Australian Museum Journal Archaeological Studies of the Middle and Late Holocene, Papua New Guinea. Part VI. Revised dating of Type X pottery, Morobe Province
- Shortform:
- Lilley and Specht, 2007, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., online 20: 217–226
- Author(s):
- Lilley, Ian; Specht, Jim
- Year published:
- 2007
- Title:
- Archaeological Studies of the Middle and Late Holocene, Papua New Guinea. Part VI. Revised dating of Type X pottery, Morobe Province
- Serial title:
- Technical Reports of the Australian Museum (online)
- Volume:
- 20
- Start page:
- 217
- End page:
- 226
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.1835-4211.20.2007.1478
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 12 December 2007
- Cover date:
- 12 December 2007
- ISSN:
- 1835-4211
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; NEW GUINEA
- Digitized:
- 12 December 2007
- Available online:
- 12 December 2007
- Reference number:
- 1478
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (40kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (532kb PDF)
Abstract
Type X is a distinctive post-Lapita pottery on Huon Peninsula and its adjacent islands in Papua New Guinea, for which Lilley originally proposed a time span from about 1600 to 850/550 cal. bp. The paper reviews this chronology in the light of new dates and the original data, and proposes that the duration of Type X should be shortened to about 1000–500 cal. bp. This revised chronology possibly lengthens the post-Lapita aceramic period on Huon Peninsula, and has implications for the history of trading across Vitiaz Strait.