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TALANOA: Dr Frank Thomas on Lapita pottery and Tagata Pasefika.

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Archeologist Dr Frank Thomas of the University of the South Pacific, on Nikumaroro Atoll, Kiribati. (Image supplied).

This is part of a series of interviews with academics on the Pacific looking at the Lapita pottery evidence as a way of explaining the migration patterns of Tagata Pasefika. My guest is Dr Frank Thomas from the University of the South Pacific based at Laucala campus in Suva.


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This is part of a series of interviews with academics on the Pacific looking at the Lapita pottery evidence as a way of explaining the migration patterns of Tagata Pasefika. My guest is Dr Frank Thomas from the University of the South Pacific based at Laucala campus in Suva.



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