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Polynesians steering by the stars met Native Americans long before Europeans arrived
Wade, Lizzie http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/polynesians-steering-stars-met-native-americans-long-europeans-arrived
Publisher: Science Magazine
Date Written: 08/07/2020
Year Published: 2020
Resource Type: Article
On the history of interactions between Polynesians and Native American peoples based on new genetic findings.
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The work stregthens earlier evidence that somewhere - perhaps on the northern coast of South America - the two groups met and mixed well before the era of European colonialism. And it shakes up the most popular model of where Native American genes first took root in Polynesia, shifting the focus from Rapa Nui to islands farther west.
"This is excellent, exciting study," says Lars Fehren-Schmitz, an anthropological geneticist at University of California (UC), Santa Cruz. Expanding genomic research to islands beyond Rapa Nui "was what was mssing from the whole picture."
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