Word: matisoo
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...which finished last week. The finds of just two seasons' work, covering only a small part of the site, have left Pacific prehistory hunters unable to contain their glee. "It's the site we've all been looking for, the site we were hoping might exist," says Lisa Matisoo-Smith, a specialist in the study of ancient dna at the University of Auckland...
...past few decades, argument has focused on whether the Lapita people originated among Neolithic farmers of Taiwan before moving through Melanesia and into Polynesia, or whether the Lapita culture was indigenous to the Bismarck Archipelago. In Auckland, Matisoo-Smith's lab has begun the intricate task of following that trail by trying to extract dna from the bones. Only one other study of ancient dna, collected from a range of younger sites, has ever been done in the region, and it was undertaken, Matisoo-Smith says, when less rigorous protocols produced less reliable results. While her results are still incomplete...
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