“…The past three decades of zooarchaeological investigation of Lapita sites have revealed that Lapita fishing was mainly practised in inshore coral-reef environments, especially during the first era of migration about 3300 to 2800 BP (cf. Butler 1988Butler , 1994Clark and Szabó 2009;Green 1979Green , 1986Kirch 1988Kirch , 1997Kirch , 2000Kirch and Dye 1979;Kirch and Yen 1982;Summerhayes et al 2010). Yet direct and indirect evidence suggests that Lapita people exploited both near-shore and off-shore marine environments, using a variety of fishing methods including angling, trolling, netting, poison, spears and traps (Butler 1994;Green 1986;Kirch 1997Kirch , 2000Ono 2003;Walter 1989).…”