The Lapita culture is the name given to a Neolithic Austronesian people and their distinct material culture, who settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne migration at around 1600 to 500 BCE. [1][2] …

Lapita culture, cultural complex of what were presumably the original human settlers of Melanesia, much of Polynesia, and parts of Micronesia, and dating between 1600 and 500 bce.

Experience the spirit of Ramadan at Lapita, where families and corporate groups come together in a serene Polynesian-inspired setting. Enjoy thoughtfully curated Iftar experiences, warm hospitality, …

Aug 30, 2025 · The Lapita people were the result of a massive migration of Austronesian-speaking peoples who originated from Neolithic agricultural societies in what is now mainland China, …

The new arrivals, who we now know as the Lapita people (named for the beach on the island of New Caledonia where a large number of pottery sherds were found), spoke a different language than the …

In terms of subsistence, the Lapita people had adopted taro, yams, breadfruit and other tree domesticates, and added to it their domesticated animals of pigs, chickens, and dogs.

May 23, 2019 · The Lapita culture or Lapita cultural complex is the founding cultural group who settled Melanesia and the Pacific islands between 3600 and 2900 years ago.

Oct 1, 2002 · The term Lapita refers to an ancient Pacific culture that archaeologists believe to be the common ancestor of the contemporary cultures of Polynesia, Micronesia, and some areas of Melanesia.

Around 3,500 years ago the earliest ancestors of many Pacific people and Māori – the people provisionally named Lapita – appeared in Oceania. Records of the Lapita people and the way in …

The major archaeological culture of the southwestern Pacific, named after the site of Lapita in New Caledonia, the Lapita culture spans the area from New Guinea to Samoa between cl500 and 500 bc, …