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[CholeraJoe]

Pass me samoa that roast pig, would ya?

[coconutt2000]

Canadian archeologist attempts the rediscovery of the already discovered. News at 10.

Samoan and Polynesian history in general agree that Polynesians arrived in Samoa through Fiji to Tonga, and from Tonga to Samoa. It was the subsequent development of Polynesian culture in the Samoan islands that eventually traveled back to Tonga, and then outward to the rest of the Pacific islands.

So finding evidence that proto-Polynesians settled in Tonga isn’t new to us. We’d expect to find it if we went looking, just as we expect to find similar settlements in Samoa (which have been found and partially excavated). But cultural/oral history tends to agree that the Lapita settlers became Polynesians after gestating in Samoa, and then dispersing throughout the Pacific.