Early Pottery and Population Movements in Micronesian Prehistory

Takayama, Jun (1984). "Early Pottery and Population Movements in Micronesian Prehistory". Asian Perspectives. XXIV (1): 1–10. ISSN 1535-8283.

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Abstract: It has been proposed that the initial migrants entering Micronesia came from two different directions: first from the Philippines and Indonesia to western Micronesia, and later from eastern Melanesia to eastern and central Micronesia, eventually occupying the outer islands of the Palaus in the West (e.g., Davidson 1969:73; Alkire 1977: 12). In this paper, on the basis of recent archaeological investigations mainly in western and partially in central Micronesia, I offer a somewhat different, hypothetical view. This view partially supports Howells's (1973:255) opinion, in that at least the central, volcanic, high islands of Truk, Ponape, and Kosrae may have been initially settled from the West (possibly Yap) by migrants carrying with them calcareous, sand-tempered pottery, prior to or around the beginning ofthe Christian era, and in that this area was subsequently settled from the East (eastern Melanesia or western Polynesia) by people without pottery.

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