The Neolithic Austronesian maritime culture whose distinctive dentate-stamped pottery marks the seaborne spread of Austronesian peoples across Island Melanesia and into Polynesia from c. 1600 BCE.
Transformed through cultural evolution and dispersal into the ancestral Polynesian, Micronesian, and Melanesian cultures rather than being dissolved by external conquest; in western Polynesia (Tonga-Samoa), Lapita communities gradually became Proto-Polynesian culture from roughly 1000–500 BCE onward, marked by the disappearance of decorated Lapita pottery.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Lapita culture — the shape you scrub through changes in 1600 BC · 1250 BC · 1050 BC.
The standard scholarly study of the Lapita archaeological culture, its origins, dispersal, and descendants across the Pacific.
A comprehensive ANU Press scholarly volume synthesizing current research on the Lapita culture's spread, dating, society and subsistence across the western Pacific.
An ANU Press scholarly collection on Lapita archaeology and the settlement of the western Pacific, directly covering the citing culture.
Sweeping archaeological history of the Pacific; synthesises Lapita scholarship within full Pacific prehistory context; revised edition 2017
Definitive monograph on the Lapita cultural complex; covers archaeology, origins, migrations, and relationship to Polynesian/Micronesian ancestors; directly covers the -1600 to -500 date range
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