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SUMMARY:A short-lived but memorable style: Lapita Pottery in Vanuatu  (NOT
 E: Unusual time) - Dr. Mathieu Leclerc (Australian National University)
DTSTART:20201127T110000Z
DTEND:20201127T114500Z
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CONTACT:Laura Courto
DESCRIPTION:In the South Pacific\, pottery is a key element of the Lapita 
 Cultural Complex\, a set of artefacts and practices that finds its origin 
 about 3000 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea. In t
 he centuries following its appearance\, Lapita pottery\, characterised by 
 fine dentate-stamped decorations\, is associated with the first human sett
 lers in Remote Oceania\, i.e.\, east of the Solomon Islands\, in today’s
  Vanuatu\, New Caledonia\, Fiji\, Tonga and Samoa. \n\nIn this presentatio
 n I will detail how petrographic\, chemical and organic residue analysis o
 f pottery can be used in conjunction with the rest of the archaeological r
 ecord to provide information about raw material procurement strategies and
  the role of Lapita pottery. While descriptions of morpho-stylistic attrib
 utes to infer chronological and cultural affiliations have been and remain
  the major focus of ceramic analyses in the region\, chemical and mineralo
 gical data directly acquired from the vessels can contribute to our unders
 tanding of the reasons behind continuity and change in ceramic traditions 
 in the region. \n\nBio \n\nDr Mathieu Leclerc is a Lecturer in the School 
 of Archaeology & Anthropology of the Australian National University. His p
 rimary research interests include investigating provenance and technologic
 al attributes of artefacts using advanced analytical techniques. His most 
 recent work includes petrographic and chemical analysis of Lapita pottery 
 from Vanuatu\, using microCT to investigate the internal structure of pott
 ery sherds and developing non-traditional research outputs in an effort to
  disseminate more efficiently academic information outside academia. \n\n
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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