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SUVA, Fiji — Excavation of the earliest human settlement in Fiji has yielded fine jewelry and high quality pottery made by ancient Lapita people some 3,000 years ago — and never produced in the area since, a South Pacific geographer said.
"These people were artists," Prof. Patrick Nunn told The Associated Press on Tuesday, announcing archaeological finds including the first-ever discovery of a Lapita jewelry cache, found at Bourewa Beach on the southwest coast of Fiji's main island, Viti Levu.
The Lapita people, the original colonizers of the South Pacific, are believed to have migrated eastward from the Bismarck Archipelago off Papua New Guinea to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, the Solomon Islands and other Pacific islands