The Archaeology of Tanamu 1
A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea
Edited by Bruno David Edited by Katherine Szabó Edited by Matthew Leavesley Edited by Ian J. McNiven Edited by Jeremy Ash Edited by Thomas Richards
Paperback (Published)
(May 2022)
ISBN: 9781803270883
8.07 x 11.46 inches
Price: $82.00
In stock
Presenting results from Tanamu 1, the first site to be published in detail in the Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology series. Yielding well-provenanced and finely dated assemblages of ceramics, faunal remains, and stone and shell artefacts, these remarkable sites extend the range of the Lapita cultural complex to the south coast of Pa
The Archaeology of Tanamu 1 presents the results from Tanamu 1, the first site to be published in detail in the Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology series. In 2008-2010, the Caution Bay Archaeological Project excavated 122 stratified sites 20km northwest of Port Moresby, south coast of Papua New Guinea. This remains the largest archaeological salvage program ever undertaken in the country. Yielding well-provenanced and finely dated assemblages of ceramics, faunal remains, and stone and shell artefacts, this remarkable set of sites has extended the geographical range of the Lapita cultural complex to not only the mainland of Papua New Guinea, but more remarkably to its south coast, at Australia’s doorstep. At least as important has been the discovery of rich and well-defined layers deposited up to c. 1700 years before the emergence of Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago, providing insights into pre-ceramic cultural practices on the Papua New Guinea south coast. Sites and layers interdigitate across the Caution Bay landscape to reveal a 5000-year story, each site contributing unique details of the grander narrative. Positioned near the coast on a sand ridge, Tanamu 1 contains three clear occupational layers: a pre-Lapita horizon (c. 4050-5000 cal BP), a Late Lapita horizon (c. 2750-2800 cal BP), and sparser later materials capped by a dense ethnohistoric layer deposited in the past 100-200 years. Fine-grained excavation methods, detailed specialist analyses and a robust chronostratigraphy allows for a full and transparent presentation of data to start laying the building blocks for the Caution Bay story.
Chapter 1. Emerging Out of Lapita at Caution Bay - Bruno David, Ken Aplin, Cassandra Rowe, Matthew Leavesley, Katherine Szabo, Thomas Richards, Ian J. McNiven, Fiona Petchey and Herman Mandui Chapter 2. Tanamu 1: A 5000 Year Sequence from Caution Bay - Bruno David, Thomas Richards, Ian J. McNiven, Ken Aplin, Fiona Petchey, Katherine Szabo, Jerome Mialanes, Cassandra Rowe, Bryce Barker, Sean P. Connaughton, Matthew Leavesley, Herman Mandui and Chris Jennings Chapter 3. The Ceramics of Tanamu - Bruno David and Holly Jones-Amin Chapter 4. The Stone Artefacts of Tanamu - Jerome Mialanes, Anne Ford, Bradley Goodall, Maria Codlin, Mark McCoy, Glenn Summerhayes, Bruno David, Thomas Richards and Ian J. McNiven Chapter 5. The Molluscan Remains of Tanamu 1: Subsistence and Resource Habitats - Brit Asmussen, Patrick Faulkner, Katherine Szabo and Sean Ulm Chapter 6. The Non-molluscan Faunal Remains of Tanamu 1: Implications for Site Taphonomy, Environmental Change, and Resource Exploitation - Ken Aplin Chapter 7. The Worked Shell of Tanamu - Katherine Szabo Chapter 8. Tanamu 1: Conclusions and Future Directions - Katherine Szabo, Bruno David, Ian J. McNiven and Matthew Leavesley Appendix A. Chert Fracture Types by XU, Tanamu 1 Square A Appendix B. Chert Fracture Types by XU, Tanamu 1 Square B Appendix C. Mollusc Weight (g) per XU for Tanamu 1 Square A Appendix D. Mollusc MNI per XU for Tanamu 1 Square A Appendix E. Mollusc Weight (g) per XU for Tanamu 1 Square B Appendix F. Mollusc MNI per XU for Tanamu 1 Square B Appendix G. Non-molluscan Faunal Remains by Weight per XU, Tanamu 1 Square A Appendix H. Non-molluscan Faunal Remains by Weight per XU, Tanamu 1 Square B Appendix I. Representation of Burning Categories in Bone by Weight, Tanamu 1 Square A Appendix J. Terrestrial Vertebrate Taxa per XU, Tanamu 1 Squares A and B Appendix K. Large Vertebrate Remains Encountered During Excavation of the Stepping-out Squares Appendix L. Occurrence of Fish Family and Crab Taxa by XU in Square A References, Chapter 1. Emerging Out of Lapita at Caution Bay – Bruno David, Ken Aplin, Cassandra Rowe, Matthew Leavesley, Katherine Szabó, Thomas Richards, Ian J. McNiven, Fiona Petchey and Herman ManduiBruno David, Thomas Richards, Ian J. McNiven, Ken Aplin, Fiona Petchey, Katherine Szabó, Jerome Mialanes, Cassandra Rowe, Bryce Barker, Sean P. Connaughton, Matthew Leavesley, Herman Mandui and Chris JenningsBruno David and Holly Jones-AminJerome Mialanes, Anne Ford, Bradley Goodall, Maria Codlin, Mark McCoy, Glenn Summerhayes, Bruno David, Thomas Richards and Ian J. McNivenBrit Asmussen, Patrick Faulkner, Katherine Szabó and Sean UlmKen AplinKatherine SzabóKatherine Szabó, Bruno David, Ian J. McNiven and Matthew Leavesley
Bruno David is Professor of Indigenous Archaeology at Monash University and is a Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. He specialises in landscape archaeology, the archaeology of rock art, and the archaeology of Indigenous Australia and Papua New Guinea. His latest books are The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art, and The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea (both co-edited with Ian J. McNiven). ;
Katherine Szabó studied archaeology in New Zealand and Australia and has held research fellowships and academic positions in Australia, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. She has pioneered research into the use of shell as a raw material for artefact production and has worked on archaeological material spanning Pleistocene to ethnohistorical collections from across the Asia-Pacific region. ;
Matthew Leavesley joined the University of Papua New Guinea as a lecturer in 2006. He has undertaken research in all four regions of Papua New Guinea and many different provinces. He is interested in both evolutionary and ethnographic approaches to archaeology. ;
Ian J. McNiven is Professor of Indigenous Archaeology at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, and a Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries London, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. ;
Jeremy Ash is an archaeologist at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre at Monash University. His work focuses on the archaeology of the recent past, with particular interests in agency, archaeological and Indigenous storytelling, historicising ancestral landscapes and the archaeology of missions and frontiers. ;
Thomas Richards is Executive Director of the Heritage Conservation Branch in the Government of Saskatchewan, Canada and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University, Australia. As a director of the Caution Bay Archaeology Project since 2009, Tom has been involved in researching Lapita settlements, as well as sites from earlier and later periods, from the south coast of Papua New Guinea.
- Edited by Bruno David
- Edited by Katherine Szabó
- Edited by Matthew Leavesley
- Edited by Ian J. McNiven
- Edited by Jeremy Ash
- Edited by Thomas Richards
Other Titles in this Series
Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea
Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Setting
Similar Books
Economic Trends in China During the Age of Confucius (1000–250 BC)
The Archaeological Evidence
Volume 10
Jugend- und Lebensreform-Bewegungen global
Studien zu Vergleich und Transfer im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Gender in Gandharan Art
Representations and Interactions in the Buddhist Context (1st-4th centuries CE)
Kings of Cities and Rulers of the Steppes
Representations of Kingship in Pre-Islamic Central Asia
Volume 22
Liberating the Repressed Self among Contemporary Chinese
A Theoretical Study Involving Tu Weiming and Jürgen Moltmann
Volume 41
Reflection on the Word and Meaning
A Critical Edition and Translation of Ratnasrijnana's Sabdarthacinta with his Sabdarthacintavivrti 1.16-2.47
Volume 11
The Lizhi 荔枝 (Lychee) in Chinese Literature
Translation of Chinese Sources by Michael J. Hagerty. With an introduction and edited by Hartmut Walravens
Volume 66
Der altorientalische Mensch in seiner Umwelt
11. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orientgesellschaft, 16.-19. Juni 2022 in Leipzig
Volume 11
Der Antikommunismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in der Republik Korea im Vergleich (1945–1973)
Die Organisation und die Aktivitäten der Vertriebenen
Der Königsgruftkomplex von Qaṭna. Teil 2: Die Grabkammern. Befund, Kontextualisierung, Interpretation
Mit Beiträgen von Carsten Witzel, Emmanuelle Vila, Tina Köster, Nicole Reifarth, Giulia Baccelli, Susanne Degenhardt, Marco Semmelroth, Stefan Flohr, Uwe Kierdorf, Michael Schultz und Fidaa Hlal
Volume 9
Die Idee eines weißen Australiens
Rassenideologien, „Biological Absorption Policy“ und die Theorie von den schwarzen Kaukasiern
Eine Welt aus Tau
Japan: Rollbilder und Werke der Gegenwartskunst in der Sammlung Dr. Christiane Hackerodt
Fundmunzen aus Usbekistan, Band 2
Schatzfunde kushano-sasanidischer Kupfermunzen und ihr Beitrag zur Kenntnis von Pragesystem und Geldumlauf im kushano-sasanidischen Herrschaftsbereich. In Kooperation mit Shakir Pidaev
Volume 557
Individualitat und Kollektivitat
Deutsche und japanische Perspektiven auf Recht, Kultur und Rechtskultur
La gestion de l’eau dans les civilisations de l’Asie
Actes du colloque international organisé par l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, la Société asiatique et le Collège de France à l'Institut des Civilisations du Collège de France et à l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, les 4 et
Uigurisches Wörterbuch. Sprachmaterial der vorislamischen türkischen Texte aus Zentralasien
Bd. 3: Fremdelemente. Teil 4: ha – ketumati
Wilde Schönheiten
Ein Beitrag zur Motivgeschichte der Perlen in der chinesischen Literatur von den Anfängen bis zur Song-Zeit
Volume 31