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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.
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The lapita people made lapita pottery and tools such as stone adzes
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The Lapita People of South East Asia.
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the proper name for them are teddy winkles and can be found in the jungles in new calodonia but watch out they bite
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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 ancestors of the Polynesians and the Maori are the Lapita. Is this true?
Yes, the ancestors of the Polynesians and the Maori are believed to be the Lapita people. The Lapita were an ancient culture that originated in the Pacific and are known for their distinctive pottery style that spread across the region, influencing the cultural development of various Pacific island groups.
Who was the first person to rule the Fiji Islands?
The Lapita people of South East Asia.
Who settled melanesia?
the Lapita potters
Oceania was first colonized by the and then by the?
Lapita and the Polynesians
The Lapita had a very distinctive type of?
Ceramics.
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.
What is lapita?
where people found bones of dinosaurs in Fiji Answer: first the name, The word Lapita itself is not a place name. A word in a local New Caledonian language, xaapeta, meaning 'dig a hole', was misheard as, and became, lapita.An excerpt and the site for further research:The low-fired earthenware pottery, often tempered with shell or sand, is typically decorated with a dentate (toothed) stamp, and it has been theorised that these decorations may have been transferred to or from less hardy mediums like tapa (bark cloth), mats or tattoos. Undecorated "plainware" pottery is an important part of the Lapita cultural complex, which also includes ground stone adzes and shell artefacts, and flaked stone tools of obsidian, chert and other available rock.Go to this site for all the information:* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapita
