‘Fingerprints’ confirm the seafaring stories of adventurous Polynesian navigators

Photo caption: Emae Island, one of the Outlier islands located in Central Vanuatu. Photo credit: Aymeric Hermann. Article by Laura Baisas. Popular Science – April 21, 2023. Article source: Science Advances.

The 2016 animated family film Moana brought the long-told story of Polynesian seafarers (along with some incredibly catchy tunes) to a much wider worldwide audience. Now, geochemical analysis is confirming the oral history of ancient Polynesia’s incredible sailors in a new study published April 21 in the […]

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