Close-up of two pot rims from pots reassembled from sherds.
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Close-up of two pot rims from pots reassembled from sherds. The left-hand image is a close-up of Teouma Pot 2.

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    Exploring Lapita pottery through observation and art

    Lapita is the name given to ancestors of the Polynesians, including Māori, who were the first people to explore and settle the remote parts of Oceania. Their settlements have been identified and ...

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    Lapita cultural complex

    Around 3,500 years ago the earliest ancestors of many Pacific people and Māori – the people provisionally named Lapita – appeared in Oceania. Records of the Lapita people and the way in which ...

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