Among Polynesia's first pots

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• 作者：David V. Burley ; William R. Dickinson
• 关键词：Lapita ; Polynesian origins ; pXRF ; Ceramic geochemistry ; Ceramic petrography
• 刊名：Journal of Archaeological Science
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：May 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：37
• 期：5
• 页码：1020-1026
• 全文大小：711 K

文摘

X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and petrographic thin section microscopy are applied to a sample of anomalous appearing Lapita pottery sherds from Nukuleka, the earliest archaeological site in Polynesia. Both analyses indicate non-local origins for the ceramic vessels, suggesting they were brought on founding canoes. Mineral inclusions in ceramic tempers eliminate sources to the west of Tonga in eastern Melanesia; rather the temper source is most probably a dacitic high island from a distant island arc of central Melanesia. Polynesian origins and settlement are issues more complex than currently recognized by the orthodox progressive settlement model for Lapita expansion across Oceania.