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Monday, 15 May 2017

TONGA: A love song

A heartbreaking Tongan love song, recorded by David Fanshawe in 1978:



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CULTURE: Fabulous - Cook Islands Day 2016

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Austronesian migrations
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  • ? 270,000 BCE: First wave of homo sapiens leaves Africa, interbreeds with Neanderthals?
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  • ? Interbreeding with an unknown SE Asian hominid species
  • ? 48,000 BCE: Papuan-speakers come to New Guinea and Australia
  • ? 41,000 BCE: hominids with some Neanderthal DNA return to Africa
  • ? 38,000 BCE: settlement at Jordan River, Tasmania
  • ? 26,000 BCE: colonisation of Buka Island, Solomon Islands
  • ? 8,000 BCE: Austronesians leave SE Asia?
  • ? 4,000 BCE: Austronesians colonise Vanuatu
  • ? 3,000 BCE: Austronesians leave Taiwan?
  • ? 2,000 BCE: Austronesians come to the Batanes Islands
  • ? 1,600 BCE: Lapita culture in Solomon Islands
  • ? 1,000 BCE: settlement on Vatuluma cave, Guadalcanal
  • ? 950 BCE: first settlement on Anuta
  • ? 300 BCE: Austronesians colonise Madagascar
  • ? 600 CE: Second settlement on Anuta
  • ? 800 CE: Austronesians colonise Madagascar
  • ? 300 CE: Polynesians come to Easter Island
  • ? 1,200 CE Colombians migrate east, breed with Polynesians
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