- The
Lapita culture is the name
given to a
Neolithic Austronesian people and
their distinct material culture, who
settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne...
- 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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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The
earliest traces of
human settlement in New
Caledonia go back to the
Lapita culture,
about 3000 BP, i.e. 1000 BCE. In addition,
Polynesian seafarers...
-
recorded since the
ninth century BC, when
seafarers ****ociated with the
Lapita diaspora first settled the
islands which now make up the
Kingdom of Tonga...
- the
Lapita culture spread 6,000 km (3,700 mi) ****her to the east from the
Bismarck Archipelago,
until it
reached as far as
Tonga and Samoa.
Lapita pottery...
- 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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North Island.
Tonga was
first inhabited roughly 2,500
years ago by the
Lapita civilization,
Polynesian settlers who
gradually evolved a
distinct and strong...
