Subject
Mélanésie, Navigations, Massim, Bismarck, Lapita, Préhistoire, Simulations, [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology, [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory

Domains
Archéologie, Anthropologie, Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines

Description

International audience This paper will present the rationale of simulations of canoe voyage in the Solomon Sea and Coral Seas with the aim to investigate whether regular contact between Island “Melanesia” and Queensland is (was) technically feasible. It will present the data and the principles used for such simulations and illustrate particular routes of navigation that are highly plausible/feasible. The paper will show the dense potential network of exploratory and regular voyages between the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Massim region and Queensland, and it will argue that there is no reason to believe such voyages and networks have not actually occurred.

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Language
English (en-GB)

Creators
Dousset, Laurent, Di Piazza, Anne

Contributors
Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie (CREDO) ; École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Australian Research Council, ARC DP180100893

Sources
Waves of Words, Waves of Words, Oct 2018, Sydney, Australia

Relation
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01898862

Coverage
Mélanésie, Melanesia

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