POLYNESIAThe more science finds out about history, the more changes need to be made in our traditional whiteocentric view.
The 11 June 2010 issue of Science, which often features articles on anthropology and related sciences, has a fascinating piece on evidence that Polynesians, certainly history's most intrepid explorers, visited South America long before Europeans invaded and ransacked that continent. If so, their contact was much gentler--went to trade.
Homo sapiens is a species that evidenced its intelligence, curiosity, and flat-out derring-do wherever it settled. The mythology of western Europeans "discovering" the other 80% of the world, which is not only untrue but BORING,
has hopefully been dispelled once and for all,
thanks to science.
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