Posted by Lapita Warrior on January 22, 2012 at 17:44:51:
In Reply to: Polynesian History & People : Tongan Heritage with Samoans and Eastern Polynesia. posted by Maui on November 23, 2003 at 21:47:08:
I may be wrong, but does not the Lapita culture first land in Tonga and then spread out to the eastern Pacific?
Lapita people may be the proto-Polynesians, but no one knows for sure. Some theories place a short, darker people in this part of the Pacific first, but who then are Polynesians?
They definitely are not short in stature so it gets sort of confusing in my view. Hope they are able to sort this out through archaeology and genetics.