[tempforanthro]

No worries, though I did not mention Polynesians.

This is not the venue to parse out what Australasian means, but, at least genetically, we would be discussing a much older population.

It is by definition about seafaring people, however, as the only accepted migration path to the americas has been over the bering straights.

edit: oops. now i see where you are coming from. Mea culpa. see comment re Pleistocene boats. Apologies for my derp

[eridan2]

not necessarily seafaring people; the migration was over land, possible due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum

[tempforanthro]

afaik, or can even imagine, there were no land routes across the Pacific at even glacial maximum.

If you know different, tell.