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Kirch doesn't present a synthesis of the archaeologic data, however, and the linguistic data often stand alone as lists of words likely used by Lapita peoples to refer to artifacts that are found. LAPITA AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS IN NEAR OCEANIA: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE MUSSAU ISLANDS, PAPUA NEWGUINEA, Volume1 Introduction, Excavations,Chronology Patrick Vinton Kirch, Editor WithContributionsby NickAraho, Carla Catterall, PatrickV. Kirch, andMarshall 1. Weisler ContributionNo ArchaeologicalResearchFacility Missing: download. Between about – b.p., there was a major expansion of Lapita settlements beyond the Far Western region (Bismarcks and main Solomons), into Remote Oceania. No later than – b.p., Lapita had reached its maximum geographic distribution, with the most easterly known sites in the Manu’a islands of Samoa, and the most southerly.

The Lapita question. The prehistory of the western Pacific has, for the last 30 years, been dominated by the problem of the origins of the present Polynesian and Melanesian cultures (Terrell ). In Golson drew attention to the distribution of highly decorated Lapita pottery, now known to date from between BP and BP, which. Lapita period across the Lapita world, with estimates ranging from BP (e.g. Bedford and Clark ) to c. BP (e.g. Spriggs ); however, in recent years an increasing number of Lapita specialists have come to see the period between 27BP as a period of transformation and regionalization from Late Lapita to post-Lapita. Lapita people had used such rings as a form of shell "money" (not money, really, but valuables exchanged between social groups). Several large pieces of razor-sharp obsidian turned up next, followed by still more pottery sherds, and then an entire pig's tusk drilled for suspension, perhaps as a pendant.

people carrying Early Lapita had moved beyond the Bismarcks and settled parts of Remote Oceania. During the s and s, as the archaeological record improved and the history of regional archaeological sequences was clarified, it became evident that the carriers of Lapita were, in fact, the foundation. PDF | On Jan 1, , Matthew Spriggs published Review: the Lapita Peoples. Ancestors of the Oceanic World, by Patrick V. Kirch | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate. Kirch doesn't present a synthesis of the archaeologic data, however, and the linguistic data often stand alone as lists of words likely used by Lapita peoples to refer to artifacts that are found.