Lapita Pottery the Native Peoples Thesis

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Ambrose wonders why this art form faded, and speculates that because making well-designed pottery was so "labor-intensive" that it required special tools and hence became "too burdensome to descendent settlers" who no doubt had "increasing local social priorities" (Ambrose 2003 p. 214).

Conclusion: Certainly a greater volume of information about Lapita people and their ceramic skills will be forthcoming through future research. Meantime, an interesting discovery was made in 2005, as reported in an Australian National University (ANU) media release prepared by Tim Winkler. "Headless skeletons of the Lapita people…were excavated by ANU archaeologists Professor Matthew Spriggs and Dr. Stuart Bedford" (http://info.
anu.edu.au). Very few complete Lapita pots "have ever been found," the release asserts, and this one was a "flat-bottomed dish placed upside down… [and] around its sides were designs of human faces" (ANU). When the pot was lifted up out of the sand, the scientists realized it was the lid of another "large complete pot, and inside that pot was a human skull" (http://info.anu.edu.au).

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