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4,000 Miles Down the Lapita Pottery Trail

Monday, June 1, 2009

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4,000 Miles Down the Lapita Pottery Trail

Let’s take a 4,000 mile, island hopping canoe journey into Remote Oceania to the far eastern end of the Solomon Islands. The tiny, remote islands of Anuta and Tikopia are the destination and the entire voyage is a good replication of what the Lapita Culture – Polynesia's earliest – did from ~1500 B.C. to about 0 A.D. This is the story of The Lapita Voyage Project and an incredible four month journey that that ended in March 2009 yet transcended its place in time.

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