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Samoan plain ware ceramics of Tutuila Island, American Samoa: some thoughts on their spatial and chronological distribution

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dc.contributor.author Addison, David J
dc.contributor.author Toloa, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.author Tago, Tuipuavai
dc.contributor.author Vaueli, Siaki
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-05T23:14:52Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-05T23:14:52Z
dc.date.issued 2008
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1264
dc.description p. 97-115 ; ill en_US
dc.description.abstract The last decade has seen big changes in understandings of the amount and distribution of plainware ceramic sites on Tutuila. This paper reviews this new evidence and discusses the spatial and temporal distribution of sites. We suggest that the argument for late ceramics on Tutuila is weakened by recent discoveries and that the idea of ceramic use ending in the ~AD 400–800 period is strengthened. At the early end, we find few convincing data currently available to support ceramic use before ~500 BC. Decades of searching for Lapita sites outside the one known for ‘Upolu has been unsuccessful and we question the utility of continuing to posit their existence in models of Samoan prehistory. Inland settlement on Tutuila was not a late-period phenomenon; ceramic-bearing strata at several sites indicate inland settlement by ~200–100 BC. The minimal and rare decoration on Tutuila ceramics was not confined to the earliest period and likely continued to the end of ceramic use on the island en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject Ceramic site en_US
dc.subject Ceramics - Tutuila, American Samoa en_US
dc.subject Tutuila Ceramic Chronology en_US
dc.title Samoan plain ware ceramics of Tutuila Island, American Samoa: some thoughts on their spatial and chronological distribution en_US
dc.title.alternative article in Recent Advances in the Archaeology of the Fiji/West-Polynesia region en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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