Definition of Lapita. Meaning of Lapita. Synonyms of Lapita

- The Lapita culture is the name given to a Neolithic Austronesian people and their distinct material culture, who settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne...
- back to lapita people settling Tonga 800 bc. Lapita pottery was found in Tonga dating back 3000 years when seafarers ****ociated with the Lapita diaspora...
- 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...
- 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...
- Lapita culture itself (the ancestral branch of the Polynesian migrations) is younger than the first settlement of the Marianas (the earliest Lapita artifacts...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- ****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...