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Falemauga Caves Provide Unprecedented Insight into Ancient Samoan History
... main island of Savai'i, which is one of the largest islands in Polynesia. They’re in the region known as ... Formed by the Volcano Samoa is itself a series of volcanic islands and this has produced many unique geological ... supports the theory that the first people to settle on the islands that make up Samoa, about 3000 years ago, were the ...
Ed Whelan - 02/12/2018 - 13:56
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Humans Inhabited the Amazon 7,500 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
... archaeological team conducted its study on three forest islands -- Isla del Tesoro, La Chacra, and San Pablo -- ... of the Llanos de Moxos in northern Bolivia . "These islands are elevated above the surrounding savanna, so they ... that the people were using fire , likely to clear land, cook food, and keep warm during long rainy days," said ...
ancient-origins - 27/04/2019 - 19:02
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Dozens of Shipwrecks Dating Back Thousands of Years Found in the Aegean Sea
A cluster of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea is giving up some of its deep ... patterns of trade during antiquity. A cluster of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea is giving up some of its deep ... Tempestuous Fourni Fourni, which is composed of 13 small islands and islets between the large Aegean islands of Samos ...
Sam Bostrom - 16/07/2017 - 18:57
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Viking diet was better than in many parts of the Medieval world
... and called the place Akrar (cornfields). There are some islands lying offshore where a whale had been washed up, so they called them the Hvals Isles (whale islands). Skallagrim also had his men go up the rivers ...
Mark Miller - 27/11/2015 - 02:50
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Nutmeg Poisoning: A Deadly Addition to the Kitchen Cabinet?
... mace. The nutmeg tree is native to the tropical Banda Islands in the Maluku region of Indonesia . Indigenous Asian ...
Sahir - 17/07/2022 - 23:01
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Humans Explored the Amazon Much Earlier Than Previously Thought
... of small, forested mounds of earth known as ‘forest islands’, which dot the lowlands in the tropical savannah ... in the Bolivian Amazon. It was believed that the forest islands were formed naturally by shifting rivers or long-term ... in Switzerland. "Indigenous people in the region still cook in such ovens made of clay." The researchers suggest ...
aprilholloway - 29/08/2013 - 07:51
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Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area on Norfolk Island was Hell in Paradise
... the 13 th or 14 th century, but they later abandoned the islands. Norfolk Island is one of the few areas in Australian ... established in one area of the island. After Captain Cook re-discovered the islands in the eighteenth century, the British colonial ...
Ed Whelan - 28/11/2018 - 01:38
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The Maori: A Rich and Cherished Culture at the World’s Edge
... likely originate from East Polynesia near the Society Islands and the southern Cook Islands. In Maori legends, the Maori homeland is a place ...
Caleb Strom - 30/12/2018 - 23:02
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Ancient African Coins Found in Australia Pose Interesting Questions About the Nation’s History
... Dutchman Willem Janszoon in 1606, and later Captain James Cook in 1770, who claimed the continent for Britain. But a ... Dutchman Willem Janszoon in 1606, and later Captain James Cook in 1770, who claimed the continent for Britain. But a ... a soldier patrolling the strategically important Wessel Islands off the north coast of Australia stumbled upon a ...
aprilholloway - 26/07/2017 - 02:00
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Trading Treasures and Curiosity: The Fascinating History of Manila Galleons
... more benefit - the trade route helped find the Hawaiian Islands. The route took ships near the southern side ... there is a small chance it could have been the Marshall Islands that were passed by instead.) If this is true, a ... Juan Gaetano saw Hawaii in 1555, many years before James Cook’s expedition in 1778. Remnants of the Spanish Fleet ...
Natalia Klimczak - 25/02/2017 - 01:54
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Amazing Discovery that Could Rewrite Australian History
... Queensland in 1606 – more than 160 years before Captain Cook arrived and claimed the continent for Britain. ... solider was patrolling the strategically important Wessel Islands off the north coast of Australia when he stumbled ... who was manning a radar station on the uninhabited islands, stored the coins in a tin, and on coming across them ...
aprilholloway - 25/05/2013 - 06:17
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Giants: Why We Needed Them
... the oven of giants. (Roo72 / Public Domain ) The Pacific Islands are the legendary homes of many giants. In some stories, Maui – the great fisher of islands - was a giant but another altogether less benign was Uoke, who travelled around uprooting whole islands with his giant crowbar. He went along the coast ...
ancient origins - 14/09/2019 - 13:36
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The Sailor Cults of Samoa
... was already beginning to take hold in Tonga and Tahiti, islands with which Samoa had strong cultural and trade links, ... Hodges in 1776, shows the two ships of Commander James Cook's second voyage of exploration in the Pacific at anchor ... bring property was fairly obvious. A popular notion in the islands in the early days of Christianity, was that learning ...
Maya - 11/05/2014 - 22:22
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Australian Dirk Hartog Island Undergoes $16million Fauna Roll Back to 1616
... on 25 th October 1616, 154 years before Captain James Cook arrived to claim the eastern part of Australia for ... to Asher. Have Experts Finally Located the Wreck of Cook’s Ship HMS Endeavour? Did Portuguese beat Captain Cook ... and banded hare-wallabies from nearby Bernier and Dorre Islands were the first new inhabitants to be relocated to the ...
ashley cowie - 16/10/2018 - 14:00
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Maoris Credited With First Discovery of Antarctica in Latest Study
... the island of Rarotonga, which is the largest of the Cook Islands , located approximately 1,800 miles (3,000 ... heading due south. These ships may have used the two main islands of New Zealand as stopover points, before sailing ...
Nathan Falde - 14/06/2021 - 18:56
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Maori Artifacts Indicate Early Polynesian Settlement on New Zealand Island
... early Polynesian settlement near the northern tip of the islands that could have been discovered by some of the first ... early Polynesian settlement near the northern tip of the islands that could have been discovered by some of the first ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 11/08/2017 - 22:54
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The Perplexing Purpose of the Gigantic Pulemelei ‘Pyramid’ Mound of Samoa
... pyramid, we need to understand the history of the Samoan islands. It was first settled by Austronesian people when ... AD archaeological evidence, as well as stories in the islands’ oral tradition, started. The building of the mound ... a powerful priestly-ruler caste coming to dominate the islands. The pyramid was possibly used by the local leaders ...
Ed Whelan - 18/01/2019 - 01:38
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The City of Refuge: Ancient Hawaiian Sanctuary Protected Law Breakers from Death Sentence
For the ancient people living on the Hawaiian Islands, kapu was a major factor in their day-to-day lives. ... the already limited selection of foods available on the islands, experts believe that Hawaiian women many subsisted ...
Kerry Sullivan - 09/12/2016 - 21:48
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The Cataclysm of Easter Island - Part 1
... rise to the so-called Birdman cult, based on the small islands offshore of Orongo, which superseded the ... expeditions until around 1500 AD. At the time of Captain Cook (c.1770) only Tonga had large ocean-going ships big ... by two Spanish ships and then three years later by Captain Cook who wrote compassionately about the island—which he ...
davidchildress - 08/07/2013 - 11:09
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22 Shipwrecks spanning Ancient Era to the Renaissance discovered at Aegean archipelago
... area of 17 square miles (44 square kilometers) between the islands of Icaria and Samos and is right in the middle of an ... trade routes, but it was a safe place to anchor. Other islands with similar coastlines only have 3-5 wrecks around ...
Mark Miller - 28/10/2015 - 20:38