The "Clovis" people were almost certainly NOT the first humans to occupy the Americas. There is genealogical evidence that some of the first migrants came to SOUTH America, perhaps of the same racial stock as the Polynesians that had previously spread from New Zealand, and points like Tahiti, over most of the islands of the South Pacific, and may have been the mysterious occupants of Easter Island.
After all, they were excellent navigators, using nothing but the stars and dead reckoning. Sail east, Central and South America are awfully hard to miss.
may have been the mysterious occupants of Easter Island...
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I doubt that it could have been polynesians. They reached Easter Island, the most eastern island they settled, less than 2000 years ago.
Not saying that it wasn't done by boat people, but it definitely wasn'e the Polynesians that island hopped across the Pacific.
Sorry, I was a history major before the Air Force.