Ancient Americans made epic Pacific voyages

The extent of potential contacts between the regions has been a hotly contested area for decades.

Opponents pointed to studies with differing conclusions and the fact that the two groups were separated by thousands of kilometres of open ocean. "We found identical-by-descent segments of Native American ancestry across several Polynesian islands," said Mr Ioannidis.Getty ImagesIn other words, Polynesians and Native Americans met at one point in history, and during that time children with both Native American and Polynesian ancestry were born.

Previous studies of the genomes of people from these regions have focused around contact on Easter Island - famous for its giant stone faces - because it is the closest inhabited Polynesian island to South America.supports the idea that first contact occurred on one of the archipelagos of eastern Polynesia - as proposed by Heyerdahl.

and we still can't give a proper sound proven answer on how they created the great monoliths, sun gates and cities. from easter island to Sacsay Huaman. unbelievable skills.

I know this is the BBC but some effort would be appreciated with regards historical accuracy. Prehistoric would have been around 5000 years before this event. You know when dinosaurs ruled the world...

Intetesting story, but is 1200 AD really an epic 'prehistoric' journey?

There was interactions between all continents for thousands of years before columbus. Not really surprising. Also, is it not more likely Polynesian are the oriniginal south americans? Rather than northern asians, who very likely inhabited the north.

Maybe watch a series on the Blaze Channel called ancient aliens

This isn't UK News.

- Hard men make good times. - Good times make soft men. - Soft men make hard times. Why would any country need to bring in men to pick fruit and veggies? Because the men in the West have no back bone. Get your jazz hands ready for the fight, because clapping is so violent.

Actually it was Ancient Europeans who went through America, they made it all the way to New Zealand, but do keep denying our true and great history.

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