Series: The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific

This is the first account of the Lapita Peoples, the common ancestor of the Polynesians, Micronesians, and Austronesian-speaking Melanesians who, over the last 4000 years, colonised the islands of the Pacific, including New Zealand and territories as far afield as Fiji and Hawaii. Its purpose is to provide answers to some of the most puzzling archaeological and anthropological questions: who...