Comments on: More on Gavin Menzies http://savageminds.org/2006/05/08/more-on-gavin-menzies/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: culture evolves! » Gavin Menzies rewriting Polynesian origins, neat! http://savageminds.org/2006/05/08/more-on-gavin-menzies/comment-page-1/#comment-6488 culture evolves! » Gavin Menzies rewriting Polynesian origins, neat! Tue, 16 May 2006 16:50:52 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=469#comment-6488 [...] Via Savage Minds, who have reproduced the article from the Dominion. Gavin Menzies (author of a book called 1421: The Year China Discovered The World–which I have not read) claims all sorts of interesting selective stuff about Chinese exploration of the Pacific (transcript of a speech, here) and most mindbogglingly, that the Maori were not actually Polynesians but result of "Melanesian slaves raping Chinese prostitutes". [...] [...] Via Savage Minds, who have reproduced the article from the Dominion. Gavin Menzies (author of a book called 1421: The Year China Discovered The World–which I have not read) claims all sorts of interesting selective stuff about Chinese exploration of the Pacific (transcript of a speech, here) and most mindbogglingly, that the Maori were not actually Polynesians but result of "Melanesian slaves raping Chinese prostitutes". [...]

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]]> By: razib http://savageminds.org/2006/05/08/more-on-gavin-menzies/comment-page-1/#comment-6262 razib Sat, 13 May 2006 01:33:15 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=469#comment-6262 this seems like a question amenable to genetic analyses. there is evidence for introgression of melanesian lineages among <i>all</i> polynesian peoples...but nothing to my knowledge of chinese mtDNA (female lineages). this seems like a question amenable to genetic analyses. there is evidence for introgression of melanesian lineages among all polynesian peoples…but nothing to my knowledge of chinese mtDNA (female lineages).

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