Mau Piailug gained global recognition for his pivotal role in reviving and teaching traditional Polynesian wayfinding techniques. However, he wasn’t one of the last navigators he was one of many skilled masters in Micronesia, where the art of celestial navigation has been practiced for thousands of years and continues to thrive today as a cornerstone of cultural pride and identity.
Thank you for including that my brother. Let's not divide ourselves thru titles but rather recognize the unique similarities in our culture and the mere fact that Pacificans in whole is one nation one people . The real pathfinder that set the voyage from mother Africa to Pacifica and settled in these promise land filled with milk and honey (coconuts)
Aloha from the Big Island. Unfortunately there are only a few people left who know how to navigate by the ancient methods. Since the death of Mau Pialug years ago there one less person who can teach the amazing old ways. Nainoa Thomson is still with us and I hope this knowledge is not lost. Most people think like “why spend decades learning the super complex and intricate ancient ways when I can just use GPS?” So sad.
@@jeffhiggins808 some natural compass- solo hunter in Washington know with out maps where I am and kinda judge how far walked I the vast landscape of eastern Washington especially if climbing mountains valleys and crossing streams/creeks
@ I wish that was possible. I’ve only sailed and paddled within 10 miles of Oahu, Maui and the Big Island. I’m 68 now and I never got the opportunity to apprentice under the few guardians of the sacred knowledge that takes a lifetime of dedication to learn. I have the highest respect for for those who have learned even parts of the vast intricate system of knowledge and experience that is Polynesian navigation as it was passed down since ancient times.
I remember hearing that when Hokule'a and Hawaiiloa canoes came to British Columbia to receive the gift of a tree to build Hiki Ana Lia canoe, the Hawaiians and the Natives of the island they visited did "protocol" and part of protocol is that you recite your geneology until you get to a common ancestor. This they did. They don't make a big deal out of it-they just do it. That I think was in 1995. I will never forget the sight of Hokule'a sailing underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Hikianali'a sailed from O'ahu to Half Moon Bay and Sausalito and we got to board her, meet the crew & see how they lived under sail.
Amazing feats of navigation....and courage.... given that we see more and more evidence of man's seafaring ability in the far distant past it would appear that for eons the world's waters were highways rather than barriers - certainly true for the Pacific islanders.
Hokule'a is planning another around the world voyage. A few years back they completed a complete voyage around the Pacific. They are teaching young people on all the islands to sail using the stars, currents & birds to guide their way. Islands all over the Pacific are building their own canoes. All that is from Nainoa Thompson bringing Mai Pialug to teach his skills. He was having a hard time finding youngsters who wanted to learn the old ways & thought he would die without passing on wayfaring. Now it is taught in elementery school.
Absolutely amazing - I don’t know why other than ignorance, that it is not recognized that these people actually were the first people from the old world to find the new world by sea - way before Columbus and way before the Vikings - and at far far greater distances than any of them by far. Truly greater feats of navigation. this was proven recently by genetic studies showing that one person was taken back from the new world - so cool that genetics could prove something that archaeology would be extremely unlikely to - and even the very region of the Americas - which was not expected, if I remember right it was way far north from Easter Island - proving that these people for certain were skilled at navigation as they traveled there and back - waht is strange that once knowing this - they stayed away after that encounter - wisdom perhaps to know it would not probably end well -but will perhaps ne’er know. These people had made the longer trip a couple thousand miles - across far more challenging waters than the trans Atlantic voyages much later. Not sure I got this correct, but from memory it seems accurate. It is just mind boggling they could develop such skills so very long ago but as people in other parts of the earth thousands of years developed entire;y new foods - staple crops they actually created wiht nothing modern even comping close to such feats of ingenuity. thanks for posting this - it seems strange there are not more depiciotns of these voyages - tehy are breathtakingly fascinating.
Because white westerners have always had a very hard time admitting that people of color did anything FIRST and did it BETTER than they did. Polynesians are the best seafarers EVER.
Cook was not the first - people already there - wailers visited other islands but kept to themselves. Did you know Cook is still in Hawaii?? Well parts of him !!!!
@@makapa2u yes they believe his mana or power is in his parts, so they made some tools with them. They did DNA testing on and found it was his bone. 🤷🏼♀️
Hawaiians should’ve done their research about white boys , Russian boys and European boys . They murdered millions of indigenous in America before trampling into Hawaiian islands . You don’t trust people like that you should know better
I read James Michener’s Hawaii many years ago. Although it is historical fiction, it was a great read! This special fills in a lot of the blanks that the book doesn’t cover. Really enjoyed it.😎
A little disappointed there wasn't more information about the boats and navigation methods. Both were touched on, but not really examined in any detail. Considering the Polynesians were among the greatest sailors in the world, this lack of information is sad.
We know they made contact along the S America continents coast.. the cultures there whilst possibly sophisticated may not have been compatible with their goals and explorer traders spirit. Consider what we know about some of those Cultures and the conflicts between them it may have been a case for turning away and leaving them to their own conflicts and not leading them back to their home islands..
More like the Polynesians ALREADY knew navigation in ancient times but it was lost over time, whereas Micros managed to preserve their own knowledge and helped Polynesians restore that lost art. Tonga used to have tattoos but lost it when the art was banned a few centuries ago by the missionari-- I mean their king. Luckily the Samoans managed to preserve the art and recently helped their Tongan siblings restore the art.
Tell um uce, take it even further and our Melanesian brothers from Vanuatu are the ones who invented kava and brought it to Polynesian. In fact Polynesians and Melanesian are the same race . A white man decided to call us Polynesian and Melanesian to divide us and we just gonna keep calling ourselves that? They try to justify by saying Polynesian triangle but that makes no sense 😂 Fiji and closer to Tonga and Samoa than Hawaii , Tahiti and Rapa Nui yet those islands are considered “Polynesian” while Fiji which is the closest to Tonga & in fact used to be part of Tonga (Lau islands) yet they say Fiji is not Polynesian and is Melanesian 😂 they need to look up why they call us those names literally means black islander 😂
Very interesting and well-made documentary, but this is not a 2024 film. Most of the key and hugely significant individuals featured (Professors Roger Green, Yosihiko Sinoto, Ben Finney) passed a number of years ago, and science had since advanced. The settlement patterns and chronology suggested do not conform with current archeological and genetic dating technology. Eastern Polynesia (e.g. Marquesas, Rapa Nui, Hawaii) was settled centuries later than this documentary posits. However, none of this diminishes the central themes so impressively presented. Extremely well made production. I have not been able to find the original title or date of this film (circa 2001?). If anyone knows, please weigh in. Mahalo!
Its amazing how these people don't see that the people of the pacific are part of the same aboriginal populations in SEA and New Guinea. The absurdity of the logic that somehow it was some "other" group of people that somehow went through the pacific separate from all these other populations on islands in Near Oceania is ridiculous. Just note how they conveniently skip over Tonga as the next step that the voyages would take and go straight to Samoa, even though the culture evolved in Fiji and Tonga first before going to Samoa, because those populations were dark skinned but somehow they got to pretend they were originally light skinned.
It was mentioned that the social focus changed from exploration and then expansion and finally perpetual sustenance, we have arrived at hoarding and greed, even this will result in a leveling, we that survive will find that wealth is found in peace.
One of the verses from Easter island song goes "o le alii, o le atua" in Samoan language it means "lord is God" sounds like they were referring to Rapanui as god.
I didn't hear anything what you said. Also, the Rapa Nui language doesn't have "L" sound. Are you sure you weren't talking about the Samoan song used here? 9:22
@BigShips-fi8zm A decent video - damaged by the music which makes it hard for anyone with a hearing disability (hearing aids) to follow. Please in the future if you have dialogue don't have any added background elevator music. It's a common fault. The times there is music from people singing-playing instruments I can understand and accept. Added music no.
Marquesas Islanders look a lot like South American pre-Columbians. Phenotypical similarities reflect stories from both regions of extensive 1,000+ year contact, as does DNA in the Islanders from SA and Denisvan-Melanesian in SA. Horny sailors they were....
Based on pottery?! 😂 we have more connections in the Americas. Crops, artifacts, mounds etc match. Colonizers still trying to narrate our story. These are the people that think humans came from monkeys 😂
I agree. All these scientists saying we ONLY came from Taiwan is utter garbage. There were several migrations not only from the west, but also from the east as well. The islands of Haida Gwaii off the coast of Alaska and Canada sounds similar to Hawai'i. The island natives off the coast of California use canoes that have similar names with that in the Tuamotu islands. The women from the native tribes in Alaska tattoo their chins which reminds me of the Maori moko kauae. Some native tribes in the States speak of cutting their hair off when a love one passes away, most particular their father which is a custom that's also done in Tonga. The city of Lima in Peru is also a word in Samoan and other western Polynesian languages. Also the Mexican state of Sinaloa (Hinaloa?) sounds Polynesian. Also some of the ancient civilizations there like the Olmecs and the Mayans had mysteriously vanished. Where else could these people go but to the west in the Pacific? Could these people have settled eastern Polynesia in places like Rēkohu (Chatham Islands), Aotearoa (New Zealand), Hiva (the Marquesas), and Rapa Nui (Easter Island)?
@jaqenhghar2970 YES! THANK you. THESE LIES... ARE BEING SPREAD FAR AND WIDE ON THE INTERNET... Kind of MAKES you WONDER WHO'S (Nation, Group, etc.) BEHIND IT! 🤔
Hawaiians at this points are lost, and they have the tendency to accept stories of their existence by anyone! 😢 I have seen books with ancient Hawaiians, and I would believe they were native Tongans. Unfortunately, they were easily misguided by the western world, therefore unable to inherit their past history!
As a afakasi hawaiian/samoan only real Polynesians would support and uplift all our cousins across the moana as opposed to someone like you who suggest only 1 is the true Polynesian. Work on yourself my brother 🤙🏾
Divisive and useless comment. We honor the contributions done by Mau Piailug to restore the tradition of way finding to our islands. He chose to do so because he saw the connections we share as Pacific Islanders and was proud to make his way throughout Micronesia,Melanesia and Polynesia. My father met him as a child in Hawaii and spoke of Mau's countenance as an elder.
Why are you relying on pottery? We totally dismiss your finding. There are no linguistic connections either, between the Asians and Pacific Islanders. I’m also confused on how you’d determine linguistic connection not being aware nor speaks any of the islanders language. Again, you’re being Caucasian, and trying to tell our stories are a joke! Forget these Lapita nonsense! Did you ever think that perhaps due to Tongans being navigators brought pottery to Tonga, instead of Lapita having any existence in Tonga. Pottery were never used as cooking ware in Tonga, therefore absurd that Lapita existed.
They found very small islands across the pacific but never found south America? BTW something, they understood stability with two hulled ships. England never figured that out… high tech… think about it. One other thing, they took women with them into these explorations.
Good video, but most of the archaeologist’s questions that they had no answers too could have easily been solved using common sense. Sometimes I think these scientists and doctorates get so caught up in the science of things and their need for scientific evidence that they tend to overthink everything to a certain degree. Often times making common sense and keeping things simple a tool that’s either forgotten or overlooked.
Polynesian and Melanesian are racist slurs given by white colonizers. Correct term is Oceanian since we from Oceania. Just like how Asians are from Asia or how European are from Europe or African from Africa, etc
As a Polynesian and Melanesian this video is wrong. Other races especially white and Asian love to speak for us Oceania races 😂😂 it’s funny af . Yall aren’t from our culture so yall wouldn’t know our history so it’s funny seeing yall try to guess our history 😂😂 out of Taiwan was debunked it’s literally created by a white guy and is labeled as a “hypothesis” it’s not fact. Austronesian is also false term that Asian try to use to claim our culture but austronesian is nothing but a language group they try to classify us in. We have no DNA relationship between Asians. Our ancestors came from Africa in the first migration in a time when the sea levels and land masses was different they traveled thru Australia and Papua New Guinea with some groups migrating into Oceania landing into Fiji,Tonga and Samoa first . Known as the “trinity” the OGs of the pacific. The rest of the Polynesians came later like Hawaii and Rapa Nui that’s why they look light skin and mixed cuz by that time they intermixed w a lot of cultures they did trading with such as Negritos , South & north American Indian tribes
Yes.. just imagine if the Vikings were smart as Polynesians, they would have colonized the entire American continent with blonde blue eyed people centuries before the Spaniards did. The Polynesians were using celestial navigational knowledge that far surpassed that of the Greeks, who were at the time considered the smartest people in Europe. And they discovered a whole lot more land area in a vast space of ocean which they managed to cover in a short period of time. I'm sorry, but that's a fact.
lol white people ego can’t accept that Vikings didn’t even exist 😂 where is the Vikings race? Us Polynesian and Melanesian are known worldwide our seafaring culture,tattoos, genetics all still present till this day while you can’t even find a real viking 😂 just Myths plus if you actually are educated you would know that Vikings aren’t even a race. Was just a job title 😂😂😂 and yall sailed the weak ass coasts yall never step foot on earths most dangerous oceans . Sit this one out lil bro white people didn’t invent hygiene till the native Americans and the Moors told them they stink 😂
Mau Piailug gained global recognition for his pivotal role in reviving and teaching traditional Polynesian wayfinding techniques. However, he wasn’t one of the last navigators he was one of many skilled masters in Micronesia, where the art of celestial navigation has been practiced for thousands of years and continues to thrive today as a cornerstone of cultural pride and identity.
Thank you for including that my brother. Let's not divide ourselves thru titles but rather recognize the unique similarities in our culture and the mere fact that Pacificans in whole is one nation one people . The real pathfinder that set the voyage from mother Africa to Pacifica and settled in these promise land filled with milk and honey (coconuts)
Aloha from the Big Island. Unfortunately there are only a few people left who know how to navigate by the ancient methods. Since the death of Mau Pialug years ago there one less person who can teach the amazing old ways. Nainoa Thomson is still with us and I hope this knowledge is not lost. Most people think like “why spend decades learning the super complex and intricate ancient ways when I can just use GPS?” So sad.
Nainoa's main mission has been to pass down Papa Mau's knowledge ... so no worries! - from Kona
You sound pretty driven and you maby should go search out that knowledge and then begin to teach it to all
@@jeffhiggins808 some natural compass- solo hunter in Washington know with out maps where I am and kinda judge how far walked I the vast landscape of eastern Washington especially if climbing mountains valleys and crossing streams/creeks
@ It’s a whole different world out on the vast Pacific Ocean with no land in sight for months.
@ I wish that was possible. I’ve only sailed and paddled within 10 miles of Oahu, Maui and the Big Island. I’m 68 now and I never got the opportunity to apprentice under the few guardians of the sacred knowledge that takes a lifetime of dedication to learn. I have the highest respect for for those who have learned even parts of the vast intricate system of knowledge and experience that is Polynesian navigation as it was passed down since ancient times.
I remember hearing that when Hokule'a and Hawaiiloa canoes came to British Columbia to receive the gift of a tree to build Hiki Ana Lia canoe, the Hawaiians and the Natives of the island they visited did "protocol" and part of protocol is that you recite your geneology until you get to a common ancestor. This they did. They don't make a big deal out of it-they just do it. That I think was in 1995. I will never forget the sight of Hokule'a sailing underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Hikianali'a sailed from O'ahu to Half Moon Bay and Sausalito and we got to board her, meet
the crew & see how they lived under sail.
What a great experience you were able to participate in.
They were so smart and brave. Such beautiful islands and cultures and climate!
Amazing feats of navigation....and courage.... given that we see more and more evidence of man's seafaring ability in the far distant past it would appear that for eons the world's waters were highways rather than barriers - certainly true for the Pacific islanders.
Hokule'a is planning another around the world voyage. A few years back they completed a complete voyage around the Pacific. They are teaching young people on all the islands to sail using the stars, currents & birds to guide their way. Islands all over the Pacific are building their own canoes. All that is from Nainoa Thompson bringing Mai Pialug to teach his skills. He was having a hard time finding youngsters who wanted to learn the old ways & thought he would die without passing on wayfaring. Now it is taught in elementery school.
Thank you for this video. Aloha from Oahu
Interesting material. The music track is too loud in spots, swamping the narration.
Absolutely amazing - I don’t know why other than ignorance, that it is not recognized that these people actually were the first people from the old world to find the new world by sea - way before Columbus and way before the Vikings - and at far far greater distances than any of them by far. Truly greater feats of navigation. this was proven recently by genetic studies showing that one person was taken back from the new world - so cool that genetics could prove something that archaeology would be extremely unlikely to - and even the very region of the Americas - which was not expected, if I remember right it was way far north from Easter Island - proving that these people for certain were skilled at navigation as they traveled there and back - waht is strange that once knowing this - they stayed away after that encounter - wisdom perhaps to know it would not probably end well -but will perhaps ne’er know. These people had made the longer trip a couple thousand miles - across far more challenging waters than the trans Atlantic voyages much later. Not sure I got this correct, but from memory it seems accurate. It is just mind boggling they could develop such skills so very long ago but as people in other parts of the earth thousands of years developed entire;y new foods - staple crops they actually created wiht nothing modern even comping close to such feats of ingenuity. thanks for posting this - it seems strange there are not more depiciotns of these voyages - tehy are breathtakingly fascinating.
Because white westerners have always had a very hard time admitting that people of color did anything FIRST and did it BETTER than they did. Polynesians are the best seafarers EVER.
Cook was not the first - people already there - wailers visited other islands but kept to themselves. Did you know Cook is still in Hawaii?? Well parts of him !!!!
@@makapa2u yes they believe his mana or power is in his parts, so they made some tools with them. They did DNA testing on and found it was his bone. 🤷🏼♀️
Hawaiians should’ve done their research about white boys , Russian boys and European boys . They murdered millions of indigenous in America before trampling into Hawaiian islands . You don’t trust people like that you should know better
I read James Michener’s Hawaii many years ago. Although it is historical fiction, it was a great read! This special fills in a lot of the blanks that the book doesn’t cover. Really enjoyed it.😎
A little disappointed there wasn't more information about the boats and navigation methods. Both were touched on, but not really examined in any detail. Considering the Polynesians were among the greatest sailors in the world, this lack of information is sad.
I wanted to see more cultural objects and their ranking system etc. I got to see none of the pottery either
@@jackrice2770 Because it's FAKE History and Fake Science. MOST Likely The SAME people who said we came from monkeys. LIES, LIES, LIES
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I'd hope one day the Polynesians would change the European names of their Islands back to the Original Native names!!
The real ones are Tonga, Fiji, and Samoa
Don't forget CHUUK now.
Yakwe from marshall island 🇲🇭🇲🇭👏👏
Video is about Polynesian but starts out with Captain Cook.
We know they made contact along the S America continents coast.. the cultures there whilst possibly sophisticated may not have been compatible with their goals and explorer traders spirit.
Consider what we know about some of those Cultures and the conflicts between them it may have been a case for turning away and leaving them to their own conflicts and not leading them back to their home islands..
The Micronesians taught star navigation to the Polynesia . its undeveloped country with little effort to keep the history alive.
More like the Polynesians ALREADY knew navigation in ancient times but it was lost over time, whereas Micros managed to preserve their own knowledge and helped Polynesians restore that lost art. Tonga used to have tattoos but lost it when the art was banned a few centuries ago by the missionari-- I mean their king. Luckily the Samoans managed to preserve the art and recently helped their Tongan siblings restore the art.
Tell um uce, take it even further and our Melanesian brothers from Vanuatu are the ones who invented kava and brought it to Polynesian. In fact Polynesians and Melanesian are the same race . A white man decided to call us Polynesian and Melanesian to divide us and we just gonna keep calling ourselves that? They try to justify by saying Polynesian triangle but that makes no sense 😂 Fiji and closer to Tonga and Samoa than Hawaii , Tahiti and Rapa Nui yet those islands are considered “Polynesian” while Fiji which is the closest to Tonga & in fact used to be part of Tonga (Lau islands) yet they say Fiji is not Polynesian and is Melanesian 😂 they need to look up why they call us those names literally means black islander 😂
Captain Cook was a lost boat in the Pacific with out Tupaia.
Very interesting and well-made documentary, but this is not a 2024 film. Most of the key and hugely significant individuals featured (Professors Roger Green, Yosihiko Sinoto, Ben Finney) passed a number of years ago, and science had since advanced. The settlement patterns and chronology suggested do not conform with current archeological and genetic dating technology. Eastern Polynesia (e.g. Marquesas, Rapa Nui, Hawaii) was settled centuries later than this documentary posits. However, none of this diminishes the central themes so impressively presented. Extremely well made production. I have not been able to find the original title or date of this film (circa 2001?). If anyone knows, please weigh in. Mahalo!
MMIV is the Roman numeral for the number 2004
Its amazing how these people don't see that the people of the pacific are part of the same aboriginal populations in SEA and New Guinea. The absurdity of the logic that somehow it was some "other" group of people that somehow went through the pacific separate from all these other populations on islands in Near Oceania is ridiculous. Just note how they conveniently skip over Tonga as the next step that the voyages would take and go straight to Samoa, even though the culture evolved in Fiji and Tonga first before going to Samoa, because those populations were dark skinned but somehow they got to pretend they were originally light skinned.
It was mentioned that the social focus changed from exploration and then expansion and finally perpetual sustenance, we have arrived at hoarding and greed, even this will result in a leveling, we that survive will find that wealth is found in peace.
One of the verses from Easter island song goes "o le alii, o le atua" in Samoan language it means "lord is God" sounds like they were referring to Rapanui as god.
I didn't hear anything what you said. Also, the Rapa Nui language doesn't have "L" sound. Are you sure you weren't talking about the Samoan song used here? 9:22
@BigShips-fi8zm A decent video - damaged by the music which makes it hard for anyone with a hearing disability (hearing aids) to follow.
Please in the future if you have dialogue don't have any added background elevator music. It's a common fault.
The times there is music from people singing-playing instruments I can understand and accept. Added music no.
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Marquesas Islanders look a lot like South American pre-Columbians. Phenotypical similarities reflect stories from both regions of extensive 1,000+ year contact, as does DNA in the Islanders from SA and Denisvan-Melanesian in SA. Horny sailors they were....
Based on pottery?! 😂 we have more connections in the Americas. Crops, artifacts, mounds etc match. Colonizers still trying to narrate our story. These are the people that think humans came from monkeys 😂
I agree. All these scientists saying we ONLY came from Taiwan is utter garbage. There were several migrations not only from the west, but also from the east as well. The islands of Haida Gwaii off the coast of Alaska and Canada sounds similar to Hawai'i. The island natives off the coast of California use canoes that have similar names with that in the Tuamotu islands. The women from the native tribes in Alaska tattoo their chins which reminds me of the Maori moko kauae. Some native tribes in the States speak of cutting their hair off when a love one passes away, most particular their father which is a custom that's also done in Tonga. The city of Lima in Peru is also a word in Samoan and other western Polynesian languages. Also the Mexican state of Sinaloa (Hinaloa?) sounds Polynesian. Also some of the ancient civilizations there like the Olmecs and the Mayans had mysteriously vanished. Where else could these people go but to the west in the Pacific? Could these people have settled eastern Polynesia in places like Rēkohu (Chatham Islands), Aotearoa (New Zealand), Hiva (the Marquesas), and Rapa Nui (Easter Island)?
@jaqenhghar2970 YES! THANK you. THESE LIES... ARE BEING SPREAD FAR AND WIDE ON THE INTERNET... Kind of MAKES you WONDER WHO'S (Nation, Group, etc.) BEHIND IT! 🤔
Hawaiians at this points are lost, and they have the tendency to accept stories of their existence by anyone! 😢
I have seen books with ancient Hawaiians, and I would believe they were native Tongans. Unfortunately, they were easily misguided by the western world, therefore unable to inherit their past history!
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We the true navigators 🇲🇭🇲🇭🇲🇭 and only real Pacific Islanders would know this
As a afakasi hawaiian/samoan only real Polynesians would support and uplift all our cousins across the moana as opposed to someone like you who suggest only 1 is the true Polynesian. Work on yourself my brother 🤙🏾
Y’all never even reached South Pacific lol only inner island sailing
Divisive and useless comment.
We honor the contributions done by Mau Piailug to restore the tradition of way finding to our islands.
He chose to do so because he saw the connections we share as Pacific Islanders and was proud to make his way throughout Micronesia,Melanesia and Polynesia. My father met him as a child in Hawaii and spoke of Mau's countenance as an elder.
@BarHawa you can tell he's underage. One day when he becomes of age he'll hopefully understand
Can somebody please mention the name MAU PIAILUG (Google it)
Why are you relying on pottery?
We totally dismiss your finding. There are no linguistic connections either, between the Asians and Pacific Islanders. I’m also confused on how you’d determine linguistic connection not being aware nor speaks any of the islanders language.
Again, you’re being Caucasian, and trying to tell our stories are a joke!
Forget these Lapita nonsense! Did you ever think that perhaps due to Tongans being navigators brought pottery to Tonga, instead of Lapita having any existence in Tonga. Pottery were never used as cooking ware in Tonga, therefore absurd that Lapita existed.
Facts they tryna claim out history
They found very small islands across the pacific but never found south America? BTW something, they understood stability with two hulled ships. England never figured that out… high tech… think about it. One other thing, they took women with them into these explorations.
Austronesians
Good video, but most of the archaeologist’s questions that they had no answers too could have easily been solved using common sense. Sometimes I think these scientists and doctorates get so caught up in the science of things and their need for scientific evidence that they tend to overthink everything to a certain degree. Often times making common sense and keeping things simple a tool that’s either forgotten or overlooked.
Polynesian and Melanesian are racist slurs given by white colonizers. Correct term is Oceanian since we from Oceania. Just like how Asians are from Asia or how European are from Europe or African from Africa, etc
As a Polynesian and Melanesian this video is wrong. Other races especially white and Asian love to speak for us Oceania races 😂😂 it’s funny af . Yall aren’t from our culture so yall wouldn’t know our history so it’s funny seeing yall try to guess our history 😂😂 out of Taiwan was debunked it’s literally created by a white guy and is labeled as a “hypothesis” it’s not fact. Austronesian is also false term that Asian try to use to claim our culture but austronesian is nothing but a language group they try to classify us in. We have no DNA relationship between Asians. Our ancestors came from Africa in the first migration in a time when the sea levels and land masses was different they traveled thru Australia and Papua New Guinea with some groups migrating into Oceania landing into Fiji,Tonga and Samoa first . Known as the “trinity” the OGs of the pacific. The rest of the Polynesians came later like Hawaii and Rapa Nui that’s why they look light skin and mixed cuz by that time they intermixed w a lot of cultures they did trading with such as Negritos , South & north American Indian tribes
Imagine if the Polynesians were as smart as Vikings the Vikings are the best to ever do it sorry guys
Yes.. just imagine if the Vikings were smart as Polynesians, they would have colonized the entire American continent with blonde blue eyed people centuries before the Spaniards did. The Polynesians were using celestial navigational knowledge that far surpassed that of the Greeks, who were at the time considered the smartest people in Europe. And they discovered a whole lot more land area in a vast space of ocean which they managed to cover in a short period of time. I'm sorry, but that's a fact.
lol white people ego can’t accept that Vikings didn’t even exist 😂 where is the Vikings race? Us Polynesian and Melanesian are known worldwide our seafaring culture,tattoos, genetics all still present till this day while you can’t even find a real viking 😂 just
Myths plus if you actually are educated you would know that Vikings aren’t even a race. Was just a job title 😂😂😂 and yall sailed the weak ass coasts yall never step foot on earths most dangerous oceans . Sit this one out lil bro white people didn’t invent hygiene till the native Americans and the Moors told them they stink 😂
Trash information 👎🏽
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