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Related: About this forumIndigenous Americans had contact with Polynesians 800 years ago, DNA reveals
Study shows groups crossed vast ocean in about the year 1200
Proof of encounter found in DNA of present-day populations
Agence France-Presse
Wed 8 Jul 2020 17.42 EDT
Indigenous Americans and Polynesians bridged vast expanses of open ocean around the year 1200 and mingled, leaving incontrovertible proof of their encounter in the DNA of present-day populations, new studies have revealed.
Whether peoples from what is today Colombia or Ecuador drifted thousands of kilometres to tiny islands in the middle of the Pacific, or whether seafaring Polynesians sailed upwind to South America and then back again, is still unknown.
But what is certain, according to a study in Nature, is that it took place hundreds of years before Europeans set foot in either region, and left individuals scattered across what became French Polynesia with signature traces of the New World in their DNA.
These findings change our understanding of one of the most unknown chapters in the history of our species great continental expansions, the senior author Andreas Moreno-Estrada, principal investigator at Mexicos National Laboratory of Genomics for biodiversity, told AFP.
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Indigenous Americans had contact with Polynesians 800 years ago, DNA reveals (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jul 2020
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,608 posts)1. So Thor Heyerdahl was right after all.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)2. Guess so.
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)3. as HALF native Hawaiian.. this is interesting...
But I did know my Ancestors were all over the Pacific Rim.... as Polynesians... .
niyad
(113,076 posts)4. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Danascot
(4,690 posts)5. You find such cool stuff!