Site LPO023 of Kurin: characteristics of a Lapita Settlement in the Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia).

Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | March 22, 2002| | Copyright

FROM THE FIRST DATING by E. Gifford and R. Shutler Jr. in 1952, based on their excavations at Site 13 of the Foue peninsula in New Caledonia (1956), the chronology of production of the dentate-stamped Oceanic pottery tradition known as Lapita has been a subject of debate. During the last three decades, Lapita pottery has slowly seen its history shortened through various results obtained by different regional programs in the southwestern Pacific. Once believed to have lasted nearly the entire prehistoric chronology of Tonga (Golson 1971), or to have persisted over 1500 years ...

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