TRADE!!!
“Kon Tiki”
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.
Might have been carried there by a swallow.
Undocumented travellersssss?!?
May I see your passseport?
Beats swimming.
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
about 1,000 years ago, some Polynesians sailed 7 out-rigger canoes from Tahiti to a group of islands in the South pacific they called, Aotearoa..”Land of the long White Cloud..actually a long mountain range appeared as clouds from out at sea...
The islands were later discovered by a Dutchman, Able Tasman, and called...New Zealand..
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Ben Finney, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of HawaiiI've hated that guy ever since he tried to destroy the Enterprise and send Cap't Kirk to prison.
> The analysis confirms traditional tales of vast ocean voyages and hints that a trading network existed between Hawaii and Tahiti as early as a thousand years ago.
I found the similarities between Hawaiian and Rarotongan and Maori to be so similar it is remarkable. At some base level they are able to communicate, which suggests that there would have been some level of regular dialog between them over the vast expanses of blue Pacific Ocean that separate their island groups.
Pitcairn has been a long time fascination to me. Several of us sent fuel to Tom Christian many years ago for the island generator. We received hand made baskets in return.
Tom and Betty (and several others) are ham radio operators and even today you will occasionally hear Tom on a Pacific net talking about island life. I listened carefully as he explained them going out to meet ships at sea to swap goodies and provisions. I cant imagine paddling to Tahiti much less Hawaii.
Amazing.
Environmental setting of human migrations in the circum-Pacific RegionA period of stable climate and sea level 45,000-40,000 years BP gave rise to the first major pulse of migration, when modern humans spread from India, throughout much of coastal southeast Asia, Australia, and Melanesia, extending northward to eastern Russia and Japan by 37,000 years BP. The northward push of modern humans along the eastern coast of Asia stalled north of 43° N latitude, probably due to the inability of the populations to adjust to cold waters and tundra/steppe vegetation. The ensuing cold and dry Last Glacial period, ~33,000-16,000 year BP, once again brought dramatic changes in sea level and climate, which caused abandonment of many coastal sites. After 16,000 years BP, climates began to warm, but sea level was still 100 m below modern levels, creating conditions amenable for a second pulse of human migration into North America across an ice-free coastal plain now covered by the Bering Sea. The stabilization of climate and sea level in the early Holocene (8,000-6,000 years BP) supported the expansion of coastal wetlands, lagoons, and coral reefs, which in turn gave rise to a third pulse of coastal settlement, filling in most of the circum-Pacific region. A slight drop in sea level in the western Pacific in the mid-Holocene (~6,000-4,000 year BP), caused a reduction in productive coastal habitats, leading to a brief disruption in human subsistence along the then densely settled coast. This disruption may have helped initiate the last major pulse of human migration in the circum-Pacific region, that of the migration to Oceania, which began about 3,500 years BP and culminated in the settlement of Hawaii and Easter Island by 2000-1000 years BP.
Davina Quarterman
10-Oct-2007