Re: Polynesian canoes (Re: Rat genes solve mystery of great Pacific odyssey

From: Yuri Kuchinsky (yuku_at_trends.ca)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:24:45 -0400

George wrote:
>
> yuku@trends.ca (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote in message news:<2b61489c.0407160918.ff7acf1@posting.google.com>...
> > gblack@hnpl.net (George) wrote in message news:<9b937279.0407151243.22150bd3@posting.google.com>...
> > > yuku@trends.ca (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote in message news:<2b61489c.0407111009.7cb67785@posting.google.com>...
> >
> > > > I don't think somehow that the traditional Maori and Canadian West
> > > > Coast canoes have changed so much since 1927...
> > > >
> > > > "Their [Canadian West Coast Natives'] canoes are large and roomy,
> > > > capable of accommodating scores of men; they are made with great skill
> > > > and artistic talent; they are of all primitive craft the most fitted
> > > > for meeting the conditions of oceanic voyaging, and have a great
> > > > resemblance to the Maori war canoe." (John Macmillan Brown, PEOPLES
> > > > AND PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC. London, 1927, Vol. II, p. 68)
> > > >
> > >
> > > After all the work done since 1927 in the fields of comparative
> > > anthropology, DNA, Linguistics and the current rat tracing you are
> > > locked into a claim long refuted.
> >
> > Refuted by who?
> >
> Every-one currently working in Anthropology, in the DNA of the
> Pacific, and language..

Can we have some names here, and how did they refute this
evidence?

Yuri.

Yuri Kuchinsky -=O=- http://www.trends.ca/~yuku

A great many people think they are thinking when they are
merely rearranging their prejudices -=O=- William James

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