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Where did the Lapita people come from?
The lapita people made lapita pottery and tools such as stone adzes
Who were the original people in Fiji?
The Lapita People of South East Asia.
What kept the Polynesians and Lapita from creating an empire?
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.
Who was the first person to rule the Fiji Islands?
The Lapita people of South East Asia.
The Lapita people branched off into two different cultural groups?
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.
Who settled melanesia?
the Lapita potters
Who were the ancestors of the Polynesians and the Maori?
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 had a very distinctive type of?
Ceramics.
Oceania was first colonized by the and then by the?
Lapita and the Polynesians
Who was the founder of the Fiji islands?
According to Wikipedia, Fiji was inhabitate by the Lapita People(Asians) some 130million years ago.
What were the two groups that The Lapita people branched off into too?
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.
How did the lapita people get there name?
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.
