Tag: Lapita

"What we're able to show is that in fact, for places like Vanuatu and New Caledonia and Fiji, they do arrive before there's anybody else here."

Vanuatu Ancient Skulls Shed Light On Polynesian Migration

MessageToEagle.com | December 31, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – An important issue that have long occupied scientists is the origin of Pacific Islanders since the first explorers’ voyages of the 16th century. Physical resemblance between Polynesians

Remnants of Lapita pottery, dated 1000 BC. A human face clearly visible.

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Lapita Were The First People To Penetrate Remote Oceania – Colonization Of Tonga Took No More Than Two Generations

MessageToEagle.com | April 29, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – The Lapita were the first people to penetrate Remote Oceania. Between 1200 and 1000 BC they spread rapidly from Melanesia to Fiji and West Polynesia, including Tonga and