| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:artifacts 
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                                | gptkbp:alsoKnownAs | gptkb:Lapita_culture 
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                                | gptkbp:archaeologicalSite | gptkb:Fiji gptkb:New_Guinea
 gptkb:Samoa
 gptkb:Solomon_Islands
 gptkb:Tonga
 gptkb:Vanuatu
 Bismarck Archipelago
 New Caledonia
 
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                                | gptkbp:burialPractice | flexed burials skull removal
 
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                                | gptkbp:culture | obsidian tools shell ornaments
 decorated pottery
 stone adzes
 
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                                | gptkbp:descendedFrom | gptkb:Melanesians gptkb:Micronesians
 Polynesians
 
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                                | gptkbp:discoveredBy | gptkb:Edward_W._Gifford gptkb:Richard_Shutler_Jr.
 
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                                | gptkbp:economy | fishing horticulture
 animal husbandry
 
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                                | gptkbp:etymology | named after Lapita site in New Caledonia 
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                                | gptkbp:firstDescribed | 1952 
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                                | gptkbp:firstSitesFound | Bismarck Archipelago New Caledonia
 
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                                | gptkbp:languageFamily | gptkb:Austronesian 
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                                | gptkbp:notableFor | gptkb:ceramics gptkb:migration
 settlement of Pacific Islands
 
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                                | gptkbp:period | c. 1600 BCE – 500 BCE 
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                                | gptkbp:potteryDecoration | geometric patterns zoomorphic motifs
 anthropomorphic motifs
 
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                                | gptkbp:potteryStyle | dentate-stamped pottery 
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                                | gptkbp:region | gptkb:Micronesia gptkb:Polynesia
 gptkb:Western_Pacific
 Melanesia
 
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                                | gptkbp:relatedTo | gptkb:Austronesian_expansion Oceanic navigation
 Pacific Island colonization
 
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                                | gptkbp:significance | spread of Austronesian languages ancestral to Polynesian culture
 earliest settlers of Remote Oceania
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Austronesian_peoples 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 7 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Lapita Cultural Complex 
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