Keveoki 1: exploring the Hiri ceramics trade at a short-lived village site near the Vailala River, Papua New Guinea
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Article Title | Keveoki 1: exploring the Hiri ceramics trade at a short-lived village site near the Vailala River, Papua New Guinea |
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ERA Journal ID | 7963 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | David, Bruno (Author), Araho, Nick (Author), Barker, Bryce (Author), Kuaso, Alois (Author) and Moffat, Ian (Author) |
Journal Title | Australian Archaeology |
Journal Citation | 68, pp. 11-22 |
Number of Pages | 12 |
Year | 2009 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | Brisbane, Australia |
ISSN | 0312-2417 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au/taxonomy/terms/187 |
Abstract | Investigations at the newly discovered, once-coastal but now inland archaeological village site of Keveoki 1 allows us to characterise the nature and antiquity of ancestral hiri trade ceramics around 450-500 cal BP in the recipient Vailala River-Kea Kea villages of the Gulf Province of the southern coast of Papua New Guinea. This paper reports on the decorated ceramics from Keveoki 1, where a drainage channel cut in 2004 revealed a short-lived village site with a rich, stratified ceramic assemblage. It represents a rare account of the ceramic assemblage from a short duration village on a relic beach ridge in southern Papua New Guinea, and contributes to ongoing attempts to refine ceramic sequences in the recipient (western) end of the hiri system of long distance maritime trade. Because of the presence of a single occupational period of a few decades at most, short duration sites such as Keveoki 1 allow for chronological refinement of ceramic conventions in a way that multilevel sites usually cannot, owing to the lack of stratigraphic mixing between chronologically separate ceramic assemblages in the former. |
Keywords | Vailala River; Papua New Guinea; decorated ceramics |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 451399. Pacific Peoples culture, language and history not elsewhere classified |
360601. Crafts | |
451301. Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand) | |
Public Notes | Once accepted for publication in Australian Archaeology, the author retains copyright in the work and may publish or authorise others to publish the entire work or any part thereof, provided that due acknowledgement is made in any further publication that the work was originally published in Australian Archaeology. |
Byline Affiliations | Monash University |
Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery, Papua New Guinea | |
School of Humanities and Communication | |
Australian National University |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9z2zx/keveoki-1-exploring-the-hiri-ceramics-trade-at-a-short-lived-village-site-near-the-vailala-river-papua-new-guinea
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