The oral traditions describe deep connection to the coast; the scientific record confirms deep antiquity of coastal occupation.

The traditions describe specific places as ancestral territory; the archaeological record documents human presence in those places from the early Holocene.

The traditions maintain accounts of the specific resources that have sustained the people across generations; the isotopic evidence confirms the same marine diet across the same time depth.

This convergence does not mean that the oral traditions and the scientific record are simply two versions of the same information.

They are different kinds of knowledge, maintained through different processes, addressing different questions with different levels of specificity.