Islands of inquiry: colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes
In: Terra Australis 29
Introduction.Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement: Progress, prospects and persistent problems /Stuart Bedford and Christophe Sand --Lapita Origins.The Origins of Early Lapita Culture: The testimony of historical linguistics /Andrew Pawley --Small islands in the big picture: the formative period of Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago /Jim Specht --Lapita Dispersal and Archaeological Signatures.Lapita all over: Land-use on the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea /Jim Specht and Robin Torrence --Lapita Writ Small? Revisiting the Austronesian Colonisation of the Papuan South Coast /Glenn Summerhayes and Jim Allen --Leap-frogging or Limping? Recent evidence from the Lapita Littoral Fringe, New Georgia, Solomon Islands /Matthew Felgate --Sample Size and the Reef/Santa Cruz Lapita Sequence /Peter Sheppard and Roger C. Green --Makué (Aore Island, Santo, Vanuatu): A new Lapita site in the ambit of New Britain obsidian distribution /Jean-Christophe Galipaud and Mary Clare Swete Kelly --Echoes from a distance: Research into the Lapita occupation of the Rove Peninsula, Southwest Viti Levu, Fiji /Patrick Nunn --Paleoenvironment of Lapita sites on Fanga 'Uta Lagoon, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga /William R. Dickinson --In Search of Lapita and Polynesian Plainware Settlements in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga /David V. Burley --Can We Dig It? Archaeology of Ancestral Polynesian Society in Tonga: A first look from Falevai /Sean P. Connaughton --Lapita Ceramics.The implements of Lapita ceramic stamped ornamentation /Wallace Ambrose --The excavation, conservation and reconstruction of Lapita burial pots from the Teouma site, Efate, Central Vanuatu /Stuart Bedford [and others] --Detailed analysis of Lapita Face Motifs: Case studies from the Reef/Santa Cruz sites and New Caledonia Lapita Site 13A /Scarlett Chiu --Looking at the big motifs: A typology of the central band decorations of the Lapita ceramic tradition of New Caledonia (Southern Melanesia) and preliminary regional comparisons /Christophe Sand --Specialisation, standardisation and Lapita ceramics /Geoffrey Clark.