- The
Lapita culture is the name
given to a
Neolithic Austronesian people and
their distinct material culture, who
settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
Lapita culture itself (the
ancestral branch of the
Polynesian migrations) is
younger than the
first settlement of the
Marianas (the
earliest Lapita artifacts...
-
archaeological sites. The
Lapita sites became Vanuatu's
first UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008. The
immediate origins of the
Lapita lie to the northwest...
- in Moturiki, Fiji,
belonging to a
Lapita woman that
lived in
approximately 800 BCE.
Being the best
preserved Lapita-age
skeleton ever
found and the oldest...
-
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
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...
- ****ociated with the
Lapita culture.
These were
considered valuable currency and were
primarily used to
trade for goods. In 2012, a
Lapita jadeite gouge used...
