Dating Lapita pottery in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea.

Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | September 22, 1997| | Copyright

Prehistoric sites with pottery known as Lapita have been the focus of archaeological attention in the western Pacific for more than thirty years. For much of this time the main concern has been with the relationship between Lapita pottery and the origin and spread of people who were the ancestors of the Polynesians. Whereas in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea Lapita pottery appears in the archaeological record many millennia after the first human entry into the region, in Western Polynesia--and possibly also in New Caledonia and Vanuatu--the carriers and users of Lapita ...

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