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The island Melanesians
- M. Spriggs
- Geography
- 1997
List of Plates. List of Figures and Tables. Preface. 1. This Island Melanesian World. Introduction: An Archaeological View. Island Melanesian Language. The Island Melanesian People. A Lapita and… Expand
Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania
- G. Larson, T. Cucchi, +29 authors K. Dobney
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 20 March 2007
Human settlement of Oceania marked the culmination of a global colonization process that began when humans first left Africa at least 90,000 years ago. The precise origins and dispersal routes of the… Expand
The Neolithic and Austronesian expansion within Island Southeast Asia and into the Pacific
- M. Spriggs
- Geography
- 2007
There has been an increasing pace of archaeological research in Island Southeast Asia in recent years and this is bringing some balance into the study of Neolithic/Austronesian expansion in the… Expand
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Lapita Migrants in the Pacific's Oldest Cemetery: Isotopic Analysis at Teouma, Vanuatu
- R. Bentley, H. Buckley, +5 authors D. G. Pearson
- Geography
- American Antiquity
- 1 October 2007
Teouma, an archaeological site on Efate Island, Vanuatu, features the earliest cemetery yet discovered of the colonizers of Remote Oceania, from the late second millennium B.C. In order to… Expand
Mitochondrial DNA from 3000-year old chickens at the Teouma site, Vanuatu
- A. Storey, M. Spriggs, +4 authors E. Matisoo-Smith
- Biology
- 1 October 2010
Chickens were part of the Lapita cultural complex, transported into and through the Pacific by prehistoric colonists; as such they can be used as a proxy for tracking prehistoric migration and… Expand
New Extinct Mekosuchine Crocodile from Vanuatu, South Pacific
- J. Mead, D. Steadman, S. Bedford, C. Bell, M. Spriggs
- Biology
- Copeia
- 1 August 2002
Abstract We describe a new species of crocodile (Reptilia: Crocodyloidea: Mekosuchinae) from a maxilla recovered at the Arapus archaeological site, on the island of Efate, Vanuatu, South Pacific. As… Expand
Cave Archaeology and Sampling Issues in the Tropics: A Case Study from Lene Hara Cave, a 42,000 Year Old Occupation Site in East Timor, Island Southeast Asia
- S. O’Connor, A. Barham, M. Spriggs, P. Veth, K. Aplin, Emma St Pierre
- Engineering
- 1 December 2010
Abstract New evidence from Lene Hara Cave, East Timor, demonstrates that it was first occupied by modern humans by 42,454±450 cal BP at approximately the same time as nearby Jerimalai shelter.… Expand
A short note on banana (Musa) phytoliths in Lapita, immediately post-Lapita and modern period archaeological deposits from Vanuatu
- M. Horrocks, S. Bedford, M. Spriggs
- Geography
- 1 September 2009
Abstract We present results of phytolith analysis of deposits from three prehistoric settlement sites in Vanuatu: the small islands of Vao and Uripiv off the north east coast of the main island of… Expand
Investigating foetal and perinatal mortality in prehistoric skeletal samples: a case study from a 3000-year-old Pacific Island cemetery site
- Rebecca Kinaston, H. Buckley, +4 authors A. R. Gray
- Biology
- 1 December 2009
Abstract The Teouma skeletal sample from Vanuatu represents one of the few truly colonising populations in the Pacific Islands. Therefore, investigating the factors that may have affected… Expand