Ref ID:	24008
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Ambrose, Wal
Title:	Curves, tines, scutes and Lapita ware
Date:	1999
Source:	Le Pacifique de 5000 à 2000 avant le présent
Place of Publication:	Paris
Publisher:	Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Abstract:	A number of contending materials have been suggested as the precursors for manufacture into dentate stamps that produced the striking surface decoration on Lapita pottery. An inspection of stamped impressions on Lapita sherds from the Ambitle Island collection gives important clues to the technology of the dentate stamps. On the grounds of the restricted family of curves that are present in the sherd collection and the details of tine shapes, and the interval between them, it is concluded that the most likely raw material for stamping tool manufacture is the flexible scute from the tropical sea turtle Eretmochelys imbricata.
Date Created:	11/1/2006
Editors:	Galipaud, Jean-Christophe Lilley, Ian
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