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Aside from a preface and acknowledgements, this edited volume contains 18 chapters, more than half of them authored or co-authored by Kirch, including the introduction and conclusion. The long introduction sets the scene by presenting an overview of Lapita archaeology and the context of the Lapita Homeland Project organized by Jim Allen in 1985, of which the Mussau Project was one component. Kirch addressed a series of major themes on Mussau, including Lapita origins, economy, long-distance exchange, society, and Late Lapita transformations. Three field seasons (i.e., 1985, 1986, 1988) were dedicated to excavations of the Talepakemalai site and other Lapita sites located in surrounding islands. The main phases of each season are presented in this book, as well the outcomes of the first laboratory studies. Chapter 2 summarizes the main natural characteristics of the Mussau Islands, focusing especially on the small uplifted outer islands that dot the southern end of Mussau in a reef and lagoon environment. To address the forthcoming analysis of the unique stratigraphic fills excavated, a section is devoted to coastal geomorphology and sea-level fluctuations during the Holocene. The next two chapters detail the excavations completed over the three seasons in Mussau. Chapter 3 focuses exclusively on the excavation at the main Lapita site of Talepakemalai, labelled ECA, located on a mid-Holocene sand fill on Eloaua Island, where the local air strip was built. The chapter details the archaeological strategy of the 1985 field season, which had as its main goal to clarify initial results from investigations in the 1970s. The discovery of a well-preserved waterlogged Lapita deposit containing adjoining decorated sherds as well as preserved wooden posts of stilt houses was the main justification for the two follow-up field seasons. The chapter presents in great detail the stratigraphic observations and the spatial layout of the remains in the in situ layer, before proposing an interpretation of the chronological process of deposition over the more than 500 years that constitutes the Lapita chronology at Talepakemalai. The three main excavated areas of the site revealed the construction of two stilt houses during this phase. Chapter 4, co-authored by Marshall I. Weisler and Nick Araho, summarizes the [End Page 253] other excavations fulfilled during the program. Most were located on Eloaua Island and the small uplifted islands surrounding it; only five excavations were positioned on the largest island, Mussau. 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Numerous data on various aspects of dentate-stamped decorated pottery, associated lithic artifacts and shell ornaments, or remains of shells and bones have been published by colleagues over the past decades on specific sites across the Lapita region, but only the Lapita sites excavated on a small scale have been published completely (e.g., Anson et al. 2005; Clark and Anderson 2009; Specht and Attenbrow 2007). This volume thus sets the stage for what could be achieved for other important sites in the Bismarck Archipelago, southeast Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia. Aside from a preface and acknowledgements, this edited volume contains 18 chapters, more than half of them authored or co-authored by Kirch, including the introduction and conclusion. The long introduction sets the scene by presenting an overview of Lapita archaeology and the context of the Lapita Homeland Project organized by Jim Allen in 1985, of which the Mussau Project was one component. Kirch addressed a series of major themes on Mussau, including Lapita origins, economy, long-distance exchange, society, and Late Lapita transformations. Three field seasons (i.e., 1985, 1986, 1988) were dedicated to excavations of the Talepakemalai site and other Lapita sites located in surrounding islands. The main phases of each season are presented in this book, as well the outcomes of the first laboratory studies. Chapter 2 summarizes the main natural characteristics of the Mussau Islands, focusing especially on the small uplifted outer islands that dot the southern end of Mussau in a reef and lagoon environment. To address the forthcoming analysis of the unique stratigraphic fills excavated, a section is devoted to coastal geomorphology and sea-level fluctuations during the Holocene. The next two chapters detail the excavations completed over the three seasons in Mussau. 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由Patrick Vinton Kirch Christophe主编的Talepakemalai:近大洋洲musau群岛的Lapita及其转变。Patrick Vinton Kirch主编,《古迹考古》47。洛杉矶:加州大学洛杉矶分校科特森考古研究所出版社,2021。Xxvi + 558页,337图,90表,参考书目,索引。精装本120美元,ISBN 9781950446179。多好的一本书啊!在这本将近600页的书中,帕特里克·v·基尔希(Patrick V. Kirch)给太平洋考古学家们带来了期待已久的对俾斯麦群岛穆索群岛(Mussau Islands)拉皮塔遗址独特发现的综合分析,这些发现是在20世纪80年代中期挖掘出来的。书中硬硬的黑色封面上只有“拉皮塔神”(Lapita God)的正面插图。这本书已经出版了20年之后,然后提出了第一个三卷综合在穆索群岛完成的挖掘(Kirch 2001)。虽然这对一些考古学家来说可能是一个惊喜,但这本书是第一本在单卷中发表美拉尼西亚岛塔勒帕克马莱(ECA)的一个主要拉皮塔遗址的最新结果的书。在过去的几十年里,同事们在拉皮塔地区的特定遗址上发表了大量关于齿状印记装饰陶器、相关石器制品和贝壳饰品或贝壳和骨头遗骸的各个方面的数据,但只有小规模挖掘的拉皮塔遗址得到了完整的发表(例如,Anson et al. 2005;Clark and Anderson 2009;Specht and Attenbrow 2007)。因此,本书为俾斯麦群岛、所罗门群岛东南部、瓦努阿图和新喀里多尼亚的其他重要地点奠定了基础。除了序言和致谢之外,这本经过编辑的书共有18章,其中一半以上是Kirch自己或与人合著的,包括引言和结论。这篇长长的引言介绍了拉皮塔考古的概况,以及1985年由吉姆·艾伦组织的拉皮塔家园项目的背景,其中穆索项目是其中的一个组成部分。Kirch讲述了一系列关于musau的主题,包括拉皮塔人的起源、经济、长途交换、社会和拉皮塔人晚期的转变。三个实地季节(即1985年、1986年和1988年)专门用于挖掘Talepakemalai遗址和位于周围岛屿的其他Lapita遗址。本书介绍了每个季节的主要阶段,以及第一次实验室研究的结果。第2章总结了穆索群岛的主要自然特征,特别关注点缀在穆索岛南端珊瑚礁和泻湖环境中的凸起的小外岛。为了解决即将进行的独特地层填充物的分析,一节专门用于全新世期间的海岸地貌和海平面波动。接下来的两章详细介绍了穆索三个季节完成的挖掘工作。第3章专注于Talepakemalai的主要Lapita遗址的挖掘,该遗址被标记为ECA,位于Eloaua岛全新世中期的沙堆上,当地的机场跑道就建在那里。本章详细介绍了1985年野外季节的考古策略,其主要目标是澄清1970年代调查的初步结果。发现了一个保存完好的浸水Lapita矿床,其中包含相邻的装饰碎片和保存完好的高脚屋木桩,这是后续两个实地季节的主要理由。这一章非常详细地介绍了地层观测和原位层中遗迹的空间布局,然后提出了对构成塔勒帕克马莱拉皮塔年代学的500多年沉积年代学过程的解释。该遗址的三个主要挖掘区域揭示了在这一阶段建造的两座高跷房屋。第四章由马歇尔·i·韦斯勒和尼克·阿拉霍共同撰写,总结了该计划期间完成的其他挖掘工作。其中大多数位于埃洛瓦岛及其周围隆起的小岛上;只有5个发掘点位于最大的岛屿musau。为了澄清长期以来关于拉皮塔人在俾斯麦群岛出现的古老历史及其长度的争论,第五章……
Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania ed. by Patrick Vinton Kirch (review)
Reviewed by: Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania ed. by Patrick Vinton Kirch Christophe Sand Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania. Patrick Vinton Kirch, ed. Monumenta Archaeological 47. Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2021. xxvi + 558 pp., 337 figures, 90 tables, bibliography, index. Hardback US $120, ISBN 9781950446179. What a book! In its nearly 600 pages, contained within a hard black cover with only the "Lapita God" as front illustration, Patrick V. Kirch has granted Pacific archaeologists with a long awaited synthesis of the unique finds of the Lapita sites of the Mussau Islands in the Bismarck Archipelago that were excavated in the mid-1980s. This book has been published 20 years after what was then presented as the first of a three-volume synthesis on the excavations fulfilled in the Mussau Islands (Kirch 2001). While it might look like a surprise to some archaeologists, this book is the first to publish up-to-date results from one of the major Lapita sites in Island Melanesia, Talepakemalai (ECA), in a single volume. Numerous data on various aspects of dentate-stamped decorated pottery, associated lithic artifacts and shell ornaments, or remains of shells and bones have been published by colleagues over the past decades on specific sites across the Lapita region, but only the Lapita sites excavated on a small scale have been published completely (e.g., Anson et al. 2005; Clark and Anderson 2009; Specht and Attenbrow 2007). This volume thus sets the stage for what could be achieved for other important sites in the Bismarck Archipelago, southeast Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia. Aside from a preface and acknowledgements, this edited volume contains 18 chapters, more than half of them authored or co-authored by Kirch, including the introduction and conclusion. The long introduction sets the scene by presenting an overview of Lapita archaeology and the context of the Lapita Homeland Project organized by Jim Allen in 1985, of which the Mussau Project was one component. Kirch addressed a series of major themes on Mussau, including Lapita origins, economy, long-distance exchange, society, and Late Lapita transformations. Three field seasons (i.e., 1985, 1986, 1988) were dedicated to excavations of the Talepakemalai site and other Lapita sites located in surrounding islands. The main phases of each season are presented in this book, as well the outcomes of the first laboratory studies. Chapter 2 summarizes the main natural characteristics of the Mussau Islands, focusing especially on the small uplifted outer islands that dot the southern end of Mussau in a reef and lagoon environment. To address the forthcoming analysis of the unique stratigraphic fills excavated, a section is devoted to coastal geomorphology and sea-level fluctuations during the Holocene. The next two chapters detail the excavations completed over the three seasons in Mussau. Chapter 3 focuses exclusively on the excavation at the main Lapita site of Talepakemalai, labelled ECA, located on a mid-Holocene sand fill on Eloaua Island, where the local air strip was built. The chapter details the archaeological strategy of the 1985 field season, which had as its main goal to clarify initial results from investigations in the 1970s. The discovery of a well-preserved waterlogged Lapita deposit containing adjoining decorated sherds as well as preserved wooden posts of stilt houses was the main justification for the two follow-up field seasons. The chapter presents in great detail the stratigraphic observations and the spatial layout of the remains in the in situ layer, before proposing an interpretation of the chronological process of deposition over the more than 500 years that constitutes the Lapita chronology at Talepakemalai. The three main excavated areas of the site revealed the construction of two stilt houses during this phase. Chapter 4, co-authored by Marshall I. Weisler and Nick Araho, summarizes the [End Page 253] other excavations fulfilled during the program. Most were located on Eloaua Island and the small uplifted islands surrounding it; only five excavations were positioned on the largest island, Mussau. In an effort to clarify long-lasting debates about the antiquity of the Lapita emergence in the Bismarck Archipelago and its length, chapter 5...