Origin and significance of a founding settlement in Polynesia

Burley, David V.; Dickinson, William R.

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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

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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).…”

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

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2010

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“…The EPF ceramic assemblages are described in Chapter 11 (see also Clark 2000a). The interpretation of Lapita ceramics in Fiji, including the possibility of an early division between west Fiji and east Fiji, has implications for understanding the colonisation pattern and diversity of Lapita groups entering Fiji (Burley and Dickinson 2001;Clark and Anderson 2001;Best 2002), an issue which cannot be examined using the EPF collections alone, and the topic is examined elsewhere (Chapter 16; Clark and Anderson 2001;Clark and Murray 2006;Clark and Bedford 2008).…”

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Post-Lapita ceramic change in Fiji

Clark¹

2009

The Early Prehistory of Fiji

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“…At the same time, more Lapita sites were also being found in Fiji and Tonga (Burley et al 2001;Clark and Anderson 2001), and the tally of Lapita sites in Island New Guinea has continued to grow (Specht and Torrence 2007; Summerhayes 2007).…”

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“…Subsidence is much less on other islands in the Samoa group (e.g.Tutuila), but except for Mulifanua, no other Lapita settlements have been found, despite large-scale investigations associated with development (Addison and Morrison In press). (Burley et al 2001;. Burley (2007:196) notes that the fading Lapita presence in Vava'u, and by extension Samoa, reflects the fact that these islands are the 'frontier periphery' of Lapita colonisation (Burley 2007:196).…”

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Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes (TA29) : Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes

Clark¹,

Leach²,

O’Connor³

2008

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terra australis 29Terra 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. List of volumes in Terra AustralisVolume 1: Burrill Lake and Currarong: Coastal Sites in Southern New South Wales. R.J. Lampert (1971) Volume 2: Ol Tumbuna: Archaeological Excavations in the Eastern Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. J.P. White (1972) Volume 3 Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2008. 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. ISLANDS OF INQUIRY Papers in honour of Atholl Anderson'Aye,' said the Captain, reverentially; 'it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark,' said the Captain, solemnly holding up his hook, 'as you can't see your hand afore you, excepting when the wiwid lightning reweals the same; and when you drive, drive, drive through the storm and dark, as if you was a driving, head on, to the world without end,'Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1848:252). Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard terra australis 29 terra australis 29 PrefaceThe impetus for this volume is the pending retirement of Professor Atholl Anderson from the Department of Archaeology and Natural History in the Australian National University in June 2008, after a distinguished and brilliant career in academic archaeology. In geographic range, Atholl's field research has extended over large swathes of the Pacific Ocean, from the west coast of South America to Western Micronesia, to Island Southeast Asia, and west to the Indian Ocean. Few prehistorians of Oceania have seen as much of their subject matter at such close quarters. The variety and span of his study areas are matched, and quite possibly exceeded, by the prodigious variety of subjects he has tackled in numerous scientific publications, which are ...

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Origin and significance of a founding settlement in Polynesia

Cited by 71 publications

References 13 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

Post-Lapita ceramic change in Fiji

Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes (TA29) : Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes

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