Artifact geochemistry demonstrates long-distance voyaging in the Polynesian Outliers
Hermann Aymeric, Gutiérrez Pamela, Chauvel Catherine, Maury René, Liorzou Céline, Willie Edson, Phillip Iarawai, Forkel Robert, Rzymski Christoph, Bedford Stuart. 2023-05-09. .
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Subject
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]
Domains
Archéologie, Histoire, Foncier, Sciences exactes, Chimie, Physique
Description
International audience
Although the peopling of Remote Oceania is well-documented as a general process of eastward migrations from Island Southeast Asia and Near Oceania toward the archipelagos of Remote Oceania, the origin and the development of Polynesian societies in the Western Pacific (Polynesian Outliers), far away from the Polynesian triangle, remain unclear. Here, we present a large-scale geochemical sourcing study of stone artifacts excavated from archeological sites in central Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and the Caroline Islands and provide unambiguous evidence of multiple long-distance voyages, with exotic stone materials being transported up to 2500 kilometers from their source. Our results emphasize high mobility in the Western Pacific during the last millennium CE and offer insights on the scale and timing of contacts between the Polynesian Outliers, their neighbors in the Western Pacific, and societies of Western Polynesia.
Keywords
Anthropologie, Ethnologie, Archaeology, History
Creators
Hermann, Aymeric, Gutiérrez, Pamela, Chauvel, Catherine, Maury, René, Liorzou, Céline, Willie, Edson, Phillip, Iarawai, Forkel, Robert, Rzymski, Christoph, Bedford, Stuart
Contributors
Technologie et Ethnologie des Mondes Préhistoriques (TEMPS) ; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie (MPI-EVA) ; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP (UMR_7154)) ; Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Geo-Ocean (GEO-OCEAN) ; Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Vanuatu National Museum, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University, Canberra
Sources
ISSN: 2375-2548, Science Advances , https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-04092004, Science Advances , 2023, 9 (16)
