Posted by Keoki on September 03, 2007 at 09:52:13:
In Reply to: ORIGIN of the POLYNESIAN PEOPLE. Science! posted by Look what I found on the net. TRUTH. on May 28, 2004 at 17:48:23:
A close read of this recent scientific study on Lapita settlement in the Pacific breaks things down. The point is that the article states Pacific settlers came from the Bismarck Archipelago to Tonga. What do you think?
ABSTRACT OF PUBLISHED ARTICLE
First Lapita Settlement and Its Chronology in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga
Authors: Burley, David V., Connaughton, Sean P.
Source: Radiocarbon, Volume 49, Issue 1, Pages 1-186 (April 2007) , pp. 131-137(7).
Beginning approximately cal 1400 BC, Austronesian-speaking Lapita peoples began a colonizing migration across Oceania from the Bismarck Archipelago to western Polynesia. The first point of entry into Polynesia occurred on the island of Tongatapu in Tonga with subsequent spread northward to Samoa along a natural sailing corridor. Radiocarbon measurements from recent excavations at 4 sites in the northern Vava'u islands of Tonga provide a chronology for the final stage of this diaspora. These dates indicate that the northern expansion was almost immediate, that a paucity of Lapita sites to the north cannot be explained as a result of lag time in the settlement process, and that decorated Lapita ceramics disappeared rapidly after first landfalls.
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