“ Given that all humans were originated in Africa, then the original settlers of a new place/space are themselves the new explorers and, by the same token, new discoverers of that new place/space. The logic of the argument that the so-called new re-explorers and re-discoverers of that same space/place already originally explored, discovered and settled by the original people, now considered as the initial explorers, discoverers and settlers is untenable, unthinkable and unacceptable.
The same argument applies to the original settlers and, by implication, the first explorers and discoverers of the Great Moana Nui by the so-called Lapita people named by archaeologists and linguists (after a site in New Caledonia where fragments of pottery were found) but locally known in oral history as the Pulotu and Havaiki people.
The Pulotu and Havaiki peoples have yet to find out from various oral (and written) history traditions about the subsequent names of their forebears since they first left mainland China through Taiwan, South East Asia and Macronesia (as opposed to Melanesia) to the Moana Nui (as opposed to Polynesia and Micronesia, collectively as Pacific [and/or Oceania]), as the original explorers, discoverers and settlers,
So, the Moana Nui seafarers were merely re-explorers and re-discoverers (and possibly re-settlers but did not have a viable population for its continuation in time and space) of the Americas, which were long settled by their original explorers and discoverers -- in the same way that Abel Tasman and followers simply re-explored and re-discovered Tonga, the fist explorers. discoverers and settlers of whom were the Pulotu people and later the Havaiki people, who were both the descendants of the Moana Nui people. ”