Archaeology in Oceania articles from October 2006

Archaeology in Oceania archives from October 2006

Explaining point variability in the eastern Victoria River Region, Northern Territory.
October 1, 2006... Abstract This paper constructs a reduction sequence model for north Australian points from the eastern Victoria River region, and identifies a single continuum linking unifacial and bifacial point forms, with some divergence from this...

Decay characteristics of the eastern Lapita design system.
October 1, 2006... Abstract We examine the Lapita colonization of east Fiji from the frequency of pottery designs. The design frequency analysis suggests that east Fiji was settled by Lapita groups emanating from west Fiji and Tonga, and long-distance...

Radiocarbon dates for earth mounds on the Adelaide River, Northern Australia.(Research Report)
October 1, 2006... Abstract This paper reports new dates for mid to late Holocene occupation of the lower Adelaide River in northern Australia. Earth mounds located on the margins of the floodplains provide a series of radiocarbon determinations that suggest...

Alternative interpretations of structural evidence at Rakaia River Mouth, New Zealand.(Comment)
October 1, 2006... Abstract Postholes and other features at Rakaia River Mouth, New Zealand, are interpreted by Jacomb (2005) as remains of a large house and associated structures. This is plausible, but on the same evidence storage structures can be...

Comment on Anderson's alternative interpretation.(Comment)(A.J Anderson)
October 1, 2006... Anderson has raised some objections to my recent attribution of the Rakaia excavation data to an Archaic house (Jacomb 2005). Instead he suggests that the post holes are more likely to represent whata, or storage structures. As he says,...

Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands Edited by Ian Lilley. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2006. Pp. xx + 396. ISBN 0-6312-3082-3 (GBP60 Hbk); 0-6312-3083-1 (GBP22.99 Pbk) This is the latest volume in the series Blackwell...

Papuan Pasts: Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Histories of Papuan-speaking Peoples.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Papuan Pasts: Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Histories of Papuan-speaking Peoples Edited by Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson and Robin Hide. Pacific Linguistics 572. Published by Pacific Linguistics, Research School of...

Australia's Eastern Regional Sequence Revisited: Technology and Change at Capertee 3.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Australia's Eastern Regional Sequence Revisited: Technology and Change at Capertee 3 By Peter Hiscock and Val Attenbrow BAR International Series 1397, 2005. Archaeopress, Oxford. ISBN 1 84171 836 X. Pp xiv + 151. GBP30. The nature and...

Who should be an author?(Editorial)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... In a large project, it is not always clear who should get their name on a publication. Popular opinion--scuttlebutt if you like--can identify various cases where the senior member of a team, or laboratory, becomes an, or even a senior, author,...