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First Polynesians Arrived in Tonga 2800 Years Ago Yahoo! News (blog) To see if they could do better, Burley and his team analyzed 16 coral files found buried in the sand under the site of Polynesia's oldest known settlement, a small village called Nukuleka on the Tongan island of Tongatapu. But instead of using … Coral files reveal time of first Polynesian settlements Coral yields precise Polynesian arrival date |
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