| AUSTRONESIAN peoples from Southeast Asia have occupied Papua New Guinea from 58,000BCE. | wikPI |
| New Guineans have inhabited Melanesia from 33,000BCE. | wikPI |
| New Guineans have occupied SOLOMON ISLANDS from at least 28,000BCE. | wikPI |
| PHILIPPINES have been occupied by humans via land bridges from at least 28,000BCE. | wikPI |
| c.8000 | Asia-Pacific Neolithic age begins until 500. | 8000 wikPP |
| c.4000 |  Austronesians from Solomon Islands migrate eastward. |
map Chumwa 4000 wikPI |
| c.4000 |  Polynesians arrive at TONGA Islands. |
4000 wikPI map Skimel |
| c.3000 | Austronesians on Taiwan island learn long-distance canoe travel and spread themselves and their languages south to the Philippines, Indonesia, and maritime Southeast Asia; west towards Madagascar; southeast towards New Guinea and Melanesia (intermarrying with native Papuans); and east to Micronesia, Oceania and Polynesia. | 3000 wikPO |
| c.3000 |  Austronesians arrive at VANUATU Islands. |
4-2000 wikPI map TUBS |
| c.2000 | AUSTRONESIAN peoples from Taiwan migrate into INDONESIA, push native Melanesians eastward as they expand. | 2000 TAWH-16, wikI, wikPI |
| c.1500 |  Tanged and rectangular adz blades are used in northern Philippines and nowhere else in Indonesia or Melanesia. These are almost identical to those used much later thruout Polynesia. |
1750-1250 mxfld map Addicted04 |
| by 1500 | 
AUSTRONESIAN peoples reach as far as Borneo and the Moluccas. |
by 1500 wikPP Borneo Sadalmelik Moluccas Lencer |
| c.1500 |  FIJI in Melanesia settled by Polynesians. |
1500 wikPI 1300 hiwo map TUBS |
| c.1500 |  LAPITANS of Indonesia spread to the Bismarck Archipelago and nearby islands off northeast coast of New Guinea in Melanesia. Begin a culture that lasts until 200CE. |
1500 PW 15, jrnkL, mxfld, wikP, wikPI Melanesia Cruickshanks |
| c.1500 | DINGO, semi-domesticated in Indonesia from ?, imported to Australia. | 1500 TTT |
| c.1500 |  LAPITANS arrive in New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands. |
1500 wikPI map NormanEinstein |
| c.1350 |
MELANESIANS, speaking Austronesian language and making Lapitan pottery, are found from the Reef/Santa Cruz Islands (400km southeast of Solomon Islands) to New Caledonia and reach Fiji Islands. |
map Chumwa 1350 TAWH 16, 48 1300 mxfld 13-1200 jrnkL by 1000 B76 2-485, 13-444 |
| c.1350 | Classic Lapita pottery begins in the Bismarck Archipelago off the northeast coast of New Guinea, and will continue until 750. | 1350 wikLap |
| c.1300 | Earliest pottery fragments at VANUATU. |
1300 wikPI map TUBS |
| c.1300 | LAPITANS, in Melanesia from 1500, begin spreading eastward into Polynesia. | 1300 wikP 1100 jrnkL |
| c.1200 | AUSTRONESIAN peoples of Indonesia sail eastward to Melanesia. | 1200 wikA |
| c.1100 |  LAPITANS, ancestors of Polynesians, in Melanesia from 1500, reach Tonga and Samoa. |
1100 TAWH 49 1000 PW 15, wikPI map Skimel |
| c.1000 | Easternmost Lapita site is Mulifanua in Samoa where 4,288 pottery sherds and 2 Lapita type adzes have been recovered. | 1000 wikLap |
| c.1000 | TEOUMA on south coast of Efate Island in central Vanuatu occupied by Lapitans. 36 bodies discovered in 25 graves, as well as burial jars. All skeletons headless with skulls removed after original burial and replaced with rings made from cone shell. The heads were reburied. | 12-1000 apscn 1000 wikLap |
| c.1000 | AUSTRALIA has long distance exchange networks for ornaments and raw materials. Large villages of round stone houses in south & east. | 1000 PW 15 |
| c.1000 |  Successive waves of migrations from Southeast Asia spread across Western Pacific, some landing and remaining on Marshall Islands. |
1000 wikPI map Hobe |
| c.1000 | AUSTRONESIAN peoples of Melanesia from 1200, now occupy Polynesia. | 1000 wikA |
| c.1000 | Eastern MELANESIANS begin sailing north. | 1000 wikPI |
| c.1000 |  NIUE Island occupied by Polynesians. |
1000 wikPI map TUBS |
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