Did The Polynesians Discover America?

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Captain Cook, sailing around the Pacific in the 17th century, found every island inhabited. The people there shared languages, cultures, and a love of navigation. Spread thousands of miles across the open ocean the Polynesians are history's greatest navigators. But could they have discovered the Americas before Columbus? And how is the second most beautiful thing on Earth, the potato, a key to this story? Let's find out.

In this video, we'll look at Polynesian history, Polynesian Navigation, Polynesian boat building, and all things Polynesian. The history of Polynesia is fascinating and interest in it has spiked over the last few decades due to voyages upon the Hokule‘a
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On the Road of the Winds, Patrick Vinton Kirch
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Other Sources

Words for sweet potato in the Pacific - https://pollex.shh.mpg.de/entry/kumala1/

Article about Rapa Nui genetics -https://www.universityherald.com/articles/12415/20141024/easter-island-was-not-populated-solely-by-the-polynesians-according-to-new-genetic-study.htm

Current Biology - https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30321-X

Article about Thor - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-voyage-kon-tiki-misled-world-about-navigating-pacific-180952478/

This website is fun to find out more about Polynesia, the link below is for a history channel documentary hosted on that site - http://www.thecoconet.tv/know-your-roots/pacific-history-legends/did-polynesians-discover-america/

More info on the star compass - http://archive.hokulea.com/ike/hookele/star_compasses.html

Virtual Reality wayfinding - http://lava.manoa.hawaii.edu/kilohoku/

Article about chicken bones found in Peru and recent evidence surrounding them - https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/18/291182073/study-the-chicken-didnt-cross-the-pacific-to-south-america?t=1540306949888

More info on Polynesian navigation - https://www.languagesoftheworld.info/uncategorized/settlement-hawaii-surprising-el-nino-effect.html


The Discovery and Settlement of Polynesia article - http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dennisk/voyaging_chiefs/discovery.html

Article about frickin Sweet Potatoes - http://cipotato.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SW19066.pdf

Amazing study on sweet potatoes that I was not smart enough to completely understand - http://www.pnas.org/content/110/6/2205

In Search of the Ancient Polynesian Voyaging Canoe -
http://archive.hokulea.com/ike/kalai_waa/kane_search_voyaging_canoe.html

360 Tour of the Hokulea - http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/specials/hokulea07/360tour.php

http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/origins-of-vanuatu-and-tongas-first-people-revealed

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