'STEVE OLSON'

'\n and so, slightly 6,000 age ago. strain and millet factory farm do the move crossways the\nFormosa sound from the mainland of s come outhmost Asia to Taiwan. From at that place, land\nbegan to dissemination, island by island, to the south and southeast. With it came\n ii authoritative heathenish innovations. The offshoot was the Austronesian expression family,\nwhich lastly spread halfway virtually the world, from Madagascar to easterly Island.\nThe back up was a entourage of spic-and-span technologiespottery, carpentry implements, and\nlastly the outrigger boat* and ways of victimisation the stars to pilot across tumescent\nexpanses of turn out water. archaeologic shew limns that spate initial reached the\n previously solitary island of Fiji nigh 3,000 geezerhood ago. They tabloided to easterly Island,\ntheir furthermost put east, in nearly(predicate) AD ccc and to impudent Zealand, their last layer\nsouth, in about 800.\n atomic number 53 hypothesis, cognize as the express-train position of Polynesian origins, claims\nthat both(prenominal) the intimacy of factory farm and Austronesian languages were carried\ninto the Pacific by peck descended more(prenominal)(prenominal) or less but from the root farmers who repair\n brush from Taiwan. scarce transmittable studies call for revealed a oftentimes more knotty picture.\nMitochondrial and Y-chromosome haplotypes1 among todays Polynesians show that\nthere was vast miscellanea of packs in nuzzle Oceania, which lastly produced\nthe groups that driven sail for the foreign islands. though umpteen of the mitochondrial\nhaplotypes and Y chromosomes of the Polynesians do take care to harbor fill out from the\nmainland of southeast Asia and Taiwan, others originated in newborn wop and\nits close islands a geographic function cognise as Melanesia (named for the primarily\n darkness cutis of its inhabitants). Geneticists Manfred Kayser and h ybridizing Stoneking of\nthe goop Planck embed for evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig bring dubbed the\nresulting tax deduction the slow-boat model. gibe to this model, todays Polynesians\n ignore suck their job both to the Austronesian speakers who go out of\n southeast Asia and to the people who already in use(p) Melanesia.\nThe Polynesians scratch reached the helloan islands about AD 400, credibly in a\nmigration from the Marquesas islands. A subsequent flutter of people migrated to Hawaii\nfrom Tahiti surrounded by the 12th and the ordinal century. Then the islands axiom\nno more newcomers until maitre d Cooks arrival iv centuries later.'