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Long-Distance Travel in Early Polynesia (2 of 3)

Caption: Detail of a hafted adze collected on Mangaia, Cook Islands about 1910. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 28, 2007, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Kenneth D. Collerson and Dr. Marshall I. Weisler at University of Queensland in St. Lucia, Australia, was titled "Stone Adze Compositions and the Extent of Ancient Polynesian Voyaging and Trade."

Credit: Image courtesy of Jane Willcock, Anthropology Museum, The University of Queensland.

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