Earliest Pacific seafarers were matrilocal society, study suggests

DNA analysis of 164 individuals from 2,800 to 300 years ago shows men would move to be with their wivesThe world’s earliest seafarers who set out to colonise remote Pacific islands nearly 3,000 years ago were a matrilocal society with communities organised around the female lineage, analysis of ancient DNA suggests.The research, based on genetic sequencing of 164 ancient individuals from 2,800 to 300 years ago, suggested that some of the earliest inhabitants of islands in Oceania had popul