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Science 24 February 1978:
Vol. 199. no. 4331, pp. 877 - 879
DOI: 10.1126/science.199.4331.877
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Mid-Recent Human Occupation and Resource Exploitation in the Bismarck Archipelago

J. PETER WHITE 1, J. E. DOWNIE 1, and W. R. AMBROSE 2

1 Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
2 Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2600

Human settlement of the Bismarck Archipelago occurred by 6000 to 7500 years ago. Early inhabitants of New Ireland drew on widely dispersed stone sources, including obsidian from Talasea (New Britain), whereas those after about 3000 years ago used either stone from more local sources or obsidian from Lou Island (Admiralty Islands group) or Talasea. The dates and resource changes support a gradualist model of Melanesian settlement.

Submitted on September 12, 1977


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