Re: Polynesians and Formosans (was: Kaimanawa wall)

From: Qiwi (marym_at_pl.net)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: 17 Sep 2004 22:56:48 -0700

benlizross <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message news:<41495556.3A47@ihug.co.nz>...
>
> Have you managed to read anything that Green has written since 1979?
>
> Ross Clark

Yes, it is sad really... He seems to have become yet another apologist
for a theory that is clearly disintegrating before his eyes...
I thought the following article by Green was particularly weak.
'Tropical Polynesian Prehistory - Where Are We Now?' from 'A Community
of Culture - the People And Prehistory of the Pacific'.1993:223.
One would assume that Green was well aware of the developments in the
previous years showing clearly that the Society and the Cook Islands
were settled no earlier than 800 a.d. yet in a rather pathetic attempt
to explain away this major 'Bottleneck' in the 'Orthodox Theory' he
came up with the following:
 
"attempts to specify exact sequences for the settlement of particular
islands or island groups, (often in the form of Fiji,Tonga and Samoa
in Western Polynesia, and then directional arrows for eastern
Polynesia) along with the designations of certain islands or island
groups as primary dispersal centres (Tonga, Samoa, Marquesas, Society
Islands), are now being replaced by an alternative model."

An alternative model to 50years of carbon dating??
According to Green;
"in the new model, the Western Polynesia 'homeland' is a region not
an island or island group, and settlement of Eastern Polynesia is from
somewhere within it rather than from a particular island, or even a
group such as Samoa."
LOL.....
"...THE SETTLEMENT OF EASTERN POLYNESIA IS FROM SOMEWHERE WITHIN IT
RATHER THAN FROM A PARTICULAR ISLAND."
Really?? How incredibly convenient....
p.s. I think we can venture an answer to the question posed in the
title of Green's article...'Tropical Polynesian Prehistory - Where Are
We Now"....
 
Up **** Creek without a paddle!!!

Relevant Pages

  • re:POLYNESIA : Settlement Sequence.....
    ... The early dates in Eastern Polynesia have never sat well with the ... in the Marquesas, produced a set of carbon dates that fixed the date ... of first settlement at the then surprisingly early period of 150 b.c. ... and to windward of the Samoan island of Upolu." ...
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  • Re: Polynesians and Formosans (was: Kaimanawa wall)
    ... >> Ross Clark ... > islands or island groups, (often in the form of Fiji,Tonga and Samoa ... > Polynesia) along with the designations of certain islands or island ...
    (sci.archaeology)
  • Re: 2006 Blues (Re: Enjoy the Super 14 last night Bobs?)
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    (rec.sport.rugby.union)
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    (rec.sport.rugby.union)
  • Re: Rat genes solve mystery of great Pacific odyssey
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