Pang Pang Excavation Unlocks Mysteries of the First Pacific Settlers

via Cosmos, 15 September 2023: Indigenous archaeologists and international researchers unearth Lapita pottery shards at Pang Pang, Vanuatu, shedding light ...

[Paper] Exploitation and utilization of tropical rainforests indicated in dental calculus of ancient Oceanic Lapita culture colonists

27 January 2020 - Updated on 29 October 2020

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via Nature Human Behaviour, 20 January 2020: New paper in Nature Human Behavior indicates that people were transporting and growing ...

[Book] Archaeologies of Island Melanesia

14 August 2019 - Updated on 30 March 2021

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via ANU EPress: A new book from the Australian National University Press. The book is for sale, but the digital ...

Ancient DNA reveals genetic replacement despite language continuity in the South Pacific

28 February 2018 - Updated on 1 October 2020

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Via Phys.org, 27 Feb 2018: Linguistic persistence of the Austronesian language despite a change in the population in the South ...

Cemetery in Vanuatu sheds light on the Polynesians in the Pacific

8 January 2016 - Updated on 10 December 2020

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Bones from a 3,000-year-old cemetery in Vanuatu suggest that the earliest humans in the pacific were more similar to that ...

Eighth Lapita Conference

28 July 2014 - Updated on 29 October 2020

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The announcement is out for the 8th Lapita Conference to be held next year in Vanuatu. Eighth Lapita Conference Date: ...

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