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How did the Polynesian peoples come to live on the far-flung islands of the Pacific? The question has intrigued researchers for centuries. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl brought the topic to public ...

Thompson admits in the prologue that "the story of the Polynesian settlement of the Pacific is not so much a story about what happened as a story about how we know." Indeed, as a tracing of Western ...

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, by Christina Thompson. Harper. 384 pages. $29.99. Along with the familiar biases built into America’s standard world maps—Europe as central; Africa shrunk to the ...

Humans are curious creatures, seekers of new lands and new knowledge. But the results of our shared explorations have often been destructive. The first people to arrive and settle in the many islands ...