Provenance and technology of lithic artifacts from the Teouma Lapita site, Vanuatu

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 205-225

  Reepmeyer, Christian ^a   Spriggs, Matthew ^a   Bedford, Stuart ^a   Ambrose, Wallace ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colonization; Lapita; Obsidian exchange; Provenance studies; Vanuatu; Western Melanesia

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLONIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; OBSIDIAN; PROVENANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BANKS ISLAND; CANADA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; VANUATU; WEST NEW BRITAIN;

EID: 80051520181     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: 15358283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2010.0004     Document Type: Article

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