Ancient travel A huge treasure trove of artefacts including thousands of fragments of pottery provides the first evidence that the sea-faring Lapita people settled in mainland Papua New Guinea. The ...
SUVA, Fiji – Excavation of the earliest human settlement in Fiji has yielded fine jewelry and high quality pottery made by ancient Lapita people some 3,000 years ago — and never produced in the area ...
Experts have long viewed the faces sometimes sketched by ancient potters on "Lapita" pottery as human in appearance. Now scientists have pieced together evidence of several kinds leading to a ...