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5 Transoceanic Trade and Migration (2)
from the Spice Islands to Rhapta in east Africa, a route we know was repeatedly
sailed over the thousand years from about 400 BC to AD 600 and which was probably established 3,500 years ago. Spice Island voyaging achievements in two oceans
across ocean distances close to 11,000 km over 3,000 years ago not only provide
strong support for our paradigm but also invite recognition of the early voyaging
skills of the Spice Island ancestors of the Polynesian peoples and a radical reassessment both of their early maritime history in Island Southeast Asia and as explorers
and colonizers of the Pacific. Our knowledge of the Cinnamon Route comes partly
from historical records. Evidence for Polynesian contact with America depends on
linguistic and archaeological evidence. This is our focus in the next chapter.
References
1. Athens J, Ward J (2000) Paleoenvironmental evidence for early human settlement in Palau:
the Ngerchau core. In Stevenson C, Lee G, Morin F (eds.) Pacific 2000, Proceedings of the
Fifth International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, pp. 165–178, p. 167
2. Kumar A (1995) An Indonesian component in the Yayoi?: the evidence of biological
anthropology. Anthropol Sci 106(3): 265–273, 272–273
3. Hendy M (2008) Genetic gems from genomic junk – nested tandem repeats. Adelaide
Conference on Mathematical and Evolutionary Biology 2008
4. Yen D, Wheeler J (1968) Introduction of taro into the Pacific: the indications of the
chromosome numbers. Ethnol 7(3): 259–267
5. Kumar A, Rose P (2000) Lexical evidence for early contact between Indonesian languages
and Japanese. Ocean Linguist 39(2): 219–255
6. Jones T, Klar K (2005) Diffusionism reconsidered: linguistic and archaeological evidence for
prehistoric Polynesian contact with Southern California. Am Antiq 70(3): 457–484
7. Oppenheimer S (1998) Eden in the east, the drowned continent of Southeast Asia. Weidenfeld
and Nicholson, London, pp 69–70
8. Oppenheimer S (1998) Eden in the east, the drowned continent of Southeast Asia. Weidenfeld
and Nicholson, London, p. 341
9. Covell A (1988) Folk art and magic, shamanism in Korea. Hollym Corp. Publishers, New
Jersey, pp. 140–143
5 Transoceanic Trade and Migration (2)
from the Spice Islands to Rhapta in east Africa, a route we know was repeatedly
sailed over the thousand years from about 400 BC to AD 600 and which was probably established 3,500 years ago. Spice Island voyaging achievements in two oceans
across ocean distances close to 11,000 km over 3,000 years ago not only provide
strong support for our paradigm but also invite recognition of the early voyaging
skills of the Spice Island ancestors of the Polynesian peoples and a radical reassessment both of their early maritime history in Island Southeast Asia and as explorers
and colonizers of the Pacific. Our knowledge of the Cinnamon Route comes partly
from historical records. Evidence for Polynesian contact with America depends on
linguistic and archaeological evidence. This is our focus in the next chapter.
References
1. Athens J, Ward J (2000) Paleoenvironmental evidence for early human settlement in Palau:
the Ngerchau core. In Stevenson C, Lee G, Morin F (eds.) Pacific 2000, Proceedings of the
Fifth International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, pp. 165–178, p. 167
2. Kumar A (1995) An Indonesian component in the Yayoi?: the evidence of biological
anthropology. Anthropol Sci 106(3): 265–273, 272–273
3. Hendy M (2008) Genetic gems from genomic junk – nested tandem repeats. Adelaide
Conference on Mathematical and Evolutionary Biology 2008
4. Yen D, Wheeler J (1968) Introduction of taro into the Pacific: the indications of the
chromosome numbers. Ethnol 7(3): 259–267
5. Kumar A, Rose P (2000) Lexical evidence for early contact between Indonesian languages
and Japanese. Ocean Linguist 39(2): 219–255
6. Jones T, Klar K (2005) Diffusionism reconsidered: linguistic and archaeological evidence for
prehistoric Polynesian contact with Southern California. Am Antiq 70(3): 457–484
7. Oppenheimer S (1998) Eden in the east, the drowned continent of Southeast Asia. Weidenfeld
and Nicholson, London, pp 69–70
8. Oppenheimer S (1998) Eden in the east, the drowned continent of Southeast Asia. Weidenfeld
and Nicholson, London, p. 341
9. Covell A (1988) Folk art and magic, shamanism in Korea. Hollym Corp. Publishers, New
Jersey, pp. 140–143