Year: 2019
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The eponymous 'Site 13' of Lapita on the west coast of New Caledonia's Grande Terre has a unique historical importance in the study of the Lapita Cultural Complex, being the first archaeological locality where dentate-stamped sherds were dated.It has also shown its richness, especially with the discovery of a series of complete pots, burial pits and preserved habitation features in the original sandy matrix.This chapter first summarises the different phases of archaeological study that have been undertaken at the site over the past century, highlighting the major damage that has occurred over the past decades.Second it presents a set of new archaeological data retrieved in early 2015, during the first phase of a cultural resource management project associated with road construction that risks leading to the destruction of a portion of the original Lapita occupation.A better understanding of the overall stratigraphic diversity of the site, as well as the presentation of a new set of radiocarbon dates and the main archaeological remains recovered, will highlight the spatial complexity of locality WKO013A and begin to provide a context for the large-scale excavations that may be conducted at the site in the near future.
Source: ANU Press eBooks
Institution: Trajectoires d'Océanie
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2995617693