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Stone tool reveals lengthy Polynesian voyage

Adzes form the first hard evidence of two-way travel between Hawaii and Tahiti.

The discovery of an adze fashioned from Hawaiian basalt on a Tuamotu atoll in French Polynesia provides the first material evidence that ancient voyagers made an 8,000-kilometre round trip from the South Pacific to Hawaii and back again.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on September 27, 2007 06:45 PM |

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The Polynesian Islands were looted by hundreds of visits by European Sailing vessels about 250 years ago. Most were killed when they tried to take what they wanted, but a few escaped with hordes of "treasure" in the form of 'primitive tools' This style of adze is

Posted by: Ted Morris | October 8, 2007 01:31 AM

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