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Oceania, 800-1800CE: A Millennium of Interactions in a Sea of Islands

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Oceania, 800-1800CE: A Millennium of Interactions in a Sea of Islands - Flexner, James L.
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Over a span of 1000 years beginning around 800CE, the people of the Pacific Islands undertook a remarkable period of voyaging, political evolution, and cross-cultural interactions. Polynesian navigators encountered previously uninhabited lands, as well as already inhabited islands and the coast of the Americas. Island societies saw epic sagas of political competition and intrigue, documented through oral traditions and the monuments and artefacts recovered through archaeology. European entry into the region added a new ...

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Oceania, 800-1800CE: A Millennium of Interactions in a Sea of Islands 2021, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108823289

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