Pacific archaeology : documenting the past 50,000 years : papers from the 2011 Lapita Pacific Archaeology Conference / edited by: Glenn R. Summerhayes & Hallie Buckley.

Foreword / Glenn Summerhayes & Hattie Buckley -- Was there once a zone of vegeculture linking Melanesia with Northeast India? Roger Blench -- Quantitative phylogenetic analyses of Lapita decoration in near and remote Oceania / Ethan Cochrane -- Obsidian acquisition on the Sepik Coast of Northern Papua New Guinea during the last two millennia / Mark Golitko, Matthew Schauer & John Edward Terrell -- Simple technique, elaborate tools: Lapita flaked stone tools in New Caledonia / Louis Lagarde & Christophe Sand / Identification of volcanic glass sources inferred from geochemical analysis of artifacts on Leeward Hawari Island / Steven P. Lundblad, Peter R. Mills, Mark D. McCoy, Jennifer G. Kahn, Katherine Mulliken & Dane Kaylor -- Gender, labour division and the skeleton: A case study from the Teouma Lapita Cemetery / Aimee Foster, Hallie Buckley Nancy Tayles, Mattliew Spriggs & Stuart Bedford -- The stable isotope analysis of prehistoric human diet in the Pacific Islands with an emphasis on Lapita / Rebecca Kinaston & Hattie Buckley -- Ceramic ethnoarchaeology in Kadavu, Fiji: Attribute variation within a single ceramic vessel template / Kathleen LeBlanc -- Of charcoals and forests: results and perspectives from an archaeobotanical investigation of precolonial Kanak settlement sites in New Caledonia / Emilie Dotte-Sarout, John Ouetcho, Jacques Bole, David Barret & Christophe Sand -- Diversity and networked interdependence in the Western Solomons 138 Peter Sheppard & Richard Walter -- Is there an Incised Lapita Phase after Dentate-stamped Poetter Ends? Data from Teouma, Efate Island, Vanuatu / Matthew Spriggs & Stuart Bedford -- Three reconstructed Lapita plainware pots from Caution Bay, South Coast of mainland Papua New Guinea / Bruno David, Ian J. McNiven, Holly Jones-Amin, Sean P. Connaughton, Charles Parkinson, Cassandra Rowe, Thomas Richards, Matthew Leavesley, Bryce Barker, Herman Mandui, Gisella Campanelli & Nick Flood -- Diving for potter: Lapita in Jacquinot Bay, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Matthew G. Leavesley & Andrew Sarar -- Examining the dispersal of domestic chickens into and around the Pacific before and after european contact: a case study from the Santa Cruz Islands / Scott Harris, Roger C. Green & Alice A. Storey --Spreading the word: Archaeological awareness and the wider public in Vanuatu / Richard Shing.

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