Given the vast majority of organic boating materials quickly decompose, experts couldn’t be sure whether these Paleolithic ...

With no direct archaeological evidence of prehistoric boats, researchers instead analyzed tools and the remains of fish, ...

It’s extraordinary.” The scholars think that the Auckland Islands, some 300 miles south of New Zealand, mark the furthest south that the Polynesians ever reached. They do not believe ...

Like the fictional Moana, hundreds of people are sailing Hōkūleʻa, a traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe, to show what’s ...

Through a multi-disciplinary effort, recently enhanced by the contributions of modern Polynesians eager to experience their past, a picture is emerging of the development of a seafaring culture ...