Sāmoan artefact provenance reveals limited artefact transfer within and beyond the archipelago
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We summarise previous provenance research of Sāmoan lithic and ceramic artefacts, noting the timing and relative frequency of artefact transfers. Our summary suggests few intra‐ and extra‐archipelago artefact transfers for the first two millennia, but that these modestly increased in the last 800 years of the prehistoric sequence. The late distribution of Sāmoan basalt around the Pacific was spatially expansive, but proportionally small. These results have implications for explaining both the development of Polynesian society and basalt artefact exchange.
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Lithic artefacts were transferred rarely and in very small proportions within Sāmoa or beyond the archipelago for the first 1500 years of prehistory.
“lithic artefacts were transferred rarely and in very small proportions within Sāmoa or beyond the archipelago for the first 1500 years of prehistory.”
From Dispersal, Isolation, and Interaction in the Islands of Polynesia: A Critical Review of Archaeological and Genetic Evidence (2017) · cites this paper as [112]
Beginning about 1200 calBP, intra-archipelago transfers of basalts increased slightly in frequency and distance, and after another 300-400 years basalts from Sāmoa (particularly Tutuila) were transferred across the central and south-west Pacific, never comprising more than about 10% of a lithic assemblage except at Lapaha, Tonga.
“Beginning about 1200 calBP, intra-archipelago transfers of basalts increase slightly in frequency and in distance, and after another 300-400 years, basalts from Sāmoa, particularly Tutuila, are transferred across the central and south-west Pacific, although they never comprise more than about 10% of a lithic assemblage, except at Lapaha, Tonga”
From Dispersal, Isolation, and Interaction in the Islands of Polynesia: A Critical Review of Archaeological and Genetic Evidence (2017) · cites this paper as [112]
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“In the case of Sāmoa, Cochrane and Reith [112] (p. 6), observe, “... lithic artefacts were transferred rarely and in very small proportions within Sāmoa or beyond the archipelago for the first 1500 years of prehistory.”
Background
- Authors
- COCHRANE, E. E., & RIETH, T. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- International Archaeological Research Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- COCHRANE, ETHAN E.
- Venue
- Archaeology in Oceania
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-03-10
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 150-157
- ISSN
- 0003-8121 (ISSN-L)
- 0728-4896
- 1834-4453
- OpenAlex
- W2314334300
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 9.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (publishedVersion)
- ResearchSpace (University of Auckland) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies in Central America
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Keywords
- artifact provenance, lithic artifacts, ceramic artifacts, Polynesian prehistory, prehistoric trade
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