Lapita society, as a distinct culture and extended trade network, collapsed around 2, 000 years ago.

The relationship between Lapita pottery and Plainware is not altogether clear.

Lapita pottery found on the surface of the graves was almost 2500 years old, he said.

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.

The famous Lapita pottery culture was present around 3, 300 years ago.

Region where Lapita pottery has been found

' Classic ' Lapita pottery was produced between 1350 and 750 BCE in the Bismarck Archipelago.

Local styles of Lapita pottery are found in Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

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.

The original settlers are now called " Lapita people " after a distinctive pottery produced locally.

Lapita pottery was found in the area from 800 BC onward.

The Lapita people, named after their distinctive pottery style, were the first people to inhabit Fiji in about 3000BC, and evidence of their settlement exists throughout Fiji, particularly around the Sigatoka Sand Dunes.

In 1973, archaeology in Samoa uncovered a Lapita site at Mulifanua where 4, 288 pottery sherds and two Lapita type adzes have been recovered.

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.

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 ".

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.

A small amount of this pottery was decorated in the distinctive Lapita style with dentate stamping.

The earliest traces of human presence in New Caledonia date back to the Lapita period.

The Lapita were highly skilled navigators and agriculturists with influence over a large area of the Pacific.

It served as a waystation in the expansion of the predecessors of the Polynesians, the Lapita culture.

It is attributed to an ancient archaeological culture called the Lapita.

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.

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.

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.

Seafarers associated with the Lapita diaspora first settled the islands making up the Kingdom of Tonga about 1500 BC.

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.

Nonetheless, reaching the Tongan islands ( without Western navigational tools and techniques ) was a remarkable feat accomplished by the Lapita peoples.

Results support the west-to-east migration hypothesis, in which the Lapita people are thought to have traveled from Melanesia to numerous Polynesian islands.

" Lapita people were the first people to come to Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Tonga and Samoa.

Although carried throughout the Western Pacific by the Lapita people, as it is not often found in Fiji.

The obsidian, which showed signs of being " worked ", probably arrived soon after the initial Lapita settlement in Bourewa circa 1150 BC, Nunn observed.

He theorized that it was kept by the Lapita settlers as a talisman, a reminder of where they had come from.

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.

The Lapita culture arose around 3, 500 years ago, and its extent ranged from the Admiralty Islands to Tonga and Samoa.

Later arrivals included the Lapita people.

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