A Cultural Encyclopedia of Lost Cities and Civilizations by Michael Shally-Jensen;Anthony Vivian;

Author:Michael Shally-Jensen;Anthony Vivian;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (ABC-CLIO)
Published: 2023-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

DEMISE

The Lapita people did not face a demise so much as an evolution in ceramics style. By the end of the first millennium BCE, all of the many sites that had at one point produced Lapita pottery stopped doing so, and the specific serrated stamped designs disappear from the material record. Other decorative ceramic styles proliferated instead, including those with decorative incisions or impressions. However, the people producing and using the pottery continued to flourish. The many branches of the broad Austronesian expansion blossomed for centuries. Thousands of miles to the west, Austronesians settled Madagascar in the mid-first millennium CE. The Pacific Austronesians, perhaps descendants of the Lapita people, made it as far as Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island by the early second millennium CE.

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