Subject
Archaeological Dating, Island Southeast Asia, Pacific Region, Pottery-Using Cultures, Radiocarbon Dating, Linguistic Sub-Groups, Regional Chronologies, Site Disturbance, Cultural Spread, Archaeological Evidence, Linguistic Correlations, Cultural Migration, Regional History, Historical Interpretation

Domains
Archéologie, Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines

Description

Since 1989 the author has examined the dating of the spread of pottery-using agricultural cultures through island SE Asia and into the Pacific in a series of papers which examine critically the radiocarbon corpus and its interpretation. Since the last published update on this project a lot of new data have become available, prompting the current review. Consideratons of the fit between the archaeological evidence and that derived from linguistics are made and this issue of unrecognized site disturbance as contributing to confusion in constructing regional chronologies is also addressed.

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Language
English (en-GB)

Creators
Spriggs, Matthew

Contributors

Sources
Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association18: 17-24

Relation
https://doi.org/10.7152/bippa.v18i0.11695

Coverage
Pacific, Oceania

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