Did the Inca Empire know about the Polynesians, or vice versa?
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Hello I know it’s been years since you post this but I’m Maori which is Polynesian from New Zealand, some of our tribes have Native American DNA from meeting over 1000 years ago in the Americas, this is why the South American tattoos seem like a less detailed version of ours.
Some of our tribes also have Persian dna which proves we know absolutely nothing.
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This is unproven. There are several major claims of possible prehistoric contact between Polynesians and the Americas.
The Polynesian culture was the more maritime one. It reached as far as Easter Island with certainty, and why would it have not gone farther? The Inca did have seaworthy rafts but only for coasting. If Topa Inca Yupanqui's sea voyage truly occurred, and somehow reached Easter Island, then the answer is yes.
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This article by Paul Wallin in Nature, July 2020, explains a recent paper by Ioannidis et al.
Their genetic study makes the case that South Americans did sail to the Marquesas Islands in the late 12th century, where they encountered Polynesian people.
The authors made the notable discovery that an initial admixture event between Native South Americans and Polynesians took place in eastern islands of Polynesia around ad 1150–1230.
Interestingly, the paper suggests that those South Americans sailed from Colombia, not from Peru. It doesn't demonstrate a return journey either, so the Incas most probably remained unaware of the existence of Polynesians. There is no evidence of regular contact:
The authors propose that the Native South American genetic signatures they found [in Polynesians] were probably the result of a single ancient contact.
Even if they don't completely rule out alternative scenarii:
The authors also raise other possible contact scenarios: for example, that Polynesian populations made voyages to South America and then returned to Polynesia along with South American people, or that people returned to Polynesia who carried Native South American genetic heritage.
As usual,
Ioannidis et al. suggest that further genetic studies will be needed to address such alternative hypotheses.
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Thor Heyerdahl proved it was possible with the Kon-tiki raft to sail from South America to Polynesia. Later he did a similar experiment to see if Egyptians could have crossed the Atlantic with boats build out of papyrus.
More precisely, he didn't really prove it was possible: he proved it was not impossible. That doesn't want to say it was likely, and it certainly doesn't mean there was regular traffic between those destinations.
Thor had the advantage of knowing it was possible. He knew Polynesia existed. He knew the exact distance. He had the best and accurate weather forecasts. He had a radio on board, in case of trouble. He had modern life rafts and the knowledge help would be on the way, if need be.
Those advantages the Incas / Polynesians didn't have. For them it was a highly dangerous journey into the unknown.
That's why I think it may very well have happened, but on an incidental basis. I doubt very much if Polynesians and Incas knew of each other's existence, it certainly wasn't common knowledge preserved in legends. If more or less regular traffic existed, that would have been mentioned.
I think - but this is purely my own opinion - that if it happened, it was a one way trip. Sailing with rafts is far too dangerous to make a return voyage. All of Heyerdahl's rafts were after their voyages no longer in a condition to even consider sailing back.
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