In 2008, intensive archaeological surveys began at Caution Bay, located 20km to the northwest of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The excavation of 122 stratified sites in 2009-2010 followed, and detailed analysis of the well-preserved and abundant faunal, ceramic and lithic finds has continued ever since. The Caution Bay Archaeology Project is providing new and exciting contributions to the western Pacific past. It has radically expanded the known geographic distribution of the Lapita Cultural Complex to include, for the first time, the southern coast of Papua New Guinea; it has established the relationship of Lapita to later cultural expressions in this area; it has pinpointed the time of arrival of domesticated animals along the southern coast of Papua New Guinea and, by inference, on the larger island of New Guinea; it has provided new insights into the impact of resident populations on local terrestrial and marine environments over a 5000 year time period; and perhaps of greatest significance, it has provided a unique opportunity to document, using multiple strands of archaeological evidence, interactions between resident and colonizing populations at a time of cultural transformation c. 2900 years ago.

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巴布亚新几内亚警戒湾考古研究：T. Richards、B. David、K. Aplin 和 I. McNiven 编辑的文化、语言和环境背景 考古学中的警戒湾研究 1，Archaeopress 考古学 297 Archaeopress，牛津，2016

2008 年，在巴布亚新几内亚莫尔兹比港西北 20 公里处的小心湾开始了密集的考古调查。随后在 2009 年至 2010 年期间对 122 个分层遗址进行了发掘，此后继续对保存完好且丰富的动物群、陶瓷和石器发现进行详细分析。警戒湾考古项目正在为西太平洋的过去做出令人兴奋的新贡献。它从根本上扩大了拉皮塔文化综合体的已知地理分布，首次包括巴布亚新几内亚南部海岸；它建立了 Lapita 与该地区后来的文化表现形式的关系；它确定了驯养动物到达巴布亚新几内亚南部海岸的时间，并由此推断出到达更大的新几内亚岛的时间；它为 5000 年来居民人口对当地陆地和海洋环境的影响提供了新的见解；也许最重要的是，它提供了一个独特的机会，可以使用多种考古证据来记录文化转型时期居民和殖民人口之间的相互作用 c。2900年前。