Tag: Polynesia (culture)

Readers may be interested in this newly-launched journal in an adjacent region, the Journal of Polynesian Archaeology and Research which ...

Study links Austronesian speakers via Y-chromosome O2a2b-P164, revealing ancestral migration from Asia to Oceania.

via ABC Pacific, 23 June 2023: The Hōkūle'a, a traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe, embarks on a four-year circumnavigation of the ...

via Hawai'i Public Radio, 08 September 2021: In the Pacific Ocean, new research points to the origin of the Hawaian ...

via Matangi Tonga, 29 January 2021: News feature on how ancient DNA studies improve our understanding of human migration and ...

via Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 01 March 2019: The oldest tattoo combs found in West Polynesia.

New paper in Nature about the origins and spread of dogs in Southeast Asia and the Pacific by Kreig et ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8bDCaPhOek How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean?

Bones from a 3,000-year-old cemetery in Vanuatu suggest that the earliest humans in the pacific were more similar to that ...

A new paper released earlier this month discusses the discovery of Lapita pottery in the interior of New Guinea dating ...