dc.contributor.author |
Sheppard, Peter |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-02-01T02:36:00Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2011 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Current Anthropology 52(6):799-840 2011 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0011-3204 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/10845 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The Lapita colonization of Remote Oceania involved rapid expansion from New Guinea across onetenth of the circumference of the earth. Implicit in most discussions of this phenomenon is a standard wave-of-advance model founded on demographic growth and the economic advantage provided by food production. The Lapita movement is also routinely embedded within a much larger narrative of the expansion of Austronesian languages and peoples out of Southeast Asia into Island Melanesia and ultimately east through East Polynesia. Although this simple narrative is very attractive, as more data become available, the details of segments of the “Austronesian” expansion require revision in order to reconcile the data from archaeology, linguistics, and biology. This paper looks closely at recent data on the Lapita portion of the “Austronesian” expansion and concludes that it is best explained as a leapfrog rather than a wave-of-advance movement out of New Guinea into Remote Oceania. This has important implications for those interested in modeling linguistic and biological variation in the region and highlights the potential importance of historical accident over process in our understanding of culture history. |
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dc.publisher |
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Current Anthropology |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0011-3204/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://www.jstor.org/page/publisher/ucpress/rights.html |
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dc.title |
Lapita Colonization across the Near/Remote Oceania Boundary. |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1086/662201 |
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pubs.issue |
6 |
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pubs.begin-page |
799 |
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pubs.volume |
52 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research |
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pubs.author-url |
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/662201 |
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pubs.end-page |
840 |
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pubs.publication-status |
Accepted |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
215260 |
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pubs.org-id |
Arts |
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pubs.org-id |
Social Sciences |
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pubs.org-id |
Anthropology |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2011-07-25 |
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