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Polynesians Beat Columbus To The Americas
New Scientist ^ | 6-4-2007 | Emma Young

Posted on 06/04/2007 5:58:20 PM PDT by blam

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To: VeritatisSplendor
See In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. It’s the story that inspired Melville’s Moby Dick. Twenty sailors were shipwrecked in the Pacific by a whale and 93 days later only eight were alive. Still, that’s a long time under these circumstances. And considering that they’d not planned for anything, that’s an amazing testament to what can be done, especially if you don't mind what (or who) you eat.
21 posted on 06/04/2007 6:48:51 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Al Qaeda knows Iraq's strategic value, yet the Democrats work day and night for our defeat there.)
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To: blam

I will buy this theory. That might mean that they were here before those that claim they arrived by the land bridge first. In other words the native Americans stole the land from the polynesians. Nah who would have thought LOL


22 posted on 06/04/2007 6:49:20 PM PDT by Shots (Loose lips sink ships)
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To: VeritatisSplendor; Coyoteman

The Chumash plank canoe, or tomolo, held up to a dozen people — and may hold a clue to pre-Columbian contact between Polynesia and the New World. (Photo courtesy Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.)

"Scholars swim in choppy waters Did Polynesians visit Southern California many centuries ago? The evidence — some fishhooks, a boat design, and a few words in common — is limited. But to some those clues are tantalizing, even persuasive."

23 posted on 06/04/2007 6:50:06 PM PDT by blam
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To: Shots
" In other words the native Americans stole the land from the polynesians. Nah who would have thought LOL "

It's more than you think. Look Here:

Vintage Skulls

"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas."

"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."

24 posted on 06/04/2007 6:54:58 PM PDT by blam
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To: Shots

Nope. The theory is that there was peripheral contact only 100 or 200 years before Columbus. Before that Polynesians hadn’t reached the eastern Pacific.


25 posted on 06/04/2007 6:55:49 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Offendo ergo sum)
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To: pissant
"The only ones who count are the ones who made a go of it....namely the indians."

It's not unfair to suggest that the Europeans have had a fair degree of success too.

Until we left the door open.

26 posted on 06/04/2007 6:57:45 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods

I was only referring to pre-columbus days.


27 posted on 06/04/2007 7:00:21 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Strategerist

Thor was correct that such voyages were possible. He was incorrect about the direction.


28 posted on 06/04/2007 7:03:45 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Sherman Logan
First Americans Were Australians
29 posted on 06/04/2007 7:03:57 PM PDT by blam
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To: elhombrelibre; wideminded
I’ve been to Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple at Dier el-Bahri several times and yes there is a mural there that includes corn and a pineapple. Both new world foods.

I’ll see if I can post the photos later.

30 posted on 06/04/2007 7:07:22 PM PDT by BGHater
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To: BGHater

The word “corn” in the Bible means “grain”, wheat etc. Look it up, it is not the corn we think of.


31 posted on 06/04/2007 7:11:38 PM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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To: fish hawk; BGHater
Corn and maize.
32 posted on 06/04/2007 7:16:33 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Al Qaeda knows Iraq's strategic value, yet the Democrats work day and night for our defeat there.)
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To: marktwain

logical enough...

another arg is that colonization in the South Pacific accomplished 2 goals:
1. reduce conflict within the settlement.
2. reduce drain on limited resources.

I think Diamond’s “Collapse” mentions something on these lines. Either way, run for your life or voyage out to find new resources. In any event people were travelling more than we have imagined/


33 posted on 06/04/2007 7:17:16 PM PDT by Will_Zurmacht
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To: Will_Zurmacht
Just the other day, I was reading somewhere that DNA proves Aborigines were originally from Africa. And if you think about it, that’s a long haul somebody had to make long before jets. :-)
34 posted on 06/04/2007 7:20:37 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Al Qaeda knows Iraq's strategic value, yet the Democrats work day and night for our defeat there.)
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To: elhombrelibre
Aborigines Came Out Of Africa, Study Shows
35 posted on 06/04/2007 7:23:49 PM PDT by blam
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To: BGHater

You see what happens when you try to interpret a book literally, that has undergone many translations.


36 posted on 06/04/2007 7:24:45 PM PDT by hunter112 (Change will happen when very good men are forced to do very bad things.)
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To: BGHater

Only in America does “corn” mean specifically maize, once called “Indian corn”.


37 posted on 06/04/2007 7:25:14 PM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: hunter112

please see post #30.


38 posted on 06/04/2007 7:26:39 PM PDT by BGHater
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To: BGHater
I’ll be looking for the photo. Studied a little Egyptology back in college, things don’t always look like what the archaeologists say they are.
39 posted on 06/04/2007 7:29:57 PM PDT by hunter112 (Change will happen when very good men are forced to do very bad things.)
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To: blam

Thanks,


40 posted on 06/04/2007 7:31:57 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Al Qaeda knows Iraq's strategic value, yet the Democrats work day and night for our defeat there.)
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