The Lapita culture is the name given to a Neolithic Austronesian people and their distinct material culture, who settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne...
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Rotuma. The original settlers are now called "Lapita people" after a distinctive pottery produced locally. Lapita pottery was found in the area from 800 BCE...
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Bickel, 2016 Lapita batiqere Bickel, 2016 Lapita bicolor Bickel, 2016 Lapita boucheti Bickel, 2002 Lapita bouloupari Bickel, 2002 Lapita caerula Bickel...
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pre-Lapita pottery. At the Fourth Lapita Conference, held in June 2000, in Canberra, Australia, the question was posed: "Is Lapita Kanak, or is Lapita the...
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Tongatapu (section People of the Lapita culture)
concentration of archaeological remains in the Pacific. The earliest traces of Lapita pottery found in Tonga was from around 900–850 BC, 300 years after the first...
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Early history of Tonga (section The Lapita Period)
The early history of Tonga covers the islands' settlement and the early Lapita culture through to the rise of the Tuʻi Tonga Empire. What is known about...
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potato. The results of research at the Teouma Lapita site (Efate Island, Vanuatu) and the Talasiu Lapita site (near Nuku'alofa, Tonga) published in 2016...
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island, from the Bismarck Archipelago to New Caledonia. Austronesian peoples Lapita culture Micronesian navigation Polynesian navigation East Melanesian Islands...
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Lapita culture itself (the ancestral branch of the Polynesian migrations) is younger than the first settlement of the Marianas (the earliest Lapita artifacts...
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North Island. Tonga was first inhabited roughly 2,500 years ago by the Lapita civilization, Polynesian settlers who gradually evolved a distinct and strong...
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