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Missing from the article is the recent DNA evidence linking Polynesian peoples to the aboriginal inhabitants of Taiwan ... Making the west to east theory even m
by Taniwha 8y ago
Missing from the article is the recent DNA evidence linking Polynesian peoples to the aboriginal inhabitants of Taiwan ... Making the west to east theory even more likely ... Essentially the Polynesians spread across the Pacific above the equator, the travelled back south of it, finally discovering New Zealand around 900AD (probably the last inhabitable land discovered by any humans)
- keithnz 8y agothis article from a while back provides a nice summary of current thinking (there's a bunch of waffle at the top of the aritcle before getting into the guts of it about midway through ) https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/asia/67390585/null https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/asia/67390585/nu...