PORT VILA, Vanuatu, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Previous studies haves suggested Melanesians -- the native island people of Fiji and Papua New Guinea -- first settled Vanuatu. But new research points to the Polynesians.
The revelation was made possible by a 3,000-year-old skull excavated from an ancient cemetery on Vanuatu's Efate Island. The skull belonged to a member of the native Lapita people. It's the oldest skull ever recovered in the South Pacific.