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Prehistoric maritime migration in the Pacific islands: an hypothesis of ENSO forcing

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Anderson, Atholl, Chappell, John, Gagan, Michael, Grove, Richard·2006·The Holocene
DOI 10.1191/0959683606hl901ft
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Long-distance human migration across the Pacific Ocean occurred during the late Holocene and originated almost entirely in the west. As prevailing tradewinds blow from the east, the mechanisms of prehistoric seafaring have been debated since the sixteenth century. Inadequacies in propositions of accidental or opportunistic drifting on occasional westerlies were exposed by early computer simulation. Experimental voyaging in large, fast, weatherly (windward-sailing) double-canoes, together with computer simulation incorporating canoe performance data and modern, averaged, wind conditions, has supported the traditional notion of intentional passage-making in a widely accepted hypothesis of upwind migration by strategic voyaging. The critical assumption that maritime technology and sailing conditions were effectively the same prehistorically as in the historical and modern records is, however, open to question. We propose here that maritime technology during the late-Holocene migrations did not permit windward sailing, and show that the episodic pattern of initial island colonization, which is disclosed in recent archaeological data, matches periods of reversal in wind direction toward westerlies, as inferred from the millennial-scale history of ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation).

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Authors
Anderson, A., Chappell, J., Gagan, M., & Grove, R.
Affiliations
Australian National University (AU)
Corresponding author
Anderson, Atholl
ORCID
Venue
The Holocene
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2006-01
Volume
16
Issue
1
Pages
1-6
ISSN
  • 0959-6836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-0911
DOI
10.1191/0959683606hl901ft
OpenAlex
W2040530913
Cited by
173
References
40
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 11
FWCI
111.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • The Holocene (publishedVersion)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
Keywords
Pacific Islands, ENSO, wind direction reversal, westerlies, island colonization, Late Holocene

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