April 10, 2020
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The far-flung islands of the Pacific Ocean were the last scraps of land on the planet to be settled by humans. Three thousand years ago, the voyaging ancestors of today’s Pacific Islanders sailed into a blue horizon, using their advanced navigation techniques to look for land but not knowing what they would find when they got there...new archaeological research – and the teeth of some of those long-dead voyagers – has revealed that the first colonizers of the Pacific, the Lapita, didn’t just rely on those familiar food sources.
