Hagoth's Sweet Potatoes - ???

[Uncle Dale]

Kumara as we call it here in NZ is strong proof of polynesians carrying their food with them.

I havent looked into the genetics of kumara but have looked into the genetics of our maori/polynesian people.

The over whelming evidence is that we originated from Taiwan...

 

 

Yeah -- the yuan-zhu min, as we used to call them at China Junior College,

when I taught there in the 1980s. One of my fellow profs was aborigine.

Very light-skinned, much less of an epicanthic eye-fold, slighty curly hair.

The original Formosans --

 

There is a similar remnant tribal people in the Philippines, although I was

not there long enough to inquire into their history and culture.

 

The modern inhabitants of the Malay penninsula have so much inter-bred

with southern Chinese (or rather, peoples pushed southward by the ancestors

of the modern Chinese), that it's hard for the mind's eye to equate them with

Polynesians. But, if you could take a time-machine trip back several thousand

years (to before our Pacific Micronesia and Polynesia were first settled), the

ocean-canoe paddling folks would have looked a bit more like Cliff Curtis than

like Bruce Lee.

 

As for Hagoth, may we retire him to the realms of folklore, rather than

serving as an illustration for the first principles of latter day polemics?

 

At least I'll be doing that...

 

UD

[Hamba Tuhan]

The over whelming evidence is that we originated from Taiwan and closely related to the people of the land there that currently live in the highlands,

 

It is easy to establish that the Austronesian migration originated out of Taiwan (where the vast majority of Austronesian languages are still spoken and where, incidentally, the Pacific History Association consciously chose to hold its conference this year), but the evidence is primarily linguistic, and as a number of researchers have reminded us lately, language does not necessarily equal culture, and culture does not necessarily equal ethnicity or origin. Consequently, we are not surprised when many 'Melanesian' populations speak Austronesian languages. Greenwood and Bell have long argued that the expansion of the Lapita Culture into the eastern Pacific involved integration with preexisting populations ... and may well have absorbed later intrusions if such occurred.