the Context of Lapita Archaeology
- Chapter 2: The Mussau Islands
- Chapter 3: Excavations at Talepakemalai
- Chapter 4: Excavations at Other Lapita and Post-Lapita Sites of Mussau
- Chapter 5: Radiocarbon Dating and Chronology of the Mussau Sites
- Chapter 6: Vertebrate Fauna from the Mussau Sites
- Chapter 7: Fish Remains from the Mussau Islands Sites
- Chapter 8: Mollusks and Other Invertebrate Fauna from the Mussau Sites
- Chaoter 9: Human Impacts on Prehistoric Mollusk Populations of Mussau Coral Reef Habitats
- Chapter 10: Macrobotanical Remains from Talepakemalai (Site ECA) and the Case for Lapita Arboriculture
- Chapter 11: Ceramic Assemblages of the Mussau Islands
- Chapter 12: Sand Tempers in Mussau Ceramics
- Chapter 13: Non-Ceramic Portable Artifacts from Talepakemalai and Other Mussau Sites
- Chapter 14: Mid- to Late Holocene Obsidian Importation in the Mussau Islands
- Chapter 15: Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) Analysis of Obsidian from Talepakemalai (Site ECA)
- Chapter 16: Obsidian Tool Production and Use at Talepakemalai (Site ECA)
- Chapter 17: Petrography of Manuports from Mussau Archaeological Sites
- Chapter 18: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands
- Referenes Cited
- Index
