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Rapa Nui was long thought to be an isolated culture. But new obsidian discoveries suggest its earliest settlers may have sailed to South America, and back.

Stone tools tell us about Polynesian Migration being more common than thought. Their seafaring skills made for a peaceful community among neighboring Pacific Islands.

Settlement of Remote Oceania began about 3,000 years ago, supposedly coinciding with falling sea levels across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Mangrove forests on Pohnpei are archives of sea-level change. Juliet Sefton, Author provided Sea levels in Micronesia rose much faster over the past 5,000 years than previously thought, according to our new study

New genetic research from remote islands in the Pacific offers fresh insights into the ancestry and culture of the worlds earliest seafarers, including family structure, social customs, and the ancestral populations of the people living there today.

The work reveals five previously undocumented migrations into Micronesia.

New genetic research shows untold migration to remote Pacific islands was generally matrilocal.

Archaeologists say find of tools and bones changes our understanding of the Lapita people, the first to make landfall in Remote Oceania

New research links the Maori people to possibly discovering Antarctica long before Europeans and Americans.

Share Researchers analyzed the genomes of 317 Indigenous Oceanian people to reconstruct a history of migration through the vast island region. Marc Dozier Study reveals ‘exciting’ history of humans in Pacific. But critics blast lack of Indigenous input Apr. 14, 2021 , 11:20 AM It was one of the boldest journeys in human history: People ventured into the open Pacific Ocean in double-hulled canoes, crossing thousands of kilometers to find and settle far-flung lands. Now, a study of th...