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The Teouma Lapita site and the early human settlement of the Pacific Islands

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dc.contributor.authorBedford, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorSpriggs, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorRegenvanu, Ralph
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:14:32Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.updated2015-12-07T07:30:32Z
dc.description.abstractThe Teouma site, on Efate in central Vanuatu, was uncovered during quarrying in 2003 and has proved to be one of the most significant discoveries to date for the colonisation of Remote Oceania. Not only did it bring to light a fine assemblage of the famously diagnostic Lapita ceramics, but a cemetery of more than 25 individuals along with the pots. The skeletons offer an opportunity to investigate the origins of the 'Lapita people' who first appeared in the Bismarck Archipelago around 3300 years ago and rapidly moved through island Melanesia and Western Polynesia over the next few centuries.
dc.identifier.issn0003-598X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/17471
dc.publisherAntiquity Publications
dc.sourceAntiquity
dc.subjectKeywords: cemetery; colonization; human settlement; skeleton; Bismarck Archipelago; Melanesia; Pacific islands; Pacific Ocean; Papua New Guinea; Polynesia; Vanuatu Cemetery; Lapita; Pacific; Population origins and movement; Teouma; Vanuatu
dc.titleThe Teouma Lapita site and the early human settlement of the Pacific Islands
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue310
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage827
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage812
local.contributor.affiliationBedford, Stuart, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationSpriggs, Matthew, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationRegenvanu, Ralph, Vanuatu National Museum
local.contributor.authoruidBedford, Stuart, u3859218
local.contributor.authoruidSpriggs, Matthew, u8705877
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor210106 - Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand)
local.identifier.ariespublicationu8304786xPUB1
local.identifier.citationvolume80
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-33845747364
local.type.statusPublished Version

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