Foué and New Caledonian ceramic networks
Foué peninsula, Koné, New Caledonia
Foué connects a local coastal landscape with a far-reaching ceramic research tradition. Rescue archaeology and museum interpretation expose both ancient craft and modern collecting histories.
Islands, households, and connected ocean worlds
Island, coastal, and ocean settings
The peninsula near the Koné estuary is one local setting within wider island networks, not a line dividing cultures.
Political organization and community scale
Craft production and settlement can be studied, but pottery does not identify a single political authority or inherited community membership.
Later transformation, living heritage, and modern reception
New Caledonian museum work presents the material within its own heritage context. Living Kanak histories require their own voices and cannot be read directly from sherd styles.
The local museum contextualizes restored pottery from Foué without making style an ethnicity.
The IRD record documents investigation of WKO13 B/A on the peninsula.
The 1997 study identifies varying dates and unresolved context problems across the archipelago.
A concise, sourced timeline
These milestones are orientation points, not a complete history.
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Ceramic communities
Regional dating places early pottery-making communities within this broad interval; precision varies by context.
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Chronological synthesis
Regional research assessed how dates and stratigraphy define the ceramic sequence.
Voyaging, food, craft, labor, belief, and material evidence
Languages named in this profile
- Prehistoric speech cannot be assigned from objects alone; later local language evidence requires its own date.
Language family: Language relationships are a separate line of evidence, not a ceramic, biological, or citizenship classification.
Dentate decoration and vessel variation
Type-sites and scholarly naming
Rescue excavation and museum stewardship
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Sources used for this page
Prefer Pacific heritage institutions, Indigenous and community-linked organizations, accountable excavation projects, and peer-reviewed research. Register HTTPS sources, not Wikipedia. Institutional records can contain older dates or interpretations and are compared with dated research rather than treated as timeless authority.
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Polynesian Wayfinding
Polynesian Voyaging Society · Living voyaging institution's educational account · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20
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Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, Federated States of Micronesia nomination · Institutional heritage resource · 2021 inscription; living record
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C3
The chronology of Lapita ware in New Caledonia
Antiquity, Cambridge University Press · Peer-reviewed chronology study · 1997
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C4
Bayesian re-evaluation of Lapita settlement in Fiji: radiocarbon analysis of the Lapita occupation at Bourewa and nearby sites on the Rove Peninsula, Viti Levu Island
Journal of Pacific Archaeology · Peer-reviewed radiocarbon study · 2013
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C5
Cook Island artifact geochemistry demonstrates spatial and temporal extent of pre-European interarchipelago voyaging in East Polynesia
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PubMed Central copy · Primary archaeological sourcing study · 2016
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C6
Three Late 18th Century CE East Polynesian Sails in the British Museum Reveal Regional Adaptations in Sailing Technology
Journal of Pacific Archaeology · Peer-reviewed study of later collected evidence · 2025
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C7
The Ancient Capitals of the Kingdom of Tonga
Tonga National Commission for UNESCO, hosted by UNESCO · State-submitted tentative-list record, not World Heritage inscription · 2007
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C8
Household expansion linked to agricultural intensification during emergence of Hawaiian archaic states
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PubMed Central copy · Primary archaeological study · 2011
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C9
Echoing Wahi Kūpuna
Ka‘iwakīloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center, Kamehameha Schools · Native Hawaiian cultural interpretation · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20
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C10
Control and Manage Agreement for Te Pokohiwi o Kupe
Te Rūnanga a Rangitāne o Wairau · Indigenous institutional account · 2026-02
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C11
Wairau, List No. 9561
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga · Institutional heritage resource · 2012 listing; living record
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Lapita - Collection de poteries du site de Foué
Service du Musée de la Nouvelle-Calédonie · Institutional heritage resource · 1996
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Site Lapita WKO13 B/A: sondages de reconnaissance et fouilles de sauvetage sur la presqu'île de Foué
Institut de recherche pour le développement · Primary field-report record · 1992
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S3
The chronology of Lapita ware in New Caledonia
Antiquity, Cambridge University Press · Peer-reviewed chronology study · 1997
Editorial review: October 20, 2026