Previous archaeological studies in the village of Nukuleka, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga proposed it as a founder colony for Polynesia. Additional excavation and survey were undertaken in 2007 to evaluate this status further and to gain new insight into the nature of the occupation and its role in the subsequent peopling of west Polynesia. A review of this project and its findings are presented. Decorated ceramics of western Lapita style, the presence of tan paste ceramics foreign to Tonga, and new radiocarbon dates support Nukuleka as a site of first landfall in the interval 2850 to 2900 cal BP. The ceramic assemblage is distinct from west and central Fiji, and an independent origin for Fijian and Polynesian colonizers is argued. The settle...
The timing and unprecedented speed of the Lapita migration from the western edge of Oceania to weste...
The first significant Neolithic migration of people into the Pacific was the dispersal of Lapita cul...
The first significant Neolithic migration of people into the Pacific was the dispersal of Lapita cul...
Fiji was colonised approximately 3000 BP by populations with intricately decorated Lapita pottery. A...
There is much remaining to be discovered about the first people in the western tropical Pacific Isla...
Excavations and surveys in Western Polynesia have revealed a sequence of more than 3 000 years of hu...
Patrick V. Kirch and Roger C. Green proposed that Polynesian cultures today emerged and developed in...
The first populations in Fiji arrived approximately 3000 BP. These people made and used Lapita potte...
Previous studies document Nukuleka in the Kingdom of Tonga as a founder colony for first settlement ...
First Polynesian settlement by Lapita peoples occurred ca 2850 cal BP at Nukuleka, then a small sand...
Moturiki is one of the high islands in the Lomaiviti Group, central Fiji. In this article we present...
Ancestral Polynesian society is the formative base for development of the Polynesian cultural templa...
Ancestral Polynesian Society has been argued to represent a formative stage in Polynesian ethnogenes...
The timing and unprecedented speed of the Lapita migration from the western edge of Oceania to weste...
The timing and unprecedented speed of the Lapita migration from the western edge of Oceania to weste...
The timing and unprecedented speed of the Lapita migration from the western edge of Oceania to weste...
The first significant Neolithic migration of people into the Pacific was the dispersal of Lapita cul...
The first significant Neolithic migration of people into the Pacific was the dispersal of Lapita cul...
Fiji was colonised approximately 3000 BP by populations with intricately decorated Lapita pottery. A...
There is much remaining to be discovered about the first people in the western tropical Pacific Isla...
Excavations and surveys in Western Polynesia have revealed a sequence of more than 3 000 years of hu...
Patrick V. Kirch and Roger C. Green proposed that Polynesian cultures today emerged and developed in...
The first populations in Fiji arrived approximately 3000 BP. These people made and used Lapita potte...
Previous studies document Nukuleka in the Kingdom of Tonga as a founder colony for first settlement ...
First Polynesian settlement by Lapita peoples occurred ca 2850 cal BP at Nukuleka, then a small sand...
Moturiki is one of the high islands in the Lomaiviti Group, central Fiji. In this article we present...
Ancestral Polynesian society is the formative base for development of the Polynesian cultural templa...
Ancestral Polynesian Society has been argued to represent a formative stage in Polynesian ethnogenes...
The timing and unprecedented speed of the Lapita migration from the western edge of Oceania to weste...
The timing and unprecedented speed of the Lapita migration from the western edge of Oceania to weste...
The timing and unprecedented speed of the Lapita migration from the western edge of Oceania to weste...
The first significant Neolithic migration of people into the Pacific was the dispersal of Lapita cul...
The first significant Neolithic migration of people into the Pacific was the dispersal of Lapita cul...