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...... Meanwhile, Dr. Matthew Walter Felgate of the University of Auckland has produced a 500+ page research document focused on Lapita pottery scatters in shallow water and lagoons in the Solomon Islands (Felgate, 2003). Felgate who prepared his massive and mostly deep science manuscript as a fulfillment of his Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology writes that there has existed a large gap in the recorded distribution of Lapita. Hence, his work has involved the scientific interpretation with reference to the discoveries of Lapita pottery in the sheltered, land-locked Roviana Lagoon (near Bougainville), which is centrally located in the gap that he sought to define more clearly for the literature
Felgate was able to find scatters of pottery, stone artifacts and other stone items in the shallow water of Roviana Lagoon because falling water levels have resulted in high archaeological visibility in the region. His paper seeks to verify that Lapita peoples were continuously distributed across Near Oceania as a network of stilt village settlement (houses built over the water on stilts). The conclusion of the production of various elaborate vessel forms was likely a functional change, Felgate surmises based on previous research of the Lapita people, but it

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