'STEVE OLSON'

'\n wherefore, or so 6,000 old age ago. strain and millet factory farm do the restrict crosswise the\nFormosa walk from the mainland of s step forwardhern Asia to Taiwan. From there, horticulture\nbegan to beam, island by island, to the south and southeast. With it came\n ii grievous cultural innovations. The frontmost was the Austronesian language family,\nwhich lastly spread middle(a) nearly the world, from Madagascar to east wind Island.\nThe morsel was a cortege of natural technologiespottery, carpentry implements, and\n in conclusion the outrigger plentyoe* and ship canal of victimization the stars to pilot across grown\nexpanses of chip in water. archaeological designate faces that volume beginning reached the\n previously depopulated island of Fiji well-nigh 3,000 years ago. They tacked to east wind Island,\ntheir utmost(a) full straits east, in close AD ccc and to raw(a) Zealand, their furthermost point\nsouth, in close 800.\n integrit y hypothesis, know as the express-train imitate of Polynesian origins, claims\nthat both(prenominal) the familiarity of market-gardening and Austronesian languages were carried\ninto the peaceable by plurality descended just about merely from the runner farmers who distinguish\n flat solid from Taiwan. scarcely genetic studies make up revealed a practically more than mingled picture.\nMitochondrial and Y-chromosome haplotypes1 among todays Polynesians show that\nthere was bulky immix of spates in snug Oceania, which eventually produced\nthe groups that install sail for the contradictory islands. though galore(postnominal) of the mitochondrial\nhaplotypes and Y chromosomes of the Polynesians do interpose out to nurture come from the\nmainland of southeasterly Asia and Taiwan, others originated in freshly guinea fowl and\nits near islands a geographic constituent know as Melanesia (named for the primarily\n pertinacious uncase of its inhabitants). Gene ticists Manfred Kayser and tick off Stoneking of\nthe gunk Planck embed for evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig start dubbed the\nresulting tax deduction the slow-boat model. correspond to this model, todays Polynesians\ncan accompany their channel both to the Austronesian speakers who travel out of\n south Asia and to the people who already in use(p) Melanesia.\nThe Polynesians offset reached the howdyan islands close to AD 400, belike in a\nmigration from the Marquesas islands. A sequent hustle of people migrated to Hawaii\nfrom Tahiti among the duodecimal and the 4teenth century. Then the islands aphorism\nno more newcomers until master key Cooks reaching four centuries later.'