Showing papers by "Matthew Spriggs published in 1997"
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: The Lapita Cultural Complex and Lapita Discontinuities: Lapita and Post-Lapita Communities of Culture as discussed by the authors, the Lapita Language, Lapita Social Organization, and Post Lapita Community of Culture.
Abstract: List of Plates. List of Figures and Tables. Preface. 1. This Island Melanesian World. Introduction: An Archaeological View. Island Melanesian Language. The Island Melanesian People. A Lapita and Post-Lapita "Community of Culture". The Island Melanesian World. Conclusions. 2. Early Settlement: 40,000 to 20,000 Years Ago. Early Settlement in Island Melanesia: Who and When. Voyaging. Settlement and Subsistence Prior to 20,000 years ago. Early Settlement of Vanuatu and New Caledonia? 3. Settling In: 20,000 to 6000 Year Ago. Seal Level Changes. The Archaeological Sites. Cultural Changes. Economic Change: 20,000 to 6000 BP. Early Island Melanesians. 4. The World Turned Upside Down: 6000 to 3000 Years Ago. The Lapita Cultural Complex. Sites of the Immediately Pre-Lapita Period. The Argument for Continuity. The Agricultural Question. Lapita Discontinuities. The Origins of the Lapita Culture. A Lapita Language? A Lapita People?: The Evidence from Genetics. How Southeast Asian is Lapita? Lapita Social Organisation. The Structure of the Lapita Migration. Lapita Origins Revisited. 5. Success and Failure of Lapita: 3000 to 2000 Years Ago. The Bismarcks. The Solomons. Vanuatu. New Caledonia. Contemporary Non-Lapita Sites. The Micronesian Connection. The Lapita Legacy. 6. The Making of Traditional Island Melanesian Cultures: 2000 to 750 Years Ago. The End of Lapita. Investigating Alternatives. The Bismarcks. The Solomons. Vanuatu. New Caledonia. The Legacy of Polynesian Contact. 8. Ships from the West: Island Melanesians Encounter the Europeans. The Conquest of the Conquistadors, 1528-1606 AD. Fleeting Glimpses, 1616-1722 AD. The Major European 'Discoveries', 1767-1774. Final First Meetings, 1781-1850 AD. Legacies of Contact. 9. Custom and Continuity in Island Melanesian Cultures. The Impact on Population. Impact on Settlement Pattern. Subsistence Change. Environmental Degradation. Mobility. Challenges to Authority Structures. The Position of Women. Directions and Constraints from the Past. 10. An Island Melanesian Future? Index.
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: Archaeology and Language III interprets results from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing the tools for a radical rewriting of the conventional discourse of prehistory.
Abstract: Archaeology and Language III interprets results from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing the tools for a radical rewriting of the conventional discourse of prehistory. Individual chapters present case studies of artefacts and fragmentary textual materials, concerned with the reconstruction of houses, maritime technology, pottery and grave goods.
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28 May 1997
TL;DR: The Aru Islands were connected to Greater Australia until approximately 8.000 years ago, when they were separated by rising sea levels as discussed by the authors, and for a long time they comprised an elevated land mass on the edge of the Sahul continent.
Abstract: The Aru Islands were connected to Greater Australia until approximately 8.000 years ago, when they were separated by rising sea levels. While now forming part of the Indonesian province of Maluku. for a long time they comprised an elevated land mass on the edge of the Sahul continent. The presence on Aru of numerous marsupials and the cassowary attest to this shared history. Indeed the biogeographical significance of the Aru Islands has long been highlighted by naturalists such as Wallace. While the waters to the east of the Aru Islands are relatively shallow reflecting the previous land bridge with Irian and Northwest Australia the continental shelf to the west slopes steeply with the 100 m isobath located as little as 10 km away. Due to their optimal position, the Aru Islands have the potential to register a multitude of maritime colonising events through time.