Along the roads of the Lapita people: Designs, groups and travels

Abstract

A new set of rules that allows the division of Lapita designs into two distinct corpora is described.As a result, it is now possible to distinguish for a vast majority of designs-and not only the specific 'group marker' designs-precisely to which corpus and which 'group' they belonged.The implications of these results are significant: they confirm the existence of several dozen small groups of potters, each of them exclusively using a given corpus.The rules can also assign, with some confidence, each decorated sherd to a given group.This method of identification and attribution helps to track these groups in the Pacific, including their interactions over time.The distribution of Fijian, Tongan and Samoan designs is taken here as a test to demonstrate the model's reliability.

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