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    Polynesia

    Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians. They have many things in common, including linguistic relations, cultural practices, and traditional beliefs. In centuries past, they had a strong shared tradition of sailing and using stars to navigate at night. The term Polynésie was first used in 1756 by the French writer Charles de Brosses, who originally applied it to all the islands of the Pacific. In 1831, Jules Dumont d'Urville proposed a narrower definition during a lecture at the Société de Géographie of Paris. By tradition, the islands located in the southern Pacific have also often been called the South Sea Islands, and their inhabitants have been called South Sea Islanders. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Pages in category "Historians of Polynesia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Atholl Anderson; D. Janet Davidson; K. John Kneubuhl This page was last edited on 22 June 2023, at 01:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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  4. pasefika.com

    Polynesian Historical Timeline. This is a timeline representing the history of Polynesia. This is a very small sample and these dates are not difinitive. This Polynesian timeline is meant to be read as a linear comparison of estimates and theoeries about events related to history of the people and Polynesians in the Pacific throughout history.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Polynesia [a] (UK: / ˌ p ɒ l ɪ ˈ n iː ... Entangled Bank model: Emphasizes the long history of Austronesian speakers' cultural and genetic interactions with indigenous Island Southeast Asians and Melanesians along the way to becoming the first Polynesians. Slow Boat model: Similar to the express-train model but with a longer hiatus in ...
  6. smithsonianmag.com

    Patrick Kirch, a historical anthropologist at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, says the study is a good example of how evidence from linguistics, archaeological dating of habitation sites and ...
  7. britannica.com

    Polynesian culture, the beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of the ethnogeographic group of Pacific islands known as Polynesia (from Greek poly 'many' and nēsoi 'islands'). Polynesia encompasses a huge triangular area of the east-central Pacific Ocean.The triangle has its apex at the Hawaiian Islands in the north and its base angles at New Zealand (Aotearoa) in the west ...
  8. tahititourisme.com

    The ancient Polynesians and the history of French Polynesia. The Māʻohi, the ancestors of today's Polynesians, had settled throughout what is now French Polynesia. Ua Huka in the Marquesas Islands, has an archeological site dating from 300 years ago and research has traced the arrival of the first Polynesians in Huahine to 850 years ago ...
  9. alanhowardanthro.net

    contact historical accounts familiar to historians. By drawing attention to the cultural background of European intruders, Sahlins and Dening have raised a number of issues of focal concern for historical scholars in Polynesia. The language used in historical documents, for example, now becomes a matter of problematic concern.
  10. library.gov.au

    In the oral history of Polynesia, these epic colonisation journeys were recorded in tales of ancestral voyages and famous captain chiefs such as Kupe (Aotearoa), Hotu Matu'a (Rapa Nui) and Kaha'i (Hawaii) who navigated canoes and named newly discovered lands. The homeland of East Polynesian colonists in these traditions is known as 'Hawaiki ...
  11. britannica.com

    Polynesian culture - Traditions, Arts, Religion: Linguistic evidence suggests that western Polynesia was first settled some 3,000 years ago, by people of the Lapita culture. It has proved harder to establish when eastern Polynesia was settled. ... while historical accounts often described, with varying amounts of mythological elaboration, the ...

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