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Lapita, a. and n. Archaeol.|ləˈpiːtə|
[The name of a site in New Caledonia.]
A. adj. Designating, of, or characterized by a type of pottery found in Melanesia and western Polynesia, which dates from the second and first millennia b.c. and is characterized by elaborate geometric decorations with dentate markers;also, pertaining to the culture associated with this pottery.
B. n.
a. The Lapita ceramic style.
b. The Lapita culture.
1966Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. LXXV. 373 Known variously as Lapita, roulette or pointillé, these distinctive sherds with their diversity of delicately impressed geometrical patterns, are now taken to be an indication of a very early settlement horizon wherever they are found. 1971Ibid. LXXX. 282 The Lapita-potters..were undoubtedly the ancestors of the modern Tongans. 1971J. Golson Lapita Ware in Stud. Oceanic Culture Hist. II. 73 The differences in the archaeological expression of the early cultures of Tonga and Samoa have been misread and their significance misinterpreted. My case is that the latter, no less than the former, is of Lapita inspiration. If this is so, then Lapita is the immediate source for the Polynesian cultures as a whole. 1972Times 9 May 16/6 The pottery samples which they have recovered are of the type known as Lapita ware, which previous archaeological work has revealed across the south-west Pacific from Watom Island..to Tonga. 1979R. C. Green in Prehist. of Polynesia ii. 30/1 The Lapita villages..often show evidence of permanent habitation. Ibid. 34/1 Lapita has been referred to as both a cultural horizon and a cultural tradition. 1993Amer. Anthrop. XCV. iii. 613 Scholars..argue that the origin of Lapita lies in Asian Near Oceania, with a migration of ‘Lapita peoples’ into Melanesian Near Oceania. |