Story: Pacific migrations

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• Polynesian Voyaging Society

  Founded in Hawaii in 1973, the Polynesian Voyaging Society built replica canoes and sailed them using traditional navigation methods.

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• Anderson, A. J. ‘Initial human dispersal in Remote Oceania: pattern and explanation.’ In Pacific archaeology: assessments and prospects, edited by Christophe Sand, 71–74. Nouméa: Service des Musées et du Patrimoine, 2003.
• Anderson, A. J. ‘Slow boats from China: issues in the prehistory of Indo–Pacific seafaring.’ In East of Wallace’s Line: studies of past and present maritime cultures of the Indo–Pacific region, edited by Sue O’Connor and Peter Veth, 13–50. Rotterdam: Balkema, 2000.
• Dickinson, W. R. ‘Impact of mid-Holocene hydro-isostatic highstand in regional sea level on habitability of islands.’ Journal of Coastal Research 19 (2003): 489–502.
• Finney, Ben R. Voyage of rediscovery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
• Gladwin, Thomas. East is a big bird. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
• Howe, K. R. The quest for origins: who first discovered and settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands? Auckland: Penguin, 2003.
• Irwin, Geoff. ‘The colonisation of the Pacific Plate: chronological, navigational and social issues.’ Journal of the Polynesian Society 107 (1998): 111–145.
• Irwin, Geoff. The prehistoric exploration and colonisation of the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Kirch, Patrick Vinton. On the road of the winds: an archaeological history of the Pacific Islands before European contact. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
• Lewis, David. We, the navigators. Wellington: Reed, 1972.
• Morwood, M. J., and others. ‘Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia.’ Nature 431 (2004): 1087–1091.
• Sharp, Andrew. Ancient voyagers in Polynesia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964.
• Spriggs, Matthew. The island Melanesians. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.