Dr Ben Shaw (top, centre) with researchers from PNG and Australia at the survey site on Brooker Island.Credit: Photo: Supplied
Dr Ben Shaw (top, centre) with researchers from PNG and Australia at the survey site on Brooker Island.Credit: Photo: Supplied
Later Lapita dispersals through PNG and interaction with indigenous populations profoundly influenced the region as a global center of cultural and linguistic diversity...
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Aren’t colonist bad?
You know what caused these migration waves.
Chief marries a Karen.
Everyone hustles to find another place to be at.
The weather was nice?
RE: Discovery sheds light on why Pacific islands were colonized
HUH?
I thought it was because evil Europeans wanted to enslave the indigenous people, rape their women and steal their resources.
Sarc/
Kimi naka loa sama hili?
I wonder if they made it all the way to South America.
Who wouldn’t want to live in a tropical paradise?
what I find most profoundly interesting is that the lapita people developed cross ocean strategies within centuries of the europeans.
they had no contact with each other across deep time. yet their problem solving enabled them both to arrive at the same points across the globe within centuries of each other.
Its almost as if there were a genetic prime directive built in to the human race.
something similar would happen if when we go out to the distant stars—we meet an alien race also making the same transit.
This would suggest that a similar impulse and a similar timing pushed us both out to the stars.
Again something in the genes or the universe itself.
The thought here is almost too deep for me to contemplate.
Sort of like a tv show I saw recently that explained that the speed of light is a misnomer. Its actually the speed of causality—or perhaps the maximum speed of causality.
I can say that. But I don’t really understand what I’ve said.
Maybe it was from a bottle with a note in it.
Iceland was too cold?
Because they were there?
Almost everybody dreams of life on a tropical isle...
