Vanuatu

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Archaeological Sites

Vanuatu Sites
From Archaeology World and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, five sites recently excavated in the islands.

Erromango Island
From Matthew Spriggs and Archaeology World, excavations at five sites, the earliest post-Lapita.

Mangaasi
Excavated during the summer of 1998, with live weekly updates, from Matthew Spriggs and Australian National University.
     Season's end report, from Archaeology World.

St Maurice-Vatcha
In New Caledonia, a neighboring island to Vanuatu; The Beginning of Southern Melanesian Prehistory: The St Maurice-Vatcha Lapita Site, New Caledonia, an article in Journal of Field Archaeology by Christophe Sand/

University Programs

Australian National University and the National Museum of Vanuatu
From Archaeology World, several articles on a three year project on the archaeology of Vanuatu. In English and Bislama.

Current Researchers

Paul Rainbird
University of Wales at Lampeter, archaeology of island societies and colonial encounters; also work on Pohnpei and Vanuatu.

David Roe
While at the Australian National University, devised and implemented the Vanuatu Cultural and Historic Sites Survey, a project funded jointly by the European Union and ORSTOM (now at James Cook University)

Jean-Christophe Galipaud
At ORSTOM and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre.

Cultural History

Vanuatu Time Line
From Archaeology World and the Vanuatu Cultural Center, some history and prehistory.

General Information

Archaeology at About.com

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