Rat Colonization and Polynesian Voyaging: another hypothesis

dc.contributor.author	Anderson, Atholl
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-12T21:32:47Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-12T21:32:47Z
dc.date.issued	1996-01-01
dc.description.abstract	<p>Robert Langdon (1995:77) disputes the long-standing proposition that <em>Rattus exulans</em> was dispersed by Polynesian voyaging and suggests that over hundreds of thousands or millions of years it "succeeded in getting from one island to another without any human aid at all." Between this and the conventional view lies the possibility, not yet explored in detail, that some rats were transported on canoes that had lost their human crew. I discuss this is relation to New Zealand, but the principles are the same for Easter Island.</p>
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10524/64256
dc.subject	Rapa Nui
dc.subject	Easter Island
dc.subject	colonization
dc.subject	voyaging
dc.subject	Polynesia
dc.title	Rat Colonization and Polynesian Voyaging: another hypothesis
dc.type	Research paper
dc.type.dcmi	Text
prism.number	2
prism.volume	10

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