Indigenous Americans had contact with Polynesians 800 years ago, DNA study confirms

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Indigenous Americans and Polynesians crossed thousands of miles of open ocean and made contact with each other as early as 1200 A.D., centuries before the arrival of Europeans, a new study has found.

Archeologists have long believed the two regions made early contact, pointing to the early, widespread cultivation of a South American plant in Polynesia, a collection ofThe results of a genomic study now confirmed they did., researchers found "conclusive evidence" for the early encounter between the two groups, after analyzing the DNA of more than 800 individuals from 17 Polynesian islands and 15 indigenous American groups on the Pacific coast.

Researchers then traced the timing of their encounter by analyzing the length of the Indigenous American genomic segments, and decided the initial admixture took place in the eastern islands of Polynesia around 1150-1230 A.D. The Polynesians are known as masters of oceanic exploration for their long voyages across the Pacific Ocean. Traveling in double-hulled canoes and guided by the stars, they havethe Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island in the east, and New Zealand in the south, for settlement.

 

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Colombia to Tahiti is 8500 km. Sailboats can sail 185 km in one day. So it could be done in 46 days. Adventurers or conquerors?🤔

So this proves they are also immigrants?

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