ABSTRACT
The pottery trail from Asia into the Pacific has been fundamental for understanding the cross-regional links at the beginning of Pacific Oceanic archaeology. The pottery trail can be traced in a number of steps, beginning at least as early as 4000 B.C. in coastal China and continuing at least as late as 1000 B.C. in West Polynesia. The specific pottery-making traditions developed with new characteristics over time and the pottery-making horizon spread through Taiwan, Island Southeast Asia, and eventually into Remote Oceania. The several components now can be defined by their material traits and dating parameters, in total retracing the large-scale picture of the pottery trail in chronological order.
