Materialising Ancestral Madang: Aspects of pre-colonial production and exchange on the northeast coast of New Guinea

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Materialising Ancestral Madang: Aspects of pre-colonial production and exchange on the northeast coast of New Guinea

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This thesis examines the nature of changing pottery production and exchange on the northeast coast of New Guinea in the pre-colonial past. Models in Melanesian archaeology suggest that the recent past, leading up to ethnographic contact, was a dynamic period of changing mobility, social interaction, and technology, and is crucial to our understanding of culture in the region today. Here, this important time of social and technological flux is investigated by examining the emergence of the ext...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2017

Creator

Gaffney, Dylan

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/7185

Related subjects

New Guinea archaeology / Madang / Bilbil / Yabob / pottery / production / exchange / chaîne opératoire / technological process / embodied knowledge / ethnographic archaeology / geochemical analysis

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