Comments on: Ancient Jade Exchange in Southeast Asia https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/30/ancient-jade-exchange-in-south/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: tom https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/30/ancient-jade-exchange-in-south/#comment-550326 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:18:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/30/ancient-jade-exchange-in-south/#comment-550326 […] 27, 2008 by Gershom Gorenberg To continue a conversation with Haim about politics and physics: Faux pas, shmaux pas. In physics, action and reaction refer to motion. In Israeli-Palestinian relations, […]

]]> By: Lassi Hippeläinen https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/30/ancient-jade-exchange-in-south/#comment-550325 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:48:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/30/ancient-jade-exchange-in-south/#comment-550325 “…much of this area is across oceanic areas.”

I’m not surprised at all. That’s just island hopping.

During the same time frame (ca. -500 to 500) the Lapita culture (Polynesians) spread from their original home ground in Fiji-Tonga-Samoa to all Pacific islands except New Zealand. Their ancestors had sailed from South-East Asia. The technology to navigate the high seas was certainly available.

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