Ancient voyagers brought rice across 2,300km of Pacific Ocean

The south-west Pacific was the last part of the globe settled by humans, in epic sea journeys just 5,000 to 6,000 years ago.

Now, the discovery of ancient rice in a cave on Guam has revealed more about where these people came from, and how they lived their lives.

Mike T. Carson is Professor of Archaeology from the Micronesian Area Research Center, at the University of Guam, USA, and he joined us on the Thursday Daily this morning.

 

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Article in The Conversation: Remote cave discovery shows ancient voyagers brought rice across 2,300km of Pacific Ocean

Research paper in Science Advances: Earliest evidence of rice cultivation in Remote Oceania: Ritual use by the first islanders in the Marianas 3500 years ago