Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I LOVE learning about these really, really old cross-cultural contacts! Quote Indigenous Americans and Polynesians bridged vast expanses of open ocean around the year 1200 and mingled, leaving incontrovertible proof of their encounter in the DNA of present-day populations, new studies have revealed. Whether peoples from what is today Colombia or Ecuador drifted thousands of kilometres to tiny islands in the middle of the Pacific, or whether seafaring Polynesians sailed upwind to South America and then back again, is still unknown. But what is certain, according to a study in Nature, is that it took place hundreds of years before Europeans set foot in either region, and left individuals scattered across what became French Polynesia with signature traces of the New World in their DNA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricofoley Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Look, we've all played Civ, this is because Polynesia gets to start with the ability to move across ocean tiles. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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