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10-04-2016, 10:12 AM
The first inhabitants of Vanuatu and Tonga came from Taiwan, report says
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A new study of ancient DNA could upend our understanding of the seafaring people who travelled vast distances to make their home in the Pacific.
Vanuatu and Tonga's first inhabitants may have come from Asia and **t from neighbouring Papuan populations in New Guinea, Australia and the Solomon Islands as previously imagined, according a report published in the journal Nature (http://www.nature.com/articles/nature19844.epdf?referrer_access_token=UcP3N3uxUEd mU4agHthCUtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MvkvlOqYsIYMiC-UqGuKkpJ_UXw1ENQNhAx8joJxAy7FA2jpQTmmeTkrFBesIOc0h M5UTQMykf5sfQqHKN3GWZlEUZ-eK7rLIsNxpMegDJwBY8dOp5DMXILrKsppXOaD-SHDMJ0XvnA1U9Rmccpz1yZXQPnrZHeAA2Em3D69hmXDyp97Z83 bDaXFoDDjARicetnPyfM6E1GL0g2FZC8P4lQluA_XmUJc9_qsQ cdOjy0nA_oZ23_j5EKMn5S0ckpjo%3D&tracking_referrer=www.abc.net.au).*
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The team analysed DNA from three skeletons found in a cemetery in Vanuatu and one sample from a Tongan cemetery — all around 3,000 years old. The results indicate the first people of Vanuatu may have come from Taiwan and perhaps the **rthern Philippines, moving on, a short time later to Tonga. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/04/dna-reveals-east-asian-origins-in-pacific-islands/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A new study of ancient DNA could upend our understanding of the seafaring people who travelled vast distances to make their home in the Pacific.
Vanuatu and Tonga's first inhabitants may have come from Asia and **t from neighbouring Papuan populations in New Guinea, Australia and the Solomon Islands as previously imagined, according a report published in the journal Nature (http://www.nature.com/articles/nature19844.epdf?referrer_access_token=UcP3N3uxUEd mU4agHthCUtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MvkvlOqYsIYMiC-UqGuKkpJ_UXw1ENQNhAx8joJxAy7FA2jpQTmmeTkrFBesIOc0h M5UTQMykf5sfQqHKN3GWZlEUZ-eK7rLIsNxpMegDJwBY8dOp5DMXILrKsppXOaD-SHDMJ0XvnA1U9Rmccpz1yZXQPnrZHeAA2Em3D69hmXDyp97Z83 bDaXFoDDjARicetnPyfM6E1GL0g2FZC8P4lQluA_XmUJc9_qsQ cdOjy0nA_oZ23_j5EKMn5S0ckpjo%3D&tracking_referrer=www.abc.net.au).*
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The team analysed DNA from three skeletons found in a cemetery in Vanuatu and one sample from a Tongan cemetery — all around 3,000 years old. The results indicate the first people of Vanuatu may have come from Taiwan and perhaps the **rthern Philippines, moving on, a short time later to Tonga. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/10/04/dna-reveals-east-asian-origins-in-pacific-islands/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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