Pacific Island Worlds: Voyaging, Communities, and Living Heritage
Western Grande Terre · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

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.

Archaeological settlement and landscape context Approximately 1100-500 BCE, with regional chronological uncertainty Pottery assemblages, site survey and rescue excavation, stratigraphy, and regional radiocarbon comparisons. Foué peninsula, Koné, New Caledonia; approximate archaeological or regional orientation point only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, trade-route, sovereignty, or modern national boundary. Not an excavation coordinate or permission to enter sacred or private places.
Resumo

Ilhas, lares e mundos oceânicos ligados

Ambientes insulares, costeiros e oceânicos

The peninsula near the Koné estuary is one local setting within wider island networks, not a line dividing cultures.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Craft production and settlement can be studied, but pottery does not identify a single political authority or inherited community membership.

Transformação posterior, património vivo e recepção moderna

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.

Craft Decorated vessels made around three millennia ago

The local museum contextualizes restored pottery from Foué without making style an ethnicity.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Field record Rescue and reconnaissance work in 1992

The IRD record documents investigation of WKO13 B/A on the peninsula.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Interpretation Chronology requires stratigraphic care

The 1997 study identifies varying dates and unresolved context problems across the archipelago.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Ceramic communities

    Regional dating places early pottery-making communities within this broad interval; precision varies by context.

  2. Local variation

    Vessel forms and decoration provide comparison, not proof of one unchanged population.

  3. Rescue fieldwork

    Survey and excavation documented threatened remains on the peninsula.

  4. Chronological synthesis

    Regional research assessed how dates and stratigraphy define the ceramic sequence.

Cultura e língua

Navegação, alimentação, artesanato, trabalho, crenças e evidências materiais

Línguas mencionadas neste perfil

  • Prehistoric speech cannot be assigned from objects alone; later local language evidence requires its own date.

Família linguística: 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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Fontes usadas nesta página

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

  2. C2

    Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making

    UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, Federated States of Micronesia nomination · Institutional heritage resource · 2021 inscription; living record

  3. C3

    The chronology of Lapita ware in New Caledonia

    Antiquity, Cambridge University Press · Peer-reviewed chronology study · 1997

  4. C4
  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. C9

    Echoing Wahi Kūpuna

    Ka‘iwakīloumoku Hawaiian Cultural Center, Kamehameha Schools · Native Hawaiian cultural interpretation · Undated; accessed 2026-10-20

  10. C10

    Control and Manage Agreement for Te Pokohiwi o Kupe

    Te Rūnanga a Rangitāne o Wairau · Indigenous institutional account · 2026-02

  11. C11

    Wairau, List No. 9561

    Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga · Institutional heritage resource · 2012 listing; living record

  12. S1

    Lapita - Collection de poteries du site de Foué

    Service du Musée de la Nouvelle-Calédonie · Institutional heritage resource · 1996

  13. S2

    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

  14. S3

    The chronology of Lapita ware in New Caledonia

    Antiquity, Cambridge University Press · Peer-reviewed chronology study · 1997

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Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026