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Lectures can be tailored to fit the interest and needs of the participants, however, major topics normally include:

Geology of Polynesia:
How the islands were formed by plate tectonics and volcanism and the way these forces shape the ecosystem.

The Marquesas Today:
Subsistence, transportation, house styles, dancing, carving and other handicrafts.

Polynesian Settlement:
The Lapita peoples and their discovery and settlement of Polynesia.

Marquesan Prehistory:
The coming of the "Men" (the Marquesans, as they call themselves).

Tiki and Tapu:
Marquesan gods and traditional religion.

Temples, house platforms and tribal plazas: monumental Marquesan stone structures.

Marquesan tattooing:
Methods and designs

Famous european visitors to the Marquesas:  Capt's James Cook, RN and David Porter, USN, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Gauguin, Jacques Brel, Jack London, Admiral Richard Byrd.