Ancient Migrations
The origins of all people in the Pacific
What is Southeast Asia?
The first people to explore Remote Oceania.
What are the Lapita people?
In 1947, he constructed from what he believed was a traditional South American raft and set off from Peru.
What is Thor Heyerdahl?
Ka wā mamua.
What is the time in front or before?
The four major Akua (Gods) that the Hawaiians worshiped.
What are Kū (Warfare), Lono (Agriculture), Kāne (Light), and Kanaloa (Oceans)?
The people of this ancient period had a technology and a hunting and foraging economy.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
It consists of Melanesia, the south-east of the Solomons, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
What is Remote Oceania?
A New Zealand historian who wrote several books on Heyerdahl’s theories in the 1960s.
Who is Andrew Sharp?
They came together and are the parents of all the Hawaiian Islands and the ancestors of all Native Hawaiians.
What are Papa and Wākea?
Land stewards and the middlemen who spoke to and served the Aliʻi Nui.
What is Konohiki?
It consists of Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, and the Solomon Islands.
What is Near Oceania?
These migrating people of this time had technologies and food-producing economies.
What is the Neolithic Age?
The raft that Thor Heyerdahl created.
What is the Kon-Tiki?
The first child born to Wākea and Hoʻohōkūkalani.
What is Hāloa-naka?
Experts in their chosen field and ranked directly below Kahuna Nui.
What is Kahuna Wale?
The people who explored the Pacific.
What are the Austronesians?
These islands are partly submerged continents
What are Continental Islands?
Andrew Sharp's book that was published in 1963.
What is Ancient Voyagers in Polynesia?
A system that separates men and women in the act of eating, as eating is both a religious ceremony and a sacrifice to the Akua Lono in Ancient Hawaiʻi.
What is the ‘Aikapu System?
The house of the weaver.
What is Hale Ulana?
It is one of the world’s primary language families and is still spoken by 328 million people today.
What are the Austronesian languages?
The island that Papa Mau called home.
What is Satawal, Yap?
The taking of people, plants, and animals needed to establish sustainable colonies
What is migration?
The two paths to power in Ancient Hawaiʻi.
What is Kū and Lono?
When the mother is nīʻaupiʻo and the father is a kaukau aliʻi.
What is Papa?