Prehistoric Exchange Across the Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea

Lilley, Ian

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“…What is much less certain is when this landscape was first set up. A tentative date of 900 BP can be suggested from the present slender archaeological evidence (see below) and this seems to fit in with findings from other parts of coastal Papua New Guinea (Irwin 1985, Lilley 1988).…”

Section: Past Social Landscapes In the Arawessupporting

confidence: 86%

“…There is also evidence to suggest that the broader regional system of the time was unlike that found later. Lilley's research in Siassi only found slight evidence of Lapita occupation on the Siassi island of Tuam in contrast to the abundant evidence of dense settlement in the later period (Lilley 1986). It appears that there were no specialist traders on the Siassi islands at this time.…”

Section: Past Social Landscapes In the Arawesmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Until increased contact with Europeans during and after the Pacific War led to its restructuring, an extensive network of trading links existed between the north coast of Papua New Guinea, the Siassi islands and New Britain. In this area there were three main groups of traders active: the Bilibili, the Tamis and the Siassi islanders (Harding 1967, Lilley 1986). The Siassi traders, on whom I shall concentrate, moved over an area encompassing the Kunai coast to the Huon Gulf on the New Guinea mainland, the offshore islands such as Arop, Sakar, Tolokiwa and o , 100km !…”

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Prehistoric social landscapes of the Arawe Islands, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea

Gosden

1989

Archaeology in Oceania

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This paper lays out a theoretical framework for interpreting a regional archaeological record in terms of the social formations which produced it. The central idea is that of the social landscape. Past social groups are seen to operate in the landscape in order to provide and sustain a social system, rather than reacting to the structure of their environment. The idea of a social landscape is employed to examine how groups organise themselves on a local regional scale to meet social goals and to link these forms of organisation to the archaeological record they leave behind. The central social principle explored here is that of debt, which enjoins dispersal of materials and sets up landscapes which are non‐accumulative. Data from the Arawe island group on the south coast of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea are presented to illustrate these ideas.

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Section: Past Social Landscapes In the Arawessupporting

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Section: Past Social Landscapes In the Arawesmentioning

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Prehistoric social landscapes of the Arawe Islands, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea

Gosden

1989

Archaeology in Oceania

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“…The exchange system within which the Arawe Islands sit (Fig. 2) has been well documented in both past and present, but usually from the perspective of the Siassi Islands and other areas to the west (Harding 1967, Lilley 1988. No one doubts that the Siassi system of trade and life was dependent on the sea.…”

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Are islands insular? Landscape vs. seascape in the case of the Arawe Islands, Papua New Guinea

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Pavlides

1994

Archaeology in Oceania

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The predominant view of Pacific prehistory holds that the Pacific islands were isolated in most periods and that isolation is the key to their development. We question the development-inisolation model and present data from the Arawe Islands, West New Britain to show that, although close to large land masses, the sea has linked these islands into a wider world in the late prehistoric period. We present ethnohistorical data on settlement, subsistence and trade which shows the nature of these links and discuss how far sea links have affected the use of the land. If the way in which land is used is partly determined by the sea, we should think in terms of seascape, as well as landscape, extending the range of the latter term. We argue further that the key feature of all periods of Pacific prehistory is connectivity by sea and that in the process of colonisation, not only were par-

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“…Considerable modifications to insular mammal assemblages via prehistoric translocations have been documented for Melanesia. We removed translocated species from island inventories; translocation was documented through the sudden appearance of a species in an island's fossil record and/or via anthropology or genetic studies: Egloff (1975), Koopman (1979), Lilley (1986), Flannery et al (1988), Flannery and Wickler (1990), Flannery and White (1991), Flannery (1993, 1995a, Leavesley and Allen (1998), Williams (1999), Heinsohn (2003), Helgen and Flannery (2004b), White (2004), Summerhayes (2007), Heinsohn (2010), and Macqueen et al (2010). However, the fossil record is extremely sparse (Flannery 1995a), and it was not possible to confirm every island population of each species as being natural or translocated.…”

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The mammals of northernMelanesia: speciation, ecology, and biogeography

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Analyses of the distributions of northern Melanesia's avifauna have helped researchers formulate major theories of evolution, speciation, and biogeography. In comparison, the region's mammalian fauna has been the subject of few empirical analyses of biogeography. Knowledge of mammalian biogeography is needed to formulate sound conservation strategies for mammals in the region and will help further advance these theories. We aim to assess the relative importance of biogeographic variables to mammalian zoogeography in northern Melanesia and empirically describe patterns of species richness. Using published literature, museum data bases and our own surveys, we compiled mammal inventories for 75 islands found within northern Melanesia (comprising the Admiralty, Bismarck, D‘Entrecasteaux, Louisiade, Solomon, and Trobriand Archipelagos). We used direct comparisons of family compositions and Ochiai and endemism indices to compare mammal assemblages between island groups and a defined New Guinea source pool region. Generalised linear models and non‐parametric multivariate analyses were used to identify, and rank, the importance of local and regional scale abiotic variables for mammalian species richness. Northern Melanesia's islands are depauperate in marsupials and have a moderate diversity of insectivorous bats and a diversity of pteropodid bats that exceeds that known to occur in the adjacent northeastern area of New Guinea. The Solomon Islands are conspicuous for their outstandingly high mammalian endemism. The mammalian fauna of northern Melanesia's islands was related primarily to island size and secondarily to isolation. Island size best explained inter‐island variation in total mammal species richness and bat species richness. The linear distance to New Guinea best explained the species richness of non‐volant mammals. Our results reveal islands that are in need of survey focus because their mammal inventories are lower than expected for their size, and we highlight areas of endemism where conservation actions might be prioritised to prevent species extinctions.

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Prehistoric Exchange Across the Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea

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Prehistoric social landscapes of the Arawe Islands, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea

Prehistoric social landscapes of the Arawe Islands, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea

Are islands insular? Landscape vs. seascape in the case of the Arawe Islands, Papua New Guinea

The mammals of northernMelanesia: speciation, ecology, and biogeography

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