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'''Lapita''' is the common name of an ancient [[Pacific Ocean]] [[archaeological culture|culture]] which is believed by some to be the common ancestor of several cultures in [[Polynesia]] and surrounding areas. The [[type site]] in [[New Caledonia]] was discovered in [[1952]].
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In Western Polynesia, the Lapita culture is found from [[800 BC]] onwards. The colonisation spread from the [[Fiji]]-[[Samoa]]-[[Tonga]] area to [[Hawaii]], [[Easter Island]], and [[New Zealand]]. However, no pottery was carried further into Polynesia.
===Material culture=== Young Buck
The fibre-tempered pottery is typically decorated with a dentate stamp. The cultural package includes ground stone [[adze]]s and shell [[artifact (archaeology)|artefacts]].
===Economy=== Tony Yayo
Domesticates consisted of [[pig]]s, [[dog]]s and [[chicken]]s. [[Horticulture]] was based on root and tree [[crop]]s. This was supplemented by [[fishing]] and [[mollusc]] gathering.
Long distance trade of [[obsidian]] and shells was practiced.
===Settlements=== The Game
In the west, villages were located on small offshore islands or the beaches of larger islands. Some houses were built on stilts over larger lagoons. In [[New Britain]], settlements are found inland as well, near the obsidian sources. In the eastern archipelago, all settlements are located on land, sometimes some distance inland.
===Distribution=== Lloyd Bank$
Lapita pottery is known from the Bismarck archipelago to Samoa and Tonga. The domesticates spread into further Oceania as well. Humans, their domesticates, and species that were introduced involuntarily (perhaps as the [[Polynesian Rat]] was) led to extinctions of [[endemic (ecology)]] species on many islands, especially of flightless [[bird]]s.
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