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Hello everyone, and welcome to my very first TL. I first thought it up while vacationing in Hawaii, and the original idea was the development of a native Polynesian writing system, but it eventually ballooned into what you will see. I recently decided to revive it after seeing Moana, and thanks to the suggestions of many people (especially metalinvader665, Zachariah, Dane Murgen, and Intransigent Southerner) I have a rough idea of how to begin.

Please note that all dates will be in (B)CE format for convenience.

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Excerpt from "Across the Ocean Sea: Wandao and Fusang," Prof. Liu Yang, Grand Academy of Fusang Press, 2012

There are many, in both Fusang and Old Zhongguo, that say that the Han people discovered the land now known as Fusang, across the Da Dong Yang. While that statement is not a complete falsehood, it is also not the whole truth. The whole truth is that many nations had a direct or indirect hand in this land's location and colonization by Grand Navigator Zheng He and company, not all of them Han; indeed, were it not for certain developments in the Ten Thousand Islands millennia before the rise of the Emperor Da Yu and the Xia, Zhongguo may never have sailed across the ocean sea to this new land of great mountains, parched deserts, and lush forests at all...

...We begin our journey ten thousand years before the present day, in what is now southern Zhongguo. Before the Han entered the region, there lived others, most of them lost to time. Some, however, left a legacy in the genes of their descendants, whose heritage we can track to this place. For reasons unknown to us, these aborigines left their homeland and ventured by boat across the strait to Taiwan--one of many voyages they and the ones who came after them would undertake. For around 5,000 more years, they made that island their home, before once again setting off for the modern Ma-i Islands in rather small groups; some of these populations would mimic their ancestors and head out again, further afield, to East Xinji. It was there, approximately 3,500 years ago, that the most primordial of the Wandao cultures arose.

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Thoughts? Also, what should these *Lapita be called?
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