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Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland

Year: 2019

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: The Caution Bay archaeological project on the south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea has excavated 122 sites over a 9 km 2 area.Lapita ceramics appear at a number of sites at c. 2900 cal.BP.Here we present the results of excavations at Moiapu 3, a site that helps define the end of the dentate-stamped Lapita phase of this region.It is suggested that the decline and ultimate cessation of dentate stamping related to a loss of symbolism during a period of major socioeconomic readjustment and innovation.

Source: ANU Press eBooks

DOI: 10.22459/ta52.2019.03

Authors: Bruno David, Ken Aplin, Helene Peck, Robert Skelly, Matthew Leavesley, Jerome Mialanes, Katherine Szabó, Brent Koppel, Fiona Petchey, Thomas Richards, Sean Ulm, Ian J. McNiven, Cassandra Rowe, Samantha J. Aird, Patrick Faulkner, Anne Ford

Language: English

Topic: Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Australian Research Council

Awards: Before, during and after Lapita: 5000 years of cultural continuity and transformation at Caution Bay, southern Papua New Guinea, Archaeology of the Gulf Province Lowlands, Papua New Guinea, Resolving fundamental problems in the dating of marine shell in the tropics

OpenAlex ID: W2995504705

FWCI: 17.68

Cites: 47

Cited by: 50

Related to: 10