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No Yami ?

Indeed, I missed all these RNA people.

The lack of basic knowledge that is put on display in some of these threads is astonishing.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer more evidence that ancient Polynesians may have interacted with people in South America long before the Europeans set foot on the continent.



"There's been many kinds of evidence – linguistic and archaeological – for contact between these two people," Caroline Rouiller, an evolutionary biologist at the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in France who led the study, tells The Salt. "But the sweet potato is the most compelling."

Sweet potatoes originated in Central and South America. But archaeologists have found prehistoric remnants of sweet potato in Polynesia from about A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1100, according to radiocarbon dating. They've hypothesized that those ancient samples came from the western coast of South America. Among the clues: One Polynesian word for sweet potato — "kuumala" — resembles "kumara," or "cumal," the words for the vegetable in Quechua, a language spoken by Andean natives.

But until now, there was little genetic proof for this theory of how the tater traveled.


So how did the sweet potato make the ocean voyage?

Its seeds could have possibly hitched a ride on seaweed or gotten lodged in the wing of a bird. But Pat Kirch, an archeologist at the University of Berkeley, California, thinks the Polynesians were well-equipped to sail right across the Pacific to South America and pick up a potato.

"There's a lot of evidence accumulating over the last 10 years that the Polynesians made landfall in South America," he says. "We think they had sophisticated, double-hulled canoes — like very large catamarans — which could carry 80 or more people and be out to sea for months."

It has been a long time since I read Heyerdahl's book.
Started it three times before I got through it.

Seem to remember that he had some trials before it made the complete journey.

OFF subject, but I think I remember some experiments with South Seas Islanders sailing to places they had never been . . .

Currents, stars and lore as their navigational tools.

My brother and I often discuss just how much "science" and "history" we were taught that may have just a little (LOT) of mis/wrong information

That Tater is is is in Wyoming now...

Johnny fatbelly!!!!!

There are a lot of things we don't know about the earliest Americans, and the "intellectuals" in academia fight anything that doesn't jive with what they've been teaching their whole careers, even if evidence says otherwise.

"Darrell “Dusty” Crawford, who is Native American, has said he was taught in school that his ancestors, the Blackfeet Native Americans, used the Bering Land Bridge during the Ice Age to reach the Americas. However, his DNA testing contained another surprise: It seems that Crawford’s ancestors are from the Pacific Islands. From there they presumably traveled along the coast of South America into what is now North America, data suggests."




So the Blackfeet are migrants not native.....

Think about how much money we pay colleges, etc., to study this stuff. I had an employee whose husband taught middle age German religion at a major university. Full-time, taught three classes and was able to babysit their infant. Plus all the non-taxable donations funneled to universities and various other causes. Bah humbug!

The author of the article:

Nancy Bilyeau, a former staff editor at *Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone*, and *InStyle*, has written a trilogy of historical thrillers for Touchstone Books.

More:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/author/nancy-bilyeau/


Bruce