At https://phys.org/news/2024-10-south-polynesian-seafarers.html … a couple of weeks ago we had a post about Malays colonising Madagascar. This week we have Polynesians sailing way south of New Zealand – and hanging around for a number of years. Possibly on a seasonal basis. Archaeologists and polar ecologists sifted through a midden, or rubbish dump, and discovered the evidence. Polynesians sailed as far south as Enderby Island, roughly 500 km south of Stewart Island – at the bottom of New Zealand. How much further south they might have reached is an unknown. Occupation debris from between AD1250 and 1320, concurrent with Polynesian settlement in New Zealand. Settlement is described as sporadic rather than permanent. It may be that global cooling in the 14th century led to the abandonment of Enderby Island. We may note the 14th century also involved the outbreak of the plague known as the Black Death in Europe.
Enderby Island is 2000 km short of Antarctica so it is unlikely they reached that far – but you never know. See also https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.5337 …
At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-4-000-year-old-bronze-age-settlement-hidden-in-saudi-arabian-oasis … a 4400 year old settlement in the Khaybar Oasis, has been discovered. It was fairly small, housing around 500 people, at the most. Lots of pottery, grinding stones, and that sort of stuff, which may help discover where they arrived from. There was also a necropolis of high, and large, circular tombs. One thing to add to the 2300BC event horizon as formulated by Moe Mandelkehr in the pages of SIS Review. There were a lot of migrating folk at this point in time, in what seems like every corner of the world.
At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mask-of-agamemnon-a-gold-death-mask-once-thought-to-be-evidence-of-the-trojan-war … the discovery, by Heinrich Schleiman, in a Bronze Age tomb, at Mycenae, was thought to bring the Trojan War to life. Turning fiction into solid reality. Nowadays the tomb and mask are dated to early within the LB period, and is considered too early for the Trojan War.