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Connection and Competition: some early insights gained from petrographic studies of New Caledonian Lapita pottery (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Scarlett Chiu. David Killick. William Dickinson. Christophe Sand.

In this paper we will present the newest results gained from both petrographic and chemical compositional analyses of New Caledonian Lapita pottery samples, to address issues concerning long-distance connections among several Lapita communities, and competition that might have happened between Northern and Southern Lapita communities. We have been able to develop an effective way of identifying pottery production areas within New Caledonia, and our results suggest that there were possible social...