Commentary
What Lapita is and what Lapita isn't
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7656853 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Edward Terrell (Northwestern University, corresponding author), John Terrell |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 240 |
| Pages | 623-626 |
| Publication date | 1989-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00076584 |
| OpenAlex | W2232173546 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 3 |
The essays in this special section on early settlement in Island Southeast Asia may be puzzling to readers of Antiquity who are uninitiated to the ways and concerns of archaeologists working in the Pacific. Some of these authors appear almost reluctant to draw conclusions from the evidence they survey. Others champion their own interpretations unequivocally. What is going on here? It may be, as some say, that academics are by nature a quarrelsome lot. Even so, why is the Lapita cultural complex ‘ever a hot source of debate’ (Bellwood & Koon, above, p. 613)? The essays published here may lack the direct cantankerousness of face-to-face confronat international symposia and professional meetings, but they reinforce the suggestion made in Antiquity a year ago that archaeologists in the Pacific today have come to a crossroads where we often find ourselves talking past each other because we are no longer in general agreement on what is interesting about Pacific prehistory and why (Terrell 1988
Archaeology · Champion · Face (sociological concept) · Prehistory · Section (typography) · Settlement (finance) · Social science · Sociology · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Archaeology in the Pacific Islands
Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology
MtDNA and language support a common origin of Micronesians and Polynesians in Island Southeast Asia
The Postponed Agenda
Implications of Petrographic Temper Analysis for Oceanian Prehistory
Sand tempers in indigenous Lapita and Lapitoid Polynesian Plainware and imported protohistoric Fijian pottery of Ha'apai (Tonga) and the question of Lapita tradeware
Rethinking Polynesians origins
Chapter 6. Archaeological Inference and Ethnographic Analogies
Deconstructing the Lapita Cultural Complex in the Bismarck Archipelago
Correlation of environmental and cultural chronology in New Caledonia
Refining Earliest Settlement in Remote Oceania
Y‐chromosome diversity is inversely associated with language affiliation in paired Austronesian‐ and Papuan‐speaking communities from Solomon Islands
Mitochondrial DNA variation is an indicator of Austronesian influence in Island Melanesia
The Beginning of Southern Melanesian Prehistory
Radiocarbon Dates from American Samoa
Pacific archaeologies
Long‐distance connections in Vanuatu
Evolutions in the Lapita Cultural Complex
Connection and competition
The need for Lapita
Lapita and the temporal geography of prehistory
The Languages of New Guinea
Language and Culture on the North Coast of New Guinea
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,68 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2016 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |