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Lapita period modelled ceramic face from New Caledonia
Author(s) -
NOURY ARNAUD
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
archaeology in oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1834-4453
pISSN - 0728-4896
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2007.tb00012.x
Subject(s) - period (music) , archaeology , face (sociological concept) , geography , art , sociology , aesthetics , social science
I report here a new Lapita period clay modelled face from the Lapita (WKO013A) site. This is similar to the seven Lapita period faces already known. I discuss the role that such faces could have played in Lapita culture and suggest they could have been made by distinct groups.