World Atlas Core Records · Migration

Teouma

c. 1000-800 BCE · Vanuatu

A cemetery and settlement evidence anchor early Lapita-associated movement into Remote Oceania.

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AI-generated evidence-guided visualization related to Teouma, c. 1000-800 BCE. — Non-graphic AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and period context; it omits human remains and is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

How the setting appeared

Coastal communities lived among reefs, gardens and forest with ocean-going canoes.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-TEOUMACIT-CORE069-TEOUMA-ANTIQUITY Setting and material context · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Voyagers established new households while adapting to island ecologies.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-TEOUMACIT-CORE069-TEOUMA-ANTIQUITY Lifeways and community · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Canoe building, navigation, fishing, gardening and pottery supported settlement.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-TEOUMACIT-CORE069-TEOUMA-ANTIQUITY Work, tools and exchange · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

Human remains require restricted, respectful treatment; beliefs cannot be freely illustrated.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-TEOUMACIT-CORE069-TEOUMA-ANTIQUITY Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

World-atlas stage: Iron Age networks
Region: Oceania · Vanuatu
Languages and scripts: Not named in this record
Important people: No individual is centered in this record
Events and changes: c. 1000-800 BCE: A cemetery and nearby settlement were used by an early Lapita community in Remote Oceania; 2003 CE: Quarrying and earthworks exposed burials and decorated pottery at Teouma; 2004 CE onward: Systematic excavation documented cemetery organization, mortuary practice, pottery and human remains
Evidence confidence: Strong for site and voyaging context; Lapita is an archaeological complex, not one ethnicity.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-TEOUMACIT-CORE069-TEOUMA-ANTIQUITY Dates, place, language, people, events and confidence · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

The local map uses modern coastlines only for orientation. The marker identifies this record's geographic anchor, not the full reach of a community or polity.

Map geometry loads only when requested. Modern outlines are orientation only; historical geography and identities changed through time.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-TEOUMACIT-CORE069-TEOUMA-ANTIQUITY Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

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CIT-CORE-TEOUMA

Teouma: record evidence guide

https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/72a6de44-6d54-4511-b22e-1b7b474f4aed/full

openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au

CIT-CORE069-TEOUMA-ANTIQUITY

The Teouma Lapita site and the early human settlement of the Pacific Islands

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/teouma-lapita-site-and-the-early-human-settlement-of-the-pacific-islands/9DC8810C8A609DE9089BE221D51DFBF2

Cambridge University Press

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