The First Polynesians on Rapa Nui grew South American Crops

[@Sweetlyfe]

Really interesting thank you. I had to look up manioc which is Cassava in my neck of the woods, if you have a sweet tooth like me, try and find a Filipino restaurant and order some cassava cake(it’s a pudding not a cake) it’s beautiful. I think a lot of lay people underestimate what great seafarers the Polynesian people were, and the same with different cultures and peoples around the world. Great example of Napping too, I remember seeing a doco I think on experimental archeology and a surgeon in the UK I think and they found that the surgeon felt more control and having to use less pressure using flint or obsidian I can’t remember, but I think it was a flint blade and they used a pigs carcass to stand in for the human, it was really interesting, because ancient people’s have been shown using trepanation to relieve a head injury.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

I used to live in Costa Rica and they call it yuca. They make a lot of different dishes and flour with it. I like to use a cheese grater to cut it up, add onion and bell pepper and garlic and egg, then make patties pan fried. Awesome.

[@markgibsons_SWpottery]

obsidian trade in southwest is one of the most interesting archaeological studies, and it provides way more information about migration routes,... I wonder if there is any rapa nui obsidian in the united states... Love this stuff! thanks for the info and the lessons!

[@eeeaten]

no there isn't.

[@Ivehadenuff]

I enjoyed this content and you have a nice narrative voice.

[@bensabelhaus7288]

Nice, putting it on after the coffee brews. Just gonna slap that like button before I forget later lol

[@clamsoup]

I was hoping you'd drop some dialogue onto a class. I think it would be great to see you on a Rogan or Rinella podcast. Keep up the timeless work.

[@kevinsnider3559]

so happy to see a new pathways video!

[@pathwaysofthepast]

Thank you! Glad to be putting them back out

[@kevinsnider3559]

@@pathwaysofthepast i love your style of knapping videos. Its a documentary all wile seeing different knapping techniques.

[@justanamerican9024]

Thank you for an informative video. One basic theme to history is: people got around!

[@markdearlove8634]

Great information we'll presented. You sir are a scholar

[@flamencoprof]

The plot thickens. People want the story to be simple, but we are complicated. Maybe some went direct to Sth. Am. Some called in at Rapa Nui. Some came back West bypassing Rapa Nui. Some returned via there. Four different possibilities and any or all of them could have happened.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Or South Americans sailed there?.

[@pathwaysofthepast]

@ikengaspirit3063 despite Thor Heyerdahl’s famous experiment, the plausibility of that is small based on archaeological, genetic, and cultural evidence. Considering the sailing prowess of Polynesian people, sailing to South America is the plausible scenario.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

@@pathwaysofthepast I'm just saying man, local fishermen from south america easily get washed to Rapa nui and Marquesas Islands, so the sailing from south america to those islands is favoured by the winds and currents and the earliest range of the calculate time that Ameridian DNA got to the Marquesas islands could put it earlier than polynesians, on some of the islands.

[@malwalker2682]

@@ikengaspirit3063 WHAT ALOT OF BULLSHIT, YOU HAVE TO NO WHERE THE ISLANDS ARE THE SEA IS SO BIG,POLYNESIAN NEW EXACTLY WHERE, THEY WERE SAIL THE SEA FOR THOSAND OF YEARS.I NO I AM MAORI AND MY PAPA SHOW ME HOW THEY SAIL TO AOTEAROA.THEY FOLLOW THE SPERM WHALES BUT THE WHITE MAN KILL MOST OF THEM,YOU TO BE MILLIONS OF THEM.I AM 70 YRS OLD NOW.

[@eeeaten]

great info.

[@andrewmacdonald8076]

Multiple return voyages. Where to and from do you think? Thanks for the video 🥝🇳🇿

[@slappy8941]

They followed the currents around the South Pacific, the northernmost of which e goes straight to Central America from Hawaii, down the coast of South America, then back across to New Zealand.

[@eeeaten]

@@slappy8941 no.

[@j.b.4340]

Yes. They left their giant, stone faces in Southern Mexico. They also left the Polynesian rat, the Polynesian chicken, various tools, and concepts.

[@moist_onions]

Polynesian wayfarers are not the Olmecs, people with their history and technology could not create or rival that of the Mexican ancestors

[@slappy8941]

​@@moist_onionsThe current would carry them straight from Hawaii to Central America, so it's highly likely that they visited there. The Olmecs probably made some of the heads in their honor.

[@eeeaten]

@@slappy8941 no.

[@eeeaten]

no, there is no evidence of polynesians in the americas. no polynesian rat, no polynesian chicken, no tools. the olmec heads were carved long before polynesians reached the americas.

[@eeeaten]

@darrelhenley-mc9dw do you mean scotty morrison? that is 100% speculation, perhaps even fantasy.

[@karennelson6671]

very interesting

[@sacredceltic]

Isn’t it possible that the south-American plants’ seeds travelled by sea, on their own? Or who knows, by air, through marine birds?

[@slappy8941]

The Northern Pacific current would carry a boat all the way from Hawaii straight to Central America and down the coast, and then back around to New Zealand, so it's almost certain that they travel to by boat.

[@jimmyhvy2277]

People on Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia told me that there was another Civilization on the island Before They Settled There . European Historians Hate This Local Knowledge , and are Teaching the Young Islanders , The European Version of History !

[@malwalker2682]

THE WHITE CAVE MAN WAS IN HIS CAVE EATING HIS KIDS

[@eeeaten]

european historians would love that knowledge, it would be very interesting. there's no evidence to support it.

[@eeeaten]

@darrelhenley-mc9dw maybe you can articulate a point next time?

[@eeeaten]

@darrelhenley-mc9dw i'm sorry your posts are incoherent.

[@eeeaten]

@darrelhenley-mc9dw my slow what

[@susanpatterson7088]

wery good! interesting!

[@dr.froghopper6711]

I wish I had about 500 lbs of that obsidian that you’re knapping! I have no such quality stone available to me!

[@comfortablynumb9342]

This is really interesting. I heard cassava/yuca/manioc came from Africa with the slave trade to the Americas. It seems like that can't be correct.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

its not cassava originated in south america and spread to africa with colombian exchange.

[@russelmurray9268]

I doubt you have ever been there

[@pathwaysofthepast]

No, I have in fact, never been to Easter Island

[@curtisnixon5313]

You are ignoring the theory outlawed by mainstream archaeology that South American peoples first colonised the eastern Pacific, then Polynesian arrived and usurped them, wiping out most but not all of the people with South American genetics. However more evidence is coming out to support this theory. Because Thor Heyerdahl advanced this theory, who was a citizen anthropologist, academics hate on it due to jealousy of a non-academic interfering in their sphere.

[@eeeaten]

doesn't make sense. polynesians were navigating the open ocean in that part of the world at that time.

[@eeeaten]

​@darrelhenley-mc9dw sorry, i mis-spoke above, or perhaps even commented on the wrong video. i agree with you. if polynesians reached the americas (they probably did) it was around 1200AD. there is no polynesian genetic influence in the americas. the op is total bananas.