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Early Polynesians Sailed Thousands Of Miles For Trade
National Geographic ^
| 9-27-2007
| Dave Hansford
Posted on 09/27/2007 3:46:25 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:46:30 PM PDT
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping.
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:47:38 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
TRADE!!!
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:49:11 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: blam
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:50:12 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama
"Those Hawaiians are stealing our jahbs!"
--early Tahitian tool-maker
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:52:55 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: blam
Interesting, blam. I’ve always had a hard time with the theory that flora from Polynesia just floated on its own to South America. Looks like the Polynesians were perfectly competent to sail that far.
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:54:00 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
To: blam
C7727 was hewn from a fine-grained basalt known as hawaiite. The stone is unique to the Hawaiian island Kaho'olawe, located some 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) to the northwest of Napuka—a distance roughly the size of Western Europe. Might have been carried there by a swallow.
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:55:19 PM PDT
by
OSHA
(Liberals will lick the boot on their necks if they think the other boot is on yours and mine.)
To: 1rudeboy
So did they have a 14th century “Pearl Harbor” attack or was it all peaceful kumbaya?
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:55:47 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Democrat terror-fighting motto: "bleat, cheat, retreat & defeat, we suck on liberal teat")
To: blam
Undocumented travellersssss?!?
May I see your passseport?
To: blam
Nah. For thousands of miles, it hadda be nooky.
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posted on
09/27/2007 4:00:12 PM PDT
by
Grut
To: blam
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posted on
09/27/2007 4:04:03 PM PDT
by
LexBaird
(Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
To: colorado tanker
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posted on
09/27/2007 4:08:05 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: Enchante
or was it all peaceful kumbaya?Man, if you knew Hawaiians, you'd know how funny that image is..........
To: doorgunner69
Well it was really the Tahitians I was worried about..... :^)
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posted on
09/27/2007 4:13:21 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Democrat terror-fighting motto: "bleat, cheat, retreat & defeat, we suck on liberal teat")
To: Grut
Well, you know what they say . . . the grass is always greener 2,500 miles away.
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posted on
09/27/2007 4:17:41 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: blam
Thanks, blam. So, it looks like chickens went from Southeast Asia to South America and sweet potatoes from South America to Polynesia.
Polynesians liked fried chicken and sweet potato pie??? Yum!
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posted on
09/27/2007 4:18:10 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
To: Grut
Of open-ocean sailing in a hand-made boat, that is.
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posted on
09/27/2007 4:20:15 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Enchante
Well it was really the Tahitians I was worried about..... As closely related as they were back then, I suspect the Tahitians were just as hair-trigger violent! Interesting cultures...........
To: blam
canoe journeys over the vast southeastern Pacific I guess I still have trouble believing this. It's nice that moderns, knowing Hawaii is there, and that a rescue team is standing by, might make the trip, but making a trip over a couple of thousand miles of open ocean in a canoe (of any sort) and then RETURNING, and doing it again with women is just to much for me to believe.
ML/NJ
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posted on
09/27/2007 4:58:50 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: OSHA
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posted on
09/27/2007 5:34:33 PM PDT
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montanus
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