South Pacific Island's earliest inhabitants relied primarily on foraging, not horticulture

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 17:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Early Lapita inhabitants of Vanuatu, a South Pacific Island, ate fish, marine turtles, and wild or domestic animals, rather than relying on horticulture during early colonization, according to a study published March 5, 2014, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Rebecca Kinaston from University of Otago in New Zealand and colleagues.

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