Investigating Lapita Subsistence And Pottery Use Through Microscopic Residues On Ceramics
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Investigating Lapita Subsistence And Pottery Use Through Microscopic Residues On Ceramics
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Author : Alison Crowther
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Investigating Lapita Subsistence And Pottery Use Through Microscopic Residues On Ceramics written by Alison Crowther and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Lapita culture categories.
Debating Lapita
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Author : Stuart Bedford
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2019-12-12
Debating Lapita written by Stuart Bedford and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Social Science categories.
‘This volume is the most comprehensive review of Lapita research to date, tackling many of the lingering questions regarding origin and dispersal. Multidisciplinary in nature with a focus on summarising new findings, but also identifying important gaps that can help direct future research.’ — Professor Scott Fitzpatrick, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon ‘This substantial volume offers a welcome update on the definition of the Lapita culture. It significantly refreshes the knowledge on this foundational archaeological culture of the Pacific Islands in providing new data on sites and assemblages, and new discussions of hypotheses previously proposed.’ — Dr Frédérique Valentin, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris This volume comprises 23 chapters that focus on the archaeology of Lapita, a cultural horizon associated with the founding populations who first colonised much of the south west Pacific some 3000 years ago. The Lapita culture has been most clearly defined by its distinctive dentate-stamped decorated pottery and the design system represented on it and on further incised pots. Modern research now encompasses a whole range of aspects associated with Lapita and this is reflected in this volume. The broad overlapping themes of the volume—Lapita distribution and chronology, society and subsistence—relate to research questions that have long been debated in relation to Lapita.
Use Wear And Residue Analysis In Archaeology
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Author : João Manuel Marreiros
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-06
Use Wear And Residue Analysis In Archaeology written by João Manuel Marreiros and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with Social Science categories.
This book is designed to act as a readily accessible guide to different methods and techniques of use-wear and residue analysis and therefore includes a wide range of different and complementary essential topics: experimental tests, observation and record methods and techniques and the interpretation of a diversity of tool types and worked raw materials. The onset of use-wear studies was marked by the development of theory, method and techniques in order to infer prehistoric tools functionality and, therefore, understand human technological, social and cultural behavior. The last decade of functional studies, use-wear and residue analysis have been aimed at the observation, recording and interpretation of different activities and worked materials found on archaeological tools made on different types of organic and non-organic materials. This international group of contributions will be fundamental for all researchers and students of the discipline.
Archaeologies Of Island Melanesia
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Author : Mathieu Leclerc
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2019-08-08
Archaeologies Of Island Melanesia written by Mathieu Leclerc and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-08 with Social Science categories.
‘The island world of Melanesia—ranging from New Guinea and the Bismarcks through the Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia—is characterised more than anything by its boundless diversity in geography, language and culture. The deep historical roots of this diversity are only beginning to be uncovered by archaeological investigations, but as the contributions to this volume demonstrate, the exciting discoveries being made across this region are opening windows to our understanding of the historical processes that contributed to such remarkably varied cultures. Archaeologies of Island Melanesia offers a sampling of some of the recent and ongoing research that spans such topics as landscape, exchange systems, culture contact and archaeological practice, authored by some of the leading scholars in Oceanic archaeology.’ — Professor Patrick Vinton Kirch Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i Island Melanesia is a remarkable region in many respects, from its great ecological and linguistic diversity, to the complex histories of settlement and interaction spanning from the Pleistocene to the present. Archaeological research in Island Melanesia is currently going through a vibrant phase of exciting new discoveries and challenging debates about questions that apply far beyond the region. This volume draws together a variety of current perspectives in regional archaeology for Island Melanesia, focusing on Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea. It features both high-level theoretical approaches and rigorous data-driven case studies covering recent research in landscape archaeology, exchange and material culture, and cultural practices.
A Structural Approach To Lapita Ceramic Design Analysis
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Author : Kathleen Gloria LeBlanc
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
A Structural Approach To Lapita Ceramic Design Analysis written by Kathleen Gloria LeBlanc and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Methodological approaches to archaeological ceramic design analysis often rely upon the subjective identification and comparison of decorative design elements and motifs. In an effort to develop more objective methods, I propose and evaluate the utility of a new structural approach that quantifies the complexity and organization of design, predominantly through the use of microscopy techniques. The approach is compared to element/motif analysis and applied to data sets of Lapita ceramics, the ceramic series that demarcates exploration and first settlement by Austronesian speaking peoples across Oceania. I am first concerned with the Eastern Lapita Province (Fiji, Lau, Tonga and Samoa), a region that is known to share motifs, but differs in motif application and layout. Applying both motif and structural analysis, I not only identify variation in results between the two methods but distinguish and isolate regional ceramic variation. This, then, leads me to question the cohesiveness of the Eastern Lapita Province as it is previously defined. Second, I extend my analysis to incorporate ceramic samples from the Western (Vanuatu) and Southern (New Caledonia) Lapita provinces. Ostensibly, I define ancestral relationships between these regions as Oceania was explored and settled by Lapita peoples. Finally, I apply this approach to Lapita ceramic assemblages across the Tongan archipelago. High precision dating of ceramic assemblages in Tonga, combined with motif and structural analysis, gives insight into the cohesiveness of a Lapita potting community and the rapid disappearance of decorative applications within a century and a half after colonization. Difference in results provided by structural versus element/motif analysis could be due to several factors, including cultural transmission mechanisms through which potters choose designs and then place them onto a pot. These mechanisms have yet to be identified through hypotheses tested with both structural and element/motif ceramic design data employing a single data set. This study presents an important step in this direction for Lapita archaeology. Elements and motifs are no doubt important for the analysis of design, but structural application can and should be used as a complementary approach in order to understand the degree to which both aspects of design signal potter interaction.
Investigating The Raw Materials Used For Lapita And Post Lapita Pottery Manufacturing
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Author : Mathieu Leclerc
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Investigating The Raw Materials Used For Lapita And Post Lapita Pottery Manufacturing written by Mathieu Leclerc and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
The Lapita pottery displaying dentate stamped decorations is at the core of our actual understanding of the human colonisation of Oceania about 3000 years ago. One of the ways to extract information about these past societies is by characterising the ceramic collections and examining the chemical compositions of the various vessels. This project examines the compositional similarities and dissimilarities of early pottery assemblages in Vanuatu. Connecting the technological styles with contextual cultural information, such as decorations or vessel forms, lead to a better understanding of the technological choices faced during pottery production. These decisions are taken following the culturally accepted rules embodied in the production process and consequently, this study allows a better understanding of significant parts of the socio-political and economic aspects of Lapita and post-Lapita societies. Results show that the vast majority of the Lapita and post-Lapita ceramic vessels analysed were produced locally. The homogeneity of the dentate-stamped decorations across Lapita sites reveals that ideas were transferred more than objects and that the ideological signification of these vessels was more important than their economic value. It is also evident from the results that the compositional variability observed in earlier Lapita ceramic collection is much more significant than what is observed from the more recent assemblages. This variability of technological styles for Lapita pots is generally seen as a consequence resulting from mobile settlement patterns. However, the important natural variability of the raw materials used to produce pottery demonstrates that this mobility is generally restricted to a relatively small-scale since not much movement or geographical distance would be required to produce compositional profiles corresponding to the results. From a political economy perspective, the significant variability of Lapita technological styles demonstrates that there wasn't any apparent control or imposed limitations over access to the raw materials used to produce pottery and that there was no specialised production. It also suggests that a technological exploratory phase probably followed the arrival of Lapita potters on previously unoccupied islands with unfamiliar raw materials. The important decrease in varieties of technological styles between Lapita and immediately post-Lapita assemblages combined with the almost exclusive usage of local materials by post-Lapita potters support the idea that a general regionalisation process was occurring at the time when dentate stamped pottery stopped being produced. The almost systematic absence of decoration and the technological homogeneity in immediately post-Lapita ceramic collections are in such contrast with Lapita decorations and the fracture between both so clean that it should be seen as a strategy to differentiate the subsequent cultural production from the former Lapita political, economic and religious structures. Overall, the combined modification of both the decorative and technological style between Lapita and immediately post-Lapita indicates that some major social transformation occurred, as has been already suggested by others. In terms of methodological contribution, this study shows that LA-ICP-MS represents an excellent analytical technique to gather bulk compositional profiles of ceramic assemblages and that it represents a viable alternative to petrography.
Changes In The Quality Of Lapita Pottery Through Time
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Author : Carly Roxanne Mailhot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Changes In The Quality Of Lapita Pottery Through Time written by Carly Roxanne Mailhot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Lapita culture categories.
In this thesis I examine change in ceramic quality and production over time (3000- 2500 BP) in the Lapita site series SE-SZ8, SE-RF2, SE-RF6, and SE-RF19 from Reef/Santa Cruz Island Group in the southeast Solomon Islands. I seek to provide a more rigorous evaluation of ceramic quality and to evaluate the degree to which simplification of Lapita pottery technology over time, which led to the eventual loss of production in much of the Western Pacific including the Reef/Santa Cruz Island Group, is related to a decline in quality as monitored by firing temperature and manufacturing technique. Experimentation using re-firing and measurement of change in magnetic susceptibility is used to estimate original firing temperatures. Results show there is a significantly lower mean firing temperature at the post-Lapita site, SE-RF19. There is no statistical difference between the mean firing temperatures at the three Lapita sites. However, SE-SZ8 does have the lowest mean firing temperature, which coincides with design analysis results indicating SE-SZ8 to have the lowest quality pottery of the three Lapita sites. A micro-CT scanner is employed to investigate methods of manufacture. The results of this portion of the study demonstrate that the coiling method of pottery manufacture was not employed.
Archaeology In Oceania
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Archaeology In Oceania written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Archaeology categories.
Materiality Techniques And Society In Pottery Production
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Author : Daniel Albero Santacreu
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Materiality Techniques And Society In Pottery Production written by Daniel Albero Santacreu and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with History categories.
Daniel Albero Santacreu presents a wide overview of certain aspects of the pottery analysis and summarizes most of the methodological and theoretical information currently applied in archaeology in order to develop wide and deep analysis of ceramic pastes. The book provides an adequate framework for understanding the way pottery production is organised and clarifies the meaning and role of the pottery in archaeological and traditional societies. The goal of this book is to encourage reflection, especially by those researchers who face the analysis of ceramics for the first time, by providing a background for the generation of their own research and to formulate their own questions depending on their concerns and interests. The three-part structure of the book allows readers to move easily from the analysis of the reality and ceramic material culture to the world of the ideas and theories and to develop a dialogue between data and their interpretation. Daniel Albero Santacreu is a Lecturer Assistant in the University of the Balearic Islands, member of the Research Group Arqueo UIB and the Ceramic Petrology Group. He has carried out the analysis of ceramics from several prehistoric societies placed in the Western Mediterranean, as well as the study of handmade pottery from contemporary ethnic groups in Northeast Ghana.
Temper Sands In Prehistoric Oceanian Pottery
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Author : William R. Dickinson
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Temper Sands In Prehistoric Oceanian Pottery written by William R. Dickinson and has been published by Geological Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Science categories.
"Oceanian ceramic cultures making earthenware pottery spread during the past 3500 years through a dozen major island groups spanning 6000 km of the tropical Pacific Ocean from western Micronesia to western Polynesia. Island potters mixed sand as temper into clay bodies during ceramic manufacture. The nature of island sands is governed by the geotectonics of hotspot chains, island arcs, subduction zones, backarc basins, and remnant arcs as well as by sedimentology. Because small islands with bedrock exposures of restricted character are virtual point sources of sand, many tempers are diagnostic of specific islands. Petrographic study of temper sands in thin section allows distinction between indigenous pottery and exotic pottery transported from elsewhere. Study of 2223 prehistoric Oceanian potsherds from 130 islands and island clusters indicates the nature of Oceanian temper types and documents 105 cases of interisland transport of ceramics over distances typically