Lapita pottery
Cerámica lapita
- Date
- c. 1350 BCE · confidence medium
- Place
- Talepakemalai, Mussau Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
- Credited to
- Lapita people (Austronesians)
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Pottery decorated with dentate-stamped motifs that marks out the first seafarers to settle remote Oceania. Its trail allows the expansion to be traced from the Bismarck Archipelago to Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa within a few centuries.
What it led to
- the colonisation of remote Oceania
- ancestral Polynesian culture
- the archaeological chronology of the Pacific
Built on
Made possible
- Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) domesticationc. 1000 BCE (muy aproximado)
- Polynesian earth oven (umu, imu, lovo, hāngī)c. 1000 BCE
- Settlement of Polynesia and star navigationc. 1000 BCE – 1250 CE
- Kava domestication (Piper methysticum)c. 1000 BCE (muy aproximado)
- Teouma Lapita cemetery and the DNA of the first Remote Oceaniansc. 1000 BCE (excavado 2004-2010; ADN 2016)