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Stone Adze Compositions and the Extent of Ancient Polynesian Voyaging and Trade

Published:2007-09-28 Issue:5846 Volume:317 Page:1907-1911
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Collerson Kenneth D.¹²,Weisler Marshall I.¹²

Affiliation:

1. School of Physical Sciences–Earth Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.

2. School of Social Science–Archaeology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.

Abstract

The last region on Earth settled by humans during prehistory was East Polynesia. Hawaiian oral histories mention voyaging from Hawai'i to Tahiti and back via the Tuamotus, an open ocean journey of several thousands of kilometers. The trace element and isotope chemistries of a stone adze recovered from the Tuamotu Archipelago are unlike those of sources in central Polynesia but are similar to the Kaho'olawe Island hawaiite, in the Hawaiian Islands, supporting the oral histories. Other adzes collected from the low coral islands of the northwest Tuamotus have sources in the Marquesas, Austral and Society Islands, and the Pitcairn Group, confirming that trade was widespread within East Polynesia.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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