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    Wie sich polynesische Vorfahren über den Pazifik ausbreiteten

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    1. vladgrinch on

      Austronesian-speaking seafarers carried out one of the most extensive ocean migrations in human history, moving from Taiwan across the Pacific to islands as distant as Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand.

      This is supported by archaeological finds, shared languages, and genetic links across populations spread over thousands of kilometres.

      They travelled in large ocean-going canoes, often double-hulled, which made them stable enough for long open-water journeys. These vessels could carry dozens of people along with food, water, plants, and animals needed to start new settlements.

      Navigation was based on learned systems. Navigators memorised star paths to maintain direction at night, read ocean swells that remain consistent over long distances, and watched birds, clouds, and winds to detect nearby land.

    2. Architeuthis_McCrew on

      The navigational skills Polynesian voyagers had by sailing over miles and miles of open ocean has to make them the best navigators in history.

    4. Best_Stand3471 on

      If China were to assume control over Taiwan, it is possible that narratives regarding the origins of Polynesian populations could be incorporated into broader interpretations of Chinese history.

      In such a scenario, this reinterpretation could be accompanied by efforts to strengthen and expand China’s historical and cultural claims related to the South Pacific region.

    5. HasSomeSelfEsteem on

      I always found it incredible that human settlement of New Zealand occurred over two hundred years after the establishment of University of Oxford.

    6. jac0777 on

      This is one of those things that I’m never not interested in. Like – how tf did they find Hawaii. And not just find Hawaii, but come with enough people and resources to sustain a society and permanent settlement. It’s insane. Ridiculous level of navigation. One tiny fraction off and you’d miss islands by miles. And they did this with Easter island too. No written language either. It boggles my brains

    11. Yugan-Dali on

      A lot of Taiwanese aboriginal teenage boys worked in fishing boats in the 1970s and 80s. I’ve heard a lot of them tell about landing in a port in some island and discovering they could make out words in the local language. Usually they had no idea where they were, though, just somewhere in the Pacific.

      I’ve also met people from Hawaii, Easter Island, NZ, and others who have come back to Taiwan on pilgrimages to see the homeland.

    12. Deciheximal144 on

      imagine all the people who set out on makeshift craft and didn’t find land. They just died. Had to have been so many.

    13. boringexplanation on

      One of the things nobody likes to talk about was how genocidal a lot of ancient Polynesians were when they landed in new places and wiped out entire clans and bloodlines.

    15. Wolfensniper on

      > Explore across Pacific all the way to Hawaii

      > Avoid Australia like a plague

    16. big_daddy_dub on

      Whoa, new historical interest unlocked: earliest human migrations into the Pacific islands. Wild to think about.

    19. oliyoung on

      All that expansion, and the first (recorded) meeting between Maori and Indigenous Australian mobs only happened **after** white settlment in the 1780s

    21. Porkenstein on

      Man, I always forget that they made it to Samoa in 800bc. And that 1000 year break is so wild. 

    23. fijiwijii on

      Also, there’s a theory that some ancient Polynesian people migrated to South America by boats instead of the most accepted theory of the Bering Strait

    25. GasFartRepulsive on

      I know it’s a Disney cartoon but Moana is a take on the mythology explaining the end of the ~1500 year pause in migration (800 BC to 700 AD)

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