Story: Pacific migrations All images & media From page 1 – The world’s first seafarers The Pacific, the world’s largest ocean The Pacific Ocean, showing Near Oceania The Pacific Ocean, showing Remote Oceania ‘Taputini’ – a traditional kūmara cultivar From page 2 – Ancient voyaging in Near Oceania Torres Strait islanders on a bamboo raft, 1906 The Solomon Islands Archaeologist Janet Davidson From page 3 – Into Remote Oceania: Lapita people Lapita pottery Sites of Lapita pottery Coconuts and taro, Tongan market, 2002 Fossil remains (1st of 3) Fossil remains of the giant iguana Lapitiguana impensa (2nd of 3) Fossil remains of the giant megapode Megavitiornis altirostris (3rd of 3) From page 4 – From West to East Polynesia Polynesian plainware from Teouma, Vanuatu Ha‘apai Group, Tonga The direction and timing of settlement Statues on Easter Island Double-hulled voyaging canoes, Gisborne, 2000 From page 5 – Pacific navigation and exploration Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, 1990 Ten canoes leave Rarotonga Upwind survival strategy From page 6 – East to the empty Pacific The last three points of migration The Hōkūle‘a Long-tailed cuckoo with grey warbler An early Moriori fishhook From page 7 – Māori ancestors An oyster-shell fishing lure shank Haast’s eagle attacking a moa A gourd used by Māori From page 8 – Why explore? A Polynesian lightbox Archaeologist Janet Davidson
