South Americans may have traveled to Polynesia 800 years ago
DNA suggests people from the Americas had a role in the peopling of Pacific islands
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Ancestors of the people who built massive statues on Easter Island possessed ancestry acquired from South Americans around 800 years ago, a new study of DNA concludes.
A. Moreno-Estrada