Introduction. Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement: Progress, prospects and persistent problems / Stuart Bedford and Christophe Sand Lapita Origins. The Origins of Early Lapita Culture: The testimony of historical linguistics / Andrew Pawley Small islands in the big picture: the formative period of Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago / Jim Specht Lapita Dispersal and Archaeological Signatures. Lapita all over: Land-use on the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea / Jim Specht and Robin Torrence Lapita Writ Small? Revisiting the Austronesian Colonisation of the Papuan South Coast / Glenn Summerhayes and Jim Allen Leap-frogging or Limping? Recent evidence from the Lapita Littoral Fringe, New Georgia, Solomon Islands / Matthew Felgate Sample Size and the Reef/Santa Cruz Lapita Sequence / Peter Sheppard and Roger C. Green Makué (Aore Island, Santo, Vanuatu): A new Lapita site in the ambit of New Britain obsidian distribution / Jean-Christophe Galipaud and Mary Clare Swete Kelly Echoes from a distance: Research into the Lapita occupation of the Rove Peninsula, Southwest Viti Levu, Fiji / Patrick Nunn Paleoenvironment of Lapita sites on Fanga 'Uta Lagoon, Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga / William R. Dickinson In Search of Lapita and Polynesian Plainware Settlements in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga / David V. Burley Can We Dig It? Archaeology of Ancestral Polynesian Society in Tonga: A first look from Falevai / Sean P. Connaughton Lapita Ceramics. The implements of Lapita ceramic stamped ornamentation / Wallace Ambrose The excavation, conservation and reconstruction of Lapita burial pots from the Teouma site, Efate, Central Vanuatu / Stuart Bedford [and others] Detailed analysis of Lapita Face Motifs: Case studies from the Reef/Santa Cruz sites and New Caledonia Lapita Site 13A / Scarlett Chiu Looking at the big motifs: A typology of the central band decorations of the Lapita ceramic tradition of New Caledonia (Southern Melanesia) and preliminary regional comparisons / Christophe Sand Specialisation, standardisation and Lapita ceramics / Geoffrey Clark. |