Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania

Contributor(s): Bauer, Brian S (Author), Cruz, Javier Fonseca Santa (Author), Kirch, Patrick Vinton (Editor)

ISBN: 9781950446179

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Hardcover

$120.00

Pub Date: November 15, 2021

Dewey: 995

LCCN: 2021006033

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.50" H x 11.20" L x 8.80" W ( 4.75 lbs) 592 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Monumenta Archaeologica

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: This book is a study of the Lapita Cultural Complex, a region spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia. The Lapita culture has been interpreted as the archaeological manifestation of a diaspora of Austronesian-speaking people (specifically of Proto-Oceanic language) who rapidly expanded from the New Guinea region into Remote Oce