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Central Polynesia Marquesas Society Islands Tuamotus Cook Islands2Eastern And Southern Expansion1Origins And Austronesian Expansion2Voyaging Navigation And Revival3West Polynesia Tonga Samoa And Fiji2

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Traditional celestial navigation and star-compass systems in central Polynesia (prehistory–20th century)

850 BCE - 2010

14 entries

Settlement and societal development in Samoa (c. 1200 BCE–1300 CE)

930 BCE - 1300

12 entries

Peopling of the Austral Islands (Rurutu, Rapa, Tubuai) (c. 800–1200 CE)

1500 BCE - 1821

12 entries

Peopling and early occupation of the Marquesas Islands (c. 200–800 CE)

1600 BCE - 2025

12 entries

Neolithic dispersal from Near Oceania into Remote Oceania (c. 2000 BCE–500 CE)

500 - 1600

12 entries

Modern voyaging revival: Hōkūleʻa, the Polynesian Voyaging Society, and experimental navigation (1976–2017)

1973 - 2017

12 entries

Construction, diffusion, and archaeological traces of Polynesian double-hulled canoes (c. 500 BCE–1700 CE)

1000 BCE - 1976

12 entries

Colonization of Tonga and the rise of early Tongan chiefdoms (c. 1200 BCE–1200 CE)

400 - 1250

12 entries

Colonization and atoll settlement of the Tuamotu Archipelago (c. 700–1200 CE)

1025 - 1521

12 entries

Austronesian expansion out of Taiwan and the Philippines (c. 3000–1500 BCE)

1200 - 3500

12 entries