Re: Lapita & continuity in the archaeological record.....

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:54:07 -0700

Qiwi wrote:
 
> This is absolute crap....
> and as usual it is P.V.Kirch who is hopelessly confused...

Hopelessly confused, I don't know about that. Hopefully
publicity-seeking, rather. I just hold him for another
Carl Sagan. This is what I wrote two and half years ago
(and which got published):

>Kirch sees a Lapita culture on Aneityum island in Vanuatu,
>where there is no trace of it whatsoever: "Although no Lapita
>occupation sites were discovered on Aneityum, a pollen core...
>exhibits a clear signal of human arrival on the island around
>900 B.C., believed to reflect a Lapita colonization."

The quote is out of Kirch's book "On the Road of the Winds"
or something like that.

Admire the logic of it.