The Teouma site, on Efate in central Vanuatu, was uncovered during quarrying in 2003 and has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries to date for the colonisation of Remote Oceania. Not only did it bring to light a fine assemblage of the famously diagnostic Lapita ceramics, but a cemetery of more than 25 individuals along with the pots. The skeletons offer an opportunity to investigate the origins of the 'Lapita people' who first appeared in the Bismarck Archipelago around 3300 years ago and rapidly moved through island Melanesia and Western Polynesia over the next few centuries
Expansion of Austronesian-speaking peoples from the Bismarck Archipelago out into the Pacific commen...
International audienceIn the southern Melanesian islands of Vanuatu, as in New Caledonia, Fiji, and ...
Fifty-six obsidian artifacts and 141 non-obsidian artifacts were excavated in three field seasons at...
With a cultural and linguistic origin in Island Southeast Asia the Lapita expansion is thought to ha...
During archaeological excavations investigating Lapita period sites on the islands of Uripiv and Vao...
Lapita comprises an archaeological horizon that is fundamental to the understanding of human colonis...
The human colonization of Near Oceania has an antiquity of over 40,000 years but colonization of Rem...
International audienceRemote Oceania was colonized ca. 3000 BP by populations associated with the La...
Remote Oceania was colonized ca. 3000 BP by populations associated with the Lapita Cultural Complex,...
The discovery of a cemetery at Teouma on the island of Efate in Vanuatu dated to c. 3000 years ago i...
After 1,550 bce, Austronesian-speaking people arrived in the Bismarck Archipelago in northeast New G...
In 2003 the authors discovered and excavated a Lapita site at Naitabale close to the southern end of...
Expansion of Austronesianspeaking peoples from the Bismarck Archipelago out into the Pacific commenc...
ALTHOUGH NEAR OCEANIA has been populated for over 35,000 years, the settle-ment of the islands east ...
Expansion of Austronesian-speaking peoples from the Bismarck Archipelago out into the Pacific commen...
International audienceIn the southern Melanesian islands of Vanuatu, as in New Caledonia, Fiji, and ...
Fifty-six obsidian artifacts and 141 non-obsidian artifacts were excavated in three field seasons at...
With a cultural and linguistic origin in Island Southeast Asia the Lapita expansion is thought to ha...
During archaeological excavations investigating Lapita period sites on the islands of Uripiv and Vao...
Lapita comprises an archaeological horizon that is fundamental to the understanding of human colonis...
The human colonization of Near Oceania has an antiquity of over 40,000 years but colonization of Rem...
International audienceRemote Oceania was colonized ca. 3000 BP by populations associated with the La...
Remote Oceania was colonized ca. 3000 BP by populations associated with the Lapita Cultural Complex,...
The discovery of a cemetery at Teouma on the island of Efate in Vanuatu dated to c. 3000 years ago i...
After 1,550 bce, Austronesian-speaking people arrived in the Bismarck Archipelago in northeast New G...
In 2003 the authors discovered and excavated a Lapita site at Naitabale close to the southern end of...
Expansion of Austronesianspeaking peoples from the Bismarck Archipelago out into the Pacific commenc...
ALTHOUGH NEAR OCEANIA has been populated for over 35,000 years, the settle-ment of the islands east ...
Expansion of Austronesian-speaking peoples from the Bismarck Archipelago out into the Pacific commen...
International audienceIn the southern Melanesian islands of Vanuatu, as in New Caledonia, Fiji, and ...
Fifty-six obsidian artifacts and 141 non-obsidian artifacts were excavated in three field seasons at...