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  • Shell beads as markers of Oceanic dispersal: A rare Cypraeidae ornament type from the Mariana Islands

    Author(s)
    Clark, G
    Langley, MC
    Litster, M
    Winter, O
    Amesbury, JR
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Langley, Michelle C.
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    We present experimental and micro-trace evidence for an unusual Cypraeidae bead type associated with the earliest cultural deposits of the Bapot-1 site in the Marianas Islands in Western Micronesia. Results show that these ground-section cowry beads were strung together while worked dorsum found at this same site were used as pendants/lids. The probable occurrence of ground-section beads on Tikopia island ~4000 km from the Marianas suggests that these distinctive shell artefacts can assist archaeological understanding of early Oceanic dispersals and interaction among different colonising Neolithic groups in the Indo-Pacific.We present experimental and micro-trace evidence for an unusual Cypraeidae bead type associated with the earliest cultural deposits of the Bapot-1 site in the Marianas Islands in Western Micronesia. Results show that these ground-section cowry beads were strung together while worked dorsum found at this same site were used as pendants/lids. The probable occurrence of ground-section beads on Tikopia island ~4000 km from the Marianas suggests that these distinctive shell artefacts can assist archaeological understanding of early Oceanic dispersals and interaction among different colonising Neolithic groups in the Indo-Pacific.
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    Book Title
    The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315299112-10
    Subject
    Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/385433
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