Long Distance Voyaging Among the Pacific Islands
Geochemical analyses of stone artefacts reveal long-distance voyaging among Pacific Islands during the last millennium
An international team of researchers from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in collaboration with archaeologists from the Vanuatu Cultural Centre in Port-Vila in Vanuatu, used geochemical fingerprinting to reconstruct long-distance voyages between central and western Pacific Islands during the last millennium A.D.
Publication: AYMERIC HERMANN, et al., Artifact geochemistry demonstrates long-distance voyaging in the Polynesian Outliers, SCIENCE ADVANCES (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf4487
Original Story Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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