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This is kind of surprising, I am a Palauan, and people from what anthropologists know settled Palau from Southeast Asia around 1000 BC, so I sort of assumed the
by noobermin 4y ago
This is kind of surprising, I am a Palauan, and people from what anthropologists know settled Palau from Southeast Asia around 1000 BC, so I sort of assumed the pacific was settled well before the common era. I never imagined an island settlement so recent, literally within written history at least from a European perspective.
- zardo 4y agoSettling deep into the Pacific required pretty advanced sailing technology. Hawaii was only settled in ~1100 CE. I don't think anyone else managed to build a ship that could sail within 50 degrees of the wind direction untill the 1600's.