HWST 107 Exam 1 Questions with

HWST 107 Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) *UNIT 1* Navigators* Mau Piailug - Correct Answers ✅- taught the art of teaching non instructional migration

• asked by polynesian voyaging society to help the hawaiians

rediscover their voyaging origins

• home waters in micronesia
• satawal island
• learned from his father and grandfather

- become po: initiated in both magic and navigation

• men who can't navigate aren't looked up to, don't have a

name Functions of navigator - Correct Answers ✅- navigate, survival of people of boat

• show what ancestors did, pass on tradition
• makes all the decisions

Island of Free Lunch - Correct Answers ✅- west fayu

• go there to catch fish because they cannot catch too much

where they live

• belongs to satawal
• need permission to go here
• can catch 4x the amount they would usually get 1 / 3

HWST 107 Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Evidence for movement out of South East asia - Correct Answers ✅- lapita pottery (mainly), taro, and sweet potato Hōkūleʻa - Correct Answers ✅- double whole vessel, named after constellation above hawaii

• canoe of ancient design built with modern materials built to

show that people can navigate through purposeful migration Star compass - Correct Answers ✅- direction, celestial beings *UNIT 1- P2* - Correct Answers ✅*Origins lecture* What are the theories of migration into the Pacific - Correct

Answers ✅- drift theory: by thor heyerdahl, originated from

south america, based on evidence of sweet potato bc it is indigenous to south american and not the oceanic region, testing his theory he basically crashes into tuamotu islands, problematic as cannot drift farther than tuamotu islands effectively

- way-finding/purposeful navigation: non instrumental

navigation How many migrations were there into the Pacific - Correct Answers ✅2 2 / 3

HWST 107 Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Sahul - Correct Answers ✅- non-austronesians moved to here Sunda shelf - Correct Answers ✅- non-austronesians originated from here Climatic changes - Correct Answers ✅- sea levels rise

- fire caves of naumaga: large house under the sea found an

underwater cave more than 40 metros down the wall of a coral cliff *period of glaciation locked away huge volumes of water, sea level to fluctuate 20-45 meters lower than at present Cradle of Polynesian civilization - Correct Answers ✅- tonga and samoa

• there 1,000 years

Points of the Polynesian triangle - Correct Answers ✅-

north point: hawaii

- west point: aotearoa

- east point: raps nui or easter island

Evidence for the various theories of migration - Correct

Answers ✅- drift theory: sweet potato

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