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Wednesday, January 30, 2002
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IHT: Piecing Together Polynesia's Past
Although the site had been excavated before, Mr. Burley, of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, made a new and revealing discovery concerning a fiercely debated issue in archaeology: the origin and migration routes of the Polynesians. What he found were shards of the distinctively decorated pottery of the Lapita peoples, cultural ancestors to modern Polynesians. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal among the shards showed that seafarers had reached the Tonga islands between 900 and 850 B.C., making this the earliest known settlement in Polynesia.
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Tongatapu, Mr. Burley concluded, "probably served as the initial staging point for population expansion" to other islands of Tonga and into Samoa. The place seemed to be what anthropologists and geneticists call a founding colony. These people, he said, must have "formed the gene pool for all the rest of Polynesia."
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Wednesday, January 09, 2002
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Updated Ngai Tahu site - Great!
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