First Lapita Settlement and its Chronology in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga

Burley, David V.; Connaughton, Sean P.

doi:10.1017/s0033822200041965

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“…Associated rainforest taxa included Elaeocarpus, Dysoxylum, Ellatostachys, Flacourtiaceae, Garuga, Hedycarya, Maniltoa, Melastomataceae and Papillionaceae. Microscopic (Burley and Connaughton 2007). Along with the abundant charcoal, the infilling of the lake and the spread of plants on to the marsh is attested by dramatic increases in Poaceae and Cyperaceae pollen and fern spores after 2800 yr BP.…”

Section: Vava'u Island Groupmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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Section: Vava'u Island Groupmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lapita culture has been documented on Tongatapu (Poulsen 1987;Burley and Dickinson 2001), Ha'apai (Burley 1994;Burley et al 1999) and Vava'u by about 2700-2800 yr BP (Burley and Connaughton 2007). European contact with Tonga was initiated by Dutch sailors in 1616 and by Abel Tasman in 1643 (Whistler 1991).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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“…Lapita populations were the first human inhabitants of the pristine environments of the east Melanesian and west Polynesian islands, arriving around 3100-2800 BP as part of the Neolithisation of Island South-East Asia and the Pacific (Anderson and Clark, 1999;Bedford, 2006;Bedford et al, 2009;Burley and Connaughton, 2007;Sand, 2007). For more than 40 years archaeological interpretations of their colonising subsistence strategies have been a matter of debate.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lapita subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns in the community of Teouma (Efate, Vanuatu)

Valentin¹,

Buckley²,

Herrscher³

et al. 2010

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…In this model, the founding population of Polynesia comes from Fiji, the easternmost islands of Melanesia (Kirch, 2000;Best, 2002;Sand, 2007). The dominant concentration of Lapita sites in Polynesia occurs in the Kingdom of Tonga, where multiple settlements are known and excavated throughout the archipelago Burley and Connaughton, 2007). One of these, Nukuleka, is identified as a founder colony for Polynesia .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%