講者：Christophe SAND 博士（新喀里多尼亞文化局研究員）

題目 : Austronesian Settlement of the Polynesian Homeland: Archaeology and the End of the Lapita Trail


日期 : 2019年10月30日（三）， 上午十時
地點 : 中研院歷史語言研究所702會議室


摘要: The Austronesian dispersal across Island South-East Asia and the Western
Pacific is today fairly well documented through archaeological and
related research. The presence of the distinctive Lapita regional
ceramic tradition from New Guinea in Northern Melanesia to Samoa in the
central Pacific, spanning a total extent of 4500 km, allows to follow
the progressive advance of human settlement across Near and
Remote Oceania. But archaeology has also identified rapid local transformations
of the ceramic kit after first Lapita discovery about 3000 years ago, leading
to the definition of a number of discrete Provinces. This presentation will
detail the latest data on the geographical triangle formed by Fiji, Tonga and
Samoa in the central Pacific, which represent the Eastern end of the Lapita
expansion. Excavations have shown that this Province rapidly exhibited a whole
number of unique typological evolutions in the Lapita material culture and
adapted to more restricted and often impoverished island settings. The recent
study of early skeletal remains allows today to re-evaluate the link between
these first Lapita settlers and the Polynesians on more robust ground, to
highlight the complexity of Oceania’s past. This also allows to question the
future of Lapita studies across the region.

主辦單位 :
- 法國遠東學院臺北中心
- 中研院歷史語言研究所


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