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. :^)