A New Ceramic Assemblage from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland PNG: the Linear Shell Edge-Impressed Tradition from Bogi 1
| Main Authors: | David, Bruno, McNiven, Ian J., Leavesley, Matthew, Barker, Bryce, Mandui, Herman, Richards, Thomas, Skelly, Robert |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2012
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6405652 |
Daftar Isi:
- The investigation of long-term cultural trends along the south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea (PNG) has long focused on the characteristics of archaeological ce- ramics (e.g. Allen 1972; Bulmer 1978; Irwin 1985; Swadling 1980; Vanderwal 1973). Yet since the first professional ar- chaeological excavations in the late 1960s, only a single publication systematically reporting on excavated ceram- ics with chrono-stratigraphic detail has been published (Allen 1972), although unpublished theses have also been produced (see also Frankel and Kewibu 2000; Frankel and Rhoads 1994; Irwin 1985). These writings have been the source of major interpretations focused on: 1) the arrival of colonising ceramicists from the east some 2000 years ago; and 2) an aggregated ceramic sequence now referred to as ‘Early Papuan Pottery’ (ePP) in which ceramic conventions are said to have changed in tandem along the entire south coast of PNG, indicating a ‘connected system [that] appears to have contracted over time, suffering final disruption around 1200 BP’ (Allen et al. 2011:69). ...