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They proposed that an initial admixture event between indigenous South Americans and Polynesians occurred in eastern Polynesia between 1150 and 1230 CE, with later admixture in Easter Island around 1380 CE, [6] but suggested other possible contact scenarios—for example, Polynesian voyages to South America followed by Polynesian people's ...
[3] [4] [5] Although there is putative evidence of Polynesian contact with South America, it is more likely for Polynesians (who were already long-distance voyagers) to have been the ones to reach South America than the other way around. [6] Thor Heyerdahl's book about his experience became a bestseller.
The fact that some Polynesians possessed the South American sweet potato implies that they may have reached the Americas or, conversely, that people from the Americas may have reached Polynesia. Thor Heyerdahl 's Kon-Tiki expedition successfully demonstrated that the trip from the Americas to Polynesia using only materials and technology ...
The Polynesian triangle. Between about 3000 and 1000 BC speakers of Austronesian languages spread through the islands of Southeast Asia – most likely starting out from Taiwan, [9] as tribes whose natives were thought to have previously arrived from mainland South China about 8000 years ago – into the edges of western Micronesia and on into Melanesia, through the Philippines and Indonesia.
There is also putative evidence, based in the spread of the sweet potato, that Austronesians may have reached South America from Polynesia, where they might have traded with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. [53] [54] In the Indian Ocean, Austronesians in Maritime Southeast Asia established trade links with South Asia. [154]
After taking the throne in 1855, Kamehameha IV's main goal was to limit Anglo-American influence. He ended negotiations over the American annexation of Hawaii. [133] that had been started by Kamehameha III. In 1856 Kamehameha IV had an Anglican wedding with Emma Rooke. Emma Rooke was the great-grandniece of King Kamehameha I and was an ali'i. [133]
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer more evidence that ancient Polynesians may have interacted with people in South America long before the Europeans set foot on the continent. [18] The Pacific rat accompanied humans on their journey to Hawaiʻi. David Burney argues that humans, along with the ...
Remains of the plant in the Cook Islands have been radiocarbon-dated to 1000, and the present scholarly consensus [67] is that it was brought to central Polynesia c. 700 by Polynesians who had traveled to South America and back, from where it spread across the region. [68]