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The Oceania People
The Oceania People
picture) about Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia and Australia. You can then decide to focus on any one
of the four and create a museum exhibit for one of them.
Oceana Polynesians
Australia
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Zealand
Palau
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Oceana
Geography of Australia video
Polynesian History YouTube
History Video
Mani girls
One of their interesting instruments includes the nose flute. It's pretty much
impossible to find any clips though... dang!
Papua
Human remains in Papua have been dated to around 50,000 years ago.
After India, Papua may've been another major setting point for humans
leaving Africa. It was from there that people branched out into Maritime
Southeast Asia.
Taiwan
In Taiwan, Austronesians were long thought to be the island's aborigines.
Nowadays, it's known that there were inhabitants much earlier, the most
famous being the so-called (and now vanished or absorbed) Changping
Culture.
Changping
The culture's best-known site is (Baxiandong) in Taitung County. In 2009, a
team from Academia Sinica discovered and confirmed the age of Taiwan's
oldest artifacts inside the cave.
Australia
The indigenous peoples of Australia include the Alyawarre, Anmatjera,
Arrente, Cammeraygal, Dieri, Eora, Gunai, Gunivugi, Gurindji, Guugu
Yimithir, Jarrakan, Kalkadoon, Kamilaroi, Kaurna, Koori Kulin,
Lurtija, Maralinga Tjarutja, Murrinh-Patha, Narungga, Ngarrindjeri,
Ngunnawal, Noongar, Pitjantjatjara, Spinigex, Tharawal, Tiwi,
Warlpiri, Wiradjuri, Wonnarua, Wapa, Yolngu, Yorta Yorta and many
others.
Aeta Men
The Aeta have a musical heritage consisting of various types of agung
ensembles. Agung are gongs which provide drone without any accompanying
melodic instrument.
Micronesia
The Micronesian subregion of Oceania includes Kiribati, the Marianas,
the Marshall Islands, the Caroline Islands, Nauru and Wake Island.
The islands were settled by successive waves from Melanesia and
Austronesia between 3000 BCE and 1300 CE.