A radiocarbon chronology for the Eastern Lapita frontier in Tonga

Burley, David V.; Nelson, D. E.; Shutler, Richard

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4453.1999.tb00429.x

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“…Flenley and others (1999) examined two small swamps in Ha'apai on the islands of Ha'afeva and Foa for their potential to provide palaeoecological information applicable to Lapita and later archaeological sites investigated by Burley and colleagues (Burley 1994;Burley et al 1999Burley et al , 2001). The two swamps examined, Finemui (on Ha'afeva) and Lotofoa (on Foa), were most likely former lagoons within the atolls (Flenley et al 1999 Basal organics began to accumulate in Finemui Swamp about 5770 yr BP (Flenley et al 1999).…”

Section: Ha'apai Island Groupmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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Section: Ha'apai Island Groupmentioning

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“…Lapita culture has been documented on Tongatapu (Poulsen 1987;Burley and Dickinson 2001), Ha'apai (Burley 1994;Burley et al 1999) and Vava'u by about 2700-2800 yr BP (Burley and Connaughton 2007). European contact with Tonga was initiated by Dutch sailors in 1616 and by Abel Tasman in 1643 (Whistler 1991).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

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2010

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“…Only a few years ago, the latest of numerous minor revisions of Lapita colonization chronology suggested that the eastern region (Fiji and West Polynesia) was reached 2900-2800 B.P. (Anderson and Clark 1999;Burley et al 1999). Now it seems that the first Lapita colonists, bearing ceramics of Western Lapita design and New Britain obsidian, reached the region around 3000 B.P.…”

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Indo-Pacific Migration and Colonization—Introduction

Anderson¹,

O'Connor²

2008

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In this Introduction we comment on issues raised by the present collection of papers as they appear relevant in thinking about the settlement of the Indo-Pacific from the Pleistocene to the late Holocene. Successful maritime migration across this vast region was obviously related to voyaging technology and colonizing behaviors. Here we critique earlier models that indicate simple unidirectional expansion and posit farming, or indeed any other single driver, for maritime expansion in the mid–late Holocene. It now appears that the development of interaction spheres in Wallacea, and perhaps connections with New Guinea, have contributed significantly to late Holocene societies in ISEA and Island Melanesia. Even in Remote Oceania where long-term colonizing success was dependent on a transported tropical horticultural complex, initial settlement strategies are likely to have been highly varied and to have had variable success. Nor is migration restricted to the founding events of island settlement; rather, it continued as a significant component of the formation and re-formation of island cultures up to the historical era and, of course, within the present day. Like the authors represented here we suggest that if we wish to make progress in understanding the motives, sources, mechanisms and results of colonizing migration, there will be greatest reward in exploring the complexity and variability that lie behind it.

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“…It has been demonstrated that in Remote Oceania it generally lasted only 200-300 years (Anderson and Clark 1999;Bedford 2003;Burley et al 1999;Sand 1997). It is from about 2700 years ago that clear divergence in the archaeological record begins, suggesting a contraction or specialization of exchange, an increasing focus on local adaptation, sociopolitical transformation, and possibly secondary migrations by groups with a quite different cultural background (Spriggs 1997a: 152-161).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Northern Vanuatu as a Pacific Crossroads: The Archaeology of Discovery, Interaction, and the Emergence of the "Ethnographic Present"

Bedford¹,

Spriggs²

2008

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Northern Vanuatu is a significant crossroads region of the Southwest Pacific. This paper outlines current archaeological research being undertaken in the area, focusing on defining initial human settlement there some 3000 years ago and subsequent cultural transformations which led to the establishment of the ethnographic present. The study to date has contributed to a more detailed picture of inter- and intraarchipelago interaction, settlement pattern, subsistence, and cultural differentiation. The research contributes to regional debates on human colonization, patterns of social interaction, and the drivers of social change in island contexts.

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A radiocarbon chronology for the Eastern Lapita frontier in Tonga

Cited by 62 publications

References 16 publications

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Indo-Pacific Migration and Colonization—Introduction

Northern Vanuatu as a Pacific Crossroads: The Archaeology of Discovery, Interaction, and the Emergence of the "Ethnographic Present"

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