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1. Ancient Ink: How Tattoos Can Reveal Hidden Stories of Past Cultures

   ... (and other European languages) when the inhabitants of Polynesia were encountered several hundred years ago, tattoos ...

   ancient-origins - 30/01/2016 - 21:57

2. Skull Analysis Concludes the Americas Were Settled by More than One Wave of Migrants

   Has there ever been a more exciting adventure than when humans spread out across the globe with their primitive tools and not so much as a hand-drawn map? A new study of cranial shapes of prehistoric people shows it’s possible there were several migrations of Asians and possibly Australian or Polynesian people who undertook this great trek into the Americas thousands of years ago.

   Mark Miller - 23/02/2017 - 22:48

3. Easter Island Inhabitants Ate Rats as Major Part of Their Diet

   New research published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology has revealed that the indigenous population that once inhabited Easter Island, famous for its more than 1,000 ‘walking’ Moai statues, had a diet which included the Polynesian rat, also known as kiore, and which was strangely lacking in seafood.

   aprilholloway - 27/09/2013 - 23:46

4. The Cataclysm of Easter Island - And the Statues Walked… (Part 3)

   ... statues in mud and muck around 300 AD? It is known that Polynesia was settled many thousands of years before ... it was the month of July.” He notes that the winds from Polynesia to Easter Island blow in July and August. “King ... to the Tuamotu archipelago (what is largely today French Polynesia) to the north-west of Easter Island. Another ...

   davidchildress - 10/07/2013 - 13:15

5. Bananas Helped Ancient Lapita Culture Colonize Oceania

   Scientists studying the teeth of the ancient Lapita people of Oceania, have found evidence that they survived on bananas, along with seeds and other fruits.

   Ed Whelan - 21/01/2020 - 22:04

6. Behold the Coconut! There’s Nothing Savage About Niue

   ... a result of its history. It has been nicknamed ‘Rock of Polynesia’ because of its rugged terrain . Geography of ...

   Ed Whelan - 14/03/2020 - 01:08

7. Study Claims to Have Solved Mystery of Giant Easter Island Hats

   ... or headdresses of red feathers worn by chiefs throughout Polynesia.  They are cylindrical in shape with a dent on the ...

   aprilholloway - 25/04/2015 - 15:24

8. Ancient Tattoos: Archaeologists find Blood and Pigments on 3,000-Year-Old Obsidian

   ... those in Melanesia and the complex, multi-toothed tools of Polynesia, they wrote, adding: Simple tattooing implements of ... marking was usually done by a priestly class of men in Polynesia or women in Micronesia and Fiji. Dr. Krutak writes: ...

   Mark Miller - 08/07/2016 - 00:39

9. The Cataclysm of Easter Island - Part 1

   ... the abandonment of the island by big ships coming from Polynesia or South America must have happened many thousands ...

   davidchildress - 08/07/2013 - 11:09

10. Evidence Accumulates for Ancient Transoceanic Voyages, Says Geographer

    By Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times  

    Theories on the fringe of science sometimes slowly work their way into the core as the evidence accumulates.

    ancient-origins - 12/06/2016 - 21:45

11. Samoan Star Mounds Baffle Archaeologists

    ... Did the Polynesians Really Come From? Ghost Beliefs in Polynesia: When Spirits Return and Possess The Megalithic ...

    ashley cowie - 28/10/2019 - 12:58

12. Cosmic Oceans: The Primordial Waters of Ancient Creation Myths

    ... Yes! Aztec Creation myths Ta’aroa, the supreme deity of Polynesia, creator of the world. (Hic et nunc / Public Domain ...

    Morgan Smith - 28/07/2019 - 22:46

13. The Cataclysm of Easter Island - The Strange Rongorongo Script (Part 2)

    Little is known of this strange script which includes pictographic and geometric shapes; often the figures are of a birdman with his arms and legs in various positions. The script was written in the unusual boustrophedon pattern of writing where the successive lines are read (“as the ox plows”) alternately left to right and then right to left.

    davidchildress - 09/07/2013 - 12:06

14. The Statues and Symbolic Gestures that Link Ancient Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, and Other Sites Around the World

    ... or Hidden Friend"), from Orongo, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Polynesia. Notice how the statue’s hands wrap around to the ... of Easter Island, Mexico, Costa Rica, Azerbaijan, French Polynesia, West Mesopotamia, Saharan Africa, Bolivia, Egypt, ...

    Ozgur - 09/06/2015 - 00:48

15. The Megalithic Gate of Ha-amonga a Maui

    Scattered over 700,000 square kilometres in the southern Pacific Ocean are the Tonga islands. On one of the 176 islands that make up Tonga, there stands one of the strangest megalithic monuments in the Pacific, a trilithon called Ha’amonga ‘a Maui (A carrying stick/burden of Maui).

    johnblack - 01/01/2014 - 11:54

16. The Remarkable Ancient Navigation System of the Marshall Islands

    ... Distances between islands in the Marshalls and the rest of Polynesia stretch for hundreds and thousands of miles in the ... It turns out Marshall Islanders of the Pacific Ocean and Polynesia used a couple of techniques. For one, they used ...

    Mark Miller - 03/08/2016 - 03:43

17. New research suggests Tonga was a vast seafaring empire

    Scattered over 500,000 square kilometres in the southern Pacific Ocean are the Tonga islands. The kingdom of Tonga is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising nearly two hundred islands with around a quarter of them inhabited.

    aprilholloway - 29/07/2014 - 14:43

18. The Tattoo History Source Book

    ... the dispersal of tattoo designs and techniques throughout Polynesia; the discovery of Polynesian tattooing by European ...

    ancient-origins - 05/09/2019 - 04:53

19. New Research Challenges Reason for Easter Island Collapse

    Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, in the Polynesian language, is a small remote island a few thousand miles west of South America. One of the most interesting features of this island is its 887 giant monolithic statues named moai.

    aprilholloway - 15/12/2013 - 04:01

20. Pukao Study Claims Easter Island had a Cooperative Community Not A Warrior Culture

    Analysis of these giant stone hats found on Rapa Nui, Chile (Easter Island) provides evidence contrary to the widely held belief that the ancient civilization had a warrior culture. According to a new study conducted by a team of researchers, including a professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York, these stone hats suggest that the people of Rapa Nui were part of a supportive and inclusive community.

    ancient-origins - 23/12/2017 - 01:56

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