Abstract:
:Austronesians colonized the islands of Rapa Nui, Hawaii, the Marquesas and Madagascar. All of these islands have been found to harbor Austronesian artifacts and also, all of them are known nesting sites for marine turtles. Turtles are well known for their transoceanic migrations, sometimes totalling thousands of miles, between feeding and nesting grounds. All marine turtles require land for nesting. Ancient Austronesians are known to have had outstanding navigation skills, which they used to adjust course directions. But these skills will have been insufficient to locate tiny, remote islands in the vast Indo-Pacific oceans. We postulate that the Austronesians must have had an understanding of the marine turtles' migration patterns and used this knowledge to locate remote and unknown islands. The depth and speed at which marine turtles migrate makes following them by outrigger canoes feasible. Humans have long capitalized on knowledge of animal behavior.
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C R Bioljournal_title
Comptes rendus biologiesauthors
Wilmé L,Waeber PO,Ganzhorn JUdoi
10.1016/j.crvi.2015.12.001subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-02-01 00:00:00pages
78-82issue
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1631-0691issn
1768-3238pii
S1631-0691(15)00284-Xjournal_volume
339pub_type
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