About 3000 years ago, a group of highly mobile ocean-going foragers arrived in Fiji from the west, bringing with them a distinctive pottery tradition that archaeologists now call Lapita. Although ...

Few have heard of Fiji’s terracotta pottery, fewer still have witnessed how Fijians make their earthenware. It’s quite an experience. FIJIAN terracotta pottery has fascinated me ever since I ...

She cuts a hole in the top to form the opening, or the mouth, of the vessel. The potter forms a thin coil of clay that she will attach to the pot to form the rim. After attaching the clay coil, the ...

An undersea plateau in the Pacific Ocean that is bigger than Idaho first started forming with volcanic eruptions during the Cretaceous period (145 to 66 million years ago), and it is still growing ...