Round 8: Tossup 6
Description acceptable. This long-term process was led by a “restless urge” according to a non-philosopher David Lewis. Over time, participants in this process ceased making a style of dentate pottery found at a type site whose name just means “the place where one digs.” The “entangled bank” model of this process opposes the “express train” supported by Peter Bellwood. Latest possible dates for this process are found by dating excavated bones of Rattus exulans and (*) marae complexes. An unexplained pause in this process from about 500 BC to 500 AD followed a phase marked by the Lapita complex. Finds of sweet potatoes on Mangaia suggest the eastern reach of this multi-century process, which was enabled by tools like star compasses and stick charts. For 10 points, in what process did settlers in outrigger canoes colonize islands like Rapa Nui? ■END■
ANSWER: human settlement of the Pacific [accept synonyms for “settlement” such as expansion or colonization or exploration; accept Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, or Oceania for “Pacific”; accept descriptions of Polynesian migration; accept Polynesian navigation; accept the colonization of specific Pacific areas such as New Zealand before “Mangaia”; prompt on the Austronesian expansion and ask “into where?”; prompt on migration from Taiwan and ask “into where?”; prompt on Lapita expansion before “Lapita” and ask “into where?”]
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