#lapita — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lapita, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🌊🗺️ A severe #drought in the southwest #Pacific between 850 and 1200 CE may explain why #Polynesian voyagers began settling eastern islands after 1,700 years of pause.
Researchers analyzed #hydrogen isotopes in ancient mud to reconstruct rainfall patterns. Drought, population pressure, and improved #canoe #technology likely converged to drive this wave of #exploration.
#climate #migration #archaeology #moana #ocean #science #history #rain #lapita
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🌊🗺️ A severe #drought in the southwest #Pacific between 850 and 1200 CE may explain why #Polynesian voyagers began settling eastern islands after 1,700 years of pause.
Researchers analyzed #hydrogen isotopes in ancient mud to reconstruct rainfall patterns. Drought, population pressure, and improved #canoe #technology likely converged to drive this wave of #exploration.
#climate #migration #archaeology #moana #ocean #science #history #rain #lapita
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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 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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3,200 years ago, ocean shells crossed mountains to a Papuan cave. Evidence of vast trade networks linking highlands, Torres Strait & coastal New Guinea reshapes our view of Oceania’s past. #Archaeology #Oceania #IndigenousHistory #Lapita https://www.anthropology.net/p/strings-of-shell-and-stories-of-sea
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3,200 years ago, ocean shells crossed mountains to a Papuan cave. Evidence of vast trade networks linking highlands, Torres Strait & coastal New Guinea reshapes our view of Oceania’s past. #Archaeology #Oceania #IndigenousHistory #Lapita https://www.anthropology.net/p/strings-of-shell-and-stories-of-sea
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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