Emergence of the Lapita culture

Name: Emergence of the Lapita culture
Start: -1500
Location: Bismarck Archipelago

c. 1500 BC · Bismarck Archipelago · Oceania · Exploration

Pottery-making seafarers set out to settle Oceania

Emergence of the Lapita culture — Torbenbrinker · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Seafarers of the Lapita culture, known for their stamped pottery, appeared in the Bismarck Archipelago. Their descendants sailed canoes to settle remote Oceania: Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

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