Back Lapitakultuur Afrikaans ثقافة لابيتا Arabic Лапіта Byelorussian Kalja Lapita Bislama Lapitská kultura Czech Lapita-Kultur German Lapita kulturo Esperanto Lapita Spanish فرهنگ لاپیتا Persian Lapita Finnish

Lapita culture

Known distribution of the Lapita culture
Reconstruction of the face of a Lapita woman. National Museum of Ethnology (Japan)

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] The Lapita people are believed to have originated from the northern Philippines, either directly, via the Mariana Islands, or both.[3] They were notable for their distinctive geometric designs on dentate-stamped pottery, which closely resemble the pottery recovered from the Nagsabaran archaeological site in northern Luzon. The Lapita intermarried with the Papuan populations to various degrees, and are the direct ancestors of the Austronesian peoples of Polynesia, eastern Micronesia, and Island Melanesia.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Sand, Christophe (2001). "Evolutions in the Lapita Cultural Complex: A View from the Southern Lapita Province". Archaeology in Oceania. 36 (2): 65–76. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4453.2001.tb00479.x. ISSN 0728-4896. JSTOR 40387802.
  2. ^ Kirch, Patrick Vinton (1997). The Lapita Peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic World. Oxford: Blackwell.
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  6. ^ Pietrusewsky, Michael (2006). "Initial Settlement of remote Oceania: the evidence from physical anthropology". In Simanjuntak, T.; Pojoh, I.H.E.; Hisyam, M. (eds.). Austronesian Disapora and the Ethnogenesis of People in Indonesian Archipelago. Proceedings of the International Symposium. Jakarta: LIPI Press. pp. 320–347.

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