So from Taiwan, they went all the way to Polynesia, and every place in between— why didn’t they ever go to Australia? Seems kind of hard to miss given all the little tiny islands they populatd instead.
> So from Taiwan, they went all the way to Polynesia, and every place in between— why didn’t they ever go to Australia? Seems kind of hard to miss given all the little tiny islands they populatd instead.
This Taiwan-thing is a theory oft cited here in New Zealand. I don’t believe it, for the exact reasons you’ve said.
I believe their migration went east-west, not the other way ‘round. New Zealand, then, would be amongst the last to be populated — this synchronizes properly with commonsense and what little is known of Maori history.
Looks like somebody chose not to include Australia in the garbage-in slot.