Mangaasi

A long-lived pottery tradition of central Vanuatu, Melanesia, dated to between c 700 BC-1600 AD. It had incised and applied relief and is quite different from the ancestral Polynesian Lapita pottery. It was a Melanesian tradition, with parallels in the northern Solomons and New Caledonia.

A long-lived pottery tradition of central Vanuatu (New Hebrides), dated to between c700 be and ad 1600. This is a Melanesian tradition, with parallels in the northern Solomons and New Caledonia, quite separate from the ancestral Polynesian Lapita culture.