The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many
thousands of islands, which are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among …

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 …

First settlement of Polynesia, and population expansion throughout the ancestral Polynesian
homeland are foundation events for global history. A precise chronology is paramount to …

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 …

On the 15th of January 2022, a massive hydrovolcanic eruption at Hunga Tonga-Hunga
Ha'apai in Tonga (SW Pacific) sent shockwaves in the near-field regime, close to the …

Intricately decorated Lapita pottery (3100–2700 BP) was made and deposited by the
prehistoric colonizers of Pacific islands, east of the main Solomon's chain. For decades …

Cultural, linguistic, and phenotypic differences between Fijian and West Polynesian peoples
demarcate the historically defined Melanesian/Polynesian divide. As both regions are …

The subsistence strategies of the Lapita populations (3100–2800 BP), the first colonisers of
the pristine environments of the islands of Eastern Melanesia and Western Polynesia, have …

'This volume is the most comprehensive review of Lapita research to date, tackling many of
the lingering questions regarding origin and dispersal. Multidisciplinary in nature with a …