Ancestral Oceanic Society and the Origins of the Hawaiians
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06/01/94 12:00 AM
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3
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1
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71
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76
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In Evolution ofthe Polynesian Chiefdoms, Patrick Kirch (1984) discussed Ancestral
Polynesian Society, reconstructed from linguistics, archaeology, and comparative
ethnography. This is seen as the baseline from which the Hawaiian and other
contemporary Polynesian societies originated and from which they have been
transformed over time (Kirch and Green 1987). Ancestral Polynesian Society did
not of course appear out of nothing, its own origins were in the Lapita Culture
which can be traced back to the Bismarck Archipelago to the immediate east of
the Island of New Guinea. l The question of ultimate Lapita origins is a more
controversial one and will not be pursued in detail in this paper (but see Allen
and White 1989, Gosden et al. 1989; Spriggs 1989). Instead, the nature of early
Lapita culture in the Bismarcks will be examined as the culture directly ancestral
to Ancestral Polynesian Society.
This examination seems worth attempting for several reasons
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Polynesian Origin, Bismarcks, Lapita, linguistics, Polynesian Racism, New Guinea
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