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The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies presents original
and provocative views on the complex and dynamic social lives of
Indigenous Australians from an historical perspective. Building on
the foundational work of Harry Lourandos, the book critically
examines and challenges traditional approaches which have presented
Indigenous Australian past as static and tethered to ecological
rationalism. The book reveals the ancient past of Aboriginal
Australians to be one of long term changes in social relationships
and traditions, as well as the active management and manipulation
of the environment. The book encourages a deeper appreciation of
the ways Aboriginal peoples have engaged with and constructed their
worlds. It solicits a deeper understanding of the contemporary
political and social context of research and the insidious impacts
of colonialist philosophies. In short, it concerns people, both
past and present. The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies
looks beyond the stereo
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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