Type X Pottery, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea: Petrography and Possible Micronesian Relationships

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dc.contributor.authorSpecht, Jim
dc.contributor.authorLilley, Ian
dc.contributor.authorDickinson, William R.
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-04T19:54:30Z
dc.date.available2010-08-04T19:54:30Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractType X is one of four Post-Lapita pottery styles reported from Huon Peninsula and the Siassi Islands of Papua New Guinea. Previous petrographic work was inconclusive about its likely area of origin but indicated a possible Huon Peninsula source. Renewed analysis of a larger sample supports this conclusion and confirms the use of grog temper. This kind of temper is otherwise not recorded in the New Guinea region, and its use in the production of Type X was probably culturally driven. Comparisons between Type X and grog-tempered pottery from Palau, Yap, and Pohnpei in Micronesia lead to the suggestion that Type X probably derived from an otherwise unrecorded contact between Huon Peninsula and Palau about 1000 years ago. The article reviews other evidence for interaction between the New Guinea-Bismarck Archipelago region and various parts of Micronesia and concludes that the proposed Type X connection with Palau is but one of several prehistoric contacts between different parts of the regions. Recognition of such contacts, which could have been unintentional and on a small scale, may contribute to explaining the complex ethnolinguistic situation of Huon Peninsula.
dc.identifier.citationSpecht, J., I. Lilley, and W. R. Dickinson. 2006. Type X Pottery, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea: Petrography and Possible Micronesian Relationships. Asian Perspectives 45 (1): 24-47.
dc.identifier.issn1535-8283 (E-ISSN)
dc.identifier.issn0066-8435 (Print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/17244
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 45
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNumber 1
dc.subject.lcshPrehistoric peoples--Asia--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshPrehistoric peoples--Oceania--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshAsia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshOceania--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshEast Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.titleType X Pottery, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea: Petrography and Possible Micronesian Relationships
dc.typeArticle
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