Using seafaring simulations and shortest-hop trajectories to model the prehistoric colonization of Remote Oceania

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 45, 2016, Pages 12685-12690

  Montenegro, Álvaro ^a,b   Callaghan, Richard T ^c   Fitzpatrick, Scott M ^d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient seafaring; Computer simulations; ENSO; Lapita expansion; Pacific colonization

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAWAII; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PALAU; PERIODICITY; POLYNESIA; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; SAMOA; WIND;

EID: 84994493666     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612426113     Document Type: Article

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