Polynesian Eastward Expansion

Name: Polynesian Eastward Expansion
Start: 1061
End: 1070

Type Event Region Oceania Time c. 1061–1070

Around the 1060s, Polynesian navigators continued pushing settlement and contact networks into the eastern Pacific, bringing the Society Islands, Mar…

Timeline

c. 1061–1065Society Islands · Society IslandsArchaeological and linguistic evidence shows that by around the 11th century the central Pacific hub islands had formed relatively stable agricultural settlements, fishing-and-hunting economies, and early chiefly systems, providing population and material foundations for eastward voyaging.
c. 1065–1070Marquesas Islands · Marquesas IslandsPolynesian seafaring traditions supported intermittent migration and return visits to the Marquesas and islands further east, expanding the range of human activity in the eastern Pacific and maintaining inter-island genetic and artifact exchange.

Sources

On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact — Patrick V. Kirch (2017)