This paper describes a ceramic assemblage from a Post‐Lapita site on Tetepare, a geologically distinct island on the periphery of the New Georgia group, Solomon Islands. Previous studies of ceramic assemblages in the region have found evidence of exotic sherds and patterns of pottery transfer indicating population mobility during a colonisation phase establishment of new communities in coastal lagoon settings. Here, a geochemical and petrographic comparison of the Tetepare assemblage to samples from similarly‐aged sites in nearby Roviana Lagoon and Kolombangara establishes a pattern of predominantly local production, with equivocal support for exotic transfers. This leads us to refine a model of increasing environmental knowledge, access and social connectivity, during the early phase dispersal of ceramic technologies into the region. We argue that our results clearly discriminate the Tetepare sherds from other assemblages and connect this observation to inferences about the variable character of regional interaction patterns. In addition, the environmental setting of the Tetepare site supplies further context for assessing the role of post‐depositional taphonomic processes and sea‐level change in structuring the visibility of intertidal pottery assemblages in the region.

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新乔治亚州的互动与隔离：Nabo Point陶瓷组件Tetepare的见解

本文描述了Tetepare上一个Post-Lapita遗址的陶瓷组合，Totepare是所罗门群岛新乔治亚州群外围的一个地质上独特的岛。对该地区陶瓷组合的先前研究已经发现了异国风情的陶器和陶器转移方式的证据，表明在沿海泻湖环境中的新社区建立的殖民化阶段，该地区的人口迁移。在这里，对Tetepare组合物与来自附近Roviana泻湖和Kolombangara的类似年龄地点的样品进行地球化学和岩石学比较，建立了一种主要是本地生产的模式，并为外来转移提供了明确的支持。这导致我们在陶瓷技术向该地区早期传播的过程中，完善了一个增加环境知识，获取和社会联系的模型。我们认为我们的结果清楚地将Tetepare牧羊犬与其他动物区别开来，并将这一观察结果与关于区域相互作用模式可变特征的推论联系起来。此外，Tetepare厂址的环境设置为评估沉积后的自发过程和海平面变化在构造该地区潮间陶器组合的可见性方面的作用提供了进一步的环境。