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Lapita is a term applied to an ancient Pacific Ocean archaeological culture which is believed by many archaeologists to be the common ancestor of several cultures in Polynesia, Micronesia, and some coastal areas of Melanesia.
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Lapita and is
It is attributed to an ancient archaeological culture called the Lapita.
The relationship between Lapita pottery and Plainware is not altogether clear.
Scientific research is ongoing although a number of different theories exist ; including one proposing that the Samoans originated from Austronesian predecessors during the terminal eastward Lapita expansion period from Southeast Asia and Melanesia between 2, 500 and 1, 500 BCE.
Some of the oldest sites pertaining to the first occupants of the Tongan Islands are found on Tongatapu which is also where the first Lapita ceramics were found by WC McKern in 1921.
Although carried throughout the Western Pacific by the Lapita people, as it is not often found in Fiji.
The actual name of the so-called Lapita archaeological culture referred to in modern research is still unknown.
In Western Polynesia, Lapita pottery is found from 800 BCE onwards in the Fiji-Samoa-Tonga area.
Undecorated " plain-ware " pottery is an important part of the Lapita cultural complex, which also includes ground-stone adzes and shell artefacts, and flaked-stone tools of obsidian, chert and other available rock.
This is the only site in Samoa where decorated Lapita sherds have been found, although pieces of Polynesian plainware ceramics are commonly found throughout the Samoan islands.
This approximation is based on the so-called " Lapita " pottery that has been dated to that time ; it is possible, as the natives suggest, however, that the Samoan Islands were in fact settled some time prior to 1000 BC and that the original settlement actually predates the arrival of those to whom the pottery was culturally relevant.
Particularly characteristic of the Lapita culture is the making of pottery, including a great many vessels of varied shapes, some distinguished by fine patterns and motifs pressed into the clay.
Lapita and term
The term ' Lapita ' was coined by archaeologists after mishearing a word in the local Haveke language, xapeta ' a, which means ' to dig a hole ' or ' the place where one digs ', during the 1952 excavation in New Caledonia.
Furthermore, the Samoans have developed a language, culture, and social practice most divergent from the other ethnic groups associated with the Lapita pottery and the term " Austronesia ".
Lapita and ancient
Its people speak languages belonging to three language families, the northern and southern Bougainville families, whose origins are unknown and presumably ancient, and languages of the Austronesian family, which arrived with the more recent Lapita culture from the west three millennia ago.
Lapita and Pacific
The Lapita were highly skilled navigators and agriculturists with influence over a large area of the Pacific.
Lapita and archaeological
Intimate sociocultural and genetic ties were maintained between the eastern Lapita colonies and the archaeological record supports oral tradition and native genealogies that indicate inter-island voyaging and intermarriage between prehistoric Samoans, Fijians, and Tongans.
In Autumn of 2004, an archaeological expedition known as Teouma discovered a burial site of 25 tombs containing three dozen skeletons of members of the Lapita culture.
Lapita and culture
It served as a waystation in the expansion of the predecessors of the Polynesians, the Lapita culture.
The Lapita culture arose around 3, 500 years ago, and its extent ranged from the Admiralty Islands to Tonga and Samoa.
Lapita society, as a distinct culture and extended trade network, collapsed around 2, 000 years ago.
The famous Lapita pottery culture was present around 3, 300 years ago.
* New Caledonia, of the Lapita culture.
This included samples of red-slipped plainware ceramics that appeared to be in the tradition of Lapita culture.
This culture, known as Lapita, stands out in the Melanesian archeological record, with its large permanent villages on beach terraces along the coasts.
Within a mere three or four centuries between about 1300 and 900 BC, the Lapita culture spread 6000 km further to the east from the Bismarck Archipelago, until it reached as far as Tonga and Samoa.
Lapita and which
Results support the west-to-east migration hypothesis, in which the Lapita people are thought to have traveled from Melanesia to numerous Polynesian islands.
The obsidian, which showed signs of being " worked ", probably arrived soon after the initial Lapita settlement in Bourewa circa 1150 BC, Nunn observed.
This may have been to avoid areas already settled in coastal New Guinea, or malaria-carrying mosquitoes for which Lapita people had no immune defence.
Lapita and by
The oldest date so far from pre-historic remains in Samoa has been calculated by New Zealand scientists to a likely true age of circa 3, 000 years ago from a Lapita site at Mulifanua during the 1970s.
Nonetheless, reaching the Tongan islands ( without Western navigational tools and techniques ) was a remarkable feat accomplished by the Lapita peoples.
He theorized that it was kept by the Lapita settlers as a talisman, a reminder of where they had come from.
The islands were settled by the Lapita people about 900 BC.
** the Tonga islands now home to the Kingdom of Tonga referred to above, settled by the ancestors of all Polynesians, the Lapita
Then by Lapita people about 1000 BC.
Lapita and some
The present inhabitants speak languages that in all likelihood stem from the eastward push of Austronesian languages of the so-called Lapita Culture complex, some 2, 700 years ago.
Lapita and coastal
More than two hundred Lapita sites have since been uncovered, ranging more than 4000 km from coastal and island Melanesia to Fiji and Tonga with its most eastern limit so far in Samoa.
Lapita and .
The earliest traces of human presence in New Caledonia date back to the Lapita period.
Seafarers associated with the Lapita diaspora first settled the islands making up the Kingdom of Tonga about 1500 BC.
Lapita pottery found on the surface of the graves was almost 2500 years old, he said.
" Lapita people were the first people to come to Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Tonga and Samoa.
He pointed to Papua New Guinea or the Solomon Islands as the place from where the earliest Fijians came, as the pottery fragments were typical of the early Lapita period in Papua New Guinea and the Solomons, but not readily found on Lapita pottery in Fiji.
Lapita society featured renowned pottery, stilt houses, the introduction of domestic animals such as pigs, dogs, and chickens, and substantial developments in agriculture and boat technology, allowing long distance trade to develop.
Later arrivals included the Lapita people.
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