The First Men to Cross the Oceans | Setting Sail (Sailing Documentary) | Timeline

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  • This is the story of the world's first blue water sailors: the Austronesians and Polynesians who conquered the largest ocean on the planet. Their story begins in Southeast Asia more than 5,000 years ago, when the Austronesians began an eastward thrust into the Pacific.
    From Indonesia they headed East, reaching Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and finally Fiji. Dispersed throughout the earth's largest and loneliest expanse of water, their exploits remained unknown to the rest of the world until recently. They were the first blue water sailors.
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Komentáře • 395

  • @yalinupoya1391
    @yalinupoya1391 Před 4 lety +181

    I come from Papua New Guinea and this documentary reflects what we learnt in school. As part of our social science classes we learnt about the history of the Pacific and it's people. I am proud to come from the Pacific islands, one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

    • @dbz_feats7723
      @dbz_feats7723 Před 3 lety +6

      This isn’t the full story by far brotha ! ❤️

    • @andystephenson5407
      @andystephenson5407 Před 2 lety

      Maybe the most beautiful place on earth.

    • @melanesianwarriorofthepaci6775
      @melanesianwarriorofthepaci6775 Před 2 lety +5

      The story of Polynesia started in Melanesia not SouthEast Asia, whoever owns this channel please fix your false information.

    • @Handle_Edit
      @Handle_Edit Před 2 lety +3

      @@melanesianwarriorofthepaci6775 how did they get to Melanesia in the first place? From where did they migrate from? Just curious to learn.

    • @mononix5224
      @mononix5224 Před 2 lety

      @@Handle_Edit you might want to read about something called the Austronesian expansion if you're interested in this topic.

  • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
    @gaslitworldf.melissab2897 Před 2 lety +44

    The most fascinating migrations of all time are those of the Polynesians and how culture changed adopting to the various resources found.

  • @mackpines
    @mackpines Před 2 lety +34

    Of all the civilizations that have existed on earth, the Polynesians to me are the most fascinating.
    Absolutely incredible that these people were able to travel the vast Pacific to reach some of the most remote islands anywhere.

    • @dagarnertn
      @dagarnertn Před rokem +6

      Especially considering the Pacific is the most turbulent and story ocean on earth.

    • @yalonyun2785
      @yalonyun2785 Před rokem

      Robert Adrian Langdon introduces the theory that the European features of the Polinesians not only physically but culturally are the direct influence of the descendants of the seafaring people of the San Lesmes Caravel, stranded at one of the many atolls in 1526. No other European vessel has been registered to have entered the Pacific since then. 250 years before Cook's arrival, approximately 20 generations, had been passed down genes and dexterities, from catamaran building and sailing, to agriculture, animal farming, astronomy, gastronomy, theatricals and attire. The book is called "The Lost Caravel" however in order to align with the British being the first to have arrived in Pacific, this theory has been silenced and swept under the carpet, coming up with ever ridiculous ideas such as descending from Taiwan or the Incas.

    • @thomasthecommentrater3703
      @thomasthecommentrater3703 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@yalonyun2785 So your saying that rather than hailing from the massive continent just east of the ocean, Polynesians have ancestors from the other side of the world? Makes no sense but I’ll let you live in your ignorance.

    • @inarita222
      @inarita222 Před 2 měsíci

      EXACTLY AND RETAIN THEIR CULTURE TOO!!

    • @yalonyun2785
      @yalonyun2785 Před 2 měsíci

      @@thomasthecommentrater3703
      First of all, who is the ignorant one here? Asia is West of Polynesia, not East.
      In world history the Spanish were the first men to sail from East to West across the Pacific from the South. Asians did not venture East into the Pacific towards America, China and Japan were inward-looking.
      Few are those who know that for centuries this piece of the world, was dominated by the Hispanics. After many wrecks and many years, the route known as the Manilla Galleon route, also called the Acapulco Galleon or Nao de China, managed to establish itself in the Pacific. The fact is that between the 16th and 17th centuries Spanish rule over the Pacific became undeniable.
      It was this maritime route, the only western route in the Pacific, that attracted the envy and attacks of other European powers. In this second phase, which would take place in the 18th century, different fleets from foreign countries tried to take possession of the Manilla galleon. The English, French and Dutch failed again and again for years. But in 1742, Commodore Anson took over the ship. In addition to appropriating the resources that the Nao de China carried, the navigators took possession of nautical charts and secret hydrographic documents.
      At that time, half of the Pacific was still unknown. For Europeans, much of the ocean remained a mystery. But since the Anson incident, which was much talked about at the time, the decline of Spanish dominance in the area was unstoppable. The European powers took over the exploration routes and left the Spanish out of a business they had started. The Spanish lake stopped to be that and went down in history under the name of the Pacific.
      Source: fascinatingspain.com/legend-of-spain/legends-of-madrid/when-pacific-ocean-known-spanish-lake/

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 Před 3 lety +137

    While this is primarily about Polynesians still have to give honorable shout outs to Micronesians, Melenesians, Australian Aboriginals, And Papuans

    • @ThePhoenix109
      @ThePhoenix109 Před 3 lety +5

      Afghans too.

    • @stevenhall8964
      @stevenhall8964 Před 2 lety +27

      @@ThePhoenix109 Afghans were not ancient seafarers, Afghanistan doesnt even border any ocean or seas, they dont even have any large lakes!

    • @mahalolowa4907
      @mahalolowa4907 Před 2 lety +6

      Im so happy to be pacifica, I am fijian from fiji, where polynesians originate from.

    • @muchocafe
      @muchocafe Před 2 lety +2

      You seem confused Lapita are the ones who sailed and they are Melanesian.

    • @estee7084
      @estee7084 Před 2 lety +13

      Micronesians Helped Polynesians how to navigate again 🇫🇲 🩸

  • @historybuff5739
    @historybuff5739 Před 4 lety +53

    In the very early 1960's my parents were school teachers on American Samoa. I was only about 3 or 4 at the time, but I can remember Samoan men would come and cut our grass. They did not use lawnmowers. Instead they used machetes. Just like the guy in the video was doing. These Samoans were so skilled using the machetes to cut grass that it looked like a lawn mower was used to cut our grass. This video brings back pleasant memories.

    • @garryharriman7349
      @garryharriman7349 Před 4 lety +11

      That is such a beautiful story. That period of time certainly made an impression on you.

    • @laurel1865
      @laurel1865 Před 4 lety +2

      Lucky

    • @carlyork8185
      @carlyork8185 Před 4 lety +10

      Gary Harriman
      A period "Gone With The Wind? "
      When darj skinned people served white people
      Better days huh?
      There is nothing beautiful about that ok!

    • @historybuff5739
      @historybuff5739 Před 4 lety +14

      @@garryharriman7349 Yes it did. I've always wanted to return to Samoa, but never have. Who knows maybe one day I'll be able to. The Samoans are great people. And Samoa is a beautiful island.

    • @garryharriman7349
      @garryharriman7349 Před 4 lety +6

      @@carlyork8185 Yes, Carl, that's right, when I said 'what a beautiful story' I was referring to joys of subservience!'

  • @kinkane5566
    @kinkane5566 Před 2 lety +17

    Great documentary, I'd always wondered how these people traversed such large swathes of open water, the "against the wind" theory makes a lot of sense. Brave dudes, these must have been, I have mad respect for them.

    • @yalonyun2785
      @yalonyun2785 Před rokem

      Robert Adrian Langdon introduces the theory that the European features of the Polinesians not only physically but culturally are the direct influence of the descendants of the seafaring people of the San Lesmes Caravel, stranded at one of the many atolls in 1526. No other European vessel has been registered to have entered the Pacific since then. 250 years before Cook's arrival, approximately 20 generations, had been passed down genes and dexterities, from catamaran building and sailing, to agriculture, animal farming, astronomy, gastronomy, theatricals and attire. The book is called "The Lost Caravel" however in order to align with the British being the first to have arrived in Pacific, this theory has been silenced and swept under the carpet, coming up with ever ridiculous ideas such as descending from Taiwan or the Incas.

  • @gradbuckie
    @gradbuckie Před rokem +7

    Polynesians both of old and of today are amazing people from which we can learn a lot.

    • @yalonyun2785
      @yalonyun2785 Před rokem

      Robert Adrian Langdon introduces the theory that the European features of the Polinesians not only physically but culturally are the direct influence of the descendants of the seafaring people of the San Lesmes Caravel, stranded at one of the many atolls in 1526. No other European vessel has been registered to have entered the Pacific since then. 250 years before Cook's arrival, approximately 20 generations, had been passed down genes and dexterities, from catamaran building and sailing, to agriculture, animal farming, astronomy, gastronomy, theatricals and attire. The book is called "The Lost Caravel" however in order to align with the British being the first to have arrived in Pacific, this theory has been silenced and swept under the carpet, coming up with ever ridiculous ideas such as descending from Taiwan or the Incas.

  • @sirjuju4766
    @sirjuju4766 Před 3 lety +30

    As much as History have been proven wrong, our children are still being taught in school that Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America. I guess it depends on who is telling the story, but it is said that the Polynesia(s) were in contact with South America(Peru) hundreds perhaps thousands of years before Christopher Columbus.

    • @stevenhall8964
      @stevenhall8964 Před 2 lety +12

      Sir JuJu, I agree, the Natives of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, particularly the Haida tribe say they had contact with and traded with and intermarried with people from the Hawaiian islands, and there has been many similarities between the carving techniques between the two, weaving techniques in the form of basketry, even they way they portray certain sea creatures and birds in their artwork and carving. The Haida where Whalers and have very large boats compared to many of their neighboring tribes, and they were known to take very long voyages north and south trading with Alaskan peoples and as far south in California to trade with the Chumash people, who where themselves different from their neighboring California tribes in the fact that they also made very sea worthy boats and went to sea after whales and also traded far and wide and some tribes in the west had stories about their ancestors arriving from the west by boat, not from the north or the east by land!! Ancient peoples were more aware of the rest of the world around them then the modern western world and culture being so Eurocentric like to admit!

    • @sirjuju4766
      @sirjuju4766 Před 2 lety +3

      @@stevenhall8964 yeah. Hawai'i definitely have native blood.

    • @kajae7450
      @kajae7450 Před 2 lety +3

      Tor Heyerdahl sailing his raft "Kontiki" from peru to easter island (if I remember it right...) proves your comment correct

    • @pmotorsports8276
      @pmotorsports8276 Před 2 lety +2

      10-4 Olmecs?

    • @beedalton9675
      @beedalton9675 Před rokem +1

      @@stevenhall8964 king and queen of Hawaii was African decent

  • @bobbrock4221
    @bobbrock4221 Před 2 lety +13

    I can't imagine sailing back then with no maps. That had to terrifying.

    • @chloetzang631
      @chloetzang631 Před rokem +2

      The early Polynesian navigators knew how to do it. Have a read of "Vikings of the Sunrise" by Peter S Buck. There's been a lot more books on the subject since then, but that was one of the first.

  • @charlespeterwatson9051
    @charlespeterwatson9051 Před 4 lety +28

    There's a sad irony to this when you consider that one of the Easter Island moai and its ahu was destroyed by a Chilean driver because of brake failure. Also, improved accessibility to the island has led to overtourism.

  • @teresabaker-carl9668
    @teresabaker-carl9668 Před 4 lety +18

    What stunning beauty! If I could, I would go visiting. Peace and quiet is such a gift.

  • @himalkoirala4371
    @himalkoirala4371 Před 4 lety +15

    "The uploader has not made this video available in your country"
    .
    Thank God VPN exist. Watching from Nepal. 🇳🇵

    • @leonaandleebutton5697
      @leonaandleebutton5697 Před 3 lety

      Tibet?

    • @stevenhall8964
      @stevenhall8964 Před 2 lety

      @@leonaandleebutton5697 No Nepal another country in the Himalayas near Tibet, there is another one called Kashmir!

  • @JAYFULFILMZ
    @JAYFULFILMZ Před rokem +6

    This doc was amazing. But definitely would of been better with more maps to help us keep up!

  • @jimbojet8728
    @jimbojet8728 Před měsícem

    The background music here is just so good, soothing yet stirring. A fascinating vid. I have enjoyed it. Thank you.

  • @AMM0beatz
    @AMM0beatz Před 3 lety +23

    Mau Piailug helped ancient navigate Hokulea, he was from Satawal island in micronesia.

    • @annettemarie2076
      @annettemarie2076 Před 2 lety

      He was amazing

    • @beedalton9675
      @beedalton9675 Před rokem

      Beautiful truth all from the motherland of Africa. Early navigators...before the whiteman

    • @devince-johricio3987
      @devince-johricio3987 Před 8 měsíci

      Micronesians we’re the first to settle in the pacific, they should do a documentary on that as well

    • @kaopua1972
      @kaopua1972 Před 24 dny

      2024….Mahalo to Mau and their teachers for restoring our Navigational Roots in Hawaii’s.
      Aloha Pumehana,
      Anakala Mau!!!

    • @horsekfobster7823
      @horsekfobster7823 Před 4 dny

      @@devince-johricio3987Melanesians were the first in the Pacific, Polynesians were the first to CROSS the Pacific which is what the video is about 🤡

  • @jennifergongora9727
    @jennifergongora9727 Před 4 lety +36

    I'm ready To watch ...HISTORY TOTALLY INTRIGUES MY MIND THANK U

    • @vette4403
      @vette4403 Před 4 lety

      You intrigue more than just my mind. You know what in sayin? Wink wink

  • @DelightLovesMovies
    @DelightLovesMovies Před 4 lety +5

    I love Timeline documentaries.

  • @mattkaustickomments
    @mattkaustickomments Před 4 lety +18

    The Polynesian music in this is so cool

    • @c.f.apollyon1147
      @c.f.apollyon1147 Před 4 lety

      lolz

    • @mahalolowa4907
      @mahalolowa4907 Před 2 lety

      It's influenced by melanesian people, so it's technically melanesian.

    • @mattkaustickomments
      @mattkaustickomments Před 2 lety +1

      @@mahalolowa4907 well, since Polynesian means “Many Nesians” couldn’t Melanesian be counted as one of the Nesians?? 😊

    • @thomasthecommentrater3703
      @thomasthecommentrater3703 Před 2 lety +1

      It’s not ancient by any means, nor is it influenced by a single culture, they’re just popular songs in those countries. For instance, the song that plays when Samoa is brought up is Sosephina, and you can listen to it on YT.

  • @BassUndertow
    @BassUndertow Před 2 lety

    Awesome thank you!

  • @rikmuao4699
    @rikmuao4699 Před rokem +6

    As a Polynesian of Samoan heritage I was always told that Samoa was the birth place of Polynesia. Hawaii was named after Savai'i. The largest Island in the Samoan chain. Upolu a small village on the Big Island of Hawai'i was named after Upolu the most populated Island in Samoa. King Kamehameha was born in this village and Hawaii's last King Kalakaua wrote that Kamehameha was of Samoan decent. I'll always believe Samoa was the cradle of Polynesia.

    • @hs4a085
      @hs4a085 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Same. They are trying to discredit that history.

  • @samuelhelderman
    @samuelhelderman Před 3 lety

    Awesome. Thanks

  • @percysjohnsonmwapemukubwe.3705

    Amazing information Educative

  • @puntakinte2049
    @puntakinte2049 Před 4 lety +16

    Maybe at that time there were more islands after the Marquises and those islands are now under water.

  • @thomasthecommentrater3703
    @thomasthecommentrater3703 Před 2 lety +16

    I asked my dad why our people came to the islands, he just said “Some guy in Asia just climbed in his canoe and paddled away.”

  • @Happy_HIbiscus
    @Happy_HIbiscus Před 3 lety +1

    dude, this is cool

  • @evansknight7983
    @evansknight7983 Před 11 měsíci

    One thing I’ve noticed about a lot of these historical docs posted on CZcams is that the background music seems way louder than it should be, often almost drowning out the narration. Has anyone else noticed that?

  • @alejandrotapia2886
    @alejandrotapia2886 Před 4 lety +28

    I love history but as it has been proven time and time again, history as we know it is nowhere near as accurate as we put it to be. I believe that over time it will be rewritten..

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 Před 4 lety

      You are correct.
      See" "Skeletons in the Cupboard"
      ...and their references are shared and impeccable.

    • @DavidMBRichardson
      @DavidMBRichardson Před rokem +1

      History is constantly being rewritten. It's why there are historians.

  • @grahamjacob97
    @grahamjacob97 Před 8 měsíci +3

    I think it's important to acknowledge that the men would have been accompanied by women and probably children and all would have played their part in the voyages.
    No voyage would have been successful without the women.

  • @kilipaki87oritahiti
    @kilipaki87oritahiti Před 4 lety +4

    My ancestors, and heritage.

    • @sillau9
      @sillau9 Před 2 lety +2

      @Gary Snow you mad for what my guy 🤨

  • @sernka6820
    @sernka6820 Před 2 lety +5

    There are still micronesian islanders from this day who practice navigations and seafaring.

  • @urbnctrl
    @urbnctrl Před 2 lety +7

    The outrigger canoe was actually already invented in Maluku and Papua as far back as 15.000 years ago in the Arafura Sea region (West Melanesia) - like the Kora Kora warship and expedition Prau's - the direct inspiration for the catamaran later used to colonize Madagascar and Polynesia. This was all on the West and NorthWest side of Papua and South Moluccas, compared to the pottery evidence from Eastern Papua where all the Western focus lies. Since ancient times islands had extensive trade networks, for example the Alifuru tribes and the Papuan tribes exchanged raw iron and spices/herbs, which was then traded back for medicine and tattoo ink as well as weaponry. But also ornaments and jewelry (shell money or tabu) were traded en masse to keep diplomatic relationships afloat. There is much that Western science has yet to learn.

    • @ohkfilms
      @ohkfilms Před 4 měsíci

      I’m not sure where you are from but going back to our shared austronesian language. I think your kora kora warship must have some relation to the karakoa. And the prau are paraw in Philippines. I mean Indonesia and Philippines were directly tied prior to est, of Philippines and Indonesia.

  • @anthonyanderson3511
    @anthonyanderson3511 Před 3 lety +5

    You can see the erosion lines under the sea where rivers used to be..before the sea level rise of 11000 BC

  • @keewaibk7947
    @keewaibk7947 Před 3 lety +15

    Tonga , Samoa , Fiji , NZ the real voyagers of the pacific

  • @MrBonners
    @MrBonners Před 2 lety +5

    Why is the thinking that there was a linear outward expansion? The ocean being vast like a desert the people may have been semi nomad. Stay in a place for a few 100 years, get bored and go on a trip and stay somewhere else for a while, constant rotation. Any site may have been occupied on and off many times.

  • @jimbojet8728
    @jimbojet8728 Před měsícem

    It’s from the film ‘much ado about nothing’? The score ? Kenneth Branagh film? Emma Thompson was in it too. I enjoyed the film, riddled with fickle attitudes but very enjoyable. I’ll have to watch it again.

  • @SuperBjanka
    @SuperBjanka Před 3 lety +4

    When and how was the Andaman's island populated ?

  • @khs1656
    @khs1656 Před 4 lety +21

    Strange how any culture can be traced back only a few thousand years.

    • @philaypeephilippotter6532
      @philaypeephilippotter6532 Před 4 lety +2

      Not really. The first settlements were probably less than 12,000 years ago and that was about the same time that writing began to appear (give or take about 1,000 years). The culture then was still neolithic, new stone age, but the neolithic lasted many thousands of years. Stone cannot be dated except by the way it was worked. Little other than stone survives.

    • @kraykray9585
      @kraykray9585 Před 4 lety +3

      I'm a little hesitant to say we have a good understanding how far back civilization goes. Its entirely possible it goes back even further than 12,000 years but we dont have evidence of it. How long would evidence last right? 12000 years of natural preservation is asking for allot.

    • @philaypeephilippotter6532
      @philaypeephilippotter6532 Před 4 lety +4

      ​@@kraykray9585 I agree that what many see as _civilization_ probably goes back longer, maybe a lot longer, but the word _civilization_ implies permanent settlements of some size - basically villages and towns. Earlier than about 12,000 years ago there was probably no perceived need for such settlements which would explain the paucity of evidence - and it was a very long time ago in our terms!

    • @harbourdogNL
      @harbourdogNL Před rokem

      What creationist nonsense. Neanderthals had a culture. More than "a few thousand years."

    • @harbourdogNL
      @harbourdogNL Před rokem +2

      @@philaypeephilippotter6532 No, civilization means organised groups and language. So you can go back about 40,000 years at least. To say there wasn't a civilised group merely because they were hunter-gatherers is foolish.

  • @nuufoualo5934
    @nuufoualo5934 Před 2 lety +2

    What’s the name of the orchestra songs in this doc? I feel like I’ve heard it in movies lol

    • @MNBelgium
      @MNBelgium Před 9 měsíci

      Late reply, sorry. It is an original soundtrack, i.e. composed and recorded for the series.

  • @allanroberts8701
    @allanroberts8701 Před 3 lety +1

    All the ads make this unwatchable, it’s a shame seems like a good documentary

    • @matthewgellar1442
      @matthewgellar1442 Před 3 lety +1

      there may be an ad-blocking add-on you can add to your browser!

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 Před 4 lety

    He was not the first.
    See: "Skeletons in the Cupboard"
    Their references are impeccable.

  • @School_Rebel
    @School_Rebel Před 2 dny

    “We don’t know how they transverse this wide spread of water, much is speculation..” have we tried asking them?? 🤔🤔

  • @bourgkul
    @bourgkul Před 3 lety

    We know the way!

  • @big1dog23
    @big1dog23 Před 2 lety +6

    Isn't this actually an older documentary, repackaged as "Time Line?" I would like to know what the geneticists have to say. Wouldn't that shed light on the timing and origins of these ancient mariners?

    • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
      @gaslitworldf.melissab2897 Před 2 lety +2

      Someone did that. I just can't remember the title. Search Genealogical Links Asian and Polynesian. This researcher did a world tracing linking all the major groups and showing how they are connected. It's brilliant.

  • @DavidMBRichardson
    @DavidMBRichardson Před rokem +1

    Is there any reason why this documentary should not be available in New Zealand? My daughter who lives there cannot access it.

  • @johnheigis83
    @johnheigis83 Před 4 lety +6

    The "Equatorial Counter" could take a water craft, from Micronesian waters, all the way to where it dumps out, near Mexico, Central and South America!

    • @bonkersblock
      @bonkersblock Před 3 lety +2

      There’s no evidence that people from America’s has any knowledge of navigation or shipbuilding thousands of years ago! Otherwise archeologists would be rambling about it now..

  • @keleniengaluafe2600
    @keleniengaluafe2600 Před 2 lety

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤MY PEOPLE!!!!

  • @harrymiram6621
    @harrymiram6621 Před rokem +1

    As of 2013-15, members of Polynesian Voyaging Society(PVS) embarked on circumnavigation of Mother Earth, sailing first to American Samoa/Tahiti then continuing W to Marianas, Korean peninsula, SE Asia, Indonesia, India, E Africa, RSA, etc., etc. Then up/down Canadian/U.S. Eastern seaboard. More detailed/extensive video logs can be found on Timeline, PVS & other various news outlets

  • @Schmorgus
    @Schmorgus Před 4 lety +7

    Bro, those thick socks in sandals are just pure insanity!

    • @historybuff5739
      @historybuff5739 Před 4 lety +5

      I use to wear my sandals with socks. 😂😂 The amazing thing is the guy who was barefoot. I lived on American Samoa and Guam in my youth. Both are volcanic islands. Lava rock can be very sharp. I ruined a new pair of tennis shoes boonie stomping by walking across lava rock. The sharp edges of the lava rock cut the soles of my shoes to pieces.

    • @maximusp6722
      @maximusp6722 Před 2 lety +1

      Omg yes...I was already wondering what the idea and theory behind those thick socks in sandals were 😂🤣

  • @A808K
    @A808K Před 4 lety +3

    Excellent DocU... thanks ! Certainly inadvertent on your part but he title should be: "The First Peoples to Cross the Ocean". We would have never heard of these amazing voyagers had there not been women aboard.

    • @MNBelgium
      @MNBelgium Před 3 lety +1

      You're totally right. We made this film (and the others in Setting Sail series) and it is called The Great Voyagers, not whatever they called it here. But it is nice to see that it finds an audience here as well.

  • @shawnasmith5332
    @shawnasmith5332 Před 4 lety +7

    the answers are in New Zealand ,Gabi Plum has done research , and found great insight in to the past of the pacific peoples ,it is a remarkable story of many peoples ,from many places ,with D N A to back up her claims ...for some reason , some researchers don't want to talk about this truth...or these people's .

    • @anthonyodonoghue2539
      @anthonyodonoghue2539 Před 4 lety

      Yeah but why ? We know europeans weren't the first so why would they not want to know ?

    • @shawnasmith5332
      @shawnasmith5332 Před 4 lety +2

      @@anthonyodonoghue2539 because the roman catholic church and empire.s history and others ,they do not want any stories told that contradicts there time line .we know there was white leaders in Egypt., we know there was a race of red haired people that traveled the world in pre history , we know they are connected to the great building projects around the world , from the middle east , Asia to Easter Island and south america ., these were builders and engineers of great skill , these researchers did not want to admit that people before them were smarter and more skilled , it is just that simple , not little green men building in stone or any other goofy idea .thanks, look into it you will find the truth ,it is not that difficult . good luck .

  • @sdogreads4444
    @sdogreads4444 Před 4 lety +12

    45ish min mark. They stopped exploring because Maui stole the Heart of Tafiti.

  • @lacecocoa6272
    @lacecocoa6272 Před 3 lety

    🙏🏿💎

  • @robertgold2378
    @robertgold2378 Před rokem

    It is much more safe to sail against the current and the wind!

  • @MrYougotcaught
    @MrYougotcaught Před 2 lety +2

    AUSTRONESIAN POWER

  • @neurocirca
    @neurocirca Před 3 lety +2

    Every 4 minutes or less an ad. Too many!

  • @jamesewanchook2276
    @jamesewanchook2276 Před 4 lety +3

    music's too loud

  • @leonaandleebutton5697
    @leonaandleebutton5697 Před 3 lety +7

    Columbus discovered nothing!

    • @RichMcc
      @RichMcc Před 2 lety +1

      Well he did .. just because he was not the first does not mean he did not discover it again ..
      Much like if you discover / find a hidden path in a forest . You wernt the first . But were the first of your group to discover it

    • @mctulkyviperbit6166
      @mctulkyviperbit6166 Před rokem

      @@RichMccBut the people who discovered it were still there. That’s like seeing an object in somebody’s hand and saying you “discovered it”.

  • @johnstewart8849
    @johnstewart8849 Před 4 lety +2

    You say they sailed against the prevailing winds. That also kept Europeans from settling North America. What Columbus discovered was the SOUTHERN TRADE WINDS...it meant you could get to America AND get home again on the Northern trade winds. That circular trip enabled settlement and exploitation of the land for the first time. Vikings could get here, but on a one-way ticket. So, I wonder whether there are weather conditions that shift the winds, or could they have followed more northern or more southern winds to go east?

    • @puntakinte2049
      @puntakinte2049 Před 4 lety +3

      That is not true, there are archeological evidences that vikings have known about what is now Canada for a long time. They even had camps but they never settled like the French and later on the English. So it was not a one-way ticket for the vikings.

    • @leonaandleebutton5697
      @leonaandleebutton5697 Před 3 lety +5

      Columbus discovered nothing!

    • @leont5096
      @leont5096 Před 3 lety

      Yeah part of the year the wind blows east

    • @stevenhall8964
      @stevenhall8964 Před 2 lety +2

      The Vikings were not one way tickets they found that they could head west in fall and winter and east in spring and summer, there was for a while regular trading runs from Greenland to Denmark and Norway and vice versa.

  • @Malouco
    @Malouco Před 2 lety +2

    If anything these people are more smart than we are!
    The less technology the smarter u hv to be to make use of the resources!
    ANCIENT MAN WAS SMART AND WE ARE OGGA BOOGA CAVEMEN

    • @yalonyun2785
      @yalonyun2785 Před rokem

      Robert Adrian Langdon introduces the theory that the European features of the Polinesians not only physically but culturally are the direct influence of the descendants of the seafaring people of the San Lesmes Caravel, stranded at one of the many atolls in 1526. No other European vessel has been registered to have entered the Pacific since then. 250 years before Cook's arrival, approximately 20 generations, had been passed down genes and dexterities, from catamaran building and sailing, to agriculture, animal farming, astronomy, gastronomy, theatricals and attire. The book is called "The Lost Caravel" however in order to align with the British being the first to have arrived in Pacific, this theory has been silenced and swept under the carpet, coming up with ever ridiculous ideas such as descending from Taiwan or the Incas.

  • @ER-ej7fg
    @ER-ej7fg Před 3 lety

    Don't look back. They went crazy,

  • @chasegordon7429
    @chasegordon7429 Před 2 lety +1

    5:05 hold unto your kids ladies

  • @xelakram
    @xelakram Před 4 lety +1

    Can anyone tell me why I am unable to access some of these Timeline documentaries. I am subscribed and get notifications, yet when I click on them, I sometimes get a message telling me that they are for private viewing only! How bizarre! It has just happened to me for the documentary on the Spanish Inquisition, for example. It's most annoying. If Timeline doesn't want me to view their documentaries, then why send me the links in the first place?

    • @covenawhite4855
      @covenawhite4855 Před 4 lety +1

      They probably was deleted from You Tube due to copy right issues. If you do not buy the copy right to a video and it is reported you are posting it on You Tube the Video is gone.

    • @xelakram
      @xelakram Před 4 lety

      @@covenawhite4855 Thanks for the explanation. I'm not sure I understand this, but thanks anyway. In fact, I'm watching a Timeline video right now. That, too, is on the Inquisition. It's a different one, but still, I can watch it. Some of these things are beyond the comprehension of man! :-)

    • @anthonyodonoghue2539
      @anthonyodonoghue2539 Před 4 lety +1

      Some are banned in certain countries coz of copyright

    • @xelakram
      @xelakram Před 4 lety

      @@anthonyodonoghue2539 Thank you for the info. It makes more sense now. 👍

  • @kulima7391
    @kulima7391 Před rokem

    but with spirit learning THE SPIRIT doesn't lie eventually it will show itself

  • @johnmayer3433
    @johnmayer3433 Před rokem

    How could they set sail and move into that vast ocean w/o knowing if they were to find land or an island before starving ?

  • @jules1again
    @jules1again Před 4 lety +7

    What does the dna say

  • @Miguel_and_The_Microbes
    @Miguel_and_The_Microbes Před rokem +1

    shards

  • @PecosChico
    @PecosChico Před měsícem +1

    That damn background music drowns out the narration.

  • @jmcfintona999
    @jmcfintona999 Před 2 lety +1

    I suspect there were blue water sailors b4 5000 years ago.

  • @sebathadah1559
    @sebathadah1559 Před 4 lety +2

    "in other words"... it is to bad that there is so much SPECULATION in this topic.

    • @mma1st105
      @mma1st105 Před 4 lety +2

      Sebat Hadah around the 2:00 minute mark the narrator say much of this is speculative.

    • @sebathadah1559
      @sebathadah1559 Před 4 lety +2

      @@mma1st105 I noticed. I'm lamenting that fact. Polynesian sailing is one of my favourite aspects of ancient human history.

  • @faanengaaw7357
    @faanengaaw7357 Před 3 lety +8

    Im from Micronesia & my people are part of this Migration. My people are one of the greatest sailors in human history. in fact if it wasnt for my people the art of navigating using only what the world has to offer the art wouldnt have survived. We taught the Polynesians of today because they lost it & today HOKULEA is born.

    • @nuufoualo5934
      @nuufoualo5934 Před 2 lety +1

      Can’t argue w this. Shoutout to Mau Piailug 🙏🏼

    • @OFolau
      @OFolau Před rokem

      Please!

  • @KappaDaKappa
    @KappaDaKappa Před 3 lety +1

    I'm not saying it was _aliens_ , but it was *aliens*

  • @petermiesler9452
    @petermiesler9452 Před rokem

    13:00 Consider for a moment the "bird's" part in early oceanic exploration. Can you think of an island that does not host birds? A large percentage of them migratory. Imagine the world, back a few thousand years, standing on the shores, skies inhabited by literally billions upon billions of birds coming and going. Their trackways clearly etched in the sky and increasingly into people's minds: Where are they going? Year after year,, generation after generation, always teasing and challenging the observant thoughtful restless youth of the day. Stories started. The wonder grew into curiosity, into obsession. I must find out! Understanding how to read weather and ocean patterns, mastering boat building, simply obstacles, means to end. I must know what is out there.

  • @sarah8900
    @sarah8900 Před 4 lety +14

    Over population could have caused them to continue to island hop. Or maybe civil wars between families. It wasnt just men that went to all these islands. Guarantee there was at least one battle over a woman.

  • @yalonyun2785
    @yalonyun2785 Před rokem

    Robert Adrian Langdon introduces the theory that the European features of the Polinesians not only physically but culturally are the direct influence of the descendants of the seafaring people of the San Lesmes Caravel, stranded at one of the many atolls in 1526. No other European vessel has been registered to have entered the Pacific since then. 250 years before Cook's arrival, approximately 20 generations, had been passed down genes and dexterities, from catamaran building and sailing, to agriculture, animal farming, astronomy, gastronomy, theatricals and attire. The book is called "The Lost Caravel" however in order to align with the British being the first to have arrived in Pacific, this theory has been silenced and swept under the carpet, coming up with ever ridiculous ideas such as descending from Taiwan or the Incas.

  • @omggiiirl2077
    @omggiiirl2077 Před 4 lety +5

    Also, from what I was told, hokulea is smaller than the canoes of old. The Wa'a or Moku were big enough to have a whole Hale Pili( grass house) on the platform, pens and crates to house canoe animals and plants and space to walk and work on. These canoes were vast.

  • @Jamie_Case
    @Jamie_Case Před 2 lety

    The 'Hebrides'?

  • @valuvivao1236
    @valuvivao1236 Před 2 lety +1

    I have different opinions about the history of the polynesian islands.

    • @yalonyun2785
      @yalonyun2785 Před rokem

      Robert Adrian Langdon introduces the theory that the European features of the Polinesians not only physically but culturally are the direct influence of the descendants of the seafaring people of the San Lesmes Caravel, stranded at one of the many atolls in 1526. No other European vessel has been registered to have entered the Pacific since then. 250 years before Cook's arrival, approximately 20 generations, had been passed down genes and dexterities, from catamaran building and sailing, to agriculture, animal farming, astronomy, gastronomy, theatricals and attire. The book is called "The Lost Caravel" however in order to align with the British being the first to have arrived in Pacific, this theory has been silenced and swept under the carpet, coming up with ever ridiculous ideas such as descending from Taiwan or the Incas.

  • @markstuber4731
    @markstuber4731 Před 2 lety +1

    Micronesians always get ignored.

  • @captainfx6197
    @captainfx6197 Před 4 lety +4

    That we know of........

  • @iluop3623
    @iluop3623 Před 2 lety

    Well yeah because I didn't have to be at work the next day.... They had all the time in the world

  • @kulima7391
    @kulima7391 Před rokem

    that's why spiritual learning it's better than what men say about my people, which the Polynesian people

  • @b.griffin317
    @b.griffin317 Před 4 lety +3

    Didn't polynesia come from taiwan?

    • @omggiiirl2077
      @omggiiirl2077 Před 4 lety +12

      Austronesians arose in Taiwan, so it's not only Polynesians, Malay, Philippine, Micronesians, And other Austronesian people.

    • @victorgarcia9595
      @victorgarcia9595 Před 4 lety +2

      They are there own people.

    • @BarHawa
      @BarHawa Před 3 lety +2

      Yes we come from Taiwan

    • @wukongking3956
      @wukongking3956 Před 3 lety

      Polynesian are different from Austronesia. They are not the same. Why and where did they get this idea🤣🤣

    • @BarHawa
      @BarHawa Před 3 lety +4

      @@wukongking3956 From our genetics and linguistics lol.

  • @icescrew1
    @icescrew1 Před 4 lety +2

    Stop with the distracting symphony.

  • @TOMAS-lh4er
    @TOMAS-lh4er Před 4 lety +4

    THE "KON TIKI "

  • @hmsdemolition8588
    @hmsdemolition8588 Před 4 lety +1

    That would be my ANCESTRY " THE PHONICIANS " PRESENT DAY LEBANON 🇱🇧

    • @TimLevi
      @TimLevi Před 4 lety +4

      Polynesians not phoenicians

    • @apextroll
      @apextroll Před 4 lety +2

      What else are you taking responsibility for? Are you not the sea peoples who caused the bronze age collapse?

  • @JMDinOKC
    @JMDinOKC Před 2 lety +1

    Music is too loud and the speech needs less bass and a midrange boost to make the narration easier to understand.

  • @deliafletcher5008
    @deliafletcher5008 Před rokem

    This documentaries funny because there were people crossing the Atlantic to the Americas long before The Polynesians cell all over Oceana

    • @yalonyun2785
      @yalonyun2785 Před rokem

      Robert Adrian Langdon introduces the theory that the European features of the Polinesians not only physically but culturally are the direct influence of the descendants of the seafaring people of the San Lesmes Caravel, stranded at one of the many atolls in 1526. No other European vessel has been registered to have entered the Pacific since then. 250 years before Cook's arrival, approximately 20 generations, had been passed down genes and dexterities, from catamaran building and sailing, to agriculture, animal farming, astronomy, gastronomy, theatricals and attire. The book is called "The Lost Caravel" however in order to align with the British being the first to have arrived in Pacific, this theory has been silenced and swept under the carpet, coming up with ever ridiculous ideas such as descending from Taiwan or the Incas.

    • @b0ss664
      @b0ss664 Před rokem +2

      no there werent, polynesians dominated the entire pacific for thousands of years.

    • @b0ss664
      @b0ss664 Před rokem +1

      @@yalonyun2785 - Polynesians never have "european features" smdh. Only reason why youd see polynesians mix now is bcuz the white euopean females loved the big polynesian males and their bbc's. Something european males lack.

    • @njandrews4105
      @njandrews4105 Před rokem +1

      Sure if you believe in Afrocentric pseudoscience revisionist history lMFAO 🤣

  • @TFrills
    @TFrills Před 2 lety

    What are "sherds"? Do you mean "shards"?

  • @Saltydad2020
    @Saltydad2020 Před 4 lety +5

    First?!?!
    That's a stretch

    • @b.griffin317
      @b.griffin317 Před 4 lety +2

      so where's the evidence of anyone before?

    • @simonlusie8383
      @simonlusie8383 Před 3 lety

      the first we have evidence for at least.

  • @franklinjackson3637
    @franklinjackson3637 Před 4 lety +1

    What about the Norwegian who proved that they came from South America?

    • @anthonyodonoghue2539
      @anthonyodonoghue2539 Před 4 lety +3

      Actually you'll find its the other way round. They went to south america

    • @franklinjackson3637
      @franklinjackson3637 Před 4 lety

      @@anthonyodonoghue2539 actually a group of Norwegian scientists drifted on a raft from Peru proving that tiki could've made the journey to the islands. The
      They made it in like 150 days or something like that on a tiki raft l. True story. Look it up

    • @wolveshowling26
      @wolveshowling26 Před 3 lety +1

      It's Thor Heyerdahl...the guy who orchestrated the whole thing...his crew was from a multitude of countries
      Edit: The Con tiki expedition wasn't the only one...the big ones aside from ConTiki were Tigris, Ra1 and Ra2. I know a person who was part of the crew on the Ra2 expedition

    • @BarHawa
      @BarHawa Před 3 lety +2

      We don't come from South America there was a brief trade route and interaction with the Quechua of Peru and that's about it. Our languages and customs are all Austronesian with small melanesian influence. Polynesians are From Taiwan.

    • @franklinjackson3637
      @franklinjackson3637 Před 3 lety

      @@BarHawa there's a norwegian man who proved that it could be done and how. There is also genetic evidence to bolster his theory

  • @1dravano
    @1dravano Před 3 lety +2

    I have read somewhere that people in ancient times used actual giant bats wings as sails, Carthaginian pirates during Roman times, and i think Polynesians, could there have potentially been a giant bat, that's wings were used for sails, something similar to a vulture, and later they mimicked the style?

  • @alysononoahu8702
    @alysononoahu8702 Před 9 měsíci

    First blue water sailors..??? Before vikings

    • @bopndop2347
      @bopndop2347 Před 4 měsíci

      Yes, long before Vikings. The Polynesians would have found the Americas thousands of years before Leif Erikson or any of his people, for references

  • @kulima7391
    @kulima7391 Před rokem

    men learning they only can go by what they see
    nothing wrong with that method it's fine when it happens currently at that moment but you can't do that with the past history of someone because you don't have all the pieces
    like for instance in a court case to prove your innocent YOU BETTER HAVE ALL ACCOUNTS
    IN ORDER IF NOT JAIL YOU'LL GO...

  • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897

    Am I the only one saddened to witness their dependence on imported items, such as Clorox bleach? I don't have an island home to protect, but I consolidate to minimize how many plastic containers I buy. Shampoo works as body wash, hand soap and lingerie cleaner.
    That's ONE bottle, rather than 4. Soon, I'm switching to a soap brand that doesn't come in plastic for all the former hygiene concerns.

  • @jimmyganglia5234
    @jimmyganglia5234 Před 4 lety +3

    Logic..how did indigenous tribes magicaly appear on any island? Teleportation? XD

  • @Es-zo5cp
    @Es-zo5cp Před 4 měsíci

    what about me im polymelamicronesian can we all jus get along and focus our attention on the fact that we got these whit ppl telling our stories and putting theyre twist and lies and then sit back and watch us going at it to each others necks instead of accepting the fact that were here now and were all the same and 1 jus divided by water.

  • @caryrobinson6177
    @caryrobinson6177 Před 2 lety +3

    The first sailors was from Africa. Dark skinned you heard him. People in this are not doubt have black blood.

    • @misterbobo8139
      @misterbobo8139 Před rokem

      Africans can’t make a boat today, much less thousands of years ago.

  • @omggiiirl2077
    @omggiiirl2077 Před 4 lety +2

    I hope with those old bones of birds, and extinct species, DNA can be extracted and the species can be revived and brought back.

  • @Napoleon1Blownapart
    @Napoleon1Blownapart Před 4 lety

    socks and sandals = dork

  • @valuvivao1236
    @valuvivao1236 Před 2 lety

    Very small opinions.