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The Archaeology of Tanamu 1 - A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea (Paperback)
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The Archaeology of Tanamu 1 - A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea (Paperback)
Series: Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology
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The Archaeology of Tanamu 1 presents the results from Tanamu 1, the
first site to be published in detail in the Caution Bay Studies in
Archaeology series. In 2008-2010, the Caution Bay Archaeological
Project excavated 122 stratified sites 20km northwest of Port
Moresby, south coast of Papua New Guinea. This remains the largest
archaeological salvage program ever undertaken in the country.
Yielding well-provenanced and finely dated assemblages of ceramics,
faunal remains, and stone and shell artefacts, this remarkable set
of sites has extended the geographical range of the Lapita cultural
complex to not only the mainland of Papua New Guinea, but more
remarkably to its south coast, at Australia's doorstep. At least as
important has been the discovery of rich and well-defined layers
deposited up to c. 1700 years before the emergence of Lapita in the
Bismarck Archipelago, providing insights into pre-ceramic cultural
practices on the Papua New Guinea south coast. Sites and layers
interdigitate across the Caution Bay landscape to reveal a
5000-year story, each site contributing unique details of the
grander narrative. Positioned near the coast on a sand ridge,
Tanamu 1 contains three clear occupational layers: a pre-Lapita
horizon (c. 4050-5000 cal BP), a Late Lapita horizon (c. 2750-2800
cal BP), and sparser later materials capped by a dense
ethnohistoric layer deposited in the past 100-200 years.
Fine-grained excavation methods, detailed specialist analyses and a
robust chronostratigraphy allows for a full and transparent
presentation of data to start laying the building blocks for the
Caution Bay story.
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