Exploring Manufacturing Variability in Calcareous Sand Tempered Pottery on Yap, Western Caroline Islands
Author(s): Haden Kingrey; Matthew Napolitano; Geoffrey Clark; Scott Fitzpatrick
Year: 2018
Summary
The oldest identified sites on Yap are identified by presence calcareous sand tempered (CST) pottery from deeply stratified deposits. With few exceptions, CST pottery, made from locally produced clay, has been recovered from Rungluw and Pemrang, two sites in southern Yap, western Micronesia (northwest tropical Pacific). Although poor preservation conditions and small sample sizes make it difficult to reconstruct vessel size, detailed analysis of sherds demonstrates at least two sub-types. Recent excavations at Pemrang have yielded the largest sample of CST pottery ever recovered and allow for inter- and intra-site comparison. Results will help us understand the poorly understood early settlement of Yap.
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Exploring Manufacturing Variability in Calcareous Sand Tempered Pottery on Yap, Western Caroline Islands. Haden Kingrey, Matthew Napolitano, Geoffrey Clark, Scott Fitzpatrick. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443451)
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Geographic Keywords
Pacific Islands
Spatial Coverage
min long: 153.633; min lat: -51.399 ; max long: -107.578; max lat: 24.207 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22508