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Archaeology | Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand) | Archaeology Of Agricultural And Pastoral Societies | Archaeology Of Complex Societies: Asia, Africa, Oceania And The | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Heritage and Cultural Conservation | Archaeological Science | Volcanology
Conserving Pacific Peoples Heritage | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Pacific Peoples Education | Natural Hazards not elsewhere classified | Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified |
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-05-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-11-2017
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5139
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 20-08-2014
Publisher: The Polynesian Society
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Publisher: The Royal Society
Date: 07-03-2022
Abstract: Oceania is a key region for studying human dispersals, adaptations and interactions with other hominin populations. Although archaeological evidence now reveals occupation of the region by approximately 65–45 000 years ago, its human fossil record, which has the best potential to provide direct insights into ecological adaptations and population relationships, has remained much more elusive. Here, we apply radiocarbon dating and stable isotope approaches to the earliest human remains so far excavated on the islands of Near and Remote Oceania to explore the chronology and diets of the first preserved human in iduals to step across these Pacific frontiers. We demonstrate that the oldest human (or indeed hominin) fossil outside of the mainland New Guinea-Aru area dates to approximately 11 800 years ago. Furthermore, although these early sea-faring populations have been associated with a specialized coastal adaptation, we show that Late Pleistocene–Holocene humans living on islands in the Bismarck Archipelago and in Vanuatu display a persistent reliance on interior tropical forest resources. We argue that local tropical habitats, rather than purely coasts or, later, arriving domesticates, should be emphasized in discussions of human diets and cultural practices from the onset of our species' arrival in this part of the world. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Tropical forests in the deep human past’.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2000
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-05-2019
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 07-08-2019
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 11-12-2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 02-10-2014
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199925070.013.015
Abstract: The more than 1,000-kilometer stretch of eighty-two inhabited islands comprising the Vanuatu archipelago is centrally situated in the southwest Pacific. These islands were first settled in the late Holocene by Lapita colonists as part of a rapid migratory event that travelled as far east as Tonga. Over three millennia Vanuatu has transformed into an extraordinarily erse country both linguistically and culturally. The challenge to archaeology is to explain how such ersity has arisen. This chapter addresses a range of themes that are central to the definition and understanding of the timing and nature of initial settlement, levels of interconnectedness, cultural transformation and ersification, human impact on pristine environments, and impacts of natural hazards on resident populations. Vanuatu research contributes to regional debates on human colonization, patterns of social interaction, and the drivers of social change in island contexts.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2010
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2006
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00094023
Abstract: Lapita pottery, the herald of the settlement of the wider island Pacific, turns out to have been painted with lime and clay, to give a red and white finish over the decorated surface. The find of a pot in Vanuatu, its sherds in different states of deterioration showed why painted Lapita has previously gone unrecognised. The author suggests that it was widespread from 1000 BC and reminds us that pottery was painted in China 7000 years ago.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-12-2016
DOI: 10.1038/SREP38317
Abstract: We report the unprecedented Lapita exploitation and subsequent extinction of large megafauna tortoises ( ?Meiolania damelipi ) on tropical islands during the late Holocene over a 281,000 km 2 region of the southwest Pacific spanning from the Vanuatu archipelago to Viti Levu in Fiji. Zooarchaeological analyses have identified seven early archaeological sites with the remains of this distinctive hornless tortoise, unlike the Gondwanan horned meiolaniid radiation to the southwest. These large tortoise radiations in the Pacific may have contributed to the rapid dispersal of early mobile Neolithic hunters throughout southwest Melanesia and on to western Polynesia. Subsequent rapid extinctions of these terrestrial herbivorous megafauna are likely to have led to significant changes in ecosystems that help explain changes in current archaeological patterns from Post-Lapita contexts in the region.
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 21-04-2023
Abstract: Although the peopling of Remote Oceania is well-documented as a general process of eastward migrations from Island Southeast Asia and Near Oceania toward the archipelagos of Remote Oceania, the origin and the development of Polynesian societies in the Western Pacific (Polynesian Outliers), far away from the Polynesian triangle, remain unclear. Here, we present a large-scale geochemical sourcing study of stone artifacts excavated from archeological sites in central Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and the Caroline Islands and provide unambiguous evidence of multiple long-distance voyages, with exotic stone materials being transported up to 2500 kilometers from their source. Our results emphasize high mobility in the Western Pacific during the last millennium CE and offer insights on the scale and timing of contacts between the Polynesian Outliers, their neighbors in the Western Pacific, and societies of Western Polynesia.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-09-2021
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 11-12-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-08-2018
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5165
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 06-2009
DOI: 10.1162/LEON.2009.42.3.284
Abstract: In 2008 we completed facial approximations of four in iduals from the early Lapita Culture, a seafaring people who were the first to settle the islands of the Western Pacific circa 3000 years ago. Typically an approximation is performed as a 3D sculpture or using computer graphics. We chose to sketch what we have been able to determine from the remains because the artistic conventions of drawing work with visual perception in ways that are more complementary to the knowledge, theories and methods that make up the facial approximation of human remains.
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 11-12-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 31-12-2022
Publisher: Pacific Science
Date: 04-2015
DOI: 10.2984/69.2.6
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-1999
Publisher: OpenEdition
Date: 30-06-0003
DOI: 10.4000/JSO.5773
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2010
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-02-2018
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 11-12-2019
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 08-03-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-05-2019
Abstract: Archaeological constructions of past identities often rely more or less explicitly on contemporary notions of culture and community in ways that can sometimes oversimplify the past and present. The archaeology of European colonialism has shown the proliferation of ‘hybrid’ identities that emerged from relatively recent cross-cultural encounters (though this concept is not without its critics). We argue that this perspective can also inform interpretations of the deeper past, with specific reference to ongoing research in the Polynesian Outliers of Futuna and Aniwa, south Vanuatu. Polynesian Outliers represent precisely the kinds of cross-cultural spaces where hybrid identities likely emerged during the pre-European era. A theoretical approach drawing on archaeological approaches to hybridity and ethnogenetic theories applied to the south Vanuatu Outliers allows for a clearer understanding of the roles difference and familiarity played in identity formation in the past.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2006
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00094448
Abstract: The Teouma site, on Efate in central Vanuatu, was uncovered during quarrying in 2003 and has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries to date for the colonisation of Remote Oceania. Not only did it bring to light a fine assemblage of the famously diagnostic Lapita ceramics, but a cemetery of more than 25 in iduals along with the pots. The skeletons offer an opportunity to investigate the origins of the ‘Lapita people’ who first appeared in the Bismarck archipelago around 3300 years ago and rapidly moved through island Melanesia and Western Polynesia over the next few centuries.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2017
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2018
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 02-2007
DOI: 10.22459/PVP.02.2007
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 05-03-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-06-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-03-2019
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5180
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2019
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5181
Publisher: OpenEdition
Date: 30-06-2009
DOI: 10.4000/JSO.5800
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 07-08-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-01-2020
DOI: 10.1038/S41562-019-0808-Y
Abstract: Remote Oceania, which largely consists of islands covered in tropical forests, was the last region on earth to be successfully colonized by humans, beginning 3,000 years ago. We examined human dental calculus from burials in an ancient Lapita culture cemetery to gain insight into the early settlement of this previously untouched tropical environment, specifically on the island of Efate in Vanuatu. Dental calculus is an ideal material to analyse questions of human and plant interactions due to the ingestion of plant-derived microparticles that become incorporated into the calculus as it forms throughout a person's life. Most of the microparticles identified here are from tree and shrub resources, including a ~2,900 calibrated (cal) BP ex le of banana in Remote Oceania, providing direct evidence for the importance of forests and arboriculture during the settlement of Remote Oceania.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-04-2022
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5261
Start Date: 02-2005
End Date: 02-2009
Amount: $490,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 04-2020
End Date: 12-2024
Amount: $328,788.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 02-2013
End Date: 03-2017
Amount: $711,333.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 05-2016
End Date: 05-2021
Amount: $317,698.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 02-2008
End Date: 01-2013
Amount: $1,328,745.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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