Origin and significance of a founding settlement in Polynesia
Origin and significance of a founding settlement in Polynesia
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.181335398
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发表时间：
2001-09-25
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Dickinson, WR
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作者：
Burley, DV;Dickinson, WR
在西波利尼西亚东部拉皮塔省的汤加王国已知最古老的考古遗址的最深文化层面上精选的史前陶片，展示了西面现代美拉尼西亚岛拉皮塔省西部特有的装饰图案。大多数风格异常的碎片含有汤加罕见的回火沙，但有一次，在岩石学上与从美拉尼西亚的圣克鲁斯群岛发现的拉皮塔碎片中的回火难以区分，并推测记录了拉皮塔陶瓷从遥远的西边的美拉尼西亚海上运输到汤加。在汤加塔普发现的非汤加碎片为东拉皮塔省和西拉皮塔省之间的陶器岛间转移提供了直接的物理证据，它们所在的努库莱卡遗址被解释为波利尼西亚的创始聚落之一。
Selected prehistoric potsherds from the deepest cultural level of the oldest known archaeological site in the Kingdom of Tonga, within the Eastern Lapita province of western Polynesia, display decorative motifs characteristic of the Western Lapita province of modern-day Island Melanesia, to the west. Most of the stylistically anomalous sherds contain temper sands exotic to Tonga but, in one case, petrographically indistinguishable from temper in a Lapita sherd recovered from the Santa Cruz Islands of Melanesia, and are inferred to record maritime transport of Lapita ceramics into Tonga from Melanesia far to the west. The non-Tongan sherds found on Tongatapu provide direct physical evidence for interisland transfer of earthenware ceramics between Western and Eastern Lapita provinces, and the Nukuleka site, where they occur, is interpreted as one of the founding settlements of Polynesia.