Pacific voyagers’ remarkable environmental knowledge allowed for long-distance navigation without Western technology
- Written by Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Kent State University
An outrigger canoe would typically have several paddlers and one navigator.AP Photo/David GoldmanWet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I’d hoped to get a little rest, but rain, wind and an absence of flat space made sleep impossible. My...
