Exploring the Hiri ceramics trade at a short-lived village site near the Vailala River, Papua New Guinea
David, Bruno; Araho, Nick; Barker, Bryce; Kuaso, Alois; Moffat, Ian
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Investigations at the newly discovered, once-coastal but now inland archaeological village site of Keveoki 1 allows us to characterise the nature and antiquity of ancestral hiri trade ceramics around 450-500 cal BP in the recipient Vailala River-Kea Kea villages of the Gulf Province of the southern coast of Papua New Guinea. This paper reports on the decorated ceramics from Keveoki 1, where a drainage channel cut in 2004 revealed a short-lived village site with a rich, stratified ceramic...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | David, Bruno | |
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dc.contributor.author | Araho, Nick | |
dc.contributor.author | Barker, Bryce | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuaso, Alois | |
dc.contributor.author | Moffat, Ian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-10T22:31:05Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0312-2417 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/55377 | |
dc.description.abstract | Investigations at the newly discovered, once-coastal but now inland archaeological village site of Keveoki 1 allows us to characterise the nature and antiquity of ancestral hiri trade ceramics around 450-500 cal BP in the recipient Vailala River-Kea Kea villages of the Gulf Province of the southern coast of Papua New Guinea. This paper reports on the decorated ceramics from Keveoki 1, where a drainage channel cut in 2004 revealed a short-lived village site with a rich, stratified ceramic assemblage. It represents a rare account of the ceramic assemblage from a short duration village on a relic beach ridge in southern Papua New Guinea, and contributes to ongoing attempts to refine ceramic sequences in the recipient (western) end of the hiri system of longdistance maritime trade. Because of the presence of a single occupational period of a few decades at most, short duration sites such as Keveoki 1 allow for chronological refinement of ceramic conventions in a way that multilevel sites usually cannot, owing to the lack of stratigraphic mixing between chronologically separate ceramic assemblages in the former. | |
dc.publisher | Australian Archaeology Association | |
dc.source | Australian Archaeology | |
dc.title | Exploring the Hiri ceramics trade at a short-lived village site near the Vailala River, Papua New Guinea | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 68 | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 210106 - Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand) | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u9503261xPUB326 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | David, Bruno, Monash University | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Araho, Nick, Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Barker, Bryce, University of Southern Queensland | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Kuaso, Alois, Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Moffat, Ian, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ANU | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 11 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 22 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-09T10:07:46Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-67249124055 | |
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