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She lies curled up as if only asleep, knees drawn to her chest, arms wrapped around them, tucked snugly in a nook between the coral boulders. But this woman is long dead, and her bones are as white as the coral branches that have crept among them like tree roots...
What has riveted archaeologists since the 2003 discovery of this ancient cemetery at Teouma, on the main island of Efate, is that it's not only the oldest burial ground ever found in the region but dates back around 3,000 years - to when people first arrived in this part...
More clues, and more questions, have come in recent weeks, with the discovery of a pot containing a skull - another enigma in a region with no record of similar mortuary rituals. It all adds up not only to the most exciting site Spriggs has worked on in 30 years of...
Many of Vanuatu's 83 islands are hard to reach and harder to get around, so it was a piece of astonishing luck that Teouma is only a short drive from Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila. It was another stroke of luck that the cemetery was discovered at all. After...
(2 of 3) Named for the site in New Caledonia where it was first found and dated in 1952, Lapita pottery, with its distinctive dentate, or tooth-shaped, designs across a red surface, is the signature of the people - believed to be ancestors of today's Polynesians - who began moving...