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JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 35, 期 7, 页码 1901-1927出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.12.001
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Samoa; Polynesia; radiocarbon; colonization; Lapita; chronometric hygiene
The corpus of radiocarbon dates for Samoan archaeology has grown exponentially since the pioneering work of Green and Davidson in the 1960s, enabling us to re-analyze the archipelago's cultural chronology. A reliable and valid radiocarbon chronology forms the basis for describing and explaining cultural variability and change in the central Pacific. Towards that end, in this paper we compile the available radiocarbon dates from published and unpublished (grey literature) sources. We critically evaluate 236 radiocarbon dates following a, chronometric hygiene protocol to identify the most secure and reliable age estimates. We accept 147 dates (62.3%) as a means of addressing two significant issues for Samoan prehistory: (1) the chronology of settlement and human expansion across the archipelago pre-2000 cal BP, 'which relates to issues of Lapita colonization, and the effect of island geomorphology on settlement; and (2) analysis of the so-called Dark Ages (ca. 15001000 cal BP), a period relevant to issues of social complexity and East Polynesian settlement. Our research highlights the need for a rigorous sampling protocol for radiocarbon dating. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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