{"id":24166,"date":"2020-07-09T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/study-shows-ancient-contact-between-polynesian-and-south-american-peoples\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T17:40:00","slug":"study-shows-ancient-contact-between-polynesian-and-south-american-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/study-shows-ancient-contact-between-polynesian-and-south-american-peoples\/","title":{"rendered":"#Study shows ancient contact between Polynesian and South American peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Study shows ancient contact between Polynesian and South American peoples<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 9, 2020 |<\/span> 1:40pm <\/p>\n

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\n WASHINGTON \u2013 New genetic research shows that there was mingling between ancient native peoples from Polynesia and South America, revealing a single episode of interbreeding roughly 800 years ago after an epic transoceanic journey.<\/p>\n

The question of such contact \u2013 long hypothesized in part based on the enduring presence in Polynesia of a staple food in the form of the sweet potato that originated in South and Central America \u2013 had been keenly debated among scientists.<\/p>\n

Scientists said on Wednesday an examination of DNA from 807 people \u2013 from 14 Polynesian islands and Pacific coastal Native American populations from Mexico to Chile \u2013 definitively resolved the matter.<\/p>\n

People from four island sites in French Polynesia \u2013 Manga<\/a>reva and the Pallisers in the Tuamotu archipelago and Fatu Hiva and Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands \u2013 bore DNA indicative of interbreeding with South Americans most closely related to present-day indigenous Colombians at around 1200 AD.<\/p>\n

These islands are roughly 4,200 miles from South America.<\/p>\n

People from Chile\u2019s Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, also had South American ancestry, some from modern Chilean immigrants and some from the same ancient intermingling as the other islands. Rapa Nui, located 2,300 miles (3,700 km) west of South America and known for its massive stone figures called moai, was settled some time after the interbreeding 800 years ago.<\/p>\n

The study left open the question of who made the monumental Pacific crossing: Polynesians heading east and arriving in Colombia or perhaps Ecuador, or South Americans travel<\/a>ing west.<\/p>\n

\u201cI favor the Polynesian theory, since we know that the Polynesians were intentionally exploring the ocean and discovering some of the most distant Pacific islands around exactly the time of contact,\u201d said Stanford University computational geneticist Alexander Ioannidis, lead author of the research published in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Polynesians reached the Americas, their voyage would likely have been conducted in their double-hulled sailing canoes, which sail using the same principle as a modern catamaran: swift and stable,\u201d Ioannidis added.<\/p>\n

This contact explains the mystery of how the sweet potato arrived in Polynesia centuries before European sailors. Ioannidis noted that the sweet potato\u2019s name in many Polynesian languages \u2013 kumara \u2013 resembles its name in some native Andes languages.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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