Extended Data Table 1 Archaeological and genetic inferred dates for first settlement

From: Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks

  1. Settlement dates for each island group from our genomic data analysis (shown for the earliest settled island in each island group), compared with settlement date estimates from archaeological studies with (“short chronology”) and without (“long chronology”) the use of chronometric hygiene13,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118. The differences between our earliest dates for each island group and the Wilmshurst et. al radiocarbon dates are slight, with the exception of the Cooks. For the latter our dates are within those of Allen and Steadman119, and, in contrast to the model described by Kirch2, we have the Cooks preceding the Polynesian islands to their east in the settlement sequence. Such an order (Cook Islands first) had been suggested before based on the early establishment there of Polynesian rats120.
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