Archaeologists Find Evidence Of Origin Of Pacific Islanders

VOA News ^ | 3-31-2008 | Heidi Chang

[blam]

'How could it be that Polynesians have roots in China? We don't look like Chinese.' And then I have to explain to them that, 'Yes, they don't look like the people living in southeast China today, but the people living there 6000 years ago, were completely different.'"

Anyone want to venture a guess who were these people living there 6,000 years ago?

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[coconutt2000]

Next week, China will lay claim to all of the South Pacific Islands...

[deuteronlmy232]

Eden!

[Yollopoliuhqui]

This study is screaming for human genome information. I wouldn’t be surprised if similar, earlier Asian maritime cultures are found to have been the main source of North American populations instead of the so-called “Bearing Straight” land migration route, an hypothesis that creates more problems than it solves.

[Don Corleone]

Anyone want to venture a guess who were these people living there 6,000 years ago?

Chinese???

[fish hawk]

Maybe the same white people that settled America before the Indians got here. (semi-jesting)

[dangerdoc]

bump

[blam]

"Maybe the same white people that settled America before the Indians got here. (semi-jesting)"

You mean some of these folks?

New Lapita Find Re-dates Known Fiji Settlers (Jomon/Ainu)

Mysterious Giant Human Remains Found In Fiji

[VanShuyten]

That “canoe paddle, 1.5 meters long” looks suspciously like a South Pacific war club.

[AFPhys]

Next week, China will lay claim to all of the South Pacific Islands...
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My first thought, too...

Unfortunate we’ve come to this.

[SunkenCiv]

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Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific ed by Tianlong Jiao

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[mamelukesabre]

Letsee...maybe people that were a little similar to those indigeneous folks inhabiting the hokkaido island north of japan?

[allmendream]

And originally the inhabitants of the entire Japanese island, until the “Japanese” came and gave them the Amerindian treatment (sans the gambling and reservations).

[tbw2]

There are already DNA studies of Polynesians. One of the suprises was that there was no genetic link to South America but there WERE matrilineal ties to Papua New Guniea. Those who were heading out from Asia into the Pacific picked up a few New Guinea wives on the way out, contibuting to about 5-10% of the maternal lineages there today.

[wildbill]

I think someone posted an article about a month ago that said DNA linked the islanders to Taiwanese people.

[bert]

They became Americans ie mexicans

[bert]

They became Americans ie Mexicans

[SuziQ]

There is already speculation that some early settlers of South America were actually Pacific Islanders.

I've always thought that South Sea Islanders had some Oriental ancestry. Hawaiians may not think they look Chinese, but they certainly do look Oriental.