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Vocabulary.
Here are a few terms to know to help you in understand the information on our website.
Foundations to 600
DOMESTICATE: to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
ICE AGE(Glacial Epoch): Glacial period, the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
LAND BRIDGE: Bridge that connected two present day land masses that aren’t connected anymore due to rising sea levels (usually caused by the end of the ice age).
LAPITA PEOPLE: daring blue-water adventurers who roved the sea not just as explorers but also as pioneers, bringing along everything they would need to build new lives—(their families and livestock, taro seedlings and stone tools).
MEGAFAUNA: A number of very large animals. Probably came about as a result of climate change and spread of human settlement.
MELANESIAN: a member of any of the native peoples inhabiting Melanesia. WAYFINDER : People with exceptional navigational prowess that are able to ‘read’ the currents between the islands when travelling by canoe.
MOAI: Statues built on Easter Island, resembling head buried in the sand. Represented acestors and placed on the shore so that they may guard
WAYFINDER: People with exceptional navigational prowess that are able to ‘read’ the currents between the islands when travelling by canoe.
600-1450
INASI:tribute system during the Tonga empire rule
TONGAFUESIA: canoes that could hold up to 100 men
‘AHO’ EITU: in 950 began expanding rule outside of Tonga
LAPITA: a term applied to an ancient Pacific Ocean archeological culture which is believed by many archaeologists to be the common ancestor of several cultures inPolynesia, Micronesia and some coastal areas of Melanasia
ARCHEOLOGY:is the study of past human societies primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data
CHRONOLOGY: is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time, such as the use of a time line.
1450-1750
EWA: The New Guinea people that created the oldest surviving wooden carvings in existance
ARIPA: The one legged male statue figures that played a huge part in hunting to the New Guinea people
THERADA BUDDHISM: A type of Buddhism that rose in Burma and Thailand that introduced the idea of progress
KUPE, HOTU MATU'A, and MO'IKEHA: Legendary Polynesian navigators that helped paved they way for way finders and the sharing of ideas and languages between islands.
Foundations to 600
DOMESTICATE: to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
ICE AGE(Glacial Epoch): Glacial period, the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
LAND BRIDGE: Bridge that connected two present day land masses that aren’t connected anymore due to rising sea levels (usually caused by the end of the ice age).
LAPITA PEOPLE: daring blue-water adventurers who roved the sea not just as explorers but also as pioneers, bringing along everything they would need to build new lives—(their families and livestock, taro seedlings and stone tools).
MEGAFAUNA: A number of very large animals. Probably came about as a result of climate change and spread of human settlement.
MELANESIAN: a member of any of the native peoples inhabiting Melanesia. WAYFINDER : People with exceptional navigational prowess that are able to ‘read’ the currents between the islands when travelling by canoe.
MOAI: Statues built on Easter Island, resembling head buried in the sand. Represented acestors and placed on the shore so that they may guard
WAYFINDER: People with exceptional navigational prowess that are able to ‘read’ the currents between the islands when travelling by canoe.
600-1450
INASI:tribute system during the Tonga empire rule
TONGAFUESIA: canoes that could hold up to 100 men
‘AHO’ EITU: in 950 began expanding rule outside of Tonga
LAPITA: a term applied to an ancient Pacific Ocean archeological culture which is believed by many archaeologists to be the common ancestor of several cultures inPolynesia, Micronesia and some coastal areas of Melanasia
ARCHEOLOGY:is the study of past human societies primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data
CHRONOLOGY: is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time, such as the use of a time line.
1450-1750
EWA: The New Guinea people that created the oldest surviving wooden carvings in existance
ARIPA: The one legged male statue figures that played a huge part in hunting to the New Guinea people
THERADA BUDDHISM: A type of Buddhism that rose in Burma and Thailand that introduced the idea of progress
KUPE, HOTU MATU'A, and MO'IKEHA: Legendary Polynesian navigators that helped paved they way for way finders and the sharing of ideas and languages between islands.