<< News >> Scientists solve riddle of faces on Pacific artifacts
Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 17 January 2007 Page Views: 785
Other ArchaeologyThe strange faces drawn on the first pottery made in the South Pacific more than 3,000 years ago have always been a mystery to scientists. Now their riddle may have been solved by new research done by two scientists to be published in the February 2007 issue of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.What archaeologists working in the Pacific call prehistoric 'Lapita' pottery has been found at more than 180 different places on tropical islands located in a broad arc of the southwestern Pacific from Papua New Guinea to Samoa. Experts have long viewed the faces sometimes sketched by ancient potters on this pottery ware as almost certainly human in appearance, and they have considered them to be a sign that Pacific Islanders long ago may have worshiped their ancestors.
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