| Abstract: |
In Remote Oceania, east of the Solomon Islands chain, sites with Lapita pottery form a horizon of probable colonising populations, Most were linked by occasional transfers over varying distances of portable items (pottery, adzes, chert and obsidian/volcanic glass flake tools, objects of marine shell, other objects in stone including those for ovens). The extent of this evidence to date is assembled and assessed. From that island group by island group review, it is concluded that in this region Lapita exchange consisted of a loosely linked series of complex multi-modal intra and inter-island systems, rather than a single, extensive, elaborate integrated network.
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