Polynesians

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Sources

1. BookOn the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

Relations

part of:

• Austronesian peoples

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

has part:

• Māori

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

• Moriori

  Sources: Moriori

descendant of:

• Lapita culture

  Sources: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact

reached:

• Hawaiian Islandssince c. 1100 O.S.

  Sources: High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia, A paleoenvironmental and archaeological model-based age estimate for the colonization of Hawaiʻi

• New Zealandsince c. 1275 O.S.

  Sources: Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat

• Rapa Nuisince c. 1200 O.S.

  Sources: Late colonization of Easter Island

• Society Islandssince c. 1072 O.S.

  Sources: High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia

Appears in7 items

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  Settling the Pacific7 items
  • The long pause in West Polynesia · settlersc. 852 BCE
  • Nukuleka: the first Polynesian settlement · foundersc. 890 BCE
  • Hawaiʻi settled · settlersc. 1100
  • First landfall in East Polynesia: the Society Islands · settlersc. 1072
  • Native American contact · contact partnerc. 1190
  • One pulse to the far corners · voyagers1190
  • Enderby Island: the southernmost landfall · voyagersc. 1300