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There was a great film about the discovery/arrival of humans in America and the Polynesian culture was mentioned as a likely candidate to have arrived in South
by JoeDaDude 9y ago
There was a great film about the discovery/arrival of humans in America and the Polynesian culture was mentioned as a likely candidate to have arrived in South America. As they said in the film (paraphrasing) "They discovered dozens of Islands. How could they not find the largest island, America?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0F8mUmQvwI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0F8mUmQvwI
- contingencies 9y agoFor a fun Wikipedia page which I try to keep up to date with occasional emerging results of scientific studies, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_contact_theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co...
- vram22 9y agoChecking it out, looks interesting ...
- vram22 9y agoInteresting, will check out that video. And good question. I've always wondered why smaller islands (and some big ones like Greenland or Iceland) are called islands, but even large ones such as the continents are not. After all, they are all surrounded by water.