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Sand temper of probable Fijian origin in prehistoric potsherds from Tuvalu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William R. Dickinson ,
Jun Takayama ,
Eleanour A. Snow  and
Richard Shutler Jr
William R. Dickinson
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA
Jun Takayama
Affiliation:
Tezukayama University, Tezukayama 7–1–1, Nara-shi, Nara-ken 631, Japan
Eleanour A. Snow
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA
Richard Shutler Jr
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada V5A 1S6
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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 243 , June 1990 , pp. 307 - 312
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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The distinctive petrology of volcanic sand is a means to sourcing evidence of ceramics and therefore to showing a pattern of Pacific voyaging in later prehistory

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