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DURING recent archaeological work in New Guinea and the British Solomon Islands we have recovered simple flake artefacts of obsidian associated with a distinctively decorated pottery known as Lapita ware1. This ware had a wide distribution across the south-west Pacific in the first millenium BC, and is known archaeologically from Watom Island, near Rabaul in New Britain, to Tonga, some 4,000 km to the southwest.
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AMBROSE, W., GREEN, R. First Millenium BC Transport of Obsidian from New Britain to the Solomon Islands. Nature 237, 31 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/237031a0
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