A game-changing study suggests the first Polynesians voyaged all the way from mainland East Asia to the South Pacific remote islands. The study of ancient DNA from prehistoric Polynesians indicate that the ancient mariners who also possibly could have mixed with Melanesians. Ancient artifacts found among the Polynesian islands dating from around 3,000 years ago were stamped red pottery. obsidian tools and shell ornaments were collectively known as Lapita culture as well as the growth the culture acquired growing taro, yams, etc. and the spread of livestock which proposed that it had roots in farming cultures in East Asia. Peter Bellwood of the Australian National University in Canberra research configures him to guess the Lapita originated from mainland China than moving to Twain and the Philippines then sought out to Tonga and eventually Samoa. Other researches argued that the DNA of living Polynesians suggested their Lapita ancestors did linger in Melanesia as mentioned before, the two groups mixing. Ancient skeletons were studied, and a significant sample were four women found in Tonga around 2300 to 3100 old. Researches discovered that the women shared all their ancestry with the indigenous Atayal people in Tawain and the Kankanaey people in the Philippines.
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