Ping.
If it’s in their DNA, then there was more than just ‘contact’.....................
“sweet potato”
Amazing coincidence that I just watched an old Arthur C. Clarke episode of his series debunking weird science stories recently. They set up a bunch of guys to roll Easter Island statue size weights on wooden log rollers and pull them.
They had found evidence that sweet potatoes were originally used underneath to provide a slippery surface. But there weren’t any grown locally and the TV series guys had to buy hundreds of pounds of regular potatoes. The system worked.
I enjoyed the book Kon Tiki, an adventure story about traveling from South America to Polynesia. Maybe the 1950s science was backwards in terms of who went where but the idea was really interesting. And the adventures on the raft were interesting ,too.
They were delicious.
the vikings had dealings with the native americans.. and they decided not to return to plunder...
haven’t we always been at war with oceana?
Given the ocean currents Polynesians from Easter Island could have taken the current across the Pacific to the Chilean coast and went up north. The distance is over 1,150 miles to South America.
There is evidence of contact between oceanders and the natives in the Northwest Portion of the United States, notably Washington state and Oregon area. More than likely it too was polynesian as well. This contact was long before the Lewis and Clark cross country trek.
So Thor Hyderdol was half right ?
Makes a big deal about genetics but only in the most general sense - no specific sets of genes are mentioned.
Title leads one to believe they ae talking about North Americans tribes, but is only relevant to peoples from Mexico south.
BS study. Send more sweet potatoes
Watson and Crick, what have you done?! All those nice assumptions by tenured academics, overturned by DNA!
(Yes, I know that there are many others who participated in the DNA discoveries, but their’s are the names on the prize!)
Maybe it was carried there by sparrows ...
Indigenous North Americans came from the north... Indigenous South Americans came from the south... Kind of makes sense... Somewhere in the middle, likely southern Mexico they met up.
It isn’t true that polynesia was first settled in 1200 AD, it was much, much earlier.
1200 isn’t a bad guess for when the 2nd wave of conquests came from raiatea, bora bora, tahiti. Wouldn’t surprise me if they also managed to send a war canoe to south america, they reached new zealand and hawaii
‘”We found identical-by-descent segments of Native American ancestry across several Polynesian islands,” Ioannidis said. “It was conclusive evidence that there was a single shared contact event.” In other words, Polynesians and Native Americans met at one point in history, and during that time people from the two cultures produced children with both Native American and Polynesian DNA. ‘
This means that if the Polynesians visited Columbia, then they took women back with them or stayed long enough to have children by Columbians and then took the children back to Polynesia.
OTOH, if the Columbians visited Polynesia, no round trip is required to explain these data.
But, the key question.....who had the land first?
Uh, oh - Hagoth’s descendants.
It n it was Polynesian to Colombianas then could be a record of it therr..ima gonna take a peek...