Lapita site excavation

Archaeologist Dr Frédérique Valentin and illustrator Fidel Yoringmal work on a Lapita burial site at Teouma Bay on the island of Efate in Central Vanuatu. Teouma Pot 2 had already been partially excavated from the middle of this plot.

This image is of a burial site. Vanuatua gave permission for the public dissemination of these images. We acknowledge the people laid to rest and honour their lives and their living descendants today.

Image from Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement, by Stuart Bedford, Christophe Sand and Sean P. Connaughton. 2007 Publisher: ANU Press Series: Terra Australis