- The
Lapita culture is the name
given to a
Neolithic Austronesian people and
their distinct material culture, who
settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne...
-
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...
- 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...
- Bickel, 2016
Lapita batiqere Bickel, 2016
Lapita bicolor Bickel, 2016
Lapita boucheti Bickel, 2002
Lapita bouloupari Bickel, 2002
Lapita caerula Bickel...
- Commonwealth.
Tonga was
first inhabited roughly 2,500
years ago by the
Lapita civilization,
Polynesian settlers who
gradually evolved a
distinct and strong...
-
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...
- 610 km (380 mi)
northwest of Niue. The
capital and
largest city is Apia. The
Lapita people discovered and
settled the
Samoan Islands around 3,500
years ago...
- Pulo Anna,
Merir and Tobi. The
migrants from the east
belonged to the
Lapita culture and
settled eastern Micronesia over the
course of
several hundreds...
