Word: interisland
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...nearby islands of the South Pacific, by contrast, enterprising natives of the New Guinea highlands were clearing forests and using irrigation to cultivate yams, bananas and taro root. Coastal people were developing double-hulled ocean-going canoes and mastering the rudiments of navigation, which led to an explosion of interisland trade. The dominant traders, peoples known to archaeologists as the Lapita, who lived in the Bismarck archipelago, did a booming commerce in food, obsidian, seashells and elaborately stamped pottery from island to island, eventually venturing as far away as Fiji and Tonga...