Hayes, SusanValentin, FrederiqueBuckley, Hallie R.Spriggs, MatthewBedford, Stuart2015-12-100024-094Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/53563In 2008 we completed facial approximations of four individuals from the early Lapita Culture, a seafaring people who were the first to settle the islands of the Western Pacific circa 3000 years ago. Typically an approximation is performed as a 3D sculpture or using computer graphics. We chose to sketch what we have been able to determine from the remains because the artistic conventions of drawing work with visual perception in ways that are more complementary to the knowledge, theories and methods that make up the facial approximation of human remains.© 2009 ISAST. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0024-094X/..."Publisher's version/PDF may be used. On author's personal website or institutional repository" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 12/08/16). The article is cited as Hayes, Susan, et al. "Faces of the Teouma Lapita people: Art, accuracy and facial approximation." Leonardo 42.3 (2009): 284-285.200910.1162/leon.2009.42.3.2842015-12-09