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It's probably been pointed out already but the last article cited is referencing Australasian ancestry which is not synonymous with Austronesian and iirc the ancestry the ancestry found in South America is related to Melanesian people such as those from Papua not Polynesians (although the latter also have Melanesian ancestry from a yet-to-be-determined event possibly in western Polynesia).
Roman brothels had a lot of erotic art so maybe this pottery was from brothels as well. It could potentially explain why it depicted non procreative activities. Maybe there was some temple prostitution going on as well
My understanding is that there was a 2008 study that genetically linked the Araucana breed of chicken (which lays blue eggs) to Polynesian chickens. This raises the possibility that the chickens known as "Easter Eggers" may have had ancestors that passed through Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island.
By the time of European contact, Polynesians were only occasionally making long intra-Island voyages and some of the more remote corners of Polynesians weren't in contact anymore. The idea that voyages to South America had also stopped, after a previous version where they occurred regularly, is inherently plausible, and would explain why conquistadors never documented it.
Achira is the edible form of garden variety canna lilies. The rhizomes are dug and eaten like a potato. The rhizomes are also ground, mixed with water and settled to allow starch to precipitate out. The starch molecule of achira is the largest known in the world. It is visible to the naked eye. I have grown and enjoyed achira in my garden for several years.
With regard to the dine languages of Navajo and Apache in the south. Those are late migrants to the south closer to the 12-1400 AD. They refered to the puebloans of the mesa verde complexes as Anasazi (anchient ones) that were in that area.. those peoples had migrated to the pueblo cultures further south mostly in the rio grand valley and several other areas as well.. And yes the Navajo and Apache are closer related in appearance and speach to the Inuit cultures... Likely their site of origin pre migration.
A video with a detailed analysis and decipherment of the Pakal sarcophogus lid would be awesome - very hard to come by on the Internet for some reason.
Another excellent presentation that, however, still minimizes what I consider to be the case that the South American sources of interest west of the Andes and over the top into the Amazon; came across the Pacific in boats. They got all over the major islands across the pacific. This could have occurred at about any point in time.
Also very strong evidence that the Nook-cha-nooth of east coast of vancouver island and the Hida are of Polynesian descent with similar carvings and tattoos and words.
Yuri loved his cats. From what I've since read, he didn't credit the decipherment to his cat, he did give the cat co-author credit and supposedly would get mad if the cat's name and picture was removed from his papers.
isn't it 17 K'atuns in the inscription? (at 16:25) I can see 2 dots and three bars. Although it's possible that the dots are actually part of the previous glyph? I also notice on the other glyphs they fit in the numbers were it flows nicely, for example on the 3rd lunation the 3 dots are above the glyphs elbow (?)
I appreciate the way you don’t overstate the facts, or attempt to draw too many conclusions from what is limited evidence. Sometimes we just don’t know all of our history and questions have to go unanswered.
Correct. I'm not sure how many people still play those games regularly so I typically use the most played or current versions as a reference. I figure more people will get the reference.
You say humans first entered the continent "10s of thousands of years ago." If that is the case how do you explain the Cerutti Mastodon findings that show humans in what is now San Diego ~130,000 years ago?
Triquet Island, is on a sea hinge which was free from ice, and did not change sea level. Read about the digs there, which have uncovered charcoal from fire pit dated back 14000 years. Also confirmed by the Heiltsuk Nationoral histories, this is the oldest known Village site along this coast.
You asked about why they stopped expanding, only later to restart. Perhaps those east to west winds are the reason. The expansion from Formosa to the Philippines, etc was mostly near shore travel without an easterly wind. I envision a new technology that allowed them to either overcome or utilize those easterly winds as a means of blue ocean transport.
It's so weird how they calculated they had such deep astronomical knowledge, but there is no evidence that they knew the Earth is round. I wonder if the astronomers and mathematicians knew but didn't talk about it.
"Aligned on a north - south axis." 14:15 Is that magnetic or celestial north? Makes a difference. Ancient folks would have different mind-sets depending on how they reckon north.
