Lapita culture

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Sources

1. BookOn the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact
2. ArticleDating the appearance of Lapita pottery in the Bismarck Archipelago and its dispersal to Remote Oceania

Relations

part of:

• Austronesian peoples

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific

ancestor of:

• Polynesians

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

carried:

• Breadfruit

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

• Pacific rat

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

• Taro

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

excavated by:

• Edward Winslow Giffordsince 1952

  He and Richard Shutler dug the type site at Lapita, New Caledonia.

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

reached:

• Fiji

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Bayesian re-evaluation of Lapita settlement in Fiji: radiocarbon analysis of the Lapita occupation at Bourewa and nearby sites on the Rove Peninsula, Viti Levu Island

• New Caledonia

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

• Samoa

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Radiocarbon determinations from the Mulifanua Lapita site, Upolu, Western Samoa

• Santa Cruz Islands

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Dating the appearance of Lapita pottery in the Bismarck Archipelago and its dispersal to Remote Oceania

• Tonga

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, High precision U/Th dating of first Polynesian settlement

• Vanuatu

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, The Teouma Lapita site and the early human settlement of the Pacific Islands

Appears in6 items

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  Settling the Pacific6 items
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    Lapita · subjectc. 1,412 BCE
  • Lapita appears in the Bismarck Archipelago · subjectc. 1,412 BCE
  • Lapita voyagers cross into Remote Oceania · voyagersc. 1,152 BCE
  • Teouma: the first cemetery in Remote Oceania · burial communityc. 1,052 BCE
  • Fiji settled: Bourewa · settlersc. 952 BCE
  • Mulifanua: Samoa’s drowned Lapita site · settlersc. 867 BCE