The 1300 date is accurate for all the stars and celestial events - TopicsExpress



          

The 1300 date is accurate for all the stars and celestial events except for the Pleiades. The dates posited for initial arrival and settlement of the Hawaiian Islands is AD 800-1000. Long distance voyaging is agreed to have ended by the close of the fourteenth century (AD 1400). These dates say that the early settlers brought with them, along with plants and animals, a large store of astronomical knowledge. That is consistent with the navigational needs of long-distance voyages. It was probably not difficult to adapt that knowledge to a new landscape at the higher latitudes of the Hawaiian Islands. By 1300, at least at Kūkaniloko and the regions of Oʻahu that looked to Kūkaniloko as the piko, that astronomical knowledge had been placed on the landscape.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 03:21:25 +0000

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