The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives

The Archaeology of Portable Art- Front Cover
The Archaeology of Portable Art
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: In search of the archaeology of portable art from Southeast
Asia, the Pacific, and Australia
	References
PART I:
Southeast Asia
Chapter 2: The contribution of early Southeast Asian material to a
global understanding of portable art
	Introduction
	Pre-Neolithic portable art in Southeast Asia
	Into a global context
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 3: Exploring red ochre use in Timor-Leste and surrounds:
Headhunting, burials, and beads
	Introduction
	Archaeological red ochre use in Timor-Leste: 42,000 years ago till 200 years ago
	Prehistoric red ochre use in the wider region
	Ethnographic accounts regarding the symbolism and significance of the colour red in Timor-Leste and surrounds
	Discussion and conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 4: Enduring value: Shell ornaments in the Metal Age of Island
Southeast Asia with a focus on the southwestern Philippines
	Introduction
	Neolithic shell-working in Island Southeast Asia
	Metal Age worked shell from Ille Cave
	The position of shell as a raw material in the Metal Age: reimagined possibilities
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 5: Tracing the trade of heirloom beads across Zomia: A
preliminary analysis of beads from the upland regions of
northeast India and mainland Southeast Asia
	Introduction and background
	Method of analysis
	Results
	Discussion and conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Greenstone jewellery workshops in the Tabon Caves complex
of the Philippines
	Introduction
	Research background and questions
	Research methods and results
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
PART II:
The Pacific
Chapter 7: ‘Portable art’ and the Pacific
	Introduction
	‘Portable art’ as a concept
	What is ‘portable art’ in the Pacific?
	‘Portable art’ present and past: the conundrum of the (Pacific) archaeologist
	A potential place for archaeology in historicising discourses on art
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 8: Pendants and beads of stone, shell, and tooth from southern
Vanuatu
	Excavating collections and archives
	Materials, materiality and materialisation
	Interaction and exchange across the ocean waves
	Pendants and beads in the archaeological record
	Stone in the ethnohistoric record
	Whale tooth in the ethnohistoric record
	Shell beads and pendants
	Future directions for research
	Oceanic pendants, portability, and partibility
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 9: Modified canines: Circular pig’s tusks in Vanuatu and
the wider Pacific
	Introduction
	Production and use in Vanuatu
	Early historical records in Vanuatu
	Archaeological evidence
	Symbol of national identity
	Pacific distribution
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: Shell beads as markers of Oceanic dispersal: A rare
Cypraeidae ornament type from the Mariana Islands
	Introduction
	Context
	Methods
	Materials and taphonomic considerations
	Results
	Other Cypraeidae ornaments at Bapot-1
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 11: Value from the inside: Recycling, reuse and life histories in
Fijian chiefly breastplates (civavonovono)
	Introduction
	The study sample
	Raw materials and value: historical and archaeological perspectives
	Technology and composite elements: a view from the inside
	Recycling, reuse, circulation and value
	‘Value’ and an archaeological approach to historical valuables
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 12: Recovering lost histories: DNA analyses of kiwi feathered
bags (kete kiwi)
	Introduction
	Materials and methods
	Results
	Discussion
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
PART III:
Australia
Chapter 13: The esoteric and decorative use of bone, shell, and teeth
in Australia
	Introduction
	The ornamental use of bone
	The ornamental use of shell
	The ornamental use of teeth
	Conclusions
	Note
	References
Chapter 14: Beads and boundaries
	Australian material culture
	Beads and pendants: materials and methods
	Classification of beads
	Shell bead series, classification and distribution
	Shell pendants, classification and distribution
	Discussion and conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 15: Tales of a fat-tailed macropod
	Telling tails
	The portable slab
	Contexualising fat-tailed macropods
	Another way
	Domestication, kinship and networks in a more-than-human world
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 16: Marine shell ornaments in northwestern Australian
archaeological sites: Different meanings over time and space
	Introduction
	Ethnographic use of Kimberley scaphopod shell in personal ornamentation
	Archaeological beads from the inland Kimberley
	Discussion and conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 17: Portable art in Australia’s Western Desert
	Introduction
	Western Desert rock art and Jukurrpa
	Symbolic behaviour in the Western Desert
	Portable art: a newly described medium
	Ethnographic and ethnohistoric observations linking symbolic behaviour and rock art
	Discussion
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	Note
	References
Chapter 18: Developing approaches for understanding Indigenous
Australian glass bead use during the contact period
	Introduction
	Early distribution and use of glass beads in Australia
	Methods in archaeology
	Methods in anthropology
	Theories of use, value and construction
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 19: Lithics as portable art
	Introduction
	Lithics and the origin of portable art
	Australia and lithic signalling in the Holocene
	Conclusion
	References
Index