Opening remarks by the Honourable Meltek Sato Kilman, Prime
Minister of the Republic of Vanuatu at the opening ceremony of the
Lapita Conference, Port Vila, 6–10 July 2015
Debating Lapita
Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and
subsistence – Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs, David V.
Burley, Christophe Sand, Peter Sheppard and Glenn R.
Summerhayes
Distribution and chronology
The ceramic trail: Evaluating the Marianas and Lapita West
Pacific connection – Geoffrey R. Clark and Olaf Winter
Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita,
Caution Bay hinterland – Bruno David, Ken Aplin, Helene Peck,
Robert Skelly, Matthew Leavesley, Jerome Mialanes, Katherine Szabó,
Brent Koppel, Fiona Petchey, Thomas Richards, Sean Ulm, Ian J.
McNiven, Cassandra Rowe, Samantha J. Aird, Patrick Faulkner and
Anne Ford
Kamgot at the lagoon's edge: Site position and resource use of
an Early Lapita site in Near Oceania – Glenn R. Summerhayes,
Katherine Szabó, Matthew Leavesley and Dylan Gaffney
Lapita: The Australian connection – Ian Lilley
A Lapita presence on Arop/Long Island, Vitiaz Strait, Papua New
Guinea? – Dylan Gaffney, Glenn R. Summerhayes and Mary
Mennis
Early Lapita colonisation of Remote Oceania: An update on the
leapfrog hypothesis – Peter Sheppard
Small islands, strategic locales and the configuration of first
Lapita settlement of Vanua Levu, northern Fiji – David V.
Burley, Travis Freeland and Jone Balenaivalu
New dates for the Makekur (FOH) Lapita pottery site, Arawe
Islands, New Britain, Papua New Guinea – Jim Specht and Chris
Gosden
Society
A new assessment of site WKO013A of Xapeta'a (Lapita), New
Caledonia – Christophe Sand, Stéphanie Domergue, Louis
Lagarde, Jacques Bole, André-John Ouetcho and David Baret
Lapita pottery from the small islands of north-east Malakula,
Vanuatu: A brief overview and implications – Stuart
Bedford
Plaited textile expression in Lapita ceramic ornamentation
– Wallace Ambrose
The hat makes the man: Masks, headdresses and skullcaps in
Lapita iconography – Matthew Spriggs
A view from the west: A structural approach to analysing Lapita
design in the Eastern Lapita Province – Kathleen LeBlanc,
Stuart Bedford and Christophe Sand
Measuring social distances with shared Lapita motifs: Current
results and challenges – Scarlett Chiu
Along the roads of the Lapita people: Designs, groups and
travels – Arnaud Noury
Lapita to Post-Lapita transition: Insights from the chemical
analysis of pottery from the sites of Teouma, Mangaasi, Vao and
Chachara, Vanuatu – Mathieu Leclerc
Subsistence
Early Lapita subsistence: The evidence from Kamgot, Anir
Islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea – Glenn R.
Summerhayes, Katherine Szabó, Andrew Fairbairn, Mark Horrocks,
Sheryl McPherson and Alison Crowther
Green desert or 'all you can eat'? How diverse and edible was
the flora of Vanuatu before human introductions? – Vincent
Lebot and Chanel Sam
Lapita maritime adaptations and the development of fishing
technology: A view from Vanuatu – Rintaro Ono, Stuart Hawkins
and Stuart Bedford
Lapita colonisation and avian extinctions in Oceania
– Stuart Hawkins and Trevor H. Worthy
Beyond
Connecting with Lapita in Vanuatu: Festivals, sporting events
and contemporary themes – Richard Shing and Edson Willie
Five decades of Lapita archaeology: A personal retrospective
– Patrick V. Kirch
Contributors
Appendix: Papers and posters presented at the Eighth
International Lapita Conference, Port Vila, 6–10 July 2015