Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence 2019
DOI: 10.22459/ta52.2019.16
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Along the roads of the Lapita people: Designs, groups and travels

Abstract: A new set of rules that allows the division of Lapita designs into two distinct corpora is described. As a result, it is now possible to distinguish for a vast majority of designs-and not only the specific 'group marker' designs-precisely to which corpus and which 'group' they belonged. The implications of these results are significant: they confirm the existence of several dozen small groups of potters, each of them exclusively using a given corpus. The rules can also assign, with some confidence, each decora… Show more

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“…In the three Lapita sites with makers' marks for which we can interpret details of site layout and function, a ritual emphasis has been suggested, either as a cemetery, or a house-like structure with evidence for ritual activity. Scholars such as Scarlett Chiu and Arnaud Noury attempt to 'read' the meaning of particular Lapita designs as clan or 'house' symbols or otherwise denoting social connectedness, or as representative of ancestral or cosmogonic figures (Chiu 2005(Chiu , 2015(Chiu , 2019Noury 2005Noury , 2019Noury and Galipaud 2011).…”
Section: Terra Australis 57mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the three Lapita sites with makers' marks for which we can interpret details of site layout and function, a ritual emphasis has been suggested, either as a cemetery, or a house-like structure with evidence for ritual activity. Scholars such as Scarlett Chiu and Arnaud Noury attempt to 'read' the meaning of particular Lapita designs as clan or 'house' symbols or otherwise denoting social connectedness, or as representative of ancestral or cosmogonic figures (Chiu 2005(Chiu , 2015(Chiu , 2019Noury 2005Noury , 2019Noury and Galipaud 2011).…”
Section: Terra Australis 57mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Lastly, it is widely believed that the forms of decorated vessels directly related to the social occasions within which they were employed. This is particularly the case with dentate-stamped vessels that were elevated upon stands, which have been highlighted by a number of authors as being related to the preparation and presentation of food at important social events (Kirch 1997:122;Leclerc 2018:713;Marshall 2008:70;Summerhayes 2000a:303), or more specifically in the context of ceremonial feasts (Clark 2007:297;Jones 2015;Kirch 2021c:83) (for further discussion concerning the social function(s) of Lapita decorated wares see Best 2002:99-100;Noury 2019;Spriggs 1990Spriggs , 1997Spriggs :156-157, 2019Terrell and Schechter 2009:53-54;and Terrell and Welsch 1997:568).…”
Section: Lapita Pottery and Its Social Functionsmentioning
confidence: 99%