Archaeological research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea : cultural, linguistic and environmental setting /

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Imprint:Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Language:English
Series:Archaeopress archaeology
Caution Bay studies in archaeology ; 1
Archaeopress archaeology.
Subject:Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Papua New Guinea.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Papua New Guinea.
Fouilles (Archéologie) -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Antiquities.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Papua New Guinea -- Antiquities.
Papua New Guinea.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10987091
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ISBN:178491505X
9781784915056
1784915041
9781784915049
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-199).
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Archaeopress Web site, viewed on March 1, 2017).
Summary:In 2008 intensive archaeological surveys began at Caution Bay, located 20km to the northwest of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. This was followed by the excavation of 122 stratified sites in 2009-2010, and detailed analysis of the well preserved and abundant faunal, ceramic and lithic finds has continued ever since. The Caution Bay Archaeology Project is providing new and exciting contributions to western Pacific prehistory. It has radically expanded the known geographic distribution of the Lapita Cultural Complex to include, for the first time, the southern coast of Papua New Guinea; it has established the relationship of Lapita to later cultural expressions in this area; it has pinpointed the time of arrival of domesticated animals along the southern coast of Papua New Guinea and, by inference, on the larger island of New Guinea.
Other form:Print version: Archaeological research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2016] 9781784915049