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Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement - Whole Book (9.8 MB)

• Preliminary Pages
• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction
  1. Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement: Progress, prospects and persistent problems
• Lapita Dispersal and Archaeological Signatures
  2. The Origins of Early Lapita Culture: The testimony of historical linguistics
  3. Small islands in the big picture: the formative period of Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago
  4. Lapita all over: Land-use on the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea
  5. Lapita Writ Small? Revisiting the Austronesian Colonisation of the Papuan South Coast
  6. Leap-frogging or Limping? Recent evidence from the Lapita Littoral Fringe, New Georgia, Solomon Islands
  7. Sample Size and the Reef/Santa Cruz Lapita Sequence
  8. Makué (Aore Island, Santo, Vanuatu): A new Lapita site in the ambit of New Britain obsidian distribution
  9. Echoes from a distance: Research into the Lapita occupation of the Rove Peninsula, Southwest Viti Levu, Fiji
  10. Paleoenvironment of Lapita sites on Fanga ‘Uta Lagoon, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga
  11. In Search of Lapita and Polynesian Plainware Settlements in Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga
  12. Can We Dig It? Archaeology of Ancestral Polynesian Society in Tonga: A first look from Falevai
• Lapita Ceramics
  13. The implements of Lapita ceramic stamped ornamentation
  14. The excavation, conservation and reconstruction of Lapita burial pots from the Teouma site, Efate, Central Vanuatu
  15. Detailed analysis of Lapita Face Motifs: Case studies from the Reef/Santa Cruz sites and New Caledonia Lapita Site 13A
  16. Looking at the big motifs: A typology of the central band decorations of the Lapita ceramic tradition of New Caledonia (Southern Melanesia) and preliminary regional comparisons
  17. Specialisation, standardisation and Lapita ceramics