Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Polynesians reached America centuries before Christopher Columbus. Columbus reaching the Americas had such a massive impact on the New World and humanity as a whole that it is often used as a measure of time to determine whether an event was pre or post-Colombian, and this overshadows most other trans-Atlantic contacts with the indigenous peoples of the Americas such as through the Vikings, but what about trans-Pacific contact? Recent genetic studies provide strong evidence that Pacific Islanders from Eastern Polynesia not only arrived in the Americas centuries before Columbus, but also extensively intermixed, traded and exchanged culture with various indigenous groups across the West coast of North and South America. Thanks for watching
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Polynesians reached America centuries before Christopher Columbus. Columbus reaching the Americas had such a massive impact on the New World and humanity as a whole that it is often used as a measure of time to determine whether an event was pre or post-Colombian, and this overshadows most other trans-Atlantic contacts with the indigenous peoples of the Americas such as through the Vikings, but what about trans-Pacific contact? Recent genetic studies provide strong evidence that Pacific Islanders from Eastern Polynesia not only arrived in the Americas centuries before Columbus, but also extensively intermixed, traded and exchanged culture with various indigenous groups across the West coast of North and South America. Thanks for watching
Paypal link if you would like to donate: paypal.me/masonstahl?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
