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The Polynesian Art of Wayfinding
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The idea of the "savage to civilized" pyramid has been shown to be irrelevant by modern science. Polynesian wayfinders can sense the presence of distant atolls beyond the visible horizon just by watching the reverberation of waves across the hull of their canoe.
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