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Preface
Opening remarks by the Honourable Meltek Sato Kilman, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vanuatu at the opening ceremony of the Lapita Conference, Port Vila, 6–10 July 2015

Debating Lapita

Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence – Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs, David V. Burley, Christophe Sand, Peter Sheppard and Glenn R. Summerhayes

Distribution and chronology

The ceramic trail: Evaluating the Marianas and Lapita West Pacific connection – Geoffrey R. Clark and Olaf Winter

Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland – Bruno David, Ken Aplin, Helene Peck, Robert Skelly, Matthew Leavesley, Jerome Mialanes, Katherine Szabó, Brent Koppel, Fiona Petchey, Thomas Richards, Sean Ulm, Ian J. McNiven, Cassandra Rowe, Samantha J. Aird, Patrick Faulkner and Anne Ford

Kamgot at the lagoon's edge: Site position and resource use of an Early Lapita site in Near Oceania – Glenn R. Summerhayes, Katherine Szabó, Matthew Leavesley and Dylan Gaffney

Lapita: The Australian connection – Ian Lilley

A Lapita presence on Arop/Long Island, Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea? – Dylan Gaffney, Glenn R. Summerhayes and Mary Mennis

Early Lapita colonisation of Remote Oceania: An update on the leapfrog hypothesis – Peter Sheppard

Small islands, strategic locales and the configuration of first Lapita settlement of Vanua Levu, northern Fiji – David V. Burley, Travis Freeland and Jone Balenaivalu

New dates for the Makekur (FOH) Lapita pottery site, Arawe Islands, New Britain, Papua New Guinea – Jim Specht and Chris Gosden

Society

A new assessment of site WKO013A of Xapeta'a (Lapita), New Caledonia – Christophe Sand, Stéphanie Domergue, Louis Lagarde, Jacques Bole, André-John Ouetcho and David Baret

Lapita pottery from the small islands of north-east Malakula, Vanuatu: A brief overview and implications – Stuart Bedford

Plaited textile expression in Lapita ceramic ornamentation – Wallace Ambrose

The hat makes the man: Masks, headdresses and skullcaps in Lapita iconography – Matthew Spriggs

A view from the west: A structural approach to analysing Lapita design in the Eastern Lapita Province – Kathleen LeBlanc, Stuart Bedford and Christophe Sand

Measuring social distances with shared Lapita motifs: Current results and challenges – Scarlett Chiu

Along the roads of the Lapita people: Designs, groups and travels – Arnaud Noury

Lapita to Post-Lapita transition: Insights from the chemical analysis of pottery from the sites of Teouma, Mangaasi, Vao and Chachara, Vanuatu – Mathieu Leclerc

Subsistence

Early Lapita subsistence: The evidence from Kamgot, Anir Islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea – Glenn R. Summerhayes, Katherine Szabó, Andrew Fairbairn, Mark Horrocks, Sheryl McPherson and Alison Crowther

Green desert or 'all you can eat'? How diverse and edible was the flora of Vanuatu before human introductions? – Vincent Lebot and Chanel Sam

Lapita maritime adaptations and the development of fishing technology: A view from Vanuatu – Rintaro Ono, Stuart Hawkins and Stuart Bedford

Lapita colonisation and avian extinctions in Oceania – Stuart Hawkins and Trevor H. Worthy

Beyond

Connecting with Lapita in Vanuatu: Festivals, sporting events and contemporary themes – Richard Shing and Edson Willie

Five decades of Lapita archaeology: A personal retrospective – Patrick V. Kirch

Contributors
Appendix: Papers and posters presented at the Eighth International Lapita Conference, Port Vila, 6–10 July 2015

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