#lapita — Public Fediverse posts
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New DNA research overturns a key assumption: the “Polynesian motif,” a maternal lineage spanning nearly all of Remote Oceania, didn’t come from Taiwan — it arose on the north coast of New Guinea ~6,500 years ago. #Archaeogenetics #PacificPrehistory #Lapita https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-polynesian-motif-was-already
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New Guinea villagers unearth evidence of the island’s Neolithic past - Enlarge (credit: Ben Shaw)
When people in New Guinea started tending crops like yam and fruits ar... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1666114 #organicresidueanalysis #ancientpeopledidstuff #indigenouscommunities #archaeology #neolithic #newguinea #science #oceania #lapita