While it is generally accepted that Lapita groups reachedWest Polynesia ca. three millennia ago, there are very few archaeological sites in Samoa that date back this early. The one exception is the Mulifanua site in NW ...

Between 3050 and 2700 years ago, humans first colonized the islands of south-west Remote Oceania, a region stretching from Vanuatu to Sāmoa. These colonists created a dense archaeological record of Lapita pottery and other ...

the last twenty years has seen an apparent consensus that the immediate origins of Polynesian language, culture and biology lie solely with the lapita peoples and cultures that settled Samoa and tonga by 2700 years ago. ...

The traditional connections between Samoa in Western Polynesia and the neighbouring archipelagos of Fiji, Tonga and the Cook islands have long been recognized, through a series of in-depth studies. But surprisingly little ...