Which of the Following Is True About the Peopling of the Pacific

question 9

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true about the peopling of the Pacific?

• A) The earliest-known settlement in Polynesia occurred sometime between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago.
• B) Navigation skills played an important role in the peopling of the Pacific.
• C) Humans may have reached as far as the Galapagos more than 30,000 years ago.
• D) Australia appears to have served as an initial point of expansion, via outrigger canoe, to Samoa and eventually Tahiti, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island.
• E) Once humans reached the Pacific, they did not settle there but moved onward to the western coast of South America.

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