Oceanic explorations Lapita and Western Pacific settlement

• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : ANU E Press, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 pages)
• Disciplina: 930.10919999999999
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology; Social Sciences; Prehistoric Anthropology
• Persona (resp. second.): ConnaughtonSean P.; SandChristophe; BedfordStuart
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Oceanic explorations Lapita and Western Pacific settlement
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910169656303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Terra Australis Series