When the Southeast Asian sailors started out on their odyssey they were not yet identifiably Polynesian. Only after many years of learning how to voyage long distances, and to survive on the high ...

The fact it appeared in people from Samoan and Tongan backgrounds suggested a historical connection dating back to early Polynesian migrations. One person in 1,300 West Polynesians carries this ...

The Polynesian islands that span the southern part of the Pacific Ocean—the eastern most of which is Rapa Nui, or Easter Island—were initially settled by a wave of migration from Asia. It’s been less ...

If true, ocean voyages around the Philippines and ISEA could predate even some ancient Polynesian trips ... and knowledge of the seasonality and migration routes of those fish species,” while ...

Polynesian migration over the vast Pacific was made possible by the coconut palm: coir from the fruit's outer casing, extracted by soaking in sea water, was plaited into sinnet and used in canoe ...

A Norwegian adventurer, followed by a New Zealand historian, burst into the otherwise quiet arena of Polynesian studies with pronouncements that the generally accepted ideas about origins and ...

The fact it appeared in people from Samoan and Tongan backgrounds suggested a historical connection dating back to early Polynesian migrations. One person in 1,300 West Polynesians carries this ...