Estimating trajectories of colonisation to the Mariana Islands, western Pacific

Autor:	Richard T. Callaghan, Scott M. Fitzpatrick
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Colonisation Archeology History General Arts and Humanities New guinea Ethnology Settlement (litigation) Archaeology Chronology Southeast asia
Zdroj:	Antiquity. 87:840-853
ISSN:	1745-1744 0003-598X
DOI:	10.1017/s0003598x00049504
Popis:	The colonisation of the Pacific islands represents one of the major achievements of early human societies and has attracted much attention from archaeologists and historical linguists. Determining the pattern and chronology of colonisation remains a challenge, as new discoveries continue to push back dates of earliest settlement. The length and direction of the colonising voyages has also led to lively debate seeking to trace languages and artefactual techniques and traditions to presumed places of origin. Seafaring simulation models provide one way of resolving these controversies. One of the most remote of these island groups, the Marianas, is shown here to have been settled not from Taiwan or the Philippines, as has been argued inAntiquityby Hunget al. (2011) and Winteret al. (2012), but from New Guinea or Island Southeast Asia to the south. It represents an incredible feat of early navigation over an ocean distance of some 2000km.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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