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dc.contributor.authorDickinson, William Ren
dc.contributor.authorNunn, Patricken
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-01T16:37:00Z-
dc.date.issued2013-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Pacific Archaeology, 4(1), p. 15-31en
dc.identifier.issn1179-4712en
dc.identifier.issn1179-4704en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11989-
dc.description.abstractSeven Lapita sites on the Rove Peninsula of Viti Levu in Fiji or on islets close offshore include the earliest known Lapita site in Fiji at Bourewa. Petrographic study of 53 Rove sherds shows that 95 per cent contain closely related hybrid temper sands (mixed terrigenous and calcareous grains) collected locally from the shores of the ancestral Tuva River estuary and adjacent Vusama paleoisland. Terrigenous detritus was derived from the Wainimala orogen that forms the bedrock of southwest Viti Levu and is exposed throughout the drainage basin of the Tuva River. Skeletal and pelletal (micritic) calcareous detritus was derived from the broad offshore reef fringing the Rove Peninsula. In most Rove sherds, calcareous temper grains have been largely or entirely removed by dissolution to leave vacuoles of sand size and shape that are visible megascopically as tiny pits on sherd surfaces. Tempers of indigenous Rove wares did not vary substantially from site to site on the peninsula or over time during its Lapita occupation. Three sherds containing non-local volcanic sand as temper reflect ceramic transfer of exotic wares during later phases of Rove prehistory from Lapita settlements elsewhere in Fiji, probably on Kadavu and the north coast of Viti Levu.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherNew Zealand Archaeological Associationen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Pacific Archaeologyen
dc.titlePetrography of Sand Tempers in Lapita Potsherds from the Rove Peninsula, Southwest Viti Levu, Fijien
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.subject.keywordsIgneous and Metamorphic Petrologyen
dc.subject.keywordsArchaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl New Zealand)en
local.contributor.firstnameWilliam Ren
local.contributor.firstnamePatricken
local.subject.for2008210106 Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl New Zealand)en
local.subject.for2008040304 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrologyen
local.subject.seo2008950599 Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classifieden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailpnunn3@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20130124-155341en
local.publisher.placeNew Zealanden
local.format.startpage15en
local.format.endpage31en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume4en
local.identifier.issue1en
local.contributor.lastnameDickinsonen
local.contributor.lastnameNunnen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:pnunn3en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:12192en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitlePetrography of Sand Tempers in Lapita Potsherds from the Rove Peninsula, Southwest Viti Levu, Fijien
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.relation.urlhttp://www.pacificarchaeology.org/index.php/journal/article/view/DickinsonNunnen
local.search.authorDickinson, William Ren
local.search.authorNunn, Patricken
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2013en
local.subject.for2020451301 Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand)en
local.subject.for2020451303 Pacific Peoples artefactsen
local.subject.for2020370503 Igneous and metamorphic petrologyen
local.subject.seo2020130799 Understanding past societies not elsewhere classifieden
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