Mansiri in North Sulawesi: A new dentate-stamped pottery site in Island Southeast Asia
Date
2018-11
Authors
Azis, Naszrullah
Reepmeyer, Christian
Clark, Geoffrey
Tanudirjo, Daud A.
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ANU Press
Abstract
This report outlines new results from the Mansiri site, close to Toraut village, in North Sulawesi. A series of small excavations in 2015 recovered red-slipped pottery with decorations including dentate stamping, most commonly in straight or curved lines, circle impression and red painting including horizontal lines sometimes associated with dentate-stamped borders. These are decorative similarities shared with middle Lapita assemblages from the southwest Pacific, but the Mansiri assemblage also shows notable differences from the highly ornate Lapita pottery. Initial radiocarbon dating from the excavation shows evidence of a possible pre-3000 BP deposit at the site.
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North Sulawesi, Neolithic dating, Neolithic pottery, red slipping, dentate stamping
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Book chapter
Book Title
The Archaeology of Sulawesi: Current Research on the Pleistocene to the Historic Period
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Open Access via publisher website
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Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND; creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
DOI
10.22459/TA48.11.2018.12