Comment on rabbit hole
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Except Mali and China’s crossing is pure fiction and Polynesia’s is plausible but missing a lot of evidence you’d expect to find
Comment on rabbit hole
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Except Mali and China’s crossing is pure fiction and Polynesia’s is plausible but missing a lot of evidence you’d expect to find
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Hasn’t it been proven that eastern polynesians have amerindian DNA, and also that their word for their crops of sweet potatoes is related to the Quechua word for similar crops still in south america?
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Yeah in 1200-1300 not 700AD, but there is some evidence of eariler voyages to South America and Antarctica
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 months ago
IIRC the oral history could be explained, in that the folks on Rapa Nui were actually not the ones sailing to South America, it was actually the other way around.
Were that the case then South America wouldn’t necessarily be documented in an oral history, just visitors from a far away land.