Lapita People - A Colonization complex of Southeast Asia

Lapita Pottery in Asia Pacific Polynesia

Around 3500 BP (Before Present) the Malayo-Polynesians & Outer Pacific Polynesians began to expand outside the Malay Archipelago of Indonesia (Malayunesia). DNA and Anthropological results show that the Lapita came from the Southeast Asian regions and the Moluccas are at times compared to Lapita heritage sites. All Southeast Asian cultures expanded almost Worldwide 3-6000 years ago to East Asia, Northeast Asia, Central Asia, and into Outer Oceania including Micronesia and Taiwan. The pottery of the Lapita shows an uncanny genius in the people of the Asia Pacific becoming another wondrous area of study, another of the many cultures that create East Asia, Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific's academic allure. The molds and design include stylised faces, motif patterns, and what appears to be scenes of community gatherings "It's like there's an Ancient Greece in Polynesia" says one academic.

Lapita in Polynesia: An Asia Pacific People

Lapita people lived in neatly planned villages on islands taking over the coasts first. House designs ranged from shore land built, hillside homes, to Pole-houses over shallow fishing water. They colonized large island groups and used the smaller ones about 1,000 sq km –  for jumping points or for rewarding fishing grounds. As they traveled the Asia Pacific Polynesia - they imported their native plants for cultivation, including taro, yam, breadfruit, banana and coconut. They also did cargo domesticated pigs, Southeast Asia wolf/dogs (dingo breeds), and chickens.

Anthropological studies shown that a culture (Lapita - not a true name of the culture) of Southeast Asia and were absorbed into the more recent Polynesian expansions about 2000 years ago. However they did not settle the entire Polynesian region, that was the many waves of the Samoans, possibly Tongans, and those islanders are still very much around and still today settling the Polynesian areas of the Asia Pacific.

Academic politics in New Zealand 

New Zealand studies on the Lapita Complex have been known to become outlandish in their theories, crediting the single group of Lapita to founding the entire area of Remote Oceania. New Zealand has also said "The Lapita were the first people to penetrate Remote Oceania. Between 1200 and 1000 BC they spread rapidly from Melanesia to Fiji and West Polynesia, including Tonga and Samoa. Explorers and settlers travelled across an expanse of the western Pacific in only 5–10 generations. The picture we have is of a fairly small population travelling at speed"

In New Zealand there have been several other British pakeha researchers who's work have been found to be racially or politically motivated when involving Polynesian History - one Brit NZer wrote "They spread Malaria (black disease). As a result the population increased providing extra migrants for the voyaging frontier. They established a few permanent villages in each major island group. Some settled, while others journeyed on, but contact continued between communities on different islands. This migration was not driven by overcrowding, as there was land to spare. Rather, it is likely that social factors such as prestige or curiosity were an incentive to find new islands"

A New Zealand researcher a British NZ writer- Mr. Geoff Irwin who was accused of Racism against Polynesians has said "The Southeast Asia rat (Rattus exulans) was either brought or came as a stowaway on the canoes. As bones of domesticated animals have proved hard to find in the Lapita sites of Fiji and West Polynesia, some researchers think that the earliest Lapita people to reach these eastern islands were foragers rather than gardeners and that the food plants arrived later"

The racist British New Zealand researcher Geoff Irwin has openly published his attitudes and outlook on Polynesian colonization and his work has been reviewed to be a smug and jealous portfolio online. He continuously describes the Lapita people as Rat-eaters and garbage diggers, knowing the Lapita Pottery shows superior artistry compared to anything ever found in the British isles. The only ancient creation in Britain is "StoneHenge" a sacrificing altar for blood ritual, and it's only ancient studies include on going inquiry of Homo-erectus Neanderthal.

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