Sailors leave ancient ‘fingerprints’ across Polynesia

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 21:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A long-standing debate on the colonisation process of Oceania has been put to rest with new research finding Polynesia was deliberately settled in one of the greatest maritime migrations in human history. The University of Queensland research used chemical fingerprinting on stone tools to show sailors travelled throughout the Polynesian islands for several centuries after […]

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