Canadian archeologist discovers birthplace of Polynesia From: Winnipeg Free Press | Date: January 21, 2008| Author: | Copyright F.P. Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership Jan 21, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

By Randy Boswell

A Canadian archeologist's discoveries in the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga are rewriting the history of a vast portion of Oceania and tracing the common origins of a host of island peoples -- including Hawaiians, Tahitians, Samoans and New Zealand's Maoris -- to a remote peninsula that he believes was once the site of a large and lasting "capital" of ancient Polynesia.

Simon Fraser University's David Burley says his latest finds from the Nukuleka archeological site on one of Tonga's southern islands shows it was the principal "founding settlement" of Polynesia about 2,800 ...

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