From the awesome and finely decorated pottery they made. To be more specific, lapita pottery is recognised for it's unique and intricate designs which is so precise and elaborately decorated on early pottery. These type of pottery pieces were initially discovered in New Caledonia, in a place called Lapita, hence, the name. These type of pottery were later being discovered in other Pacific islands which created the idea that they were being associated with movement and migration in the Pacific as the people would take it with them wherever they would go. With this idea, these early peopple and their migration pattern were penned the "Lapita people". I'm no expert but that's as much as I know, hope it answers you well.
Cheers
The Lapita people are named after the archaeological site in New Caledonia where their distinctive pottery was first discovered in the 1950s. This pottery provided important evidence for understanding the migration and cultural expansion of the Lapita people across the Pacific Islands.
There are five people in the name "RAJESH".
566 people in the U.s. have the last name Gullion.
There is no definitive number of people in the world with the name Loser. It is not a common or traditional name, so it is unlikely that there are many individuals with that name globally.
There are approximately 858,000 people in the United States with the first name Lee. It is a common name for both males and females.
Whatever their first name might be.
The lapita people made lapita pottery and tools such as stone adzes
The Lapita People of South East Asia.
the proper name for them are teddy winkles and can be found in the jungles in new calodonia but watch out they bite
More evidence is surfacing to suggest that the lapita people were a different race than the Polynesians, infact there is little to suggest they were the polynesians ancestors. So they couldn't have created an empire, the lapita were around at a different time than the Polynesians.
The Lapita people of South East Asia.
Yes, the Lapita people branched off into two different cultural groups known as the "Polynesians" who migrated to the eastern Pacific islands and the "Micronesians" who settled in the central Pacific islands. These groups developed distinct cultural practices and traditions over time based on their specific environments and interactions with neighboring societies.
Polynesians are believed to have descended from Austronesian-speaking peoples who originated in Taiwan and migrated across the Pacific. The Maori are a specific Polynesian group who are thought to have originated in eastern Polynesia before migrating to New Zealand. Both groups share ancestry and cultural connections with other Pacific island populations.
the Lapita potters
Lapita and the Polynesians
Ceramics.
According to Wikipedia, Fiji was inhabitate by the Lapita People(Asians) some 130million years ago.
Their is still much debate, but it's generally accepted that the Lapita people are the ancestors of Polynesian people to explain how the Polynesians got to be in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Others argue that the Lapita are Melanesian, just one of many old diverse groups that sprung from human occupation in South East Asia and Australia for the last 50,000 years. However, it's too coincidental that the end of the Lapita pottery also marks the beginning of the Polynesian cultural complex. Research shows that Polynesians and Melanesians have very distinct DNA and morphological traits with some very old and ancient mix, but very little admixture.