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Yuji Sohn neoacts_yuji — Chew on this for a second: if you need to get from Egypt to Vietnam, you can walk. You need a boat to get from Southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea, but you will never be out of sight of land. So how did anyone settle Easter Island, Pitcairn, Vanuatu? They're all tiny islands isolated by hundreds of miles of water. When they were settled, how did anyone know they were there in the first place? Did people just get in a boat, sail around for a couple of weeks, and come back if they didn't find land? Well, how do they find the place they came from if they've been floating around the Pacific without a compass for days at a time? What did they eat in the meantime? Did they just wait around for rain? If you think about it, the settling of Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia is one of the most amazing accomplishments of any group of people ever, and the Lapita culture did it without using compasses, without ships that were nailed together, without metal. Sorry, but that's amazing. And yet who the Lapitans were - their beliefs, how they lived, how they managed to occupy a larger share of the world than any other culture, past or present, is mostly a mystery. Yet Lapitan pottery has been found on atolls with nothing but hundreds of miles of water on all sides. Kirch pieces together evidence (archaeological and sometimes cultural) from Hawaii, Rapa Nui, and the endless array of islands to describe the political organization of precolonial Pacific islanders, their practices, technologies, and habits. It's a great book on a neglected topic that deserves more attention.