The Pottery Trail From Southeast Asia to Remote Oceania

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-36

  Carson, Mike T ^a   Hung, Hsiao chun ^b   Summerhayes, Glenn ^c   Bellwood, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUAM   (Guam)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Austronesian diaspora; Lapita; Mariana Islands; Oceanic settlement; Philippines; pottery

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ART; DATA ACQUISITION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LOCATION THEORY; NEOLITHIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION MIGRATION;

MARIANA ISLANDS; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES; POLYNESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84875956626     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2012.726941     Document Type: Article

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