Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania
Patrick Vinton Kirch
The Lapita Cultural Complex--first uncovered in the mid-20th century as a widespread archaeological complex spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia--has subsequently become recognized as of fundamental importance to Oceanic prehistory. Notable for its highly distinctive, elaborate, dentate-stamped pottery, Lapita sites date to between 3500-2700 BP, spanning the geographic range from the Bismarck Archipelago to Tonga and Samoa. The Lapita culture has been interpreted as the archaeological manifestation of a diaspora of Austronesian-speaking people (specifically of Proto-Oceanic language) who rapidly expanded from Near Oceania (the New Guinea-Bismarcks region) into Remote Oceania, where no humans had previously ventured. Lapita is thus a foundational culture throughout much of the southwestern Pacific, ancestral to much of the later, ethnographically-attested cultural diversity of the region.
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Год:
2021
Издание:
1
Издательство:
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Язык:
english
Страницы:
594
ISBN 10:
1950446239
ISBN 13:
9781950446230
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PDF, 26.24 MB
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english, 2021