Posted on 09/19/2024 7:00:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Cosmos Magazine reports that a new genetic study suggests that the Rapa Nui of Easter Island had contact with the peoples of South America and maintained a stable population before Europeans reached the remote island in the Pacific Ocean in 1722. The DNA samples in the study were obtained from 15 Rapa Nui individuals who lived between 1670 and 1950, and whose remains are currently held in France at the Museum of Mankind. "We looked into how the Indigenous American DNA was distributed across the Polynesian genetic background of the Rapa Nui," said Víctor Moreno-Mayar of the University of Copenhagen. "This distribution is consistent with a contact occurring between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries," he said. The researchers were not able to determine where this contact occurred, however. The study did not find any evidence of a dramatic population decline, as would be expected if the Rapa Nui population had collapsed due to environmental catastrophe. "This genetic result seems consistent with the wealth of hard evidence provided by other fields for debunking the collapse theory," Moreno-Mayar concluded. The scientists are now discussing repatriation of the remains in the study with the modern Rapa Nui community.
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I would venture to guess: Between their belly-buttons and their knees.
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LOL, cue the Bobby Darin hit...
Yep, but they sure don’t talk about it much do they? They are still denying any links. I guess because everyone knows for a fact South Americans were hydrophobic and too ignorant to float. And there was a great invisible wall that kept the Polynesians from floating to South America.
Yeah, the Polynesians are a nice out for the landlubbers who otherwise are stuck with having small surviving populations isolated on islands after the glaciers melted and nothing but land bridges. :^)
LOL
https://search.brave.com/search?q=giant%27s+causeway
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Fingal%27s+Cave
They stopped using fire to save the planet.
Didn't work out so well.
I’m not seeing beards on those South American ones. Is there another picture?
Those are Chachapoyas.
Kuelap - The Machu Picchu Of Northern Peru (Chachapoyas - White, blonde haired people)
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