Migration Theories

Two-way, deliberate voyage

One-way drift theory

Reasons for voyage

Canoes

European sightings

Tools and Weapons

Plants and animals

Navigation skills

Reasons for voyage

Present day navigators

Canoes

Computer studies

Food

Navigation skills

No maps

No instruments to navigate with

Fishermen blown off course

Outcasts driven out to sea

canoes not strong enough for long voyage

But can hold together when sailing

Polynesians have been found off course

Found boats wrecked on small islands

No one followed early settlers with tools and weapons

Carried all over polynesia the same as humans are