Detente stamping on Lapita pottery

Close-up of two pot rims from pots reassembled from sherds. The left-hand image is a close-up of Teouma Pot 2.

Rights: ANU Press, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Published: 16 December 2022Size: 4.56 MB

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