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> The Polynesians were capable of voyaging across the Pacific to South America, and another Austronesian group made it all the way to Madagascar. This was prett
by chx 9y ago
> The Polynesians were capable of voyaging across the Pacific to South America, and another Austronesian group made it all the way to Madagascar. This was pretty controversial until Kon-Tiki;
Too funny: Kon-Tiki went from South America to the Polynesian and it's only more recent research which indicates it might have been the other way around.
What we realize now is how little we know.
- 80386 9y agoFair point - the expedition was intended to prove that the Polynesian migration (or at least the migration to Easter Island) could've come from South America.