02919oam 2200553zu 450 991016965630332120251116163943.0(CKB)3360000000477104(SSID)ssj0000752443(PQKBManifestationID)11420170(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000752443(PQKBWorkID)10800073(PQKB)10395454(MiAaPQ)EBC4816249(Au-PeEL)EBL4816249(CaPaEBR)ebr11355553(OCoLC)975221904(EXLCZ)99336000000047710420160829d2007 uy engurcnu||||||||txtccrOceanic explorations Lapita and Western Pacific settlement1st ed.[Place of publication not identified]ANU E Press20071 online resource (310 pages)Terra Australis SeriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-921313-32-3 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.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.Terra Australis SeriesAnthropologyHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCPrehistoric AnthropologyHILCCAnthropologySocial SciencesPrehistoric Anthropology930.10919999999999Connaughton Sean P.Sand ChristopheBedford StuartPQKBBOOK9910169656303321Oceanic explorations Lapita and Western Pacific settlement2907515UNINA