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*UNIT 1* - -*Navigators*
-Mau Piailug - -- taught the art of teaching non instructional migration
- asked by polynesian voyaging society to help the hawaiians rediscover their
voyaging origins
- home waters in micronesia
- satawal island
- learned from his father and grandfather
- become po: initiated in both magic and navigation
- men who can't navigate aren't looked up to, don't have a name
-Functions of navigator - -- navigate, survival of people of boat
- show what ancestors did, pass on tradition
- makes all the decisions
-Island of Free Lunch - -- west fayu
- go there to catch fish because they cannot catch too much where they live
- belongs to satawal
- need permission to go here
- can catch 4x the amount they would usually get
-Evidence for movement out of South East asia - -- lapita pottery (mainly),
taro, and sweet potato
-Hōkūleʻa - -- double whole vessel, named after constellation above hawaii
- canoe of ancient design built with modern materials built to show that
people can navigate through purposeful migration
-Star compass - -- direction, celestial beings
-*UNIT 1- P2* - -*Origins lecture*
-What are the theories of migration into the Pacific - -- drift theory: by thor
heyerdahl, originated from south america, based on evidence of sweet
potato bc it is indigenous to south american and not the oceanic region,
testing his theory he basically crashes into tuamotu islands, problematic as
cannot drift farther than tuamotu islands effectively
- way-finding/purposeful navigation: non instrumental navigation
-How many migrations were there into the Pacific - -2
, -Sahul - -- non-austronesians moved to here
-Sunda shelf - -- non-austronesians originated from here
-Climatic changes - -- sea levels rise
- fire caves of naumaga: large house under the sea found an underwater
cave more than 40 metros down the wall of a coral cliff
*period of glaciation locked away huge volumes of water, sea level to
fluctuate 20-45 meters lower than at present
-Cradle of Polynesian civilization - -- tonga and samoa
- there 1,000 years
-Points of the Polynesian triangle - -- north point: hawaii
- west point: aotearoa
- east point: raps nui or easter island
-Evidence for the various theories of migration - -- drift theory: sweet potato
- way-finding/purposeful navigation: lapita pottery shows movement
eastward out of south east asia, obsidian was purposefully traded for over
700 years, common language and culture, yoshi sinotos findings on island go
huahine suggesting a production site of goods for trade, molokai contained
similar artifacts found at huahine
-Austronesian - -- second, more extensive migration into oceania
- language group
- originated fout of south east asia
- occurred between 3,000 to 6,000 years ago
- movement aided by 3 technologies:
*navigate by stars, wind, and ocean currents
*vessel capable of deep ocean voyaging
*lapita pottery which aided with transporting food and water
- for 1,000 years remained in tons and samoa to become successful island
dwelling people
-Non-austronesian - -- first migration into oceania
- language good way to track movement of people
- different land mass
- groups of language (romantic, germanic, etc)
- language group
- originated from sunda shelf and moved to sahul
- occurred 30 to 50,000 years ago
- moved over land bridges and crossed narrow bodies of sea
- ancestors of the aboriginals of Australia
- land bridges began to disappear roughly 80,000 years ago
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