The Real Moana Story: Why the Polynesians Suddenly Sailed East
Researchers say a decades-long drought made Samoa and Tonga the driest in 2,000 years and pushed Polynesian voyagers eastward.
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The real Moana story: Why the Polynesians suddenly sailed east
Major drought forced people to migrate across the Pacific beyond Samoa and Tonga and toward the Americas, scientists have discovered. With the new live-action "Moana" film hitting cinemas, a team of geographers and climate scientists from the Universities of Southampton and East Anglia has discovered the true history of the tale. The paper is published in the Journal of Pacific Archaeology.
The actual thriller in the back of Moana: after 1,700 years, why did Polynesians all of sudden sail east?
The similar query drives each the plot of Moana and a long time of archaeological analysis: why, after centuries of relative balance, did Polynesian voyagers all of sudden start settling islands 1000’s of kilometres away around the Pacific? The most recent Moana film is a live-action adaptation of a Disney animated film of the similar title. Whilst the flicks are fictional, they draw inspiration from the wealthy seafaring heritage of Polynesian …
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