The human colonization of the Pacific is an enduring problem in historical anthropology.
Recent advances in archaeology, historical linguistics, and bioanthropology have coalesced …

Debates about human prehistory often center on the role that population expansions play in
shaping biological and cultural diversity. Hypotheses on the origin of the Austronesian …

This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of
the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a …

Expansion of Austronesianspeaking peoples from the Bismarck Archipelago out into the
Pacific commencing c. 3300 cal BP represents the last great chapter of human global …

The last twenty years has seen an apparent consensus that the immediate origins of
Polynesian language, culture and biology lie solely with the Lapita peoples and cultures that …

ABSTRACT A set of unique circumstances created a durable archaeological record of
ancient human migration from Southeast Asia to Remote Oceania, useful as a global model …

ABSTRACT The Bayesian calibration program OxCal v. 4.1. 5 is applied to two
chronological datasets for early Lapita derived from two comprehensive reviews. The two …

The Lapita colonization of Remote Oceania involved rapid expansion from New Guinea
across one-tenth of the circumference of the earth. Implicit in most discussions of this …

Archaeology, linguistics, and existing genetic studies indicate that Oceania was settled by
two major waves of migration. The first migration took place approximately 40 thousand …

Understanding the nature and process of initial Pacific settlement by people carrying the
Lapita culture is ultimately founded upon accurate knowledge of the timing and speed of …