Plainware ceramics from Sāmoa: Insights into ceramic chronology, cultural transmission, and selection among colonizing populations

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 499-510

  Cochrane, Ethan E ^a   Rieth, Timothy M ^b   Dickinson, William R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b International Archaeological Research Institute Incorporated   (United States)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Colonization; Cultural transmission; Lapita; S moa; Selection; Tonga; West Polynesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884947570     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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