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by AlotOfReading
988 days ago
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As someone who actively follows this literature, I've never heard of the oceania "theory" put forward by anyone writing in this century. I can think of some very old books by people like Thor Heyerdahl, but they're obviously not remotely legitimate scholarship. What have you read that says it's a mainstream hypothesis? It doesn't make much sense either, as all of our South American aDNA (e.g. Los Rieles 10900BP) is highly related to other American populations. We also know that boats and marine resource exploitation were used in Northeast Asia prior to the crossing period, given the whole PSHK complex thing (whether or not they're truly ancestral to the first americans). They would have been much better positioned than the people of Oceania, who had just barely colonized the nearest few islands off Sahul and did not leave behind much to suggest particularly advanced marine exploitation at this point. |
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