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| 1. Read this article on the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology entitled “Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific: A Search for Pattern.” a. Were South Pacific explorers using random methods to locate new islands? b. What are some of the techniques and technologies they used to navigate? How were these integrated into other cultural practices? 2. Read these articles on the Settlement of Polynesia by Dennis Kawaharada (http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/migrationspart1.html and (http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/migrationspart2.html) a. What theories does this author discuss to explain the peopling of Polynesia? How do these agree with the theories presented in the textbook? b. What do oral histories tell us about the peopling of the Hawaiian islands? |