Exploring prehistory on the Sepik Coast of Papua New Guinea

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Series: Fieldiana. Anthropology, new ser., no. 42

Series: Publication / Field Museum of Natural History, 1559

By

Terrell, John
Schechter, Esther M.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Chicago, Ill, Field Museum of Natural History, ©2011

Notes

"Accepted September 22, 2010; published May 20, 2011."

Contents: Research issues / John Edward Terrell -- Language, ethnicity, and historic material culture on the Sepik Coast / John Edward Terrell -- Context and relevance / John Edward Terrell, Kevin O. Pope, and James R. Goff -- History of investigations / John Edward Terrell -- Archaeological surveys / John Edward Terrell -- Archaeological excavations / John Edward Terrell -- Prehistoric pottery wares in the Aitape area / John Edward Terrell and Esther M. Schechter -- Historic and modern pottery in the Aitape area / Esther M. Schecter -- Wooden platters and bowls in the ethnographic collections / John Edward Terrell -- Ancient mortuary ritual and human taphonomy / Ann L.W. Stodder and Timothy Rieth -- Analysis and interpretation of invertebrate remains / Jochen Gerber and Esther M. Schecter -- Petrography of coastal sands and prehistoric sherd tempers from the northwestern coast of Papua New Guinea / William R. Dickinson -- Provenience investigations of ceramic and obsidian samples using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and portable x-ray fluorescence / Mark Golitko -- Analysis of chronological parameters for the Aitape direct pottery sequence / Martin Jones -- Conclusions / John Edward Terrell, Ester M. Schecter, and Mark Golitko.

Subjects

Antiquities , Distrikt Sepik , East Sepik Province , East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea) , Excavations (Archaeology) , Funde , Küste , Papua New Guinea , Papua-Neuguinea , Pottery, Prehistoric , Sandaun Province , Sandaun Province (Papua New Guinea) , Siedlung , Siedlungsarchäologie

Call Number

GN2 .F4 n.s., no.42

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 729845462