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Polynesian Canoes Reached the Americas

Oct 31, 2014 | The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Australia, the Islands, & Further Africa before the Modern Age, Pre-Columbian Americas

Research on sweet potatoes suggests the Polynesians reached the New World centuries before...

Stone Age GPS and the Discovery of Hawaii

Sep 11, 2011 | The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Australia, the Islands, & Further Africa before the Modern Age

Polynesians settled Hawaii during the 400's C.E. They came by double-hulled sailing canoe from the...

Town and Garden: Words Across Time

Sep 3, 2011 | The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Linguistics & Philology

The English word "garden" sounds like the Serbian and Russian suffixes grade, grad, and gorod, all...

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