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May 17, 2024
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In the 1970s, Hawaiian anthropologist Ben Finney had a hunch: what if the Polynesian settlers who populated remote Pacific islands centuries ago did so intentionally, and not by accident as commonly believed? Finney decided to test his hypothesis by sailing a reconstructed Polynesian double-hulled canoe called Hokule'a 2,500 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti …

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