Polynesians reach Hawaii before 460 AD. Easter Island is reached around 690 AD.

Malay migrants are thought to have settled in parts of the Philippines, bringing with them elements of Indian culture.

While it is often said the Aboriginals of Australia had no technology, they had expert knowledge of the plants around them and how they could be used. These plants served their purposes so well, they never had the need to use pottery or metals. The long leaves of sedges, rushes and lilies were collected to make baskets and mats, and soaked and beaten to free the fibres to make string. The bark of trees made buckets, dishes and shields. River red-gum bark was particularly good for making canoes, and old scarred 'canoe trees' can still be seen. Some rice-flower shrubs have such strong fibres on the outside of the stem that they were used to make fine nets in which to collect bogong moths to eat. The wood of blackwood, being very hard and close-grained, was used for spear-throwers and shields. The bark made a good medicine for rheumatism. The hard wood of she-oak was much used for making boomerangs, shields and clubs. In Wyrie Swamp, South Australia, archaeologists found a boomerang 10,000 years old, made from she-oak wood. Tree sap from gum trees was used to glue axe blades onto handles.

Mattang, the Polynesian "compass"