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The mainland that the
Polynesians came from was Asia -- or at the very east, their
sailing technology came from there.


and



There's a marked similarity between the Canadian West Coast
canoes and Polynesian canoes, for example.


Well, lessee... If the Canadian West Coasties came over the Bering bridge,
then it would make little difference to the Polynesian canoes if they were
directly from Asia, or if they were from S America by way of Bering, since
technology was slow to change in them days.

Steve "my 2 cents"
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Default Polynesian canoes ( Rat genes solve mystery of great Pacificodyssey

Stephen Baker wrote:

The mainland that the
Polynesians came from was Asia -- or at the very east, their
sailing technology came from there.


and

There's a marked similarity between the Canadian West Coast
canoes and Polynesian canoes, for example.


Well, lessee... If the Canadian West Coasties came over the Bering bridge,
then it would make little difference to the Polynesian canoes if they were
directly from Asia, or if they were from S America by way of Bering, since
technology was slow to change in them days.

Steve "my 2 cents"


Hi, Steve,

If they were already sailors and fishermen, who lived by the
sea, why did they need the Bering Bridge?

They could have easily come by the sea skipping along the
coast.

The main argument in this thread is if the Canadian
aborigines had a direct role to play in Polynesia. I'm
arguing that the homeland of the Polynesians was Canada.

All the best,

Yuri.

Yuri Kuchinsky in Toronto -=O=- http://www.trends.ca/~yuku

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in
nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of
thought -=O=- John K. Galbraith
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Yuri says:

If they were already sailors and fishermen, who lived by the
sea, why did they need the Bering Bridge?


Maybe they were upland folks who finished up beside the ocean and thought "Gee,
why don't we build some boats like the folks back home had?"

Makes as much sense as any of the other guesses you anthro-geeks are making.
;-)

I'm arguing


True...

that the homeland of the Polynesians was Canada.


Any similarities between Polynesian boats and the Inuit stuff?

Steve
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