CERTAINTY what we really know, what is indisputable | Initial human colonization of the Pacific
People arrived in Fiji as much as 1200 BC at Bourewa Beach in southwest Viti Levu Island.
The Bourewa settlers came from the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. Much evidence suggests that these people were some of the Lapita people. The Bourewa settlers lived close to the sea, depended on the sea, but later planted taro and yams and introduced chicken, dogs and rats.
The initial human colonization of the Pacific. Human settlement spread from Bourewa around the Rove Peninsula and to Qoqo Island, along the south coast of Viti Levu and into central Fiji (Moturiki) by about 1000 BC.
