Lapita voyagers enter Remote Oceania
The Lapita cultural complex, marked by a distinctive dentate-stamped pottery, appears in the Bismarck Archipelago and then spreads rapidly eastward past the limit of intervisible islands into Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji and on to Tonga and Samoa. It represents the first human settlement of Remote Oceania and the entry of Austronesian languages into the open Pacific. The dates are conventional approximations from standing knowledge; no radiocarbon synthesis could be consulted in this session, and the chronology has been refined repeatedly.
Uncertain — sources disagree, or the dating is contested. Stated here, not resolved.
Subjects
- The Austronesian expansion · phenomenon · Island Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific · not located
- Austronesian · concept · Taiwan, island Southeast Asia, Madagascar, Oceania · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion
Supports the agreement between the branching order of Austronesian language trees and the archaeological settlement sequence of the Pacific. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. The volume number is given from standing knowledge and the page range is omitted rather than guessed.
Nature · 2000 · Partly verified
Gray, R. D. and Jordan, F. M., Nature, vol. 405 (2000)
Recorded on The Austronesian expansion
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