Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement -- The origins of Early Lapita culture -- Small islands in the big picture -- Lapita all over -- Lapita Writ Small? Revisiting the AustronesianColonisation of the Papuan South Coast -- Leap-frogging or Limping? Recent Evidence from theLapita Littoral Fringe, New Georgia, Solomon Islands -- Sample Size and the Reef/Santa Cruz LapitaSequence -- Makué (Aore Island, Santo, Vanuatu) -- Echoes from a distance -- Paleoenvironment of Lapita sites on Fanga 'UtaLagoon, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga -- In Search of Lapita and Polynesian PlainwareSettlements in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga -- Can We Dig It? Archaeology of Ancestral PolynesianSociety in Tonga -- The implements of Lapita ceramic stampedornamentation -- The excavation, conservation andreconstruction of Lapita burial pots fromthe Teouma site, Efate, Central Vanuatu -- Detailed analysis of Lapita Face Motifs -- Looking at the big motifs -- Specialisation, standardisationand Lapita ceramics. |