8.5 The pacific: 1500 to 1000 b.c.

The pacific

Back to The Pacific: 3000 to 1500 B.C.

New Caledonia is said to have had human habitation 3,000 years ago and it is known that Lapita pottery people reached Fiji in Melanesia by 1,300 B.C. Later they reached Tonga and Samoa on the western edge of Polynesia (see 6th century B.C. discussion of this point). The aborigines of Australia continued unmolested at this time. (Ref. 8 , 176 )

Forward to The Pacific: 1000 to 700 B.C.

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