HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Indo-European
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Hispanic
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Polynesian
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Islamic
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Detailed explanation-1: -The human settlement of the Pacific Islands represents one of the most recent major migration events of mankind. Polynesians originated in Asia according to linguistic evidence or in Melanesia according to archaeological evidence.
Detailed explanation-2: -An ancient Polynesian canoe. (Courtesy of Herb Kane.) The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into the ocean. By 1500 B.C., these voyagers began moving east beyond New Guinea, first along the Solomon Island chain, and then to the Banks and Vanuatu Archipelagos.
Detailed explanation-3: -Taken together the papers suggest that early Polynesians built sophisticated canoes and used them to sail to new places in the Pacific when prevailing winds shifted allowing them to do so. The colonization of the islands of East Polynesia was a remarkable episode in the history of human migration and seafaring.
Detailed explanation-4: -The researchers compared DNA samples from more than 4, 700 people in Southeast Asia and Polynesia. Based on this, they determined that Polynesians arrived in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea at least 6, 000 to 8, 000 years ago, via Indonesia, and presumably left the mainland about 10, 000 years ago.