- Long Distance Interaction - http://www.otago.ac.nz/Anthropology/Pacific/interaction/interaction.html
Documenting the scale, frequency and temporal duration of interaction is fundamental to understanding the evolution and transformation of prehistoric societies, and recent geochemical analyses of stone tools in Polynesia are challenging long-held beliefs that once settled, island cultures evolved in relative isolation.
- Human Colonisation and Extinction at the Margins of Polynesia - http://www.otago.ac.nz/Anthropology/Pacific/marginal/marginframe.html
Most islands of Polynesia were settled by A. D. 1000, and inter-island voyaging was a vital link sustaining small populations on isolated landfalls. More than a dozen ecologically-marginal islands found throughout the eastern Pacific have records of prehistoric settlement, but were abandoned by the time of European contact.
- Oceanic Arts and Books - http://www.OceanicArts.com
A gallery of tribal art and artifacts from the South Pacific. Including a library of over 1000 related rare and out of print books.
- Mundo Etnico Foundation - http://www.mundoetnico.nl
Dutch non-profit organization promotes dance cultures from the South Pacific islands.
- Lee Kagan's Kava Page - http://www.prairienet.org/~kagan/intro.htm
In the Pacific today, although some Islanders have abandoned its use, its traditional functions are being maintained and it is being developed into an important cash crop.
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