Pottery of Eastern New Guinea and Papua

Coutts, P. J. F.

doi:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1967.tb01352.x

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“…The only New Guinea Highlands locality where pottery making has been observed in the recent past is in the Agarabi language area, in Eastern Highlands province over 200km southeast of Wañelek [ 31 , 34 – 35 ]. Agarabi pots were not widely traded, but share many stylistic similarities with inland coiled pottery, such as Usur or Rawa pots, which are ellipsoid with everted rims and pointed bases [ 8 , 31 ].…”

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“…Agarabi pots were not widely traded, but share many stylistic similarities with inland coiled pottery, such as Usur or Rawa pots, which are ellipsoid with everted rims and pointed bases [ 8 , 31 ]. The remainder of pottery observed ethnographically in the Central Highlands was imported from the hilly highland fringes, produced in villages near the Ramu River or on the coast [ 34 – 35 ]. Petrographic descriptions of modern pottery from highland and fringe highland zones, including the Agarabi area, suggests that pots were mostly made from local river clays with natural mineral and rock inclusions ( S3 Table ).…”

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Earliest Pottery on New Guinea Mainland Reveals Austronesian Influences in Highland Environments 3000 Years Ago

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Austronesian speaking peoples left Southeast Asia and entered the Western Pacific c.4000-3000 years ago, continuing on to colonise Remote Oceania for the first time, where they became the ancestral populations of Polynesians. Understanding the impact of these peoples on the mainland of New Guinea before they entered Remote Oceania has eluded archaeologists. New research from the archaeological site of Wañelek in the New Guinea Highlands has broken this silence. Petrographic and geochemical data from pottery and new radiocarbon dating demonstrates that Austronesian influences penetrated into the highland interior by 3000 years ago. One potsherd was manufactured along the northeast coast of New Guinea, whereas others were manufactured from inland materials. These findings represent the oldest securely dated pottery from an archaeological context on the island of New Guinea. Additionally, the pottery comes from the interior, suggesting the movements of people and technological practices, as well as objects at this time. The antiquity of the Wañelek pottery is coincident with the expansion of Lapita pottery in the Western Pacific. Such occupation also occurs at the same time that changes have been identified in subsistence strategies in the archaeological record at Kuk Swamp suggesting a possible link between the two.

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Earliest Pottery on New Guinea Mainland Reveals Austronesian Influences in Highland Environments 3000 Years Ago

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“…1.2 Although no attempt is made at pottery classification, it is convenient for expository purposes to group the eleven complete or almost complete vessels into four categories based principally on shape, paste, surface treatment and decoration.3 Group 1. Five vessels share characteristics with those reported as having been manufactured in some Agarabi villages (Coutts, 1967;Watson, 1955). The design on each one is a variation of a basic theme (FIG.…”

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“…11 Although not eastern highlands, Cole's Chimbu informants at Mogl near Kerowagi, professed not t o use pottery. But see Coutts, 1967:486, andNilles, 1943/44: 115-16. pottery was collected among the Gahuku, informants at Okesana village said that they obtained pottery from the Wesan12 region (see also Coutts, 1967). Informants at Kuyahapa indicated that pottery comes to them from the Rai Coast13 through trade point of Sogomu (Gomumu).…”

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