Artifact geochemistry demonstrates long-distance voyaging in the Polynesian Outliers

Author:

Hermann Aymeric12ORCID,Gutiérrez Pamela3,Chauvel Catherine3ORCID,Maury René4,Liorzou Céline4,Willie Edson5,Phillip Iarawai5,Forkel Robert2ORCID,Rzymski Christoph2ORCID,Bedford Stuart256ORCID

Affiliation:

1. UMR 8068 Temps, CNRS, F-92023 Nanterre, France.

2. Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, MPI-EVA, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.

3. Université Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France.

4. Université de Brest, UMR6538 Géosciences Océan, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, CNRS, F-29280 Plouzané, France.

5. Vanuatu National Museum, Vanuatu Cultural Centre, P.O. Box 184, Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

6. Department of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

Abstract

Although the peopling of Remote Oceania is well-documented as a general process of eastward migrations from Island Southeast Asia and Near Oceania toward the archipelagos of Remote Oceania, the origin and the development of Polynesian societies in the Western Pacific (Polynesian Outliers), far away from the Polynesian triangle, remain unclear. Here, we present a large-scale geochemical sourcing study of stone artifacts excavated from archeological sites in central Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and the Caroline Islands and provide unambiguous evidence of multiple long-distance voyages, with exotic stone materials being transported up to 2500 kilometers from their source. Our results emphasize high mobility in the Western Pacific during the last millennium CE and offer insights on the scale and timing of contacts between the Polynesian Outliers, their neighbors in the Western Pacific, and societies of Western Polynesia.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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