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| | Lapita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The 'Lapita people' are supposed to have spoken proto-Oceanic, a precursor of the Oceanic branch of Austronesian. | | | Allen, In Search of the Lapita Homeland: Reconstructing the Prehistory of the Bismarck Archipelago, Journal of Pacific History 19/4, 1984, 186-187. | | | Lapita is the common name of an ancient Pacific Ocean culture which is believed by some to be the common ancestor of several cultures in Polynesia and surrounding areas. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapita
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| | Lapita pottery |
| | Blonde hair is found amongst the Tolai of the Bismark Archepelago and red hair with freckles is found amongst the people of Missima Island. | | | I was led to believe scientists were logical thinking intelligent people. | | | Was this something the Lapita people brought with them? |
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| | THE POLYNESIANS: OCEANIC NOMADS OF THE PACIFIC By Tani Jantsang |
| | What has been learned, however, is that the group of people coming to the Marianas (native name??) in Micronesia had to have met up with their own people: earlier settlers. | | | This group of people was not Dravidian, nor were they Turanian, even if traces lead back to these two original groups in even remoter times before the last Ice Age was over. | | | Some set sail to Rapanui or "Easter Island" where, recently, it "was shown" that they came from the Marquesas despite the fact that they, themselves, knew who they were. |
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http://www.geocities.com/satanicreds/polynes-mythos.html
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| | Passionate about History |
| | Some argue the Lapita people were ancestral Polynesians from Southeast Asia who migrated east, some groups settling long term on islands, while others carried on. | | | Check out the images of the ancient world database! | | | They believe Lapita people were the ancestors of the inhabitants of eastern Melanesia who now look different because of later waves of migration. |
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2004/09/lapita-find-considered-pompeii-of.html
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| | 'Eva - Your Guide to Tonga - No. 56, November 2001 |
| | He has described what he believes to be the migratory route of the ancient Tongans, and how the islands of Polynesia were settled. | | | This time they moved eastward and settled in Eastern Polynesia, the Marquesas, the Society lslands and the Tuamotus, and then the last great movement by these Lapita people was to New Zealand. | | | David believed that Tonga was the centre of the Polynesian Homeland from which, about 1,600 years ago, the Tongans were on the move again. |
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http://www.fiat.to/eva/eva-56.htm
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| | Scoop: Keith Rankin: Voyagers and Villagers |
| | Soon though, a group of Lapita voyaged further to the east. | | | The sea passages that connected the Solomons in the eyes of the recent British, French and German intruders - the New Georgia Sound and Independence Strait - were dividers rather than connectors to the Island Melanesians who lived there. | | | The Solomon archipelago was largely 'leap-frogged' by the Lapita intruders. |
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0007/S00066.htm
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| | In fact, I believe that something close to a deception is now being perpetrated by the mainstream academic theorizers in this area. | | | MARCHING IN LOCKSTEP To begin with, here's a sample of categorical assertions by the mainstream academic stalwarts. | | | Lapita were using a system of money exchange. |
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| | Message from the Ancestors – On Lapita Pottery |
| | The conclusion must be that the Lapita people were the ancestors of the present Polynesian population. | | | Kirch, in The Lapita Peoples,describes his work on the tiny off-shore island of Talepakemalai in the Bismarck Archipelago. | | | Given the strength of the evidence that the Lapita pots provide, however, it would be foolish to deny the Pacific peoples an important part of their history. |
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| | Facts about Polynesian Migration |
| | I think that the dark skin people that the Polynesians encountered created the pottery found though out the pacific islands. | | | "The Lapita Peoples, Ancestors of the Oceanic World", Patrick Vinton Kirch, Blackwell Publishers, 1997. | | | Kirch's book, "The Lapita Peoples", (8) and Spriggs' book, "The Island Melanesians", interesting enough, can also be use to show that there was a collision between the cultures of Melanesia and Polynesia that's observable with the Lapita artifacts and language similarities. |
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| | Tuvalu Origins |
| | According to recent research by archaeologists, the Polynesian people are derived from the so-called Lapita people who came from South-East Asia and spread to Melanesia from the eastern islands off the coast of New Guinea to New Caledonia, about 5000 years ago. | | | This is known because some of their distinctive pottery has been found among the remains of the earliest settlers in those islands. | | | The name Lapita comes from a place in New Caledonia where large deposits of their pottery were found. |
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http://www.janeresture.com/tu8/origins.htm
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| | Introduction |
| | This report provides an account of archaeological field work activities carried out between 7 May and 24 July, 1997, at five Lapita sites on the islands of Ha'ano, Foa, Lifuka, 'Uiha and Ha'afeva (Figure 1). | | | This resulted in the discovery of the Vaipuna Lapita site on 'Uiha in 1995 and the Mele Havea Lapita site on Ha'afeva in 1996. | | | Concentrated research into the early Lapita period of the Ha`apai Island group of Tonga has been on-going since 1995 under the sponsorship of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. |
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http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/tonga/intro.html
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| | FROM A FIELD IN VANUATU, ANCIENT LAPITA CLUES - February 3, 2005 |
| | Sigatoka researchers noted how big the skeletons were, suggesting that in the Express Train theory, only the big survived long cold ocean voyages involved in settling Polynesia. | | | It is associated with the mysterious "Lapita people" who, it’s theorized, evolved into modern Polynesians—the world’s biggest people by body mass. | | | Known for its dentate style and named after a place in New Caledonia where the style was first recognized 50 years ago, Lapita is found across Melanesia and Polynesia. |
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http://archives.pireport.org/archive/2005/february/02-03-feat.htm
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| | 3,000-Year-Old Bodies Studied in Australia |
| | Prof Spriggs said finding remains of Lapita people was rare. | | | Spriggs said so few remains of the Lapita people had been discovered at other archaeological sites that researchers had previously thought they must have been buried at sea. | | | Archeologists say the discovery will unearth many clues about the appearance and culture of the Lapita people — some of the earliest settlers of the Pacific islands and believed to be ancestors of the region's Polynesian people. |
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| | Despite a romantic view of Polynesians as the descendants of "high Asians", free of Melanesian blood, the more likely explanation is that they derive from a mixing between later, long-distance emigrants from South-East Asia and Lapita Melanesians. | | | Clunie and Fergus believe the Lapita culture was merely the modern tip of a cultural iceberg and that people who had not yet developed the art of pottey-making were sailing around the Pacific perhaps 10,000 years or more before the Lapita peoples left their pottery shards to posterity. | | | The Lapita culture may have arisen from the ensuing cultural mixing, and been sustained by an extensive trading ring in the south-western Pacific. |
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| | lapitaconfabstracts |
| | This paper presents results from recent archaeological investigations carried out on the island of Malakula, Northern Vanuatu. | | | Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago: escaping the strait-jacket. | | | Data from within the project and more from the subsequent spinoff research now enables a further review of this debate to be attempted. |
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http://car.anu.edu.au/lapitaconfabstracts.html
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| | Science -- Gibbons 291 (5509): 1735 |
| | Many archaeologists agree that there was a rapid, recent migration of Austronesian speakers into Remote Oceania. | | | The archaeological evidence was a trail of distinctive pottery, obsidian, and shell ornaments known as the Lapita culture, which first appeared 3500 to 3200 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago in Near Oceania and spread in rapid succession to the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. | | | This parade of pots, argues Bellwood, indicates the expansion of a particular group of people: the speakers of Austronesian languages, which today is one of the world's largest language groups, with 1200 languages spoken from Madagascar to Easter Island. |
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| | Port Vila Presse Online Vanuatu News :: "Mana"- the true face of Lapita unveiled |
| | This result demonstrated that the Lapita people who occupied Naitabale from about 1000 BC to about 650 BC had links with people living at the same time in these other places. | | | This is the first time that the skull of a Lapita-era skeleton had been so well preserved that it was possible to faithfully reconstruct the head. | | | The Naitabale settlement was probably established about 1000 BC by a group of Lapita people whose ancestors had come from the Solomon Islands. |
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http://www.news.vu/en/news/RegionalNews/050812-mana-lapita-fiji-vanuatu-south-pacific.shtml
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| | Stamps Fiji |
| | This pottery is called Lapita after the site where it was found in New Caledonia. | | | In the period 1500-100 BC, Lapita sites spread from the Bismarck Archipelago in the west to West Polynesia in the east of a major 500 sea mile gap from island Melanesia and may also have been the immediate for the first settlers of polynesia. | | | Lapita Pottery sherd found on ugaga Island- $1.00 |
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| | About Fiji : History & Culture : Pre-history - Fiji Visitors Bureau |
| | Green's theory is that these were the first settlers, not only because at that time they would have had the necessary maritime technology, but also because their pottery is found throughout the whole of Fiji. | | | The trail of their pots, hooks, obsidian cutting tools and ornaments leads down from New Britain through some of the outer islands fringing the Solomons and Vanuatu, suggesting that perhaps they were not powerful enough to force settlements on the bigger islands which were already supporting large populations of people. | | | It is reasonable to suppose that groups of Melanesians who were in contact with the "Lapita" people in the west would have been quick to take advantage of the better craft used by the "Lapita" seafarers and to incorporate them into their own technology. |
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http://www.fijifvb.gov.fj/about/history/pre_hist.shtml
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| | PREH 2005 Outline |
| | A radiocarbon chronology for the eastern Lapita frontier in Tonga. | | | The Lapita Peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic World. | | | Discuss ideas on the movement of Lapita people into Fiji-West Polynesia. |
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http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/resources/papers/courses/012005.htm
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| | Publications |
| | Abstract: "Since the Lapita Homeland Project of 1985 there has been an upsurge of research on Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago. | | | Lapita archaeology is of fundamental importance to understanding the Pacific since it unearths information about the first people to establish themselves beyond the Solomon Islands to as far east as Samoa around 3000 years ago, and whose descendants eventually colonised Polynesia. | | | This volume reports new results and interpretations about the nature of the Lapita phenomena and the varied transformations that affected Lapita society." |
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| | Fiji Museum -- Archaeology News |
| | This is the first Lapita site on the islands of Ovalau and Moturiki although one on Naigani Island, northwest of Ovalau, has been known for twenty years. | | | The Lapita people reached our islands from the west about 2900 years ago and lived a largely coastal existence for hundreds of years with probably little impact on island environments. | | | A Lapita site excavation followed this on Naigani Island by Simon Best and Geoff Irwin, and in June/July we had a team from Simon Fraser University led by David Burley and Robbin Chatan conducting joint archaeological investigations of the Sigatoka Sand Dunes and Levuka, Ovalau. |
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| | Port Vila Presse Online Vanuatu News :: Exotic Lapita pottery pieces found |
| | Vanuatu Courts do not have resources to deal with customary land claims | | | Lapita pottery is associated with the first settlers across Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa around three thousand years ago, but is also found in the Solomons and throughout the islands of New Guinea. | | | The painted shard recovered from Vao this year rates as one of the major Lapita finds for some years. |
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| | cooltech.iafrica.com tech news Skeleton find redefines Fijian history |
| | From the surroundings and manufacturing stone slabs found at the Mana site, Nunn said the belief was that his people lived at the site for about 400 years surviving on the bountiful untouched lagoon filled with a wide variety of seafood. | | | Nunn estimates the Lapita people who originally lived at Naitabale numbered around 20 to 30 people, which gradually increased to around 50 to 80; their homes between 80 to 100 metres apart. | | | The occupation of Naitabale by the group ended about 2000 years ago. |
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| | Polynesian cemetery unlocks ancient burial secrets. 31/10/2005. ABC News Online |
| | The Lapita people could be the source of the practice. | | | Burial customs: The Lapita people removed the heads of dead people. | | | Remains from the oldest cemetery in the Pacific suggest the Lapita people buried their dead in many different ways, some in "weird yoga positions", and removed their skulls for ceremonial purposes. |
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| | Polynesia - Lapita Pottery |
| | The 1960s and 1970s were marked by a steady succession of reports on additional Lapita sites. | | | In this period, a third discovery was made being that of McKern in the Tonga group in 1921. | | | Oceanic archaeology moved into a modern phase during the 1950s and 1960s and it was not long before previously reported Lapita sites were systematically re-examined and new ones discovered, excavated and dated. |
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| | Mussau, Bismarck Archipelago |
| | Patrick Kirch, were initiated in 1985 as a part of the international Lapita Homeland Project. | | | Many of the key findings from this project are summarized in Prof. | | | Subsequent fieldwork in 1986 and in 1988 was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. |
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| | South Pacific : The People |
| | Apparently, however, the Lapita culture died out some 2,500 years ago. | | | The most tangible remains of the early Austronesians are remnants of pottery, the first shards of which were found during the 1970s in Lapita, a village in New Caledonia. | | | The islands settled by the Papuans and Austronesians are known collectively as Melanesia, which includes Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia. |
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| | Welcome to Crown Agents - Development assistance |
| | The Lapita people, named after their finely decorated pottery, have been traced from Eastern Indonesia and the Philippines where there had been a population for at least 40,000 years. | | | Extinct animal and bird remains were also found at the site proving the Lapita people brought chickens and pigs with them when they settled. | | | As master seafarers and pioneers, the Lapita people were a migrating and mobile culture. |
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| | Ancient Worlds News - Pacific settlers left mysterious pottery - 25/10/2004 |
| | "This is the first time that a clearly recognisable face design made in three dimensions on a piece of Lapita pottery has been found in Fiji," said the University of the South Pacific researchers. | | | The researchers think the pottery was the work of the Lapita people, a long-lost race that originated near modern-day Taiwan then migrated to Polynesia. | | | The Lapita people made pottery 3000 years ago, which archaeologists are recovering from several South Pacific sites. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1227059.htm
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| | Interestingly, during the 1960's most Pacific specialists accepted the notion that although Lapita pottery-making people had been "skillful enough to get to Polynesia" and transfer the pottery, they had not been skilled "enough to keep in touch with one another after they had got there" (Terrell: Irwin 161). | | | Soon scholars were subscribing to fiercely opposing positions on how Lapita came to be. | | | The Lapita complex follow-up research of Golson and his students in the 1960's led to great interest of the whole Pacific archaeology community in Melanesia and its mysterious ties to Lapita. |
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| | SandC_26_3.html |
| | Until the last decade, Lapita sites of New Caledonia, the southernmost archipelago of Melanesia, had been poorly studied, leading to unsatisfactory conclusions about the characteristics and the length of the founding cultural complex. | | | Although one of the first Lapita sites identified in the region and excavated by different teams over the years, its stratigraphy, chronology, and artifacts were not well understood. | | | The peopling of the Western Pacific south of the Solomon Islands started with the spread of Austronesian populations more than 3000 years ago. |
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| | Polynesian Voyaging |
| | Tonga is the longest-inhabited island group in Polynesia, with radiocarbon dates as early as 1140 B.C. Thus we conclude that Tonga's first settlers, the people who made Lapita ware, were the first true Polynesians. | | | Lapita pottery was excavated in Tonga in 1963-64, and has recently been found in Samoa as well - both in western Polynesia. | | | Language ties indicate that this migration continued via Samoa eastward to the Marquesas, where the oldest sites in Eastern Polynesia have been found. |
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| | The Prehistoric Pacific |
| | Some have likened the impact of these hypothetical Lapita people on life in the Pacific islands thousands of years ago to the impact of Europeans on the Americas. | | | Significant improvements in canoe-building and navigation, wanderlust, a sense of adventure, a pioneering spirit, and similar motivations have all been suggested. | | | Lapita, they say, was based on early rice cultivation in Asia, which fueled a population expansion and resulted in migrations. |
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| | Gosden_21_1 |
| | Thus during the Lapita period many of the features of the lowland portions of the islands as they exist today were created by human patterns of land use. | | | The fullest evidence comes from the Lapita period dating from 3500 to 2000 b.p., which has assemblages characterized by dentate stamped pottery, obsidian, and shell. | | | During the Lapita period in the Arawes there is evidence of a clustered settlement pattern in the form of stilt villages built in shallow water on the lee sides of islands. |
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| | Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News |
| | The research implies that the ancient Lapita people, a seafaring culture that appeared in the Western Pacific about 3,500 years ago, migrated to the region in a slower, more complex manner than prior theories suggest. | | | Rats are especially useful in the study of Lapita migration because, since they don't swim, humans were solely responsible for their dispersal throughout the Pacific. | | | To trace the migration pattern within Oceania, a large group of islands in the Western Pacific, the researchers examined DNA of ancient and modern rats throughout the Pacific and Island Southeast Asia. |
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| | 52148: Study Guide: Pacific Peoples |
| | The other theory is that the Lapita culture actually developed in the Bismark Archipelago, consolidated there, and from that base spread east and perhaps west in a steady fashion. | | | There are two theories about the migration of the Austronesian Lapita makers. | | | The pottery is characterised by a particular mix of material that makes up the pot, and motifs, which although they changed over time, were consistent throughout the regions where it is found. |
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| | International Conference for the 50th anniversary of the first Lapita excavation |
| | This Sea-side Hotel (see site www.novotel.grands-hotels.cc) has recently been completely reorganized, with pleasant rooms, mostly looking towards the sea, and with Lapita decorations on some walls. | | | During the survey of the West Coast, site Number 13 was given to a beach-site located near the Foué peninsula, where from the beginning of the 20th century, pottery sherds bearing particular dentate stamped motifs had been described. | | | The excavations conducted in 1952 on Grande Terre, and in particular the dating of Site 13 of Lapita, are considered as the starting point of modern archaeological research in the south-western Pacific, specially with the first use of Carbon 14 dates. |
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| | SUMMARY |
| | The overall project had several interrelated goals and research questions as outlined in the introduction. | | | These have required archaeological survey, auger testing, and site excavations in addition to supplementary investigation into geology, palynology, zooarchaeology and the like. | | | In conclusion, the three year Ha`apai project has proven a success in the discovery of Lapita sites, and in the collection of data relevant to the Lapita period of Tonga. |
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| | Lapita, New Caledonia |
| | With support from the Stahl Endowment Fund and a Social Science Research Grant that she received in 1997, she was able to start the recording process for the sherds excavated in 1996. | | | Scarlett Chiu's dissertation research involves the analysis of pottery from the "Lapita" site on the island of New Caledonia. | | | She is planning to conduct chemical analysis (both XRF and Microprobe analysis) here in the Department of Geology of U.C. Berkeley by the beginning of next year. |
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| | TIME Pacific Magazine: Riddle of the Bones -- Aug. 01, 2005 |
| | Never before has such a large collection of skeletal remains from these early wanderers, known as the Lapita people, been found. | | | What has riveted archaeologists since the 2003 discovery of this ancient cemetery at Teouma, on the main island of Efate, is that it's not only the oldest burial ground ever found in the region but dates back around 3,000 years - to when people first arrived in this part of the world. | | | Excavations by an international team working with the Vanuatu National Museum began last year, followed by a second, more extensive dig, which finished last week. |
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| | Volume 25 page 1, |
| | Richard Shutler is perhaps now best known to students of Archeology in Polynesia for his work in New Caledonia with E. Gifford. | | | It was for me therefore a fortunate coincidence that he happened to be in his office, when I telephoned the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. | | | Now after over 40 years of research Dr. Shutler must be considered as one of the leading experts in the field of Lapita and Archeology in Polynesia. |
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