Kebudayaan Lapita adalah kebudayaan prasejarah yang berkembang di Kepulauan Pasifik dari sekitar tahun 1600 SM sampai sekitar 500 SM. Para arkeolog meyakini bahwa Lapita adalah leluhur orang-orang di Polinesia, Mikronesia, dan beberapa kawasan pesisir Melanesia. Karakteristik budaya Lapita adalah keberadaan permukiman manusia di kepulauan yang sebelumnya tak berpenghuni yang meliputi wilayah besar di Samudera Pasifik, penyebaran rumpun bahasa Oseanik di kawasan tersebut, tembikar geometris yang khas, dan pemakaian dan penyebaran obsidian.
Sumber
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Pranala luar
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Lapita Culture.
- Lapita cultural complex – brief description with picture of pottery Diarsipkan 2001-05-03 di Wayback Machine. (Central Queensland University School of Humanities)
- Extinctions connected with the spread of Lapita (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
- Lapita cultural complex, Lapita designs, texts about Lapita, LapitaDraw ("software to aid in studying archaeological ceramic artefacts")[pranala dihapus] (Archéologie et Informatique, in French)
- 'Heads found in pots in Vanuatu dig', ANU media release, 14 July 2005, on discovery of Lapita skulls following 2004 find of headless Lapita skeletons
- Over 1000 Lapita photographs from the University of Auckland Anthropology Photographic Archive database. Search for "lapita"