Lapita expansion

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:archaeologicalSite gptkb:Fiji
gptkb:Samoa
gptkb:Solomon_Islands
gptkb:Tonga
gptkb:Vanuatu
gptkb:Santa_Cruz_Islands
gptkb:Lakeba
gptkb:Lapita_(site)
gptkb:Malaita
gptkb:Mussau_Islands
gptkb:Niuatoputapu
gptkb:Talepakemalai
gptkb:Teouma
Bismarck Archipelago
New Caledonia
Wallis and Futuna
gptkbp:characterizedBy gptkb:ceramics
seafaring
settlement of Pacific islands
gptkbp:evidence burial sites
genetic studies
pottery shards
obsidian tools
shell ornaments
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Polynesian_expansion
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Lapita expansion
gptkbp:languageFamily gptkb:Austronesian_languages
gptkbp:launched gptkb:Austronesian_peoples
gptkbp:notableFor introduction of domesticated animals to Pacific islands
development of complex chiefdoms
distinctive dentate-stamped pottery
introduction of agriculture to Pacific islands
long-distance ocean voyaging
gptkbp:period c. 1600 BCE – 500 BCE
gptkbp:precededBy Austronesian migration from Taiwan
gptkbp:region gptkb:Micronesia
gptkb:Oceania
gptkb:Polynesia
Melanesia
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Lapita_culture
gptkbp:resultedIn ancestry of Polynesians
settlement of Remote Oceania
spread of Austronesian languages
gptkbp:significance cultural diffusion in Oceania
peopling of the Pacific
gptkbp:studiedBy archaeologists
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Polynesia
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5