Three skulls on top of an unearthed skeleton is pictured at an archaeological dig in a burial site at Teouma on Efate Island in Vanuatu October 30, 2007. A 3,000-year-old burial site in Vanuatu containing 60 headless skeletons and skulls in pots is helping end the mystery over colonisation of the Pacific and the first Polynesians, archaeologists said on Tuesday. The remains have enabled scientists to reconstruct the lives and habits of the seafaring Lapita people, who settled Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa from Melanesian islands scattered to the west
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