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Plainware ceramics from Samoa: Insights into ceramic chronology, cultural transmission, and selection among colonizing populations

Cochrane, Ethan E; Rieth, Timothy M; Dickinson, William R. (Elsevier Ltd, 2013-12-05)

The first people in Samoa produced a varied ceramic archaeological record including a single deposit with decorated Lapita ceramics on the island of Upolu in the west of the archipelago and a nearly contemporaneous plainware ...
A Radiocarbon chronology for Samoan prehistory

Rieth, Timothy M; Hunt, Terry L (Elsevier, 2008)

The corpus of radiocarbon dates for Samoan archaeology has grown exponentially since the pioneering work of Green and Davidson in the 1960s, enabling us to re-analyze the archipelago’s cultural chronology. A reliable and ...
Samoan artefact provenance reveals limited artefact transfer within and beyond the archipelago

Cochrane, Ethan E; Rieth, Timothy M (Oceania Publications, 2016)

We summarise previous provenance research of Samoan 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 Temporal and Spatial patterning of the initial settlement of Samoa

Rieth, Timothy M; Morrison, Alex E; Addison, David J (Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2008)

Among the Lapita-bearing island groups of the Pacific, Samoa is unusual for having a relatively large land area but only one cultural deposit containing Lapita ceramics. Although it has been proposed that additional Lapita ...

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