Do you think it's most probable that South Americans came from Polynesia?

Question

Hawains most likely came from Polynesia. I'd bet many, many groups went out on rafts like Kon-tiki and sailed eastward. Thousands starved in the middle of the Pacific. A small percentage of lucky ones found Hawaii. The odds seem high to me that a few hundred lucky ones also shored up in Chilie or Peru. If fact I'd find it hard to believe that hawaii was the only land which they found.

Thanks for the replies. (except for the lurker who thinks he needs to make negative comments like "hairbrained". There's always bored people who don't have a life excpet to waste their time on the internet) Hard to argue with DNA evidence. I started reading Hayerdahls book on a flight to Kaui. Looking out at the thousands of miles of open ocean I could only wonder how many parties sailed out and missed Hawaii by a hundred miles, only to find themsleves dying in the middle of the ocean.

Answer 1

I think that you have it backwards it is more likely that the original Polynesians came from the Americas. They then met those coming from Asia and interbred with them creating the Polynesians of today. I knew a indigenous Hawaiian and he told me that the story of there origins was that they came from the land where the sweet potato grows without cultivation. Sweet potato was originally domesticated in central America according to current research. so its possible that the original homeland of the Hawaiians was central America.

Answer 2

The Kenniwick man of 12,000 years ago from North America resembled a Polynesian and is closest to the Einu of Japan. I remember reading that there are some very tall aboriginal people possibly Polynesian type people living on the southern tip of South America. Most South Americans are Sinodonts which means Chinese teeth and are in fact very new immigrants to South America and as their name implies, are closely related to chinese. It is interesting that the South Americans seem to be newer arrivals than North Americans and this is kind of strange since their likely passage was through the Bering Straits.

Answer 3

Just to be a spoil sport, did you read Thor Heyerdahl's books? Try his book about Easter Island...
But, in fact, many anthropologists believe that, as you say, some of the peoples of South America came from Polynesia. Hawaiians came from Polynesia. However, it is also true that peoples of South America traveled west to many of the islands in the Pacific.
Through DNA and other disciplines, it is proven that South American natives came from Siberia... But since so many people moved here and there in the distant past, you can safely say that everyone went everywhere.

Answer 4

No, this might have been a nice theory back when all you needed was a sack of cash and the stupidity to sail a reed boat to make your hair brained arguments, but genetics proves the connection to Siberian tribes. You could easily argue for the connection, even some occasional immigrants, but that they all came from Polynesia? might as well start claiming space aliens.

Answer 5

I'll suppose that when you say "South Americans" you mean "native South Americans", lets make it clear.

No, of course not, native South Americans are much closer in their looks with native North Americans than polynesians. And it's not about guessing. There are scientic reasons for why native South Americans are considered far descendants of Asians. Like genetic similarities, bone similarities, etc.

Answer 6

Spencer Wells is a geneologist who has a huge project charting the migration homo sapiens out of africa. In my biological anthropology class last semester we learned about this migration (which was actually several migrations). To answer your question South Americans migrated south from North America over a very long period of time.