The Mussau Islands Lapita Exchange Network: A Review of Three Decades of Analysis
Author(s): Patrick Kirch
Year: 2015
Summary
From 1985-88 the author conducted excavations at Talepakemalai (ECA) and other Lapita sites in the Mussau Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, recovering an extensive assemblage of pottery, obsidian, lithics and manuports, and other materials. Efforts to geochemically characterize the diversity and trace the potential sources of ceramic clay and temper, as well as the obsidian and other lithic materials from Mussau have continued over three decades. Throughout this evolving research project Bill Dickinson has made significant contributions. This paper reviews the complex technical and methodological issues involved, and summarizes our current understanding of early Far Western Lapita exchange.
SAA 2015 abstracts made available in tDAR courtesy of the Society for American Archaeology and Center for Digital Antiquity Collaborative Program to improve digital data in archaeology. If you are the author of this presentation you may upload your paper, poster, presentation, or associated data (up to 3 files/30MB) for free. Please visit http://www.tdar.org/SAA2015 for instructions and more information.
Cite this Record
The Mussau Islands Lapita Exchange Network: A Review of Three Decades of Analysis. Patrick Kirch. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 395137)
This Resource is Part of the Following Collections
Keywords
General
Exchange
•
geochemical sourcing
•
Lapita Pottery
Geographic Keywords
Oceania
Spatial Coverage
min long: 111.973; min lat: -52.052 ; max long: -87.715; max lat: 53.331 ;