Polynesian Migration

Eigenes Werk. Dates and arrows are based on Chambers (2008), with additional colouring and styling guided by discussion with Geoff Chambers 2008-2011 as part of my PhD project:

• Chambers, G (2008). Genetics and the Origins of the Polynesians, In: Encylopedia of Life Sciences. doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0020808
• Eccles, D (2011). Genomic Analysis of Human Population Structure, PhD Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Migration arrows are supported by the following sources:

• From Taiwan through Melanesia to Polynesia, and earlier migration to Australia and New Guinea:
  • Yoshan Moodley, Bodo Linz, Yoshio Yamaoka, Helen M. Windsor, Sebastien Breurec, Jeng-Yih Wu, Ayas Maady, Steffie Bernhöft, Jean-Michel Thiberge, Suparat Phuanukoonnon, Gangolf Jobb, Peter Siba, David Y. Graham, Barry J. Marshall, and Mark Achtman (2009). The Peopling of the Pacific from a Bacterial Perspective, Science 23 January 2009: 323 (5913), 527-530. doi:10.1126/science.1166083
• Colonisation of East Polynesia, and dispersal to more remote islands (including Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand):
  • Janet M. Wilmshurst, Terry L. Hunt, Carl P. Lipo, and Atholl J. Anderson (2011). High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, February 1, 2011, vol. 108 no. 5, 1815-1820. doi:10.1073/pnas.1015876108