

Radiocarbon dates from the Mussau Islands and the Lapita colonization of the southwestern Pacific.
Keywords
Lapita;Mussau Islands;Pacific region;human ecology;South Pacific;Southwest Pacific;evaluation;migration;artifacts;West Pacific;Pacific Ocean;interpretation;archaeology;stratigraphy;Cenozoic;Quaternary;methods;geochronology;C 14;carbon;dates;isotopes;radioactive isotopes;absolute age