I’ve read that there is evidence of humans traveling to Australia from the area of what is now Laos as long as 80,000 years ago-and evidence of them living in Australia at least 65,000 years ago- I could see them going to S America early on with sea levels lower-I suppose they weren’t Polynesians yet-the word just means many islands in Greek, so maybe it is a matter of what people are called rather than what those people did and when? I hope some team of archaeologists gets to the truth of it soon-it would be nice to know who the REAL indigenous people of the American continent were...
I think we’ve got at least one topic about that very thing somewhere in the FRchives. :^)
[rustling sound] oh, looks at least five:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/929661/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1208489/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1210416/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1541315/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3315076/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3316087/posts
https://freerepublic.com/tag/preclovis/index?tab=articles
Also see this much smaller keyword:
https://freerepublic.com/tag/luzia/index?tab=articles