Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 4: 515-540. D.V. Burley, T. Freeland and J. Balenaivalu Small islands, strategic locales and the configuration of first Lapita settlement of Vanua Levu, ...

About 3000 years ago, a group of highly mobile ocean-going foragers arrived in Fiji from the west, bringing with them a distinctive pottery tradition that archaeologists now call Lapita. Although ...