Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland

Bruno David · Ken P. Aplin · Helene Peck · Robert Skelly · Matthew Leavesley · Jérôme Mialanes +10 more

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Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Archaeological and Geological Studies

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The Caution Bay archaeological project on the south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea has excavated 122 sites over a 9 km 2 area.Lapita ceramics appear at a number of sites at c. 2900 cal.BP.Here we present the results of excavations at Moiapu 3, a site that helps define the end of the dentate-stamped Lapita phase of this region.It is suggested that the decline and ultimate cessation of dentate stamping related to a loss of symbolism during a period of major socioeconomic readjustment and innovation.

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