Finding the right question
Learning from stone tools on the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6038476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Torrence (0000-0001-8519-2395, Australian Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 29-41 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2011.tb00097.x |
| OpenAlex | W1965214879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 44 |
As the most abundant, and frequently the only, archaeological evidence preserved within the volcanic soils of the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, stone artefacts carry a heavy burden for scholars seeking to write the prehistory of subsistence and land use. Efforts to squeeze information from these recalcitrant informal assemblages of obsidian tools have produced contradictory and unsatisfactory results. Although alternative approaches should certainly be sought to find ways to make these silent stones speak about topics that archaeologists want to hear, other important stories concerning social process and exchange are beginning to be told by ongoing research being developed in West New Britain. These new results raise broader questions about the social functions of humble stone tools in other parts of the world
Agriculture · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · New guinea · Peninsula · Prehistory · Sociology · Stone tool · Subsistence agriculture · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Flaked Stone Tools of Holocene Sahul
Social resilience and long-term adaptation to volcanic disasters
The use of Lapita pottery
Variability in obsidian structural water content and its importance in the hydration dating of cultural artifacts
Known and Unknown Stone
Crafting Social Networks
An Archaeological Review of Western New Guinea
A Holocene sequence from Walufeni Cave, Southern Highlands Province, and its implications for the settlement of the Great Papuan Plateau, Papua New Guinea
A Hill Full of Points in Terra Incognita from Patagonia
Major Fallacies Surrounding Stone Artifacts and Assemblages
Detecting exchange networks in New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Tattooing tools and the Lapita cultural complex
Village‐specific Kula partnerships revealed by obsidian sourcing on Tubetube Island, Papua New Guinea
Lapita Colonization across the Near/Remote Oceania Boundary
The Origins And Spread Of Agriculture And Pastoralism In Eurasia
Origins of Agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of New Guinea
Experimental and archaeological studies of use-wear and residues on obsidian artefacts from Papua New Guinea
Time, energy, and stone tools
Argonauts of the western Pacific
Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture
Introduction
Economizing Behavior and the Concept of “Curation”
Hunter‐gatherers
Volcanic disasters and agricultural intensification
Domesticated Landscapes
Assessing the effects of volcanic disasters on human settlement in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea
Persistent Traditions in the Face of Natural Disasters
Producing value
Obsidian artefacts and land-use in the mid-Holocene of the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea
Integrating Phytoliths within Use-Wear/Residue Studies of Stone Tools
The thin film of human action
[Ceramics and Obsidian in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania] Points of Discussion
[Special Section on Volcanic Glass] the Contribution of Use-Wear/Residue Studies of Obsidian Artefacts for Understanding Changes in Settlement and Subsistence Patterns in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Valuable and Useful
Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
The Analysis of Stone Tool Procurement, Production, and Maintenance
Human Adaptive Responses to Catastrophic Landscape Disruptions During the Holocene at Numundo, PNG
Long‐distance exchange and Island colonization
Sociality and the short distance trader
Pleistocene colonisation of the Bismarck Archipelago
Lapita lithics
The power of stone
Social networks and the spread of Lapita
A dark light
Reinvigorating object biography
Mid-Holocene Social Interaction in Melanesia
Hunter-Gatherers and the Archaeology of Discard Behavior
Identifying low-level food producers
Cultural landscapes on Garua Island, Papua New Guinea
Technological Organization and Settlement Mobility
The Measurement and Interpretation of Cortex in Lithic Assemblages
A Formal Approach to the Design and Assembly of Mobile Toolkits
Willow Smoke and Dogs' Tails
Mobility/Sedentism
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,93 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |