Where we are heading today…

1. Where we are heading today… • Settlement of Island Pacific – theories and politics. • Pre-contact population, trading systems, land tenure • Game time! – Turning discussion of the pre-contact Pacific into a competitive sport…. • Buy books please… Also books are in at bookstore • Quiz on physical geography of Pacific next Tuesday…So no discussion points or country article.

2. Early migration into the Pacific

5. Thor’s grandson Olav on Tangaroa July 2006

6. Representing the pre-contact “natural” Pacific

8. Early migration into the Pacific

9. 30,000 years ago

10. Early migration into the Pacific Lapita – 4000 years ago, Marianas 3,500 bp, 1000 year wait at Samoa?? Sawai.. Yap

12. Early migration into the Pacific Lapita – 4000 years ago, Marianas 3,500 bp, 1000 year wait at Samoa?? Last 2000 years for Eastern Polynesia. Sawai.. Yap

15. Early migration into the Pacific Pre-contact - Island populations

20. Game time!!

22. European imagination and pacific people “Hard and Soft Primitives”