Correlation of environmental and cultural chronology in New Caledonia

摘要: A case study in New Caledonia explores the changes natural and cultural setting at end of Lapita period first millennium B.C. After mid-Holocene highstand, sea level fell about 1.5 m, thereby enlarging coastal plains, altering previous mangrove marshy settings, transforming nearshore marine environments. Many these occurred gradually over several centuries, but termination finely decorated pottery coincided with signs loss habitat optimal for marine-based horticulturalists Organized village compounds extensively cultivated landscapes emerged much later, A.D. The results suggest that, although phenomenon represents founding ancestry Oceanic societies, it also an era way life that eventually could not be maintained a changing world. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.