The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polynesians \Pol`y*ne"sians\, n. pl.; sing. Polynesian. (Ethnol.) The race of men native in Polynesia.
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The Polynesian people consist of various ethnic groups that speak Polynesian languages, a branch of the Oceanic languages, and inhabit Polynesia. The native Polynesian people of New Zealand and Hawaii are minorities in their homelands.
Usage examples of "polynesians".
The Polynesians living on Easter Island, in the Pacific Ocean, had a unique script of which the earliest preserved examples date back only to about a.
In their subsistence modes, Polynesians ranged from the hunter-gatherers of the Chathams, through slash-and-burn farmers, to practitioners of intensive food production living at some of the highest population densities of any human societies.
When ancestral Polynesians spread into the Pacific around 3,200 years ago, they encountered islands differing greatly in their environments.
Ancestral Polynesians brought with them three domesticated animals (the pig, chicken, and dog) and domesticated no other animals within Polynesia.
Dryland agriculture became especially productive on Easter, tiny Anuta, and flat and low Tonga, where Polynesians devoted most of the land area to the growing of food.
For instance, although the Polynesians who colonized Easter Island around a.
However, regular dog eating has been a last resort of meat-deprived human societies: the Aztecs had no other domestic mammal, and the Polynesians and ancient Chinese had only pigs and dogs.
The dogs that the Aztecs and Polynesians reared for food were efficiently fattened on vegetables and garbage.
Most Polynesians and many Melane-sians abandoned the use of bows and arrows in war.
But they did not use dingos / dogs for food, as did Polynesians, or for cooperative hunting of wild animals, as did New Guineans.
One prong of it became the Polynesians, who populated the most remote islands of the Pacific and were the greatest seafarers among Neolithic peoples.
The native inhabitants of most of those islands today are the Polynesians, who thus are the direct descendants of the Lapita potters.
Between those two extremes fell Polynesia’s oceanic volcanic islands, which lacked granite, flint, and other continental rocks but did at least have volcanic rocks, which Polynesians worked into ground or polished stone adzes used to clear land for farming.
While modern continental peoples included ones dependent on stone tools, as were Polynesians, South America also spawned societies expert in using precious metals, and Eurasians and Africans went on to utilize iron.
For instance, although the Polynesians who colonized Easter Island around A.