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Native Americans Crossed the Pacific Long Before Europeans

Genetic evidence points to individuals from South America having possibly floated on a raft to Polynesian islands about 500 years before Europeans navigated there.

Native Americans Crossed the Pacific Long Before Europeans

Genetic evidence points to individuals from South America having possibly floated on a raft to Polynesian islands about 500 years before Europeans navigated there.

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Rat Remains Reveal Landscape Changes Wrought by Human Settlement of Polynesia

Shawna Williams | Sep 1, 2018 | 4 min read

Isotope changes in the bones demonstrate a similar pattern across far-flung islands.

Study Links Brazilians to Polynesians

Edyta Zielinska | Apr 3, 2013 | 1 min read

New research shows that some early settlers of the Americas may have come from the Pacific islands archipelago.

Coral Clocks

Kerry Grens | Mar 1, 2013 | 4 min read

Uranium dating of coral tools used by the earliest settlers of the South Pacific island kingdom of Tonga offers unprecedented precision in reconstructing their history.