Reference no: EM13672239

Need to do some research into the prehistory of human settlement of the Pacific Islands, from the shores of Papua New Guinea to Fiji (that's a hint: Fiji is important), from the northernmost atolls of the Marianas, to the southernmost cold mountains of Aotearoa, to the eastern "high" islands of Tahiti and Hawai'i. How should we understand the "prehistory" of voyaging and settlement? Who were the people who voyaged and settled? How should we understand what followed that in the form of ongoing contact between Islander societies - was it more 'waves' of voyagers and settlers? were the subsequent voyagers "relatives" who had settled in one island and then came calling on their relations at another? How did scholars come to differentiate Melanesians, Micronesians, and Polynesians - and when did such differentiations become historically salient?