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  2. Radiocarbon dating in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    By the 1990s with the advances in radiocarbon dating taking place and more samples tracking the spread across the Polynesian islands, including New Zealand archaeologists found significant support for a late colonization of the eastern Polynesian islands, suggesting Hawai'i, like New Zealand was colonized around 1000-1200 AD.

  3. Roanoke Island - Wikipedia

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    Roanoke Island (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k /) is an island in Dare County, bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was named after the historical Roanoke , a Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English colonization .

  4. Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of Oceania - Wikipedia

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    Population Language n C1 C* K* [nb 1] M O S Others Reference Australian Aborigines: Australian Aboriginal: 108 60.2 6 22.2 0 0.9 0: R=8, F=3 Hudjashov 2007 [1]: Australian Aborigines

  5. List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910 - Wikipedia

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    Roanoke colonists: Various Roanoke Colony, North Carolina, U.S. The Roanoke colonists, including Ananias, age 27–30; Eleanor, age 19; and Virginia Dare, age 2 or 3, the first English child born in a New World English overseas possession, disappeared becoming known as the Lost Colony. On 18 August 1590, their settlement was found abandoned.

  6. Category:Roanoke Island - Wikipedia

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  7. Haplogroup Q (mtDNA) - Wikipedia

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    Haplogroup Q has also been found at higher frequencies, among modern populations of Sundaland but in moderate frequencies Micronesia, and Polynesia. In Southeast Asia it is found in lower frequencies. Malaysians 1.8%, [4] It's also found in Indonesians, Filipinos (especially in Surigaonon people it's 4.17% [5]), Balinese 1.2%, Borneans 1.3%. [6]

  8. Manteo (Native American leader) - Wikipedia

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    Manteo (c. 1564 – c. 1590) was a Croatan Native American, and was a member of the local tribe that befriended the English explorers who landed at Roanoke Island in 1584. . Though many stories claim he was a chief, it is understood that his mother was actually the principal leader of the

  9. Eleanor Dare - Wikipedia

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    While little is known about her life, more is known about her than most of the sixteen other women who left England in 1587 as part of the Roanoke expedition. She married Ananias Dare. It is known that she gave birth to their daughter Virginia Dare on Roanoke Island, in what is now North Carolina. The girl was the first child of English parents ...