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Re:Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 ... by troughway on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:42PM (#23775017)
There was a thread last week that brought up Graham Hancock.

This is yet another thing that his work speculated some 25 years ago, and I think he did a 4-part BBC documentary that tries to connect parts of the world to a single, ocean-faring civilization due to the construction methods and whatnot used in the archaeological remains we have today.

Of course, he's been dismissed as a crackpot so nevermind that.

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Re:Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 ... by notahacker on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:29PM (#23775410)
The people who concluded Polynesians may have reached South America based on their seafaring abilities are somewhat more likely to be vindicated by this than Hancock's writings about pre Ice Age Atlantis, never mind his writings about the pyramids' connections with civilizations on Mars...
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